My recent feature story in the UK magazine, New Internationalist. Here’s an extract: For Israel, spyware is not just a highly lucrative industry, but a strategic weapon to curry diplomatic favour. Aside from revolutionizing the world of espionage, the huge demand for these tools is reshaping geopolitics, with Palestinian lives at the sharp end of…
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Israeli spyware undermines global democracy
A key part of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, revolves around Israeli spyware. US outlet In These Times has published an edited extract from this section. Here’s a taster: Griselda Triana is a Mexican journalist, and human rights activist whose husband, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, was slain by a drug cartel on May 15, 2017, in Culiacán,…
US radio KPFK on The Palestine Laboratory
My interview on US radio station KPFK’s program, Middle East in Focus, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, including a discussion about how the US and Israel relationship has contributed to backing the worst regimes in the world since the 1970s:
How Israeli phone hacking tool conquered the world
Israeli intelligence company Cellebrite is not well-known and yet it’s ubiquitous around the world. One of its main products is used to hack mobile phones, deployed by repressive regimes like Russia and China and countless Australian and US government departments. A section of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, investigates Cellebrite. Declassified Australia has just…
Why Israel sells spyware to repressive Bangladesh
Following revelations that Israel sold spyware to Bangladesh, I was interviewed by Benar News: “The latest revelations about Israel selling surveillance weapons to Bangladesh follow a sadly familiar pattern. The fact that Bangladesh is a dictatorship is irrelevant for Israeli arms dealers and the Jewish state,” said Antony Loewenstein, an Australian researcher whose forthcoming book [The…