Why did Britain’s arms licensing regime to Israel ignore the genocidal language by Israel’s leadership?

This document charts how Britain continued to license and facilitate arms exports to Israel, including through the F-35 supply chain, even as courts, UN bodies and major human-rights groups warned of grave breaches and pointed to senior Israeli leaders’ rhetoric as evidence of genocidal intent.

The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law

Israel’s AI-driven bombing of Gaza has produced unprecedented civilian death rates and raised grave accusations of genocide and war crimes.

The philosophy of violence: Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of resistance

Paulo Freire’s philosophy of liberation frames violence not as a singular act but as a structural denial of voice, urging a radical pedagogy of resistance that begins with critical awareness and humanises both oppressor and oppressed.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre: can Umberto Eco’s ‘Ur-Fascism’ help us understand today’s rising militarism?

Unless we recognise Umberto Eco’s characteristics of fascism shaping contemporary militarism, we risk sleepwalking into catastrophic global conflict, says AOAV’s Executive Director Iain Overton.