The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel uses genocide to test & sell weapons
A conversation with Antony Loewenstein
24 October 2025
10:00 UTC (GMT)
Streaming at iuscientists.org
Join us live as award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein unpacks the chilling political economy behind Israel’s military-industrial complex. A conversation between IUS scientists and the author.
• How the occupation of Palestine—and the current genocide in Gaza—functions as a laboratory for testing weapons systems on civilians.
• Why the label “battle-tested” has become a marketing hook for Israeli companies selling arms and spy technology worldwide.
• The role of scientists and engineers in sustaining this cycle of destruction—and how we can confront it.
About the author
Antony Loewenstein is a German-Australian investigative reporter, author, and filmmaker. His 2023 book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World won the 2023 Walkley Book Award and has been translated into nine languages. He co-edited the book After Zionism: One State For Israel And Palestine.
Loewenstein's latest documentaries, The Palestine Laboratory and Germany’s Israel Obsession, premiered in 2025 and are now streaming free on Al Jazeera:
• The Palestine Laboratory. Watch: Episode 1. Episode 2.
• Germany’s Israel Obsession. Watch here.
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| Johannesburg (South Africa) | 12:00:00 | SAST | UTC+2 hours |
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