During my recent visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, the biggest writer’s event in the world, one of my panels was inspired by the title of my latest book, The Palestine Laboratory. There was a massive crowd and the audience was hugely engaged in the subject. I spoke about the Israeli onslaught in…
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Israel’s Palestine Laboratory: From India to the world
A great event today with New York-based The Polis Project: Join us for a conversation about two important books: Azad Essa’s Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel and Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. In this conversation, Essa and Loewenstein will discuss the…
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…
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…
Israel’s democracy deficit on crack
Last month, the Australian Book Review published a story about Israel’s eroding democracy. In the June edition, I responded in a published letter: Dear Editor, The state of Israeli democracy is indeed dire, as was eloquently explained by David N. Myers in his article in the May 2023 edition. It is worth stressing that the…