Episode 12 - The anti-apartheid activist who could stop the UK’s likely next PM | Andrew Feinstein | UNAPOLOGETIC

Andrew Feinstein was born in South Africa in the 1960s, during the era of grand apartheid. He joined the struggle for a free South Africa, and was deployed by Nelson Mandela to serve in South Africa’s democratically elected parliament.

The corruption he saw in the higher echelons of power through arms deals led him to move to the UK, where he subsequently wrote multiple books that investigated corruption in the global arms trade.

Feinstein is a Jew. His mother survived the Gestapo by hiding in a coal cellar for three and a half years. His broad conviction to uphold human dignity and stand against all forms of discrimination was embedded in him through his mum’s nurturing. For this reason he opposes Israel, which he believes is an apartheid state that is much worse than the apartheid he witnessed and benefited from as a white South African.

Feinstein is now running as an independent candidate for his constituency in central London, Holborn and St Pancras, against the Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer.

If he succeeds, Labour may be forced to choose a new leader, who is also heavily tipped to be the UK’s next PM.

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC Andrew Feinstein shares his life experiences and tells us why international law and civility are at stake at this present moment.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:10 What the election against Keir Starmer all about
• 6:26 Andrew's family's connection to the Holocaust
• 12:21 Mother's influence and instilling "never again"
• 18:36 Early encounters with anti-semitism and understanding racism
• 23:20 The anecdote that made him aware of his privilege
• 28:05 Clashes with his father over zionism
• 35:50 Meeting Amira Haas
• 43:00 Reflections on South African freedom
• 52:30 The $10B dollar arms deal that ended his time in South African Parliament
• 1:01:07 After the Party - First book on the arms trade
• 1:06:30 Arms trade corruption between the UK and the Saudi Arabia
• 1:12:10 Jeremy Corbyn and the labour Party.
• 1:19:10 Reflections of International response to Israel's response to October 7th
• 1:27:13 What is going on is reflective of the madness of our political moment
• 1:35:15 Is power over reaching?
• 1:42:20 The depravity of all the Semitic slurs