My interview on Australia’s Radio National’s Drive program talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discuss my family’s Jewish trajectory, Israel’s testing of weapons in Palestine and the threat that this poses to the world.
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The Shot takes aim at Israeli mass surveillance
The Shot is a satirical outlet with bite. Its weekly podcast interviewed me this week, with hosts Jo Dyer and Grace Tame, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and we discussed personal politics, challenging establishment power, mass surveillance and other (not always funny) subjects:
2SER Radio on The Palestine Laboratory
The Fourth Estate is a weekly media show on community radio 2SER (based in Sydney but broadcast around Australia). Its host, veteran journalist Monica Attard, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and tackled the personal, my evolution on Israel/Palestine, boycotts and mass surveillance:
ABC Radio Sydney interview on Israeli hacking tool, Cellebrite
Israeli company Cellebrite sells a phone hacking tool that’s ubiquitous across the world including in Australia. It’s an issue I investigate in my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Here’s my interview with ABC Radio Australia in Sydney and Canberra where I discuss Cellebrite and other mass surveillance tools that exist in the West with barely…
Greens deputy leader Dr Mehreen Faruqi launches The Palestine Laboratory
Last week in Sydney, I launched my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, at Gleebooks to a packed, overflowing audience. The atmosphere was electric with a real appetite for hear about the reality of Israel’s occupation being a major export business. I was introduced by Deputy Greens Leader, Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi, who gave a powerful…
Discussing the Afghan war with Andrew Quilty
Photojournalist Andrew Quilty spent years reporting in Afghanistan and published a book about his experiences, August in Kabul. I reviewed it for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age in August 2022. My interview with Quilty, conduced at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival late March 2023, covers the war itself, the return of the Taliban and…
TRT World interview on Assange and prospects of freedom
Talking on global broadcaster TRT World’s The Newsmakers program on the case of Wikileaks Julian Assange, the prospects of his freedom and the vital role of Declassified Australia’s contributor writer, Kellie Tranter, and her FOI work around the case.
Declassified Australia talk on Israeli mass surveillance
My recent conversation at the Addi Road Writer’s Festival in Sydney, Australia about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with my Declassified Australia friend, co-founder and co-editor, Peter Cronau. We discussed surveillance capitalism and Israel’s leading role in its global proliferation (including in Australia via the Israeli company Cellebrite, a fact explained in a book…
The Australian Greens strengthens its policy on Israel/Palestine
My story in the Australian outlet Crikey on the Greens political party releasing an updated policy on Israel/Palestine: The Australian Greens announced a new policy on Israel and Palestine this week and it’s already causing conniptions in the pro-Israel lobby. After the party released details about its revised position, stating that Israel is “practising the…
Background Briefing interview on Palestine, Wikileaks and war crimes
My interview with the LA-based radio program, Background Briefing, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, the ongoing US persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and a major win for truthful journalism last week in a case about war crimes in Afghanistan: Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia’s…