An extract of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been published by Dawn, founded by the murdered Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in his quest for democracy and human rights in the Middle East. The extracted chapter is about Israeli desires to make Gaza an effective testing ground for new weapons, social media manipulation and…
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Unauthorized Disclosure podcast interview on The Palestine laboratory
My interview with the Unauthorised Disclosure podcast talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. With hosts Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek, we discuss the influence of Israeli “counter-insurgency” tactics in Latin and South America, the silencing of Palestinians on social media and much more.
MSNBC interview on The Palestine Laboratory
My US mainstream TV debut just happened! MSNBC’s Medhi Hasan introduced my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and gave it the proper context. Then we spoke about Israel’s ethno-nationalism, the arms trade and using Palestine as a testing ground. The fact that this discussion can happen, on prime-time US TV, shows that there’s an increasingly…
Swedish review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory
The leading Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, has published a fascinating story about the Nakba and my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Written by Shora Esmailian, the article assesses the legacy of the Nakba and how Israel now uses the weapons of war to promote itself around the world. Here’s the PDF: Shora Esmailian om Nakba,…
The defining Israel/Palestine conflict and the challenge for Jews
Writing personally about Israel/Palestine, why I have the positions I do, is something I mostly avoid. But a notable exception is my long essay in this week’s edition of the Good Weekend magazine, inserted every Saturday into the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. The readership is over one million people and it’s one of…
Our reliance on cobalt is ruining lives
My book review in The Saturday Paper on the new book by Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives: We’re all complicit. Anybody who uses a laptop, mobile phone, electric vehicle (EV) or tablet has purchased a product that contains cobalt, a rare-earth element. It’s largely unknown to the…
TRT World TV interview on the latest rise in “tensions” in Palestine
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World on the ramifications after the death of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner Khader Adnan in Israeli custody.
LARB talks The Palestine Laboratory
My forthcoming book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out in May. In a recent podcast by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), acclaimed writer Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, talks about my book and highly recommends it. The segment starts at 26:20.
ABC Radio Triple J interview on Israeli “democracy”
My interview with ABC Radio’s Triple J on the mass protests convulsing Israel and what they say about the state of “democracy” in the country. My interview starts at 4:53.
TRT World TV interview on Israel’s push for Jewish “democracy”
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the mass protests in Israel and faux discussions about Jewish “democracy”.