THE PALESTINE LABORATORY

Reviewed 12/23/2024

The Palestine Laboratory, by Antony Loewenstein

THE PALESTINE LABORATORY
How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Antony Loewenstein
Verso, May 2023

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-1-83976-208-6
ISBN-10 1-83976-208-X 265pp. HC $29.95

Titles for Further Reading

Abunimah, Ali
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israel-Palestinian Impasse
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006
Ben-Menache, Ari
Profits of War: Inside the Secret US-Israeli Arms Network
New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992
Bergman, Ronen
Rise and Kill First: A Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
London: John Murray, 2019
Bresheeth-Zabner, Haim
An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation
London: Verso, 2020
Bridle, James
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
London: Verso, 2019
Byler, Darren
In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony
New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2021
Cain, Geoffrey
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
New York: Public Affairs, 2021
Chomsky, Noam
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
London: Pluto Press, 1999
Cook, Jonathan
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
London: Pluto Press, 2006
Deibert, Ronald J.
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Toronto: Anansi, 2020
Farrow, Ronan
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
London: Fleet, 2019
Feinstein, Andrew
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
London: Penguin Books, 2012
Fisk, Robert
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Foster, Kevin
Anti-Social Media: Conventional Militaries in the Digital Battlespace
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2021
Friedman, Thomas
From Beirut to Jerusalem: Second Edition
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998
Grandin, Greg
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Making of an Imperial Republic
New York: Picador, 2021
Halper, Jeff
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
London: Pluto Press, 2015
Hever, Shir
The Privatization of Israeli Security
London: Pluto Press, 2018
Hubbard, Ben
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
London: William Collins, 2020
Kimmerling, Baruch
Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War against the Palestinians
London: Verso, 2003
Meier, Barry
Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies
London: Sceptre, 2021
Miller, Todd
Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Borders around the World
London: Verso, 2019
Perlroth, Nicole
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with South Africa
new York: Pantheon Books, 2010
Reinhart, Tanya
Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2003
Said, Edward W.
Power Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said, edited and with an introduction by Gauri Viswanathan
London: Bloomsbury, 2004
Weisman, Eyal
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
London: Verso, 2012
Yizhar, S.
Khirbet Khizeh
London: Granta, 2008
York, Jillian
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism
London: Verso, 2021
Zirtal, Idith and Akiva Eldar
Lords of the Land: The War over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
New York: Nation Books, 2007
Zuboff, Shoshana
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
London: Profile Books, 2019
1 See List of Israeli assassinations (Wikipedia, 3 December 2024).
2 Black Cube, Cellebrite, and NSO are the main providers of surveillance software.
3 See also My own list of Middle East references.
4 An example comes from page 269: "And so, in the space of just a month or two, the illusion of a Third Way escape from left-right confrontation had been shattered three times." But this tendency to portray transient conditions in apocalyptic terms is, I think, an occupational hazard of journalism.
5 Excerpt: "Zambian farmers lost out on subsidised agricultural inputs when tough World Bank and International Monetary Fund conditions were imposed."
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