The Palestine Laboratory is now out in Japanese
I’m excited to announce that my global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory, is now out in Japanese with the fantastic publisher, Iwanami Shoten:
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The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: AI, Surveillance, and the Erosion of Democracy
The second episode of my new weekly show, The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, called “AI, Surveillance, and the Erosion of Democracy”. I explain how Silicon Valley once promoted itself as the centre of innovation and connection, designing tools that would improve the world. Those days are long gone with many Silicon Valley “leaders” going full MAGA,…
The journalist dilemma after Gaza
Israel has killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza since 7 October 2023. And completely refused independent Western media access. I spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about what this means: “Other countries will have no hesitation to do the same thing,” agreed Antony Loewenstein, an Australian journalist who has covered international affairs…
The Jakarta Post positively reviews Palestine laboratory
Following the recent release of the Bahasa edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, The Jakarta Post has positively reviewed it: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’: How Israel turns occupation into export – Books – The Jakarta Post
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…
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Al Jazeera English interview on emerging from mass destruction in Gaza
My Al Jazeera English interview on a welcome ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and Netanyahu’s futile war in Gaza.
The global Jewish Diaspora is at a moral crossroad
My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye: Israel‘s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, is worried about the Jews in Britain. In the aftermath of the hyperbolic media and political reaction to pro-Palestine chants at the Glastonbury music festival, Chikli posted on X that the Jewish community must “leave…
Muslim World Book Review on the Palestine laboratory
The UK-based Muslim World Book Review has published a long review of many Palestine-related books, including my title, The Palestine Laboratory, and includes this line: Antony Loewenstein provides answers in The Palestine Laboratory which is arguably the most important of the books under review in terms of trying to make sense of the injustice that one…
Review of stunning new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”
My review of this remarkable new book, published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald, already a New York Times best-seller: POLITICS One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad Text, $32.99 There are too many horrific stories to recount. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israel…
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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
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
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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The Palestine Laboratory is now out in Japanese
I’m excited to announce that my global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory, is now out in Japanese with the fantastic publisher, Iwanami Shoten:
The journalist dilemma after Gaza
Israel has killed an unprecedented number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza since 7 October 2023. And completely refused independent Western media access. I spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review about what this means: “Other countries will have no hesitation to do the same thing,” agreed Antony Loewenstein, an Australian journalist who has covered international affairs…
The Jakarta Post positively reviews Palestine laboratory
Following the recent release of the Bahasa edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, The Jakarta Post has positively reviewed it: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’: How Israel turns occupation into export – Books – The Jakarta Post
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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…
TRT World interview on wild West Bank violence
My interview on TRT World about Israel’s surging violence in the West Bank and the desperate need for accountability.
Al Jazeera English interview on Israeli impunity in the West Bank
My interview on Al Jazeera English about shocking (but sadly unsurprising) footage of Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinians in the West Bank.