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

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37
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24
Release Date
July 11, 2024
Duration
9 hours 59 minutes
Summary
** 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
Reviews
Profile Avatar Tasha O. Jul 2025

This is an interesting look into how Israel has used the occupied Palestinian lands to test new technology. The oppressors are taking advantage of their situation to the fullest, obstructing any possibility of normal life for the people on their own land. It’s an intellectual view on a devastating situation where the Palestinians are being systematically wiped out to serve the Israeli agenda. Definitely worth a read (or listen) if you’d like to learn more about the technology being used by the occupiers.

Profile Avatar Greg S. Jul 2025

What a nonsense premise. When one begins with a fatally flawed premise, the application of any technological facts is naturally misapplied. I would certainly like the author to write a book about how the “Palestinians” have misappropriated relief and aide funds, for terror purposes, installing militia headquarters under hospitals and schools, coordinated with Tehran, use rape, kidnapping and torture of civilians for idealized state which they have never had, and certainly have proven themselves unworthy. This is NOT history, it is propaganda that would make Herr Goebels proud.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jul 2025

Like Antony, I grew up Protestant and indoctrinated that Jews are the chosen ones and that Jews had a right to Israel. After researching I discovered that the people calling themselves Jews was Turkish and European group who adopted Judasim and lead by the founder of Zionism; Theodor Herzl, relabeled themselves, went to war, and removed the Semitic people; Arabs and Palestinians who were already living in the territory and pushed them on the fringes. Great Britain and the United States made it happen.This book is an Authentic experience; better than any political media view. It takes courage to speak on what one sees, not what one thinks. He is not Antisemitic; he is Semitic and has an unbiased position. He is an atheist with no religious bias for Judasim, Islamic, Catholicism or Protestantism. Social Media has exposed both the real terrorists on both sides. I'm glad a light is being shined on Israel's actions not ethnicity. Well done!

Profile Avatar Cagliostro Jul 2025

I wondered about so much history and context, yet the book is up to date when it comes to digital surveillance. Of course, it can't cover all applications, countries etc. The examples are chosen well though, with a certain focus on Latin America. Probably the audience wasn't aware of that at all.

Profile Avatar Stephen T. Feb 2026

Israel's reasons for and its success in prolonging the imprisonment of the Palestinian people are well explained.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jul 2026

Numerous facts to back up his arguments Excellent

Profile Avatar Anna B. Jun 2026

Good

Profile Avatar Polly M. Jan 2026

Vital reading. Terrifying yet fascinating.

Profile Avatar Aurelio K. Jan 2026

Must read

Profile Avatar Mariusz F. Nov 2025

Lost in details...

Profile Avatar Anonymous Oct 2025

Interesting, a lot of information to go through.

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

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

Author: Antony Loewenstein
Read by: Finlay Robertson
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