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…
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Palestine Remembered on the Palestine lab
My interview with Nasser Mashni on Melbourne’s 3CR radio program, Palestine Remembered, Australia’s only English-language program dedicated to Palestine. We discussed my Jewish upbringing and my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Flying the Palestinian flag
Randwick Council in Sydney will be flying the Palestinian flag on 29 November. It should be an uncontroversial decision but it’s become a news story. In Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, I was interviewed about it:
ABC Radio National Drive interview on The Palestine Laboratory
My interview on Australia’s Radio National’s Drive program talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discuss my family’s Jewish trajectory, Israel’s testing of weapons in Palestine and the threat that this poses to the world.
The Shot takes aim at Israeli mass surveillance
The Shot is a satirical outlet with bite. Its weekly podcast interviewed me this week, with hosts Jo Dyer and Grace Tame, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and we discussed personal politics, challenging establishment power, mass surveillance and other (not always funny) subjects:
2SER Radio on The Palestine Laboratory
The Fourth Estate is a weekly media show on community radio 2SER (based in Sydney but broadcast around Australia). Its host, veteran journalist Monica Attard, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and tackled the personal, my evolution on Israel/Palestine, boycotts and mass surveillance:
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…
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…
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.