Palestinians served as test subjects for Israeli security tech exported worldwide.

Evidence

Israelis nevertheless need Palestinians to command militarization, American support and weaponry, even its own sense of victimized self. They “need” Palestinians in another sense too. September 11 revived Israel’s renowned but at the time flagging technological revolution and computing industry by selling its products especially to the US as servicing Israel’s vaunted security system. Israel’s export of security products to America, among others, is up fivefold this decade, ranging from surveillance devices for airports and cities to tamper-proof biometric IDs and technosecuritized walls. Here, too, as Naomi Klein has pointed out, Palestinians have proved indispensable, as guinea pigs, experimental subjects for perfecting the technological apparatuses of securitization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 589

Categorization

• SEED: Surveillance perfected on an oppressed population then exported globally is a strong angle connecting labor/security extraction across colonial contexts.
• CANDY: A startling concrete figure: Israeli security exports up fivefold, tested on Palestinians as guinea pigs.
• XREF: Parallels how novel penal or policing technologies historically get field-tested on marginalized populations then normalized. — connects to: Israel markets weapons as field-tested against Palestinians — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 335; US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine

Broader Connections

• US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine #expands (0.95)
• Israel markets weapons as field-tested against Palestinians #corroborates (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 335