My interview on the BBC World Service’s daily program, Newsday, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. I talked with the host James Copnall about the EU use of Israeli drones and the Israeli arms industry:
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Flying the Palestinian flag
Randwick Council in Sydney will be flying the Palestinian flag on 29 November. It should be an uncontroversial decision but it’s become a news story. In Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, I was interviewed about it:
Democracy Now! covers The Palestine Laboratory
The US TV show, Democracy Now!, interviewed me in a long 20-minute segment on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discussed the EU use of Israeli drones, ethno-nationalism, Israeli spyware et al. I’ve previously appeared on Democracy Now! in 2008, 2013 and 2015.
“Antony Loewenstein has brought a book to a gunfight”
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, was positively reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age on the weekend in a piece written by Michael Ruffles: Antony Loewenstein has brought a book to a gunfight, taking on Israel’s enormous and expanding military-industrial complex and invasive cyber spy operations with the low-tech tool of words…
ABC Radio National Drive interview on The Palestine Laboratory
My interview on Australia’s Radio National’s Drive program talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discuss my family’s Jewish trajectory, Israel’s testing of weapons in Palestine and the threat that this poses to the world.
Israel’s boost to the border surveillance industrial complex
Coda Story is a news organisation that investigates surveillance tech and disinformation. Its Istanbul-based reporter, Frankie Vetch, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with a particular focus on Israel’s work around the militarisation of global borders. Here’s an extract: How has Israel’s tech industry changed borders across the world? Maybe the most…
The Shot takes aim at Israeli mass surveillance
The Shot is a satirical outlet with bite. Its weekly podcast interviewed me this week, with hosts Jo Dyer and Grace Tame, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and we discussed personal politics, challenging establishment power, mass surveillance and other (not always funny) subjects:
2SER Radio on The Palestine Laboratory
The Fourth Estate is a weekly media show on community radio 2SER (based in Sydney but broadcast around Australia). Its host, veteran journalist Monica Attard, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and tackled the personal, my evolution on Israel/Palestine, boycotts and mass surveillance:
The New Arab praises The Palestine Laboratory
A great review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the London-based The New Arab by Martorell Junyent: Israeli weapons companies often promote their products for export by emphasising that they are “battle-tested.” Marketing weapons in such a way is misleading, to say the least. Ever since the end of the 1973 October War,…
US radio interview on KPFA about Israeli mass surveillance
My interview with US radio station KPFA and its program, Against The Grain, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory: Israel is one of the world’s most important producers of military hardware and surveillance technology, honed in its occupation of Palestine, and exported around the globe to various brutal regimes. Journalist and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein…