Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World, London-New York: Verso 2023, pp. 272

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World, traces a history of diplomatic and military links between Israel and other nations as well as dictatorships, highlighting how it has exported weapons, surveillance technology and methods of domination.Palestine is Israel's laboratory for methods of control and separation of populations, of course.Loewenstein opens his first chapter on Israeli state complicity in Pinochet's regime, considering the story of Daniel Silberman, who was six years old when the coup occurred in Chile.He and his family left the country for good and settled in Israel in 1977.Daniel sought news regarding the disappearance of his father, who had been kidnapped from a Santiago prison in 1974 and never seen again.After some research, Israel refused to disclose relevant information to Silberman's relatives concerning his disappearance.Later on, it became clear that Israel had an important role in Pinochet's brutality, training Chilean personnel to aid the repression of its own people and supplying arms.After that, working closely with the US for decades, Israel supported the police forces of Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Honduras, Paraguay and Costa Rica during the Cold War,