A regular theme in my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is how Israel’s repressive border tech and policies influence other nations including the United States. US journalist Todd Miller regularly writes about the US/Mexico border and in a recent piece explains how Israel’s Elbit surveillance towers, situated along the US/Mexico border, are directly connected to the…
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The Palestine lab reaches Pakistan
A great review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the Pakistani outlet, Ary News, by M. Ali Siddiqui: This book ‘The Palestine Laboratory’ is a sharp exposé of how Israel’s suppression of Palestine has translated into lucrative security systems that the Israeli government exports globally. In the introduction, Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein, an “atheist…
Greed, privatisation and the tech Palestinian laboratory
The thesis of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, continues to resonate around the world. In Spain, journalist Marta Peirano writes in the leading newspaper, El Pais, about the significance of Israeli arms and repressive tech in the hands of autocrats and dictatorships. Here’s the English translation (via Google translate): The most militarized country in the…
Sky News interview on Hamas, Israel and the meaning of occupation
My interview today on Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News on the Hamas war on Israel and Israel’s endless siege and violence against Gaza.
ABC News Australia interview on Israel, Hamas and troubling media framing
My interview yesterday on ABC News Australia on Israel and Hamas and how the media routinely (and falsely) equates occupied and occupier. UPDATE: Days after this interview was posted online, it went viral. Translated into Arabic, it’s been watched millions of times in both English and Arabic: #شاهد رد الصحفي الأسترالي اليهودي، الذي غطى معظم…
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…
Mondoweiss interview on the Palestine laboratory
Mondoweiss is a US-based website that covers Israel/Palestine and US relations with the Middle East. I’ve either written for the outlet or been interviewed by them for nearly 20 years. US correspondent Michael Arria interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Beware the Saudi/Palestine rapprochement
My interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the growing ties between Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestine, God, Jesus, the Bible and resistance
I recently appeared on the InVerse podcast, run by two self-described “God-botherers”, to talk about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory. Hosted by Australian-based Jarrod McKenna and US-based Drew Hart, I even read a Bible passage that I like despite being a Jewish atheist:
From disaster capitalism to Palestine
A great review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the literary journal, Meanjin, by Vanessa Francesca places my work in an historical context (and recognises the bulk of my writing over the last 20 years from Palestine to disaster capitalism): In 2006, Antony Loewenstein’s debut book My Israel Question caused a stir among Australian…