Andrew Josef Feinstein[a] (born 16 March 1964) is a South African former politician, activist, filmmaker, campaigner and author, now based in London, who specialises in the investigation of the arms trade and the corruption that accompanies it.

He commented that "Keir Starmer is the first British Prime Minister in electoral history to enter 10 Downing Street having seen his majority reduced".

[8] Dozens of members of his mother's family were murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp and Theresienstadt,[9] whilst she herself hid from the Nazis in Vienna.

Feinstein stated that previous suffering – by Afrikaners at the hands of the British colonizers, or of Jews by the Nazis – in no way justified the brutal oppression of Black South Africans or Palestinians.

He has since lived in London, where he is Executive Director of not-for-profit Shadow World Investigations and chaired the Aids charity Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign, and lectures and writes on South Africa and the global arms trade.

[16] In an interview with Democracy Now!, he noted the ways in which the global arms trade was linked to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

[20][13] In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Feinstein signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.

The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few.

[24] In February 2024, it was announced that Feinstein was preparing to stand against Starmer in his constituency of Holborn and St. Pancras as an independent at the next general election, endorsed by two grassroots organisations.

"[28] Paul Rogers in The Independent commented: "one thing that has been missing has been a comprehensive book for the more general reader, along the lines of Anthony Sampson's The Arms Bazaar, back in the late 1970s.

The defence manufacturers, those who make the weapons, are closely tied in to governments, to militaries, to intelligence agencies and crucially to political parties.

[33] Four years after they first met, they were married in King's College Chapel, Cambridge[c] on 18 December 1993, holding further celebrations a few days later with Simone's family in Bangladesh.