The thesis of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, continues to resonate around the world. In Spain, journalist Marta Peirano writes in the leading newspaper, El Pais, about the significance of Israeli arms and repressive tech in the hands of autocrats and dictatorships. Here’s the English translation (via Google translate): The most militarized country in the…
Sky News interview on Hamas, Israel and the meaning of occupation
My interview today on Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News on the Hamas war on Israel and Israel’s endless siege and violence against Gaza.
TRT World interview on the Hamas attacks against Israel
My interview with global broadcaster TRT World a few hours after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October, 2023.
ABC News Australia interview on Israel, Hamas and troubling media framing
My interview yesterday on ABC News Australia on Israel and Hamas and how the media routinely (and falsely) equates occupied and occupier. UPDATE: Days after this interview was posted online, it went viral. Translated into Arabic, it’s been watched millions of times in both English and Arabic: #شاهد رد الصحفي الأسترالي اليهودي، الذي غطى معظم…
Al Jazeera English interview on Israeli intelligence failures and the Palestine Laboratory
My interview today with Al Jazeera English talking about Israeli intelligence failures and the Palestinian laboratory in a time of war.
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…
Reviewing Naomi Klein’s fine “Doppelgänger” book
My review in today’s The Saturday Paper newspaper about Naomi Klein’s new book, Doppelgänger: We all know people who have vanished into a world of conspiracy and disinformation. This is more extreme than believing, for example, that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked or that the 9/11 terror attacks in New York and…
Israel’s Palestine Laboratory: From India to the world
A great event today with New York-based The Polis Project: Join us for a conversation about two important books: Azad Essa’s Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel and Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. In this conversation, Essa and Loewenstein will discuss the…
The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors
I recently discovered that some of my books are being used illegally to “train” AI models: This story in Books + Publishing explains what’s at stake: The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training…
Investigating Murdoch media and its impact on climate change policy
A few months I was asked by the major German magazine, Stern, to investigate the role of the Murdoch press in Australia and its impact on climate change policies. It was a global story with other journalists digging into the same question in the UK and US. This week the four-page feature was published and…