Today is launch day for The Antony Loewenstein podcast. Conceived with the fantastic producer, Lem Zakharia, it’ll be a weekly show of monologues and interviews on the big issues of this moment from the global rise of the far-right, today’s episode, to Silicon Valley’s dangerous behaviour to Jewish dissent to Palestine to the border industrial…
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The Palestine Laboratory film goes global and multilingual
It’s gratifying that my film series, The Palestine Laboratory, originally broadcast on Al Jazeera English, is now finding a huge new global audience: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein)
Australia’s refusal to stop trading with Israel
My interview with the Australian podcast 7am: As Israel’s assault on Gaza city continues, Israeli aircraft and tanks have pounded the eastern and northern outskirts of the city, destroying buildings and homes. It comes as a record number of Australians turned out this weekend in protest against the war – and as the relationship between…
CNN interview on Western failures to economically pressure Israel
My CNN interview about Israel’s stated goal of goal of endless occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Al Jazeera English interview on faux Western recognition of Palestine
My interview on the flagship Al Jazeera English podcast, The Take, on the growing number of Western states claiming to “recognise” Palestine.
Going undercover as a cop
My book review in The Saturday Paper: In 2020, the murder of George Floyd by policeman Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis sparked a long overdue global reckoning with police violence and accountability. More than a year later, this debate is increasingly relevant. A recent study by the University of Washington, published in The Lancet, found that…
Why there are growing corporate attacks on public broadcasting
My weekly Guardian column: The war on public broadcasters by corporate media is currently enjoying a resurgence. Britain’s Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has long loathed the BBC, accusing it of supporting “cultural marxism”. In a… 2007 lecture, he said the organisation attempted to undermine “the values of conservatism, with a small ”˜c’, which, I would…
Echoes of Breivik cloud France and race-baiting media and politicians should look in mirror
After last year’s horrific massacre in Norway by Anders Breivik, an attempt to target the Left and multiculturalism, defenders of the status-quo said it was merely the act of a lone lunatic. The book, On Utoya (I wrote a chapter about the far-right’s increasing embrace of Israel) challenged this notion. Now with a horrible shooting…
How French Jews are embracing an anti-Muslim, French bigot named Marine Le Pen
Tablet reports on how blind love for Zionism and hatred of Islam has become a toxic mix: Since its inception in the 1970s, the Front National has wrapped itself in the repellent rags of traditional French anti-Semitism. The series of outrageous… dérapages, or verbal slips, of the movement’s founder and longtime leader Jean-Marie Le Pen—Marine’s father—are…