In a pop-up luxury hotel, [Andrew Feinstein, journalist and global expert on the illicit arms trade,] saw Elbit systems, Israel’s biggest defense company, advertising its equipment to an elite audience of global buyers. Elbit was showing a promotional video about killer drones, which have been used in Israel’s wars against Gaza and over the West Bank. The footage had been filmed a few months before and showed the reconnaissance of Palestinians in the occupied territories. A target was assassinated. (…) Months later, Feinstein investigated the drone strike and discovered that the incident featured in the video had killed a number of innocent Palestinians, including children. This salient fact wasn’t featured at the Paris Air Show. “This was my introduction to the Israeli arms industry and the way it markets itself,” he said. “No other arms-producing country would dare show actual footage like that.”

— Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein (5%)