I recently discovered that some of my books are being used illegally to “train” AI models: This story in Books + Publishing explains what’s at stake: The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training…
Investigating Murdoch media and its impact on climate change policy
A few months I was asked by the major German magazine, Stern, to investigate the role of the Murdoch press in Australia and its impact on climate change policies. It was a global story with other journalists digging into the same question in the UK and US. This week the four-page feature was published and…
Mondoweiss interview on the Palestine laboratory
Mondoweiss is a US-based website that covers Israel/Palestine and US relations with the Middle East. I’ve either written for the outlet or been interviewed by them for nearly 20 years. US correspondent Michael Arria interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Beware the Saudi/Palestine rapprochement
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the growing ties between Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestine, God, Jesus, the Bible and resistance
I recently appeared on the InVerse podcast, run by two self-described “God-botherers”, to talk about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Hosted by Australian-based Jarrod McKenna and US-based Drew Hart, I even read a Bible passage that I like despite being a Jewish atheist:
From disaster capitalism to Palestine
A great review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the literary journal, Meanjin, by Vanessa Francesca places my work in an historical context (and recognises the bulk of my writing over the last 20 years from Palestine to disaster capitalism): In 2006, Antony Loewenstein’s debut book My Israel Question caused a stir among Australian…
Drug reform in New Zealand moves at snail pace
The response to my 2019 book on the global drug war, Pills, Powder and Smoke, continues. The New Zealander activist John Minto, a host on my recent, hugely successful book tour for The Palestine Laboratory (where it became a best-seller), recently bought a copy of my drug war book and wrote about in the NZ…
The ethno-nationalist model
My recent interview with Solidarity magazine about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, covers a wide range of topics from ethno-nationalism to arms sales: Antony Loewenstein’s new book, The Palestine Laboratory, looks at Israel’s military cyber industrial complex and its role as one of the world’s biggest arms dealers and seller of some of the…
Lebanese outlet An-Nahar covers The Palestine Laboratory
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been written about in the Lebanese daily in Arabic An-Nahar (and what follows is the English version via Google Translate). The article is by Jihad Al-Zein: No smartphone anymore Israel is first in the world, not America or China, in smart phone monitoring programs It can be said…
Up close and personal about Palestine
It’s rare having my public events filmed by professionals to make everything look slick. But I was lucky that one of my recent talks around my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, was documented in this way. Organised by BDS Australia in Sydney, I discussed the book, my own background and global complicity in Israeli actions.