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Foundation for Middle East Peace conversation about Palestine, its future and why it’s hard to find hope

Foundation for Middle East Peace is a US think-tank working towards a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians. I was interviewed on its podcast, Occupied Thoughts, by host Ahmed Moor (with whom I co-edited the book, After Zionism). We discussed the Palestine laboratory, my Jewish identity and new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, and the future…

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Australia’s desperate need to be relevant to Trump

Australia’s desperate need to be relevant to Trump

My book review appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era Clinton Fernandes Melbourne University Publishing, $17.99 What makes Australia relevant in the 21st century? It’s a question the Albanese government thinks about constantly and wants the Trump administration to know that the decisions made in…

Trump’s false embrace of the war on drugs

Trump’s false embrace of the war on drugs

The Trump administration’s acceleration of the global “war on drugs” is both dangerous and delusional. I gave this comment to the UK outlet, The New Statesman: “The idea of ramping up the drug war in a deluded attempt to stop people consuming drugs has never worked,” says Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist, film-maker and author…

When truth and lies become indistinguishable

When truth and lies become indistinguishable

My review of the fine new book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister Legacy, by Phil Inline in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age: The famed 20th-century British foreign correspondent Claud Cockburn was known to use the pithy phrase, “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” It…

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Foundation for Middle East Peace conversation about Palestine, its future and why it’s hard to find hope

Foundation for Middle East Peace is a US think-tank working towards a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians. I was interviewed on its podcast, Occupied Thoughts, by host Ahmed Moor (with whom I co-edited the book, After Zionism). We discussed the Palestine laboratory, my Jewish identity and new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, and the future…

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