Sky News Australia is a Murdoch “news” channel which loves Israel to death.
After the recent release of my new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, Sky News Australia published a confused and frankly comical take-down of my recent interview on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live interview (and suggested that I was somehow questioning German complicity in the Holocaust which is patently absurd since my own family was killed by the Nazis):
There’s nothing the ABC loves as much as a left-wing Jewish Australian who attacks Israel and is highly critical of the Australian Jewish community.
Enter Antony Loewenstein who is a regular contributor to ABC programs. An outspoken critic of Israel, he was the subject of a soft profile on ABC TV’s Compass program “Not in my Name” on 5 May 2024.
On 11 September he made another ABC appearance – this time on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live where he was interviewed by David Marr. Here’s how the ABC described the segment:
In a new documentary for Al Jazeera, Jewish-Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.
Let’s go to the transcript:
Antony Loewenstein: If you come out and say: “I support the end of the war in Gaza, I’m opposed to Israeli actions, [I] oppose the genocide in Gaza – you are automatically framed as a Hamas supporter. Guilty by association. Which again, other countries are, it’s happening too, including here. But in Germany, there is something fundamental about it being done in the name of, I would argue, both their guilt complex, which to some extent, as I say, Germany has a reason to feel guilty about the Holocaust.
David Marr: To some extent?
Antony Loewenstein: To put it mildly. But there’s a difference between how do you commemorate and understand your own actions – or your ancestors’ actions – in World War II in the modern era. And Germany has been praised for having something so-called memory culture – educating about the Holocaust at schools, talking about what our ancestors did, the German ancestors did to the Jews and others. And I’m not opposed to that history. Of course, it’s vital.
So there you have it. Before he was challenged by David Marr, Loewenstein said that “to some extent” Germany “has a reason to feel guilty about the Holocaust”. With views like this, it’s little wonder that anti-Zionist Loewenstein has been signed up by the anti-Zionist Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, to do a documentary. Can You Bear It?