Last week in Sydney, I launched my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, at Gleebooks to a packed, overflowing audience. The atmosphere was electric with a real appetite for hear about the reality of Israel’s occupation being a major export business. I was introduced by Deputy Greens Leader, Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi, who gave a powerful…
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Israeli spyware undermines global democracy
A key part of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, revolves around Israeli spyware. US outlet In These Times has published an edited extract from this section. Here’s a taster: Griselda Triana is a Mexican journalist, and human rights activist whose husband, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, was slain by a drug cartel on May 15, 2017, in Culiacán,…
Discussing the Afghan war with Andrew Quilty
Photojournalist Andrew Quilty spent years reporting in Afghanistan and published a book about his experiences, August in Kabul. I reviewed it for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age in August 2022. My interview with Quilty, conduced at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival late March 2023, covers the war itself, the return of the Taliban and…
TRT World interview on Assange and prospects of freedom
Talking on global broadcaster TRT World’s The Newsmakers program on the case of Wikileaks Julian Assange, the prospects of his freedom and the vital role of Declassified Australia’s contributor writer, Kellie Tranter, and her FOI work around the case.
Declassified Australia talk on Israeli mass surveillance
My recent conversation at the Addi Road Writer’s Festival in Sydney, Australia about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with my Declassified Australia friend, co-founder and co-editor, Peter Cronau. We discussed surveillance capitalism and Israel’s leading role in its global proliferation (including in Australia via the Israeli company Cellebrite, a fact explained in a book…
US radio KPFK on The Palestine Laboratory
My interview on US radio station KPFK’s program, Middle East in Focus, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, including a discussion about how the US and Israel relationship has contributed to backing the worst regimes in the world since the 1970s:
The Majority Report tackles The Palestine Laboratory
The Majority Report is a popular US news show. Here’s my interview with host Emma Vigeland about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and the reluctance in many parts of the US to challenge Israeli apartheid. My interview starts at 21:33 (and here’s the podcast).
LitHub speaks The Palestine Laboratory
LitHub is a US-based literary website. I was interviewed by one of its hosts, writer Andrew Keen, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, Jewish identity and the threat of anti-Semitism. It was one of the feistier interviews I’ve had since my book was released though I’m happy to be challenged on my thesis.
Electronic Intifada on the how and why of testing weapons in Palestine
My interview with Nora Barrows-Friedman at the US-based Electronic Intifada on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a wide-ranging discussion on how Israel tests weapons in Palestine and explains why the Jewish state has become the 10th biggest arms dealer in the world: On episode 78, we’re joined by journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author…
The Australian Greens strengthens its policy on Israel/Palestine
My story in the Australian outlet Crikey on the Greens political party releasing an updated policy on Israel/Palestine: The Australian Greens announced a new policy on Israel and Palestine this week and it’s already causing conniptions in the pro-Israel lobby. After the party released details about its revised position, stating that Israel is “practising the…