EXPOSED: ISRAEL AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

Thu 11 July 2024:

Footage from our live streamed book launch event at the Frontline Club, London for The Racket by Matt Kennard with Lowkey, Huda Ammori, Ahmed Alnaouq.

Eight months into Israel’s ongoing genocide on Gaza – one funded, armed and enabled by the United States – it has never been more urgent to shine a spotlight on the American Empire and the mechanics of its operation. Matt Kennard’s ‘The Racket’ does just that.

Purchase The Racket: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/racket-…

Matt Kennard is co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers
Lowkey is a critically acclaimed hip-hop artist, political campaigner and journalist,
Huda Ammori is a Palestinian-Iraqi researcher, campaigner and co-founder of Palestine Action

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0:00 Intro
1:19 Ahmed Alnaouq: Welcome
4:29 Q to Matt: Why did you write this book, The Racket?
11:20: Matt: The American Empire in the spotlight
15:00 Matt: America is not a beneficent power spreading peace and democracy
16:00 Q to Matt: Why does the Western media never mention “American Empire”?
18:47: Q to Matt: How did visiting Palestine change your life?
26:00 Declassified UK’s investigations into US influence in Britain
26:30 There are 12,000 US troops stationed in the UK
26:40 Julian Assange
27:30 Lowkey: The story of the killing of Harry Dunn
31:30 Lowkey: Grenfell Tower and F35 production: Arconic
34:00 Lowkey: US military personal in Israeli war rooms and US and UK military aircraft helping with “target acquisition”
35:20 Lowkey: Watch the movement of ships and planes – all that’s said on a political level is PR
36:20: Lowkey: Western media lies to manage people’s perceptions of the genocide
37:00 Lowkey: Palestinian resistance on the ground
37:15 Lowkey: Zodiac Maritime, British ships and Yemen
38:30 Lowkey: We should focus on material infrastructure more than what is said politically
40:00 Lowkey: Sitting with representatives of the British government means you are sitting with Israel
41:00 Lowkey: Direct action works – Palestine Action
41:45 Ahmed: The bomb that killed my family
42:00 Huda: Direct Action and starting Palestine Action
45:00 Huda: The crushing of Jeremy Corbyn and his politics
46:50 Huda: Palestine Action’s expansion to the United States
51:30 Huda: The Legality of direct action – “We are respecting international law”
55:00 Lowkey: A coup attempt against Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Mark Rowley
56:00 Lowkey: Palestine Action and the UK legal system
1:02:00 Lowkey vs The Israel Lobby
1:04:00 Matt: It has never been more urgent to discuss the Israel Lobby & Zionism
1:10:00 Matt: Alan Duncan vs The Israel Lobby
1:14:00 Lowkey: Zionism defined
1:15:20 Huda: Zionism defined
1:16:40 Matt: Why the US supports Israel – The Israel Lobby
1:23:30 Lowkey: The UK-Israel Tech Hub and its relationship with UK government
1:26:00 Lowkey: Oracle, UK data and Benjamin Netanyahu
1:26:40 Lowkey: Jonathan Pollard exposed
1:29:00 Huda: John Woodcock (Lord Walney) and the ‘proscription light’ against Palestine Action
1:32:30 Q to Matt: Would you live in American again?
1:34:00 Matt: Gaza has changed the world – the world is waking up
1:37:08 Audience Question: We talk a lot about Israel’s strength and power in various arenas, but where are Israel’s weak spots? Where is its Achilles Heal?
1:41:46 Audience Question: We generally get our information now from alternative media – Do any of you see a time and space for mainstream media producing hard hitting investigations holding power to account like we used to?
1:46:59 Audience Question: Huda, your first actions with Palestine Action were inside Keir Starmer’s constituency, has Starmer ever commented about that?
1:49:47 Audience Question: Resistance to Israel on the ground in Palestine and in the region has not stopped since October 2023. Can you help me understand why terms like ‘resistance’ are not heard much in pro-Palestine organising in the West, and why Israel’s losses on the ground to resistance groups are rarely talked about in the West?