An Al Jazeera Arabic short video on the Israeli weapons industry featuring my book, The Palestine Laboratory: View this post on Instagram A post shared by الجزيرة (@aljazeera)
Spreading the Palestine lab message across Turkey
I was recently interviewed by Turkey’s Anadolu Agency about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and my words were then re-published in multiple Turkish media outlets. Some examples below:
“Israel’s Palestine laboratory thrives on global disruption and violence”
A great review of The Palestine Laboratory in Middle East Monitor by Ramona Wadi: Antony Loewenstein’s book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world (Verso Books, 2023), is a timely read at any given moment, but the unfolding ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the complicit response of the international…
The deep involvement of venture capital in the Israeli “security” industry
An interesting story out of Canada by journalist Tim Groves published in The Breach: Eleven days after Hamas attacked Israel in October, former prime minister Stephen Harper’s current business partner Yaron Ashkenazi wrote an op-ed about how their company would help the country “stop these evil terrorists in their tracks.” Their venture capital fund, Awz…
The Palestine Laboratory succinctly explained in less than 5 minutes
AJ+ is the digital arm of Al Jazeera, producing short-form videos that reach millions of people. It recently published a great video about my book, The Palestine Laboratory: View this post on Instagram A post shared by AJ+ (@ajplus) AJ+ Arabic has also published a version of this video: View this post…
Tik-Tok covers The Palestine Laboratory
One of the pleasant surprises since the release of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is how it’s been picked up by many users of Tik-Tok, its messages amplified. This was happening before 7 October but since then it’s really taken off. Here’s just one example. Tony Vara is a popular Tik-Tok user, with over 500k…
“Don’t give up if people are attacking you”
During the recent Ubud Writer’s Festival in Bali, Indonesia, where I was a guest speaker, I was asked by the literary magazine, Kill Your Darlings, about what I wished I knew about being a writer back in the day: I’ve been a journalist for over twenty years, and if you write about political issues, works…
The fig leaf of “self defence”
A positive review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, published in the New Zealand media outlets, Asia Pacific Report, Café Pacific and The Daily Blog, by David Robie: Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and…
ABC Radio Australia on Palestine, immigration, free speech and Kissinger
I was invited onto ABC Australia’s RN’s Drive program last week, speaking alongside George Brandis, the former Federal Attorney General, to discuss Israel/Palestine, free speech, immigration and the death of Henry Kissinger.
#ReadPalestine
Through my UK/US publisher of The Palestine Laboratory, Verso, I was pleased to be involved in this recent initiative: A group of publishers has launched a week-long initiative encouraging people to read books by Palestinian authors and about Palestinian history by offering free ebooks. #ReadPalestine begins on Wednesday and runs until 5 December. The campaign…