Last month, the Australian Book Review published a story about Israel’s eroding democracy. In the June edition, I responded in a published letter: Dear Editor, The state of Israeli democracy is indeed dire, as was eloquently explained by David N. Myers in his article in the May 2023 edition. It is worth stressing that the…
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Talking Palestine with the South China Morning Post
My interview with Alex Lo from the South China Morning Post newspaper about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Many interesting conversations here but particularly about China’s potentially growing role in the Middle East and how this could impact the Israel/Palestine conflict. The full interview transcript is below: Israel has occupied Palestinian territories for more…
Recommending The Palestine Laboratory
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out in Australia and New Zealand on 30 May. It was released in the UK and US last week. Every week, the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age write an email about the latest news and views in the literary world and this week’s edition features the highlights…
TRT World’s The Newsmakers discuss Palestine as a laboratory
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World’s leading current affairs show, The Newsmakers, talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Palestine as the ultimate showroom
My interview on Britain’s Novara Media about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory: Israel needs friends. And one of the main tools it has used to get them is its arms industry. The 10th biggest in the world, it increasingly specialises in the kind of digital surveillance technology European governments love to pretend they never…
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…
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.