THE PALESTINE LABORATORY, how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

264pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2024

First published in the UK in 2023. 

This edition has a new preface by the author for the South African Edition. 

Winner of the 2023 Walkley Non-Fiction Journalism Prize.

"Loewenstein connects the dots in this compelling, horrifying investigation. The Palestine Laboratory provides crucial context about the Israel-Hamas war, and the reality of life in the occupied Palestinian territories prior to October 7." Kate Knibbs, Best Books of 2023, WIRED

"A triumph of investigative journalism. It exposes the ruthlessness with which Israel exploits the experience gained from the illegal occupation to export all kinds of military hardware as well as the technology of surveillance, espionage, cyber warfare, phone-hacking, and house demolition. It also shines a torch on the dark side of Israel's support for despots around the world. Altogether, a profoundly depressing audit on a country that used to boast of being "a light unto the nations"." Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Independent journalist and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein's books include Pills, Powder and Smoke, Disaster Capitalism and My Israel Question. He has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, amongst others, and is co-founder of Declassified Australia. Loewenstein was based in East Jerusalem 2016-2020.