October 7 2023 will be equally transformative. After the brutal Hamas attack on Israel, the Netanyahu government grasped a long-held desire to ideally destroy or ethnically cleanse Palestine, and reshape the entire region. The result has been a genocidal war in Gaza, which continues every day, and a surging “elimination project” in the West Bank.

As an independent journalist who uses my words and voice, it’s often hard to process the mass killings that have become a hallmark of the Israeli government, let alone speak about them calmly.

The moral reckoning and accountability that complicit parts of the Jewish community who back, fund and cheer for Israel will be required to undertake is overwhelming.

And yet the responsibility of critical voices increases as corporate media consolidation surges around the world.

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My latest book, The Palestine Laboratory, continues to be released in translated editions, with the Czech Republic and Iran next, and still more to come.

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The Antony Loewenstein Podcast is my weekly show where politics, Palestine and prose mix. It’s available to watch and listen on YouTube, Spotify and Apple and I post social media clips three times weekly on all the major platforms (from TikTok to Instagram to Twitter/X).

It’s become a unique space to think about and share sanity in a world that often feels out of control. Please listen and share and donate $ to support independent journalism.

Recent episodes:

On the Bondi massacre and who controls the narrative:

An interview with Dr Bushra Othman on being a doctor in Gaza:

An interview with the journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed on his new book about Biden and Gaza:

An interview with Assal Rad and how propaganda is written:

I recently launched a line of merchandise to help support my independent journalism.

There’s t-shirts, mugs and signed copies of my global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory (which recently went into yet another reprint in the US), that can be shipped to anywhere in the world.

Here’s details about all the designs and options so please consider buying in bulk for a good cause and a way to start important conversations with friends and enemies:

I continue speaking to global media outlets about the Middle East, Palestine and global politics so here are some recent examples from TRT World and one of Serbia’s leading TV programs:

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

Lamestream is a wonderful and incisive independent podcast and I was rapt to be a recent guest host (where I talked, in part, about my background as a journalist, starting in 2003, and discussing how much has changed, and stayed the same):

Germany is moving towards the far-right (with the notable exception of a recent election win for the Left in Berlin).

In 2025, I made a documentary, Germany’s Israel Obsession, with the UK production company, Black Leaf Films, and the title really speaks for itself:

A clip from the film, featuring the wonderful writer Deborah Feldman, where she talks about the threat of the far-right, recently went viral:

Our other recent film, the acclaimed and awarded series The Palestine Laboratory (watch part 1 and part 2) continues to screen around the world including at the Swiss Palestine Arts Film Festival.

Israeli election meddling and influence operations are soaring around the world and yet most of the Western media refuses to investigate it (preferring to focus on the threats from Russia, China and Iran).

My interview with the UK outlet, Double Down News:

The recent release of the Israeli film, Naza, about Israel’s AI-enabled campaign of mass killing in Gaza, has caused a firestorm. In Israel, the response was extreme:

I spoke to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about its significance:

In 2025, I spoke (virtually) at a great event in Krakow, Poland about my book, The Palestine Laboratory, it had just been translated in the country, organised by the Unsound music festival. We talked Poland, weapons and fears of Russia:

Sometimes, the most random online encounters bring interesting collaborations.

The Dutch cyclist and popular content creator Seb is riding across multiple nations. In 2025, he was cycling in Syria and produced a video on The Palestine Laboratory that explained how it helped him understand the world.

Now, during his recent trip to Iran, the series continues:

In other news:

• As the co-founder of co-editor of Declassified Australia, we continue publishing vital journalism. Like this:

• My interview on ABC Australia about the Ed Sheeran/Macklemore dust-up over Palestine and free speech.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here. Or you can buy merchandise, t-shirts, mugs and books, to support my work.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

For many people since 7 October 2023, it’s been a daily stream of violence, destruction, dispossession and personal traumas, played out live on social media.

Gaza remains largely cut off the world, with Israel continuing to bombard, kill and isolate the besieged territory:

Hanan Al-Ajab lay on a gurney in the oncology department of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, barely clinging to life—her mouth agape, her eyes shut. Her daughter, Fatma Al-Ajab, held up a nasal cannula, the end of the plastic tube dangling in the air and unattached. “There is no oxygen cylinder,” Al-Ajab told Drop Site News in distress. “There is nothing. Nothing is available. Most things are unavailable. The staff have done everything they can, God bless them, and they are working with whatever they have. But when there is a shortage of oxygen, everything deteriorates.”

