Debating the “Palestine Laboratory”

Debating the “Palestine Laboratory”

I recently recorded this fascinating interview with the great US magazine, Jewish Currents, for its weekly podcast, On the Nose: In spring 2023, journalist and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein published , a book tracing the way that Israeli military technology and weaponry, battle-tested on Palestinians, is exported around the world. Lowenstein argues that as Israel’s surveillance…

How the Palestine laboratory impacted Chile

How the Palestine laboratory impacted Chile

My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, opens with a personal story about the horrific Pinochet regime in Chile in the 1970s and Israel’s support for it. I’m therefore happy to see my book getting traction in Chile with this story in the local media: On the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état [in Chile in…

In defence of human rights in Chile – open letter to the Australian community

Happy to sign the following important letter, partly initiated by my friend Dr. Rodrigo Acuña: Sydney, 24 November 2019 We express our deep concerns about human rights violations taking place in Chile, including the de facto war that billionaire President Sebastian Piñera has unleashed on his people. On 18 October, Chilean students took to the streets to protest…