A key section of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, investigates the historical and current Israeli role in arming and backing African dictatorships. Along those lines, I was interviewed by the Nigerian-based journalist Obiora Ikoku in Inkstick about Africa’s response to the 7 October attacks. Read the whole article: Israel’s War in Gaza Also Impacts African Geopolitics…
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A short introduction to the Israeli arms industry
An Al Jazeera Arabic short video on the Israeli weapons industry featuring my book, The Palestine Laboratory: View this post on Instagram A post shared by الجزيرة (@aljazeera)
Spreading the Palestine lab message across Turkey
I was recently interviewed by Turkey’s Anadolu Agency about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and my words were then re-published in multiple Turkish media outlets. Some examples below:
“Israel’s Palestine laboratory thrives on global disruption and violence”
A great review of The Palestine Laboratory in Middle East Monitor by Ramona Wadi: Antony Loewenstein’s book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world (Verso Books, 2023), is a timely read at any given moment, but the unfolding ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the complicit response of the international…
Tik-Tok covers The Palestine Laboratory
One of the pleasant surprises since the release of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is how it’s been picked up by many users of Tik-Tok, its messages amplified. This was happening before 7 October but since then it’s really taken off. Here’s just one example. Tony Vara is a popular Tik-Tok user, with over 500k…
The fig leaf of “self defence”
A positive review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, published in the New Zealand media outlets, Asia Pacific Report, Café Pacific and The Daily Blog, by David Robie: Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and…
#ReadPalestine
Through my UK/US publisher of The Palestine Laboratory, Verso, I was pleased to be involved in this recent initiative: A group of publishers has launched a week-long initiative encouraging people to read books by Palestinian authors and about Palestinian history by offering free ebooks. #ReadPalestine begins on Wednesday and runs until 5 December. The campaign…
Al Jazeera documentary on surging violence in the West Bank
Aside from the horrific reality in Gaza since 7 October 2023, there’s been a surge in settler and solider-led violence in the occupied West Bank. Al Jazeera English made a film about this situation and interviewed me about the facts on the ground, having reported from the West Bank for nearly 20 years, and the…
The humane Jewish view on Palestinian and Jewish suffering
It’s long been a myth that there’s complete uniformity amongst the Jewish community towards Israel/Palestine. An increasing number of (particularly) young Jews are supporting Palestine. I was interviewed about this recently by the Australian outlet, AAP: But independent Jewish journalist and author Antony Loewenstein said it was untrue to suggest there was uniformity in the…
Australia’s complicity in ongoing Israeli violence in Gaza
My interview with Green Left Weekly about Australia’s complicity with Israeli militarism including the use/abuse of the US spy base, Pine Gap, in the centre of Australia and its involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza (reported exclusively in Declassified Australia).