There’s a large section in my book, The Palestine Laboratory, about the growing ties between Israel and India. This new story, by Azad Essa in Middle East Eye, is concerning: The Israeli army is set to include Indian-made Hermes 900 drones in its expanding fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), in a move human rights…
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Speaking at the 2024 Jaipur Literature Festival
The Jaipur Literature Festival in India is the biggest writer’s event in the world (there were around 440k people attending in 2023). I was a guest at this year’s festival and it was an overwhelming and invigorating event. I spoke about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, Gaza, Jewish identity and critical journalism in a time…
The Kashmir Times on the Palestine lab
In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I examine the impact of Israeli and Indian policies on Muslim-majority Kashmir. I partly explain this through an interview with the editor of the Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin. She recently interviewed me about my book and the events of 7 October.
On the growing alliance between Israel and India
In my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I examine the growing ties between India and Israel. The Indian commentator Apar Gupta dedicates an episode of his program to discuss my book and how the Israel/Palestine conflict is impacting vast swathes of the world including India.
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 ethno-nationalist model
My recent interview with Solidarity magazine about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, covers a wide range of topics from ethno-nationalism to arms sales: Antony Loewenstein’s new book, The Palestine Laboratory, looks at Israel’s military cyber industrial complex and its role as one of the world’s biggest arms dealers and seller of some of the…
The “allure” of ethno-nationalism
Progressive International is a major, global organisation dedicated to justice and accountability. In its weekly magazine, The Internationalist, I’ve been interviewed about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where I talk about Israel’s appeal as an ethno-nationalist state. Plus there’s an exclusive, edited book extract that examines the EU’s use and abuse of Israeli drones…
How legalising drugs reaches India
My book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, was published in an Indian edition in 2020. It’s therefore gratifying to see how its message is reaching Indians with the publication of this letter in The Shillong Times, a newspaper in north-east India: Editor, Pockets of Shillong are witnessing a rise in…
Major Indian newspaper positively reviews Pills, Powder and Smoke
My drug war book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, was recently released in India. One of the country’s bigger newspapers, Business Standard, just gave it a very positive review:
Al Jazeera English documentary broadcast, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis
Al Jazeera English has just broadcast my documentary, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis, made with South African film-maker Naashon Zalk. Commissioned by the global network’s leading documentary program, People and Power, this was a 9-month investigation in Nigeria and beyond into the devastating effects of the addictive opioid drug tramadol: West Africa – and particularly its…