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- After Zionism
  
  One State For Israel And Palestine
  
  Saqi Books, 2024
  
  After Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the most pressing issue of our time. In essays that challenge our assumptions, distinguished contributors with distinct and divergent perspectives dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians. Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Israeli…
  
  The Palestine Laboratory
  
  How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World
  
  Verso + Scribe, 2023
  
  How Israel makes a killing from the occupation. Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable…
  
  Pills, Powder and Smoke
  
  Inside the Bloody War on Drugs
  
  Scribe, 2019
  
  Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed…
  
  Disaster Capitalism
  
  Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe
  
  Verso, 2015
  
  Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and…
  
  Profits of Doom
  
  How Vulture Capitalism Is Swallowing The World
  
  Melbourne University Press, 2013
  
  Vulture capitalism has seen the corporation become more powerful than the state, and yet its work is often done by stealth, supported by political and media elites. The result is privatised wars and outsourced detention centres, mining companies pillaging precious land in developing countries and struggling nations invaded by NGOs and the corporate dollar. Best-selling…
  
  For God’s Sake
  
  An Atheist, A Jew, A Christian and A Muslim Debate Religion
  
  MacMillan, 2013
  
  Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? Doesn’t religion cause most of the conflict in the world? And Where do we find hope? We are introduced to different belief systems – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – and to the argument that atheism,…
  
  Left Turn
  
  Political Essays For The New Left
  
  Melbourne University Press, 2012
  
  The 2008 financial crisis opened the door for a bold, progressive social movement. But despite widespread revulsion at economic inequity and political opportunism, after the crash very little has changed. Has the Left failed? What agenda should progressives pursue? And what alternatives do they dare to imagine? Left Turn, published by Melbourne University Press in…
  
  The Blogging Revolution
  
  The Blogging Revolution
  
  Melbourne University Press, 2008
  
  The Blogging Revolution, released by Melbourne University Press in 2008, is a colourful and revelatory account of bloggers around the globe why live and write under repressive regimes – many of them risking their lives in doing so. Antony Loewenstein’s travels take him to private parties in Iran and Egypt, internet cafes in Saudi Arabia…
  
  My Israel Question
  
  My Israel Question
  
  Melbourne University Press, 2006
  
  The best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question – on Jewish identity, the Zionist lobby, reporting from Palestine and future Middle East directions – was released by Melbourne University Press in 2006. A new, updated edition was released in 2007 (and reprinted again in 2008). The book was short-listed for the 2007 NSW…
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Francesca Albanese and the politics of war accountability

Francesca Albanese and the politics of war accountability

Israel May 6, 2026

My following book review appears in this weekend’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: MEMOIR When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine Francesca Albanese Hardie Grant, $32.99 It’s not easy being Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. After releasing countless…

New United Nations report on occupation profiteering cites The Palestine Laboratory

New United Nations report on occupation profiteering cites The Palestine Laboratory

Israel July 3, 2025July 22, 2025

A new United Nations report details the large number of corporations profiting from Israel’s permanent occupation of Palestine. It’s a comprehensive report that demands consideration. It’s authored by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I’m pleased that my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is cited extensively. I gave the following comment…

Francesca Albanese on the Palestine lab

Francesca Albanese on the Palestine lab

Israel January 29, 2025January 29, 2025

Francesca Albanese is the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967. She’s one of the most outspoken experts on Israel’s crimes in Gaza and beyond. In two recent interviews, Albanese kindly mentions my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and urges people to read it. Here’s the UK outlet, Novara…