“My mother has become a skeleton,” she said pointing to her mother’s emaciated body. Hanan, 63, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several months ago. She is one of an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 cancer patients in Gaza who depend on access to specialized healthcare, according to the UN. Yet critical shortages in chemotherapy agents and other lifesaving medicines, as well as a lack of properly functioning medical equipment, have left her unable to receive proper care.

Israel has continued to heavily restrict humanitarian aid and life essentials from entering Gaza—in blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement that went into effect on October 10, 2025.

Contacts in Gaza keep telling me about the humanitarian crisis that envelops everybody; the lack of hygienic conditions, no rebuilding, Israeli bombs and rats eating the toes of adults and children in tents during the sweltering summer heat.

In Sudan, the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet, the civilian population continues to be pummelled by either the Sudanese Armed Forces or the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (backed by Colombian mercenaries):

City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces’ Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur documents how civilians in and around El Fasher were killed, injured, beaten, tortured and detained between early 2024 and October 2025 as the RSF fought the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied Joint Forces in a war that devastated North Darfur. The RSF’s crimes included murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution.

Hundreds of thousands of children have been displaced, many of them repeatedly risking death and injury during attacks or while fleeing. Countless have been orphaned. People with disabilities and older people have faced acute risks, including targeted attacks, abandonment, and exclusion from essential assistance.

Throughout assaults on North Darfur, the RSF routinely used terms like falangay, indicating slavery or servitude, during attacks on civilians of non-Arab ethnicity.

There can be a tendency to turn away from bad news, a growing global phenomenon, but I’d argue that we don’t have the luxury of doing so when so much of humanity is in turmoil. And the West and its allies are deeply complicit.

Everybody manages the horrors differently but I’d encourage people to keep engaged, active and pushing for a more just, accepting and beautiful world.

We only have one planet so let’s demand far better from politicians, elected officials and complicit journalists.

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I’ve been an independent journalist for over 20 years, always looking for new and innovative ways to fund the work that I do.

After starting a weekly podcast, more details below, I’m excited to announce that there’s now merch aka merchandise, that you can buy to support my independent investigations. Two t-shirt and two mug options, both utilising art by the remarkable Bangladeshi-American artist, Debashish Chakrabarty. The products can be shipped to anywhere in the world.

Here are two examples:

Please consider buying these items to support my work, a tangible way to back independent journalism at a time when such voices have never been more important.

This is a pre-sale to gauge interest in the merch, and I want to produce different products in different styles, so order away, friends.

In the last month, I’ve had many interviews talking about the latest developments in Palestine, US politics and across the Middle East including with Al Jazeera English and TRT World:

My weekly podcast, The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, is finding an engaged audience in many corners of the globe. Available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple and social media clips on YouTube Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook, the word is spreading far and wide on issues that most in the mainstream media refuse to cover. Please share with your friends, family and enemies.

Thanks to my podcast team, we’re able to produce quality content that both challenges accepted wisdoms about war and peace and urges greater understanding of marginalised groups.

The recent episodes:

Ask Me Anything [questions from the audience] on Israel, Palestine and China:

Afghanistan Five Years After the Taliban:

Israel With Nuclear Weapons and the Greater Israel Project:

The Weaponisation of the Refugee “Crisis”:

Can Israel and Netanyahu Be Held to Account?

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I recently visited Israel, the West Bank and the Balkans while researching my next book, out in late 2027.

Here’s my interview with Australia’s ABC Radio National’s Global Roaming about what I witnessed in the harrowing West Bank.

And a clip about the weaponisation of anti-Semitism:

I was recently in conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti and it was a fascinating conversation:

My monthly column with the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

As the co-founder and co-editor of the news outlet, Declassified Australia, I’ve been proud of our recent work.

The most striking was by my colleague, Peter Cronau, on Australia still sending F-35 weapon’s parts to Israel (now via the US):

Check out our other recent work here.

