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…
Mondoweiss interview on the Palestine laboratory
Mondoweiss is a US-based website that covers Israel/Palestine and US relations with the Middle East. I’ve either written for the outlet or been interviewed by them for nearly 20 years. US correspondent Michael Arria interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Beware the Saudi/Palestine rapprochement
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the growing ties between Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestine, God, Jesus, the Bible and resistance
I recently appeared on the InVerse podcast, run by two self-described “God-botherers”, to talk about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Hosted by Australian-based Jarrod McKenna and US-based Drew Hart, I even read a Bible passage that I like despite being a Jewish atheist:
From disaster capitalism to Palestine
A great review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the literary journal, Meanjin, by Vanessa Francesca places my work in an historical context (and recognises the bulk of my writing over the last 20 years from Palestine to disaster capitalism): In 2006, Antony Loewenstein’s debut book My Israel Question caused a stir among Australian…