The Palestine Laboratory – EP 2

Interviewer and author Antony Loewenstein examines how Israeli-developed surveillance and military technology that has been tested on Palestinians is promoted abroad in Episode 2 of “The Palestine Laboratory.” He learns how the most recent Israeli technology is being used to track migrants and refugees crossing the US-Mexico border.

Loewenstein travels to India to learn how a flourishing arms trade is fostering close ties between the two countries and visits Mexico to investigate how Israeli spyware is being used there. He uncovers a secret aspect of South Africa’s history, which involved a clandestine arms trade and shared values between the apartheid-era government and Israel.

He reveals a glimpse into how Palestinians’ “technology of occupation” was used to subjugate and enslave people, as well as journalists and human rights activists from all over the world.

Loewenstein concludes by asking if the countries buying these systems are actually looking for more than just another weapon, but instead buying into a wider ideology of the separation and control of “unwanted” populations, be they protesting farmers, political dissidents, or refugees.