While writing my new book, I recently spent time at this remarkable writer’s retreat, Varuna, in the Blue Mountains (around two hours from Sydney). It was an incredibly productive period, helping me process and get my head around the challenging material that I’m covering, partly about Israel and Palestine since 7 October 2023, and making it compelling:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here. Or you can buy merchandise, t-shirts and mugs, to support my work.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

I was recently in the West Bank, on a reporting trip for my next book, and I saw an explosion of Palestinian fear for wholly justified reasons. They have no protection from settlers aka colonists or the Israeli police and military.

Here are some photos from my visit to the remote Al-Mirkaz village, under constant attack by Israeli settlers:

I’ll be sharing way more about my reporting, with videos and photos, soon (and I’m currently writing my next book on Israel/Palestine, out in late 2027).

(I want to recommend you read this searing reporting from the brave US journalist, Jasper Nathaniel, who regularly spends time in the West Bank:)

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A Hellish Month in the Occupied West Bank

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For new readers + followers, full details about my work and all books are here, links to my recent films with Black Leaf Films, The Palestine Laboratory and Germany’s Israel Obsession, and my first film Disaster Capitalism.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

This work is time-consuming and challenging in the current media and political climate so your $ support is vital to guarantee it continues.

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My interview with global broadcaster TRT World on ongoing tensions between Iran and the US and Israel’s free hand in Palestine:

I was recently in London and spoke at the legendary Frontline Club about Palestine and how “Gaza Changes Everything”:

My recent interview with the Australian podcast, 7am, about life in Palestine and details about my recent trip there:

My weekly podcast, The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, continues its mission to cover the most important issues of the day (often ignored by the mainstream media.)

You can find the podcast on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, clips on all the social media platforms and details how to donate $ to support independent media.

Here are some recent episodes:

Israel, Iran and the future of Palestine:

Sudan’s hidden catastrophe:

The Information Rights Project is a vital group that supports whistleblowers and dissidents, founded by the brother of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, Gabriel.

I was honoured to be recently asked to speak on my work, the need for critical discourse and advocating for Palestine:

My most recent book, The Palestine Laboratory, first released in May 2023, continues its global journey to inform millions of people how the Israeli arms and surveillance industries fuels wars in the Middle East and beyond.

It’s now available in at least 14 languages with more translations to come this year.

The next edition will be released in Iran in August. It’s been a long journey to make a Farsi translation happen:

Meanwhile, in the US, an army veteran, Greg Stoker, is running for Congress in Texas and released an ad, now seen over one million times, that ties the Palestine laboratory to increased repression in the US:

I’m excited about my forthcoming conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti on 30 July:

The news site that I co-founded and co-editor, Declassified Australia, continues to publish vital work.

Our recent stories include how Australia and New Zealand are using soft power for supremacy in the Pacific and more details about the secret US intelligence base, Pine Gap, in the centre of Australia.

Last but not least, I was recently in the UK for a holiday and it was full of adventures:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

I recently visited Israel, Palestine and the Balkans, researching for my next book which will be released in late 2027, and what I witnessed was shocking.

Many Jewish Israelis backing the scorched earth campaign in Gaza including the deliberate slaughter of children. Palestinians in the West Bank fearful of what their future holds with a Gaza-style destruction campaign increasingly underway in the besieged area. “The Jewish Ku Klux Klan has a calculated plan for the Palestinians”, recently wrote the fine Haaretz journalist, Amira Hass.

I’ll have way more to say and show from these trips in due course but in the meantime my monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye, gave a preview of what’s coming:

One day, I met the Makhmari family in the southern West Bank, with famed journalist Gideon Levy and photographer Alex Levac. The community of al-Mirkaz is incredibly remote, and it took us an hour to reach it by car on a rocky, hilly track from at-Tuwani in the area of Masafer Yatta.

Four farming families, about 40 residents, live there in caves, and they experience daily attacks and harassment from Israeli settlers who reside in nearby illegal outposts. I saw some of these long-haired extremists up close as they drove up to us, smiled, laughed and sped away.

The Palestinian residents recounted, as we sipped piping hot tea, how settlers routinely come to beat their sheep, destroy property and warn them to leave. This violence started before 7 October 2023, but it has intensified dramatically since then.

