In this episode of “Occupied Thoughts,” FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks to journalist, filmmaker, and author Antony Loewenstein, about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, published by Verso books in May 2023.
Recorded August 2, 2023
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Resources
- Antony Loewenstein: website; the-platform-formerly-known-as-Twitter: @antloewenstein & @paleslaboratory
- Verso Books: The Palestine Laboratory:How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- The Sydney Morning Herald – op-ed by Antony Loewenstein, 5/13/23: Being Jewish and critical of Israel can make you an outcast. I should know
Selected Coverage of the book
- Australian Institute of International Affairs 7/17/23: The Palestine Laboratory
- Democracy Now 6/23/23: “The Palestine Laboratory”: Antony Loewenstein on How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
- Middle East Eye 6/14/23: The Palestine Laboratory: How technology helps Israel cosy up to the world’s autocrats
- The Conversation 5/31/23: The Harvard of anti-terrorism: how Israel’s military-industrial complex feeds the global arms trade
- The Independent (UK) 2/5/23: Inaction over the treatment of Palestine impacts the entire world
Israel Arms Exports – General
- Times of Israel 6/14/23: Israeli arms sales doubled in a decade, hit new record of $12.5 billion in 2022
- Al Monitor 6/14/23: Arab states make up 24% of Israel’s 2022 arms exports including drones
- Palestine Chronicle 11/25/22: Israeli Elbit Systems Reveals New Drone to Be Used in Occupied West Bank
- I24 News 4/4/22: Israel ranked 10th in the world in arms exports over the past 5 years
Israel Arms Exports – India
- Jewish Currents, Spring 2023: The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook
- Jewish Currents, Summer 2019: Gods, Guns, and Country – Trade in weapons and ultra-nationalist ideas is driving an expanding India–Israel alliance.
Israel Arms Exports – Surveillance Tech
- +972 Magazine 5/3/22: The watchful eye of Israel’s surveillance empire – Israeli cyber companies are at the forefront of a booming facial recognition market, threatening basic freedoms in Israel-Palestine and beyond.
- Middle East Institute 4/27/22: Nowhere to hide: The impact of Israel’s digital surveillance regime on the Palestinians
- Council on Foreign Relations 3/8/22: How Israel’s Pegasus Spyware Stoked the Surveillance Debate
- Foreign Policy 2/21/22: How the Occupation Fuels Tel Aviv’s Booming AI Sector
- New York Times 1/28/22: The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon – A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
- Middle East Eye 11/18/21: Unregulated Israeli spyware is a global threat, experts warn – Israeli surveillance companies and use of spyware tools should be further regulated following reports of hacking of several aid workers’ phones, experts say
- The Intercept 10/17/16: How Israel Became a Hub for Surveillance Technology – Israel’s cyberwarriors are increasingly taking their skills to the private surveillance industry. And now Israel, the self-proclaimed “startup nation,” is selling its products around the world to governments that want to spy on their own citizens.