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Talking Palestine to India’s Punjabi-Sikh audiences

During my recent visit to India to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, I was interviewed by Punjabi Sikh journalist Gurshamshir Singh about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and the Middle East.

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TRT World interview on Israeli accountability for 7 October

My latest interview with global broadcaster TRT World is about the lack of Israeli accountability for the military, intelligence and political failures on 7 October.

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The national priority of testing weapons on Palestinians

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

Here’s a wonderful review in MicroMega, a publication that describes itself as “the most important Italian magazine of cultural and political deepening for many years.”

It’s written by the journalist Christian Elia, the editor of the recent book by Francesca Albanese, J’accuse.

“Laboratorio Palestina”: l’esportazione di un modello di segregazione

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How well is the media covering Gaza?

How the media reports on and discusses Israel/Palestine matters.

For many years, with notable exceptions, the wilful blindness of the media towards humanising Palestinians has been demoralising.

I discuss this on the Fourth Estate radio program, broadcast around Australia, this week:

 

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Spanish TV channel RTVE features the Palestine lab

The Spanish translated edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out with Capitan Swing.

Here’s my new interview with Spanish TV network, RTVE.

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Why it’s not cool to attend a psychedelic conference in Tel Aviv right now

I’ve spent years investigating the issue of drugs and psychedelics. My 2019 book, Pills, Powder and Smoke, was a global investigation.

This story caught my attention:

At a psychedelics conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, this July, attendees are due to hear talks on topics including “Psychedelics, War and Conflict.” Guests at Psychedelic Medicine Israel are invited to “join us in expanding consciousness in the Middle East.”

The journalist Mattha Busby asked me to comment in the US-based Filter magazine:

Australian-German journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of books including The Palestine Laboratory and Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, highlights that some backers of the Tel Aviv conference, like Israeli universities, have received Israeli government funding.

“This is a direct breach of the BDS movement, which aims to economically target Israel,” he told Filter of the event. “While it’s undeniably true that Israelis are traumatized after the horrific events of October 7 and the aftermath, it’s hard to imagine [an international psychedelics conference] in apartheid South Africa when the regime was brutally repressing the Black population.”

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Italy’s Il Manifesto interview on the Palestine lab

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

Here’s my interview with the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto on Gaza, weapons and “battle-testing”:

IlManifestopaper (on page 2).

Read the whole interview: «Gaza è un laboratorio per distruzioni di massa» | il manifesto

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On the philosophy of Netanyahuism

Arena is a leading Australian independent magazine.

Academic Ned Curthoys has written a long and considered review of my book, The Palestine Laboratory.

An extract:

An historical reckoning with Israel’s support for the most depraved regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is needed, and in this respect the book is an informed update on Chomsky’s The Iron Triangle.

Read the whole piece: Israel as the Abyss: On Antony Loewenstein’s ‘The Palestine Laboratory’ – Arena

 

 

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Al Jazeera English interview on rising tensions between Israel and Iran

My interview on Al Jazeera English about Iran and Israel in an increasingly toxic battle in the Middle East.

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Electronic Intifada tackles hi-tech genocide in Gaza

My extended conversation with The Electronic Intifada on Israel’s use of hi-tech weapons and AI in its slaughter in Gaza.

My segment starts at 18:08:

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