One of their dogs was recently beaten by a settler, the abuse captured on a video that went viral in Israel - and as a result, there was rare Israeli concern towards the dog (but not the Palestinians). The Makhmari family was both pleased and mystified. They knew that their existence didn’t register in the mainstream Israeli consciousness.

The landscape is dry and arid, and water has to be trucked in at a substantial cost, often getting stopped by settlers. It was eerily peaceful when we arrived, guided by field researchers from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. Families here have set up cameras to alert them when settlers strike, but they are essentially unprotected and highly vulnerable.

Like so many Palestinian villagers in the last few years, they’re unlikely to be able to withstand extensive settler assaults, and may eventually be forced to leave.

This is happening across the occupied West Bank: a committed strategy to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land. The stakes couldn’t be higher in this accelerating catastrophe.

Will there be any Palestinians left in Palestine in the coming decades?

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

This work is time-consuming and challenging in the current media and political climate so your $ support is vital to guarantee it continues.

The Antony Loewenstein Podcast is my weekly space to discuss the issues of the day, from Palestine to mainstream racism, and I’ve been pleased with how many people tell me they’re seeing clips on social media and engaging with the content. Many of these clips go viral on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X.

The podcast is reaching tens of thousands of people every week, if not more sometimes, so please help me increase these figures.

In the coming while, I’ll continue to tackle the subjects that many others refuse to cover from Sudan to the fascist media pipeline including with insightful guests.

Please subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify or Apple, share the podcast and the clips on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and consider donating $ to help us expand (I work with a wonderful, small team to make the program possible).

Here’s some of the recent episodes:

The global far-right movement and how to fight it:

Inside Israel’s booming arms industry:

Gaza is being forgotten:

My recent interview on Inside Story, the Al Jazeera English program, on Israel’s stated goal to become more self-sufficient (hint: be highly skeptical) even while its defence sector is booming:

My recent interviews with various outlets including TRT World, the US-based Computer Says Maybe podcast and UK outlet Double Down News:

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I’m excited to announce that my film series from last year, The Palestine Laboratory, was recently awarded at the prestigious Telly Awards in New York. More details below:

I’ll be speaking at the legendary Frontline Club in London on 8 July, in person!, and all details are below:

At Declassified Australia, we continue to publish essential journalism that nobody else is. Here’s our latest:

I’m glad to have recently endorsed the fine new book by the Irish journalist, Sally Hayden. Details below:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

A close friend from Gaza recently told me about her family member, still stuck in the besieged territory, nearly dying because he’d fallen into a latrine pit and couldn’t get out for hours. Like so many civilians in Gaza, people are forced to dig these make-shift and unhygienic spaces due to the unending war.

I’m in contact with a Palestinian doctor in Gaza who runs a makeshift clinic. He recently shared photos of an event he’d organised for young children who’d lost both parents in the last years.

“Seeing the smiles on the children’s faces was the most beautiful part of the day”, he told me. “These simple moments of joy remind us of the importance of kindness, compassion, and standing beside those who need support and care.”

This is life in Gaza today with no end in sight.

Read this story from the US outlet, Drop Site News:

Six months into the so-called ceasefire, Khilla gave up hope Israel would ever allow excavators and other equipment into Gaza for Palestinians to retrieve the thousands of the missing dead. Last week, he along with several relatives decided to embark on the seemingly impossible task of digging through the massive pile of rubble with nothing more than hammers and shovels. “We had had enough, so we said we would bring them out ourselves,” he said. “But all we have is broken equipment and broken tools. We don’t even have anything to cut metal.”

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Between 8,500 and 10,000 bodies remain buried under the wasteland of Gaza. Many had hoped that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas that went into effect on October 10 would put an end to the Israeli military’s relentless attacks and brutal siege. Neither turned out to be true. Israel has killed at least 857 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded almost 2,500 in near daily attacks since the “ceasefire,” bringing the total toll since the start of the genocide to nearly 72,800. Israel has also drastically escalated its attacks on Gaza in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing campaign against Iran, carrying out 35% more strikes in April than in March, according to conflict monitor ACLED.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

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My podcast, The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, continues to grow in reach and diversity of subjects. It’s a weekly show, you can find it on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, and completely independently produced so any $ and support you can provide would be hugely appreciated in this age of hot takes, AI-generated outrage and mainstream bigotry.

