Thu Feb 06 10:24:58 UTC 2025: ## Israeli Military Tech Fuels Global Repression: Documentary Exposes Widespread Use of “Occupation Technology”
**MEXICO CITY/NEW DELHI/JOHANNESBURG** – A new documentary, “The Palestine Laboratory,” reveals how Israeli military and surveillance technology, initially developed and tested on Palestinians, is being deployed globally to control and repress populations, according to journalist Antony Loewenstein.
Loewenstein’s investigation exposes the far-reaching impact of Israel’s arms trade, highlighting its use in diverse contexts from monitoring refugees at the US-Mexico border and in Greece, to suppressing dissent in India and South Africa. His research traces the technology’s application in surveilling political dissidents, human rights activists, and journalists.
The documentary features on-the-ground reporting in Mexico, where Israeli spyware is in use, and India, where a booming arms trade fosters close ties with Israel. In South Africa, Loewenstein unearths a previously obscured history of clandestine arms deals and shared ideologies between the apartheid regime and Israel.
Loewenstein argues that the purchasing nations are not simply acquiring weapons, but adopting a broader ideology of separating and controlling “undesirable” groups, including protesting farmers, political dissidents, and refugees. He posits that this “technology of occupation,” refined in the Palestinian territories, is being exported to facilitate similar forms of control worldwide. The documentary raises serious ethical concerns about the global implications of Israel’s military technology sales and their contribution to human rights violations internationally.
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