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TRT World interview on Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza flotilla

My TRT World interview on Israel’s weakness and deep insecurity when it kidnaps peaceful activists on the Gaza flotilla.

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When Oracle married the IDF

The role of Oracle, the huge US tech company, is too rarely examined. It’s also deeply involved with the Israeli state and military.

In a new piece by British journalist Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve, I talk about these ties:

Ellison’s company, Oracle, is, according to Antony Loewenstein, the author of The Palestine Laboratory, “an integral part of the Israeli military”. It built Israel’s first cloud services and its partner Rafael Systems is one of Israel’s biggest military companies. It makes the deadly spike missiles that are believed to have killed seven aid workers, including three Britons, in April 2024. It also built Israel’s formidable Iron Dome. 

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But above all, Oracle’s technology is playing a critical role in the Israeli military’s tech stack. Antony Loewenstein – author of The Palestine Laboratory and an expert on Israel’s relationship with Silicon Valley tech companies and how they are using Gaza to test and train new technology products – calls Oracle’s backing of Israel “both financial and ideological”.

He calls it an “integral” part of the Israeli military with the IDF using Oracle’s cloud services company and employees “training Israeli officials in how to use its cloud services”. 

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CNN interview on Israel’s unstoppable desire to destroy Gaza

My latest CNN interview on Netanyahu at the UN, Israel’s quasi-official annexation of the West Bank and European complicity in Gaza.

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Breaking Points interview on Germany’s fascist turn

Following the recent release of my new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, here’s my interview on the popular US show, Breaking Points, talking about the documentary, Trump, Israeli spying etc.

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TRT World interview on delusions behind Western “recognition” of Palestine

My latest TRT World interview on Western states recognising Palestine at the UN (and thinking that their job is done).

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Taking the Palestine lab to Poland

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, is out in a Polish edition in October.

Here’s my interview with the big Polish outlet, TVN24, on my book:

_Zdjęć z Gazy nie da się wymazać. Netanjahu spycha Izrael na margines świata_ – TVN24

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Europe’s complicity in Israel’s Greater Israel project

My interview with the Italian outlet Inside Over about Gaza and my new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession:

Antony Loewenstein racconta la repressione pro-pal in Germania

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Daring to accuse me of denying monstrous Nazi crimes? LOL

Sky News Australia is a Murdoch “news” channel which loves Israel to death.

After the recent release of my new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, Sky News Australia published a confused and frankly comical take-down of my recent interview on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live interview (and suggested that I was somehow questioning German complicity in the Holocaust which is patently absurd since my own family was killed by the Nazis):

There’s nothing the ABC loves as much as a left-wing Jewish Australian who attacks Israel and is highly critical of the Australian Jewish community.

Enter Antony Loewenstein who is a regular contributor to ABC programs.  An outspoken critic of Israel, he was the subject of a soft profile on ABC TV’s Compass program “Not in my Name” on 5 May 2024.

On 11 September he made another ABC appearance – this time on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live where he was interviewed by David Marr.  Here’s how the ABC described the segment:

In a new documentary for Al Jazeera, Jewish-Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.

Let’s go to the transcript:

Antony Loewenstein: If you come out and say: “I support the end of the war in Gaza, I’m opposed to Israeli actions, [I] oppose the genocide in Gaza – you are automatically framed as a Hamas supporter. Guilty by association. Which again, other countries are, it’s happening too, including here. But in Germany, there is something fundamental about it being done in the name of, I would argue, both their guilt complex, which to some extent, as I say, Germany has a reason to feel guilty about the Holocaust.

David Marr: To some extent?

Antony Loewenstein: To put it mildly. But there’s a difference between how do you commemorate and understand your own actions – or your ancestors’ actions – in World War II in the modern era. And Germany has been praised for having something so-called memory culture – educating about the Holocaust at schools, talking about what our ancestors did, the German ancestors did to the Jews and others. And I’m not opposed to that history. Of course, it’s vital.

So there you have it.  Before he was challenged by David Marr, Loewenstein said that “to some extent” Germany “has a reason to feel guilty about the Holocaust”.    With views like this, it’s little wonder that anti-Zionist Loewenstein has been signed up by the anti-Zionist Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, to do a documentary. Can You Bear It?

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Understanding’s Germany’s toxic relationship with Israel

Following the recent release of my new film, Germany’s Israel’s Obsession, I was interviewed with my director, Dan Davies, on the popular German podcast, 99 ZU EINS.

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Al Jazeera English’s The Stream on Israel’s lawlessness

My interview on Al Jazeera English’s show, The Stream, discussing the recent Israeli strike on Qatar and the Arab world’s mostly ineffective response.

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