The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Written by Antony Loewenstein

Narrated by Finlay Robertson

** Winner of the 2023 Walkley Book Award for Non-fiction Journalism **
** Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing **
Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control.

Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown.
Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.
“A sad and sordid record of how "the light unto the nations" became the purveyor of the means of violence and brutal repression from Guatemala to Myanmar and wherever else the opportunity arose.” - Noam Chomsky
“A sharp exposé of how Israel's suppression of Palestine has translated into lucrative anti-terrorist systems that the Israeli government exports globally...[An] eye-opening delineation of the alarming ramifications of Israel's status as an 'ethnonationalist state.” - Kirkus Reviews

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Jul 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9781004160808

Antony Loewenstein

Periodista de investigación independiente australiano-alemán, autor de best-sellers y director de cine. Es cofundador de ‘Declassified Australia’. Ha trabajado en decenas de países de todo el mundo y estuvo destinado en Sudán del Sur en 2015 y en Jerusalén Este entre 2016 y 2020. Ha escrito para The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, The New York Review of Books y muchos otros. Es el ganador del Premio de la Paz de Jerusalén (Al Quds) 2019, uno de los principales galardones australianos por la paz.Su documental de 2010 para ABC Radio National, ‘A Different Kind of Jew’, fue finalista de los Premios de la ONU a los Medios de Comunicación por la Paz. Fue Investigador Asociado en el Centro Australiano de Periodismo Independiente de la Universidad Tecnológica de Sídney y fue Asociado Global actual en la Red de Democracia de Sídney de la Universidad de Sídney. En 2016, fue investigador visitante en la Unidad de Investigación sobre Gobernanza Global de WZB, el Centro de Ciencias Sociales de Berlín. Es cofundador del grupo de defensa Independent Australian Jewish Voices.

Reviews for The Palestine Laboratory

[Madeleine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A depressing but very interesting book. Especially reading it now, one year after the beginning of the war and genocide in Gaza and in the West Bank. I didn't expect the book to cover other parts of the world much, but I learned a lot about how weapon sales and surveillance technology is connected worldwide. Many of the things the book mentions regarding the double standard of how Israeli weapon sales and surveillance tech is treated, and the very different judgment applies by western governments and media regarding other countries who are not seen as an ally of the West and who carry out similar undemocratic actions, has become even more obvious in the past year.