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CNN interview on Israel’s worsening global image

My latest interview with CNN about Israel’s plunging global image after months of carnage in Gaza.

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Useful Idiots interview on the Palestine lab

Useful Idiots is a popular US podcast discussing politics and global affairs.

Here’s my interview on the show talking about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and the situation in Gaza.

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The high stakes in the case of Julian Assange

Since its inception in 2006, Wikileaks has been a vitally important news organisation.

As founder Julian Assange fights for his life and freedom, Al Jazeera English interviewed me about his case:

“It’s an invaluable resource that remains utterly essential to understand how power works, not just US power, but global power,” Antony Loewenstein, an independent Australian journalist and author, said of the Wikileaks archive.

“I always quote and detail [Wikileaks’s] work on a range of issues from the drug war, to Israel/Palestine, to the US war on terror, to Afghanistan,” Loewenstein said, noting that Wikileaks also published materials on Bashar al-Assad’s Syria and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

“It’s just an incredible historical resource,” he said.

Loewenstein’s most recent book, the Palestine Laboratory, explores Israel’s role in spreading mass surveillance around the world, another issue Loewenstein notes, that Assange often spoke about.

“One thing that Julian has often said, and he’s correct, is that the internet is on the one hand an incredibly powerful information tool… but it’s also the biggest mass surveillance tool ever designed in history,” said Loewenstein.

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For Loewenstein, pursuing Assange would set “an incredibly dangerous precedent at a time where in so many countries freedom of the press is under attack”.

“This is not by any means a defence of Biden, I’ve been critical of him for 20 years, but a second Trump term would be a real acceleration of that authoritarian turn, including against the press and journalists and freedom of information,” Loewenstein added.

Read the whole article: ‘Bring Julian home’: the Australian campaign to free Assange | Julian Assange News | Al Jazeera

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Italy’s Internazionale magazine positively reviews the Palestine lab

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, was recently released in Italy.

The widely read weekly foreign newsmagazine Internazionale strongly reviews it:

Recensione su Internazionale

 

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Italy’s Inside Over magazine on the Palestine lab

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, was recently released in Italy.

Here’s my interview with the Italian outlet Inside Over where we discuss the war in Gaza and Israel being a model for ethno-nationalism:

Così la Palestina è diventata un laboratorio: parla Loewenstein

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TRT World interview on the Biden administration’s warm embrace of Israel

My latest interview on global broadcaster TRT World about the real role of the US in Gaza and the likely long-term impacts of Washington’s chequebook for Netanyahu.

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Al Jazeera English interview on Israel’s impending invasion of Rafah

My latest Al Jazeera English interview on Israel’s likely impending invasion of Rafah and the lack of any concrete Western opposition to it.

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ABC Radio Sydney interview on critical Judaism in an age of extremism

Australia’s ABC TV is broadcasting a film, , about dissident Judaism and my work and life.

Today I was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney about the importance of critical Jewish voices in the face of endless Israeli occupation of Palestine.

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ABC Radio National interview on pro-Palestine protests

My interview on ABC Radio National’s Drive program talking about the surge in pro-Palestine protests on university campuses across the globe.

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TRT World interview on whether Israel will stop the war against Gaza

My latest on global broadcaster TRT World talking about Israel’s desire to prolong the war in Gaza.

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