My interview on global broadcaster TRT World on the growing push by the US and Israel to make the friendship with Saudi Arabia official.
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The challenge in defanging the Palestine laboratory
My new essay in the UK-based Middle East Eye examines my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and also details the growing Israeli influence on Taiwan and other nation states. An extract: The Israeli defence industry inspires nations across the globe, many of which view themselves as under threat from external enemies. The Taiwanese foreign minister,…
Better Reading interview on Zionism, Judaism and Palestine
Better Reading is the most popular books-related podcast in Australia. My interview with its founder, director Cheryl Akle, was a personal and political examination of Judaism, Zionism, abusing history and my new book, The Palestine Laboratory:
Background Briefing interview on Palestine, Wikileaks and war crimes
My interview with the LA-based radio program, Background Briefing, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, the ongoing US persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and a major win for truthful journalism last week in a case about war crimes in Afghanistan: Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia’s…
Chatham House reviews The Palestine Laboratory
Chatham House is one of Britain’s leading policy institutes. Its monthly magazine, The World Today, has published a review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, by the International Crisis Group Senior Analyst on Israel/Palestine, Mairav Zonszein. It’s a largely positive review with some pointed criticisms. It feels like 8 out of 10. Here’s an…
“The Harvard of anti-terrorism”
A long essay/quasi-review has been published in The Conversation by Monash University’s Kevin Foster. It’s an interesting read through the sordid history and present-day reality of Israel’s “security” policies. An extract: In The Palestine Laboratory, Loewenstein does not merely indict Israel for its failure to live up to the promise of its founding principles and…
The Canadian role in Israel’s endless occupation
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and we discussed how the occupation is being exported and the rise and importance of civil resistance to these weapons of war.
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…
Israel’s democracy deficit on crack
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…
ABC Adelaide talks The Palestine Laboratory
Last night I was interviewed on ABC Adelaide radio by host Peter Goers about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, Jewish identity, Zionism and dissent. The interview starts at around 1:30. I’ve appeared on this show many times before talking about Palestine and the drug war.