Here’s the recent episodes:

The life and times of a civilian inside Iran today:

On Australia’s Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion:

A three-part series on the rise, fall and surge of One Nation, Australia’s most prominent far-right political party:

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I regularly speak on TV and other media about the profound violence and ongoing wars in the Middle East. Here's a small example of recent interviews:

The litany of breaking news, ongoing crisis and a manic news cycle makes it hard to focus on long term projects (though I’m happy to say that the writing of my new book, out later in 2027, continues apace; a global investigation on Israel/Palestine).

Here are some recent interviews:

• A long conversation with SBS Radio Arabic about Palestine, writing critically on the Middle East and growing censorship;

• Interview with the Portuguese outlet, Shifter, on the Palestine laboratory;

• Interview with Michael West Media about Australia’s Royal Commission into anti-semitism and the desperate need for critical Jewish voices.

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

My review of the new book by UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Gaza and stories from Palestine in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age:

Three years since the launch of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, it continues to be released in new translation editions (around 17 editions globally and counting).

In the last month, the Bangla version was released in Bangladesh:

I’m excited that a new readership can engage with this issue (and I’ll soon be speaking at a Sydney launch with the Bangladeshi community).

We continue to publish independent journalism at Declassified Australia including this striking investigation:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

We’ve become so used to reading these kind of stories. Hundreds of Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been assassinated by Israel in the past years. The Jewish state, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, is the world’s biggest killer of journalists.

With some notable exceptions, too many in the international media, journalists, editors and owners, have refused to take appropriate action against Israel. No official sanction. Still interviewing Israeli spokespeople and politicians as normal. Not treating this as a monumental crime and outrage. Instead, often deferring to unproven Israeli claims that every journalist murdered was a terrorist.

Our colleagues are being slaughtered and many are treating this as business as usual.

It’s a code red emergency and many other nations, both rogue and democratic, will follow in Israel’s footsteps.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

The Antony Loewenstein Podcast continues its rise in reach and popularity. My weekly show, on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, is a space to discuss war, politics, Palestine, Afghanistan, the far-right, immigration, techno-fascism et al. All the light subjects!

It’s an independent production, with a stellar team, and we’ve hugely appreciated the love, backing and support the podcast has received so far. But we want to do much more so consider donating $ if you can.

Here are the recent episodes:

Part 1 of a 3-part series on the rise, fall and surge of One Nation, Australia’s most prominent far-right political party (similar to Reform in the UK and Trump’s Republicans in the US):

The recent arrest of Australian “war hero” Ben Roberts-Smith and the myths around the disastrous 20-year US-led war in Afghanistan:

The moral crisis in modern Judaism, so closely tied to the actions of the Israeli government:

Israel’s growing extremism, led by a dangerous theocratic agenda:

In late 2024, I released a podcast series based on my best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory, with the US-outlet, Drop Site News.

It’s a 4-part series and I recently re-released it on my podcast feed.

I continue to give regular interviews to global media outlets about the Middle East:

It’s been three years since my latest book, The Palestine Laboratory, was released in English in the UK, US and Australia. Since then, it’s become a global best-seller, now out in at least 13 languages with more to come.

I’ve been overwhelmed with the interest and response from every corner of the planet so thanks to everyone who has engaged, bought, dissected and connected the dots between Israeli violence, militarism, ethno-nationalism and the arms trade. It’s real, and growing.

I’m currently writing the follow-up book to the Palestine laboratory, on Israel/Palestine, and it’ll be out later in 2027.

Here’s just one example, from a popular TikToker in the US, on the enduring relevance of the Palestine lab thesis in the real world:

The Jewish community in Iran is complex with a long history. It defies easy categorisation. I spoke to The Guardian about it, after I spent time with this community in Tehran in 2007 and have maintained interest and engagement on the issue.

