My interview with Alex Lo from the South China Morning Post newspaper about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Many interesting conversations here but particularly about China’s potentially growing role in the Middle East and how this could impact the Israel/Palestine conflict. The full interview transcript is below: Israel has occupied Palestinian territories for more…
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Recommending The Palestine Laboratory
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out in Australia and New Zealand on 30 May. It was released in the UK and US last week. Every week, the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age write an email about the latest news and views in the literary world and this week’s edition features the highlights…
TRT World’s The Newsmakers discuss Palestine as a laboratory
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World’s leading current affairs show, The Newsmakers, talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Palestine as the ultimate showroom
My interview on Britain’s Novara Media about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory: Israel needs friends. And one of the main tools it has used to get them is its arms industry. The 10th biggest in the world, it increasingly specialises in the kind of digital surveillance technology European governments love to pretend they never…
The Palestine Laboratory book extract on politicide
An extract of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been published by Dawn, founded by the murdered Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in his quest for democracy and human rights in the Middle East. The extracted chapter is about Israeli desires to make Gaza an effective testing ground for new weapons, social media manipulation and…
Unauthorized Disclosure podcast interview on The Palestine laboratory
My interview with the Unauthorised Disclosure podcast talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. With hosts Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek, we discuss the influence of Israeli “counter-insurgency” tactics in Latin and South America, the silencing of Palestinians on social media and much more.
MSNBC interview on The Palestine Laboratory
My US mainstream TV debut just happened! MSNBC’s Medhi Hasan introduced my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and gave it the proper context. Then we spoke about Israel’s ethno-nationalism, the arms trade and using Palestine as a testing ground. The fact that this discussion can happen, on prime-time US TV, shows that there’s an increasingly…
Swedish review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory
The leading Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, has published a fascinating story about the Nakba and my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Written by Shora Esmailian, the article assesses the legacy of the Nakba and how Israel now uses the weapons of war to promote itself around the world. Here’s the PDF: Shora Esmailian om Nakba,…
Sky News Australia interview on PNG independence at risk under US security deal
PNG is set to sign a so-called security pact with the US though there are serious questions about the lack of sovereignty for the small nation. I was interviewed about it on Sky News Australia, speaking as the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia.
The defining Israel/Palestine conflict and the challenge for Jews
Writing personally about Israel/Palestine, why I have the positions I do, is something I mostly avoid. But a notable exception is my long essay in this week’s edition of the Good Weekend magazine, inserted every Saturday into the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. The readership is over one million people and it’s one of…