In 2022 and 2023, I worked as a researcher on an Al Jazeera Arabic film about Yemeni Jewish babies being stolen by Israel in the 1950s. It’s a largely hidden story. It screened in October 2023. The documentary has now been translated into English and has just been broadcast on Al Jazeera English.
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Al Jazeera Arabic film on abducted Yemeni babies in Israel
A while ago, I started journalistic consulting work with Al Jazeera Arabic, based in Doha. I provided research and early producing (in English) on a just released documentary about the horrific story of Yemeni Jewish babies being stolen by Israel in the 1950s. The film is in Arabic and I understand that an English language…
Accountability in Palestine?
After the recent news that the International Criminal Court made an historic decision to allow its prosecutor to investigate war crimes in Palestine, I was asked by global broadcaster TRT World to comment: Antony Loewenstein, an independent author and film-maker who lived in Jerusalem from 2016-2020, is also happy about the ICC decision. “The recent…
Al Jazeera Arabic film on privatised war in Yemen
Al Jazeera Arabic just released a documentary on the brutal war in Yemen, the use of militias and how the conflict is being privatised with violent contractors. I’m interviewed in the film (not because I’ve been to Yemen but due to my extensive work post 9/11 on the use/abuse of private contractors in war). An…
US TV program Real News Network on Yemen, Libya and wars in the Middle East
I was interviewed this week by the US TV program the Real News Network on the “fog around UAE & Saudis in Yemen, how it’s connected to the chaos in Libya, the drone attacks, and wider chaos of the Middle East”:
US network The Real News interview on US/Israeli mercenaries in Yemen
I was interviewed this week on US network The Real News: The US-based mercenary company Spear Group, headed by an Israeli and hired by a Palestinian on behalf of the UAE, conducts extra-judicial killings in Yemen. Antony Loewenstein discusses the details:
US network The Real News interview on UAE using mercenaries in Yemen
My interview on US network The Real News about the United Arab Emirates using private, military contractors in the horrific war in Yemen and the involvement of Australia and the US:
Australia's ambition to become global arms dealer
My major investigation in the Melbourne Age/Sydney Morning Herald on Australia’s surging defence industry: This year’s Avalon Air Show in Geelong was the first chance for the public to see the long-delayed Joint Strike Fighter in action. At a cost of at least $100 million per aircraft, Canberra is slated to spend $17 billion on…
Who makes money from the crisis in Yemen?
Yemen is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, fuelled by the US-backed, Saudi Arabian war against civilians. Weapons manufacturers also have blood on their hands. I was interviewed today by journalist Jacob Burns in the Jordanian publication, Al Bawaba: Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist and author of Disaster Capitalism:… Making A Killing…