In other news:

• My interview with the Spanish outlet, El Periodico, on Palantir’s techno-fascism “vision”;

• An interview with a great Polish podcast following the recent release of my book in Polish;

• The Sydney Biennale is currently showing. This year I appear, along with my partner Ali and many others, in a film about the city, identity, politics and Palestine:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

The imperial logic by Tel Aviv and Washington? The New York Times published this recently:

As the United States and Israel prepared to go to war with Iran, the head of Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, went to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan.

Within days of the war’s beginning, said David Barnea, the Mossad chief, his service would likely be able to galvanize the Iranian opposition — igniting riots and other acts of rebellion that could even lead to the collapse of Iran’s government. Mr. Barnea also presented the proposal to senior Trump administration officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January.

Mr. Netanyahu adopted the plan. Despite doubts about its viability among senior American officials and some officials in other Israeli intelligence agencies, both he and President Trump seemed to embrace an optimistic outlook. Killing Iran’s leaders at the outset of the conflict, followed by a series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change, they thought, could lead to a mass uprising that might bring about a swift end to the war.

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The belief that Israel and the United States could help instigate widespread revolt was a foundational flaw in the preparations for a war that has spread across the Middle East. Instead of imploding from within, Iran’s government has dug in and escalated the conflict, striking blows and counterblows against military bases, cities and ships around the Persian Gulf, and against vulnerable oil and gas installations.

The folly of colonialism.

While it’s arguable that Israel actually wants real regime change in Iran, internal chaos certainly suits its agenda far better, the US under Trump appears blind and deaf to the huge challenges in a major new war that it doesn’t fully control.

A cessation of hostilities is desperately needed. But can it truly happen?

At this time, it’s even more important for real journalists to not just parrot the claims of any government but be skeptical. “Israel says”or “Washington says” isn’t journalism.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

The Antony Loewenstein Podcast continues to grow in popularity. Since launching late last year, I’ve been incredibly pleased with the response to my new weekly show. Thanks to everyone who’s been listening (and donating $, which is vital to sustain independent journalism).

Available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, we have a lot of exciting episodes and content planned so keep listening and sharing.

Here’s the recent episodes:

The Myth of the “Strong Jew” and Israel’s War Narrative:

Lebanon, Iran, Gaza - Battle for the Middle East:

The Truth Behind the US/Israeli Strike on Iran:

Inside the US Kidnapping of Venezuela’s President:

Pauline Hanson and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics:

What the Media Won’t Say About the Israeli President’s Visit:

Back in late 2024, I released a four-part podcast series based on my best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory. Out with the US outlet, Drop Site News, I’m now re-releasing this timely series on my own podcast platforms:

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With the Middle East on fire, I continue to speak to international media outlets such as Al Jazeera English. A small selection of my interviews are below (and the rest on my website):

A selection of my recent work, news and interviews:

• Canada continues to deepen its ties with Israel. I spoke to Yahoo News! about it;

• An interview with Swedish public radio about the weaponisation of anti-Semitism in Australia;

• My interview with the outlet, The Markaz Review, on Israel and Washington’s increasingly common use of AI in warfare.

• I’ll be appearing in an event on Gaza at the forthcoming Sydney Writer’s Festival in May alongside the Palestinian writer, Tareq Baconi. I understand it’s already sold out but you can add your name to a waiting list.

Following the recent release of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in Japanese, it’s been reviewed positively in two of the biggest newspapers in the country and I was interviewed on a popular current affairs show:

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

It’s a thrill to be shortlisted in one of the most prestigious UK media awards for my 2025 Al Jazeera English film series, The Palestine Laboratory, with the stellar UK production company, Black Leaf Films:

Our film is a global investigation into the Israeli arms industry and a deep analysis into the politics around it in multiple countries. It’s a film whose thesis is reinforced every day from Gaza to Iran.

Part 1:

Part 2:

As the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia, we were proud to recently publish a fascinating story by my colleague, Peter Cronau, about all the ways that Australia is helping the US in its war against Iran:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

For years, I mostly ignored the Jeffrey Epstein story. Not because it wasn’t interesting and relevant but there was a distinct lack of hard evidence backing the (often) wild conspiracy theories connecting Epstein to the global political and financial elites, and Israel.

That has changed.

