What an honour for my book, The Palestine Laboratory, to be shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024, one of Australia’s major writing prizes. The judges comments: Can power be measured by a state’s ability to weaponise the business of oppression? This is the timely question at the heart of independent journalist Antony Loewenstein’s…
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Amplifying what Palestinians “need you to know”
A long, detailed and insightful review in the Sydney Review of Books by Micaela Sahhar about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and Nick Riemer’s Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Both Loewenstein and Riemer have used their respective expertise to amplify what Palestinians need you to know. Their central propositions should be matters of…
Al Jazeera English interview on Israel using Gaza as vital testing ground
My latest Al Jazeera English interview on Israel using Gaza as as key testing ground, before and after 7 October, and Israel currently promoting/selling surveillance tech at global arms fairs.
Intercepted podcast interview on The Palestine Laboratory and weaponing anti-Semitism
I’m excited to appear on the Intercepted podcast, part of The Intercept media outlet, hosted by investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. I’ve known Scahill for many years, he launched one of my previous books, Disaster Capitalism, in New York in 2015, and long admired his courageous reporting across the globe. Here’s the blurb for our conversation…
TRT World interview on growing global pressure on Israel
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World on the isolation (or otherwise) of Israel.
South Korean edition of The Palestine Laboratory is out
I’m happy to announce that the South Korean translated edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is now out with a new post 7 October preface: The book has received a wonderful review in the local outlet, Hankyoreh: “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World” By Antony Loewenstein, translated…
AI-warfare isn’t saving civilian lives
My interview with Al Jazeera English on how AI-enabled warfare in Gaza and beyond does nothing to protect civilians. In fact, it’s the opposite: “The image that Israel created for decades has been dented,” Antony Loewenstein, author of the book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, told Al…
Chris Hedges and I talk the Palestine lab and how it threatens everyone
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist who used to work for The New York Times. He’s now a fiercely independent reporter, commentator and author. Here’s our in-depth interview on The Real News about my book, The Palestine Laboratory.
“History didn’t begin on October 7, 2023”
The outlet, The Markaz Review, has run an edited extract from my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and I’ve written a brief introduction, post 7 October, to frame the work: History didn’t begin on October 7, 2023. Palestine was occupied long before then. And yet the brutal Hamas attacks on October 7 were unprecedented. Daring in…
Mixed African attitudes towards Israel and Palestine
A key section of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, investigates the historical and current Israeli role in arming and backing African dictatorships. Along those lines, I was interviewed by the Nigerian-based journalist Obiora Ikoku in Inkstick about Africa’s response to the 7 October attacks. Read the whole article: Israel’s War in Gaza Also Impacts African Geopolitics…