The growing public distrust of the mainstream media is an issue that should concern all living and breathing citizens (and yes, there are often good reasons for it). It’s an issue I discuss in this interview on The Jist podcast along with my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and mass surveillance. I previously appeared on…
ABC Radio Sydney interview on Israeli hacking tool, Cellebrite
Israeli company Cellebrite sells a phone hacking tool that’s ubiquitous across the world including in Australia. It’s an issue I investigate in my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Here’s my interview with ABC Radio Australia in Sydney and Canberra where I discuss Cellebrite and other mass surveillance tools that exist in the West with barely…
Middle East Eye strongly reviews The Palestine Laboratory
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been very positively reviewed in the UK-based outlet, Middle East Eye, by Long Road Magazine co-founder and journalist Patrick O. Strickland: As the Israeli colonisation of Palestine plods forward at a breakneck pace and its own facade of democracy trembles, Loewenstein’s book stands out as a new addition…
Israeli repressive tech invades our privacy
A key section in my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is on the role of Israeli spyware and hacking tools. Israeli company Cellebrite is a major player and it has a large, mostly unheralded presence in Australia. Declassified Australia recently ran my investigation into the company’s role in Australia (alongside an edited book extract.) Here’s…
How Israel enforces global borders
The Long Road Magazine is a great, European-based outlet reporting on borders and borderlands. I was recently interviewed by one of its co-founders, Patrick O. Strickland, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with a particular focus on Israeli tech maintaining borders (in the EU and on the US/Mexico). The wonderful sketch of me, published…
The “allure” of ethno-nationalism
Progressive International is a major, global organisation dedicated to justice and accountability. In its weekly magazine, The Internationalist, I’ve been interviewed about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where I talk about Israel’s appeal as an ethno-nationalist state. Plus there’s an exclusive, edited book extract that examines the EU’s use and abuse of Israeli drones…
Greens deputy leader Dr Mehreen Faruqi launches The Palestine Laboratory
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…
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.