It’s now undeniable that Epstein was incredibly close to Israeli intelligence, a fact that remains largely ignored in the Western media. What this says about the nature of Epstein’s vast criminality, against children and women, speaks volumes about the wilful blindness expressed by legacy media outlets.

The US outlet, Drop Site News, have produced many stunning stories on how Epstein became a key power broker connecting Israel and its defence/surveillance sectors to innumerable nations from Mongolia to the Ivory Coast.

One of the writers of these investigations, Murtaza Hussain, explains both the significance of the revelations and the reticence of corporate media to explore it:

Because of elite capture of many institutions, the coverage of Epstein’s activities by establishment news outlets feels a lot more like damage control than accountability. Despite his extensively documented political influence and even his role in shaping frontier research in AI and biotechnology, Epstein himself has attempted to be quarantined as merely a “con-man” and “dead pervert.” What is being covered up here are not his sexual abuses, but what his role and activities reveal about how power actually operates today.

With some notable exceptions, the general public has had to read independent media to really understand the Epstein scandal while outlets like the New York Times produce huge amounts of coverage and mostly ignore the late paedophiles’ ties to global intelligence networks.

On my recently launched weekly podcast series, I examined how Epstein, Israel and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak were key nodes in an international campaign to deepen the Jewish state’s influence:

Here are the other recent episodes of my podcast (which you can listen/watch on Spotify, Apple and YouTube). Just search for “The Antony Loewenstein Podcast”.

The legacy of the post 9/11 “war on terror”:

An interview with Palestinian writer and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah:

The weaponisation of Jewish trauma after the Bondi terror attack:

An interview with Grace Tame on the proliferation of child sexual abuse material online:

My podcast is independently produced by two amazing women, Lem Zakharia and Lena Helou, and relies on your $ donation to thrive so please consider supporting it.

I’ve been overwhelmed by the global response to my podcast, proving that there’s a real hunger for critical analysis.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

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The Israeli President Isaac Herzog recently visited Australia in the wake of the Bondi terror attack in December. The 4-day trip was met with huge protests around the country, a justified response considering Herzog’s racist and inflammatory past (and that’s being kind). He’s also accused of inciting genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in the wake of 7 October 2023.

I spoke at the Sydney rally in front of around 20k people:

Police violence was unleashed against peaceful protesters in Sydney and some speakers were demonised and defamed.

Nonetheless, there are huge numbers of Australians who are outraged by Israel’s actions in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond and won’t stay silent.

I continue to speak to international media outlets about the state of the Middle East, from Palestine to Iran:

My global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory, is just out in Japanese.

I recently spoke remotely at an event in Tokyo that campaigned against the country’s increasing military ties with Israel and opposition to the purchase of Israeli drones.

My comments start at 1:22:34:

The book is also just out in a Bahasa Indonesian edition and continues to generate interest there.

In the last year, I’ve released two major films in collaboration with the UK production company, Black Leaf Films.

Here’s the two-part series, The Palestine Laboratory, based on my book:

Here’s a recent positive review of the series:

In late 2024, I released a 4-part podcast series, inspired by my book, with Drop Site News in the US:

Drop Site News

Episode 1: Start-Up Nation

Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein questions the narratives he was taught growing up in the Jewish Diaspora as he traces the origins of Israel’s military-industrial complex, examining how Israel became one of the world’s leading arms and tech exporters. When a military force essentially creates a nation, can they ever be truly separated…

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My other 2025 film is Germany’s Israel Obsession:

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

What’s the Israeli and US “vision” for Gaza? A disaster capitalism paradise.

I spoke to the Spanish outlet, El Salto, about it:

AI weaponry is thriving in the world and yet most governments refuse to regulate it.

At the outlet that I co-created and co-edit with fellow journalist Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia, we recently published a startling story:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

The year has started with a US invasion and kidnapping in Venezuela, ongoing Israeli killings in Gaza, surging violence in the West Bank, huge protests in Iran against its repressive regime, ongoing carnage in Sudan and seemingly never-ending attempts to silence Palestinian voices who dare to criticise Israel.

It’s hard not to feel despair at the state of the world and those forces pushing us towards greater division and violence.

After the horrific anti-Semitic terror attack