There’s been a lot of hype, often pushed by Western nations, that AI-enabled warfare is more targeted. I spoke to Brian Merchant at the Los Angeles Times about this in the context of Israel’s war against Gaza: “The mistake has been, in the last two weeks, saying this was an intelligence failure. It wasn’t, it…
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Social media as the “perfect” stage for Israeli war-making
My UK/US publisher, Verso, has published an extract of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, on how Israel uses social media to maximise war as spectacle. Here’s an extract: The November 2012 Israeli bombardment of Gaza, called Operation Pillar of Defense, was a seven-day war that killed 174 Palestinians and 6 Israelis and injured thousands more.…
Do you think that Washington cares about Palestinians dying?
My interview with the UK-based outlet, Middle East Eye, on the lack of Western elite interest in Palestinian lives or deaths. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Middle East Eye (@middleeasteye)
The ties that bind between Palestine and indigenous Australia
I’ve long believed that it’s important to talk to people on contentious issues who aren’t just in our own bubbles. I recently spoke on the popular podcast, Not So PG, with hosts Brooke Blurton and Matty Mills, about the Israel/Palestine conflict and the ties between Indigenous Australians and Palestinian self-determination. Here’s a clip: View…
Melbourne’s Triple R radio interview on Australia’s failure to push for Gaza ceasefire
My recent interview with Melbourne’s great independent radio station, Triple R: Independent journalist Antony Loewenstein (author of The Palestine Laboratory) returns to The Grapevine to speak with guest host Judith Peppard. They cover the latest developments in Gaza since Antony’s previous conversation with Dylan Bird two weeks prior, including Australia’s Government abstaining from a United…
Background to the writing/thinking behind The Palestine Laboratory
Before my book, The Palestine Laboratory, was released in May, my UK/US publisher, Verso, asked me to answer some questions to generate media interest. None of us could have expected the avalanche of global interest in the months since. After the monumental events of 7 October, Verso published the Q&A and included some details about…
What you want your government to say about Israel/Palestine
The Juice Media is a satirical comedy team producing some of the most incisive political commentary around. They recently released this video, currently seen nearly 630k times, on the events on 7 October and the aftermath in Israel/Palestine. Happy to say that I played a small part with “thoughts and advice”.
On the growing alliance between Israel and India
In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I examine the growing ties between India and Israel. The Indian commentator Apar Gupta dedicates an episode of his program to discuss my book and how the Israel/Palestine conflict is impacting vast swathes of the world including India.
The Jakarta Post on the Palestine lab
In late October, a columnist for The Jakarta Post newspaper in Indonesia, Julia Suryakusuma, wrote a column about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, while I was in Ubud, Bali for the writer’s festival. In the world’s biggest Muslim country, the book has wide resonance including around Indonesia’s use of Israeli surveillance equipment (detailed in…
Why the US censure of Israeli spyware is a toothless tiger
My recent feature story in the UK magazine, New Internationalist. Here’s an extract: For Israel, spyware is not just a highly lucrative industry, but a strategic weapon to curry diplomatic favour. Aside from revolutionizing the world of espionage, the huge demand for these tools is reshaping geopolitics, with Palestinian lives at the sharp end of…