The Palestine Laboratory EP 2

Al Jazeera (2025)

Film Review

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2025/2/6/the-palestine-laboratory-ep

The US has invested heavily in Israeli surveillance technology (see The Palestine Laboratory EP 1) to restrict illegal immigrants from entering the US, Trump paid two million dollars to supplement his border wall with 55 surveillance towers the US government has installed in remote border area. Each tower covers a 5 mile radius and includes underground censors.

In addition the border state of Arizona has purchase Celebrite software from Israel. It enables them to extract cellphone data without a password. Meanwhile drug cartels have installed (with the collusion of law enforcement) Israel’s Pegagus software (see The Palestine Laboratory EP 1) on the phones of 60,000 people they disappeared in Mexico city. At present the Mexican army is the country’s biggest Pegasus user user of Pegasus in the country, despite having no legal authorization to use it.

The EU is the second biggest buyer of Israeli surveillance technology. In 2021 Samos closed its migrant refugee camp and transferred thousands of refugees to a Closed Control Access Center (CCAC). The latter is a massive concrete building equipped with cameras in every corridor and external surveillance via tall pole-based camera and drones. This technology transfers data in real time to police and security centers, capable of calling up fingerprint and other AI biometric data in real time. The EU has been using Israeli surveillance drones since 2011 to monitor sea born migrants, which it pays Libya to intercept.

India is Israel’s largest weapons and surveillance client. The filmmaker interview an Indian farmer who was tear gassed via drone while protesting government farm policy. Prior to its collapse, the Soviet Union was India’s main supplier of weapons technology. Since India turned to Israel for its weapons, they account for 55% of the country’s total imports. They have also allowed Israel to build missile factories and launch missiles on Indian soil. India also exports Indian-made and drones to Israel.

In 1948 India was one of the first countries to support Israel. Their current right-ring Hindu supremacist government also supports the genocide in Gaza owing to longstanding Islamophobia.

Israel was also a major supporter of South African apartheid (which started in 1948).* In the 1960s, South Africa supplied Israel with the uranium they needed to develop a nuclear bomb (the ANC voluntarily shuttered its nuclear industry when it took power in 1994). In 1970 Israel provided South Africa the military technology they needed to topple Angola’s left wing government. By the 1980s, international condemnation of apartheid-related atrocities left the UK, US and Israel as the only three countries supporting apartheid.

*Under apartheid all non-white residents were forced to move to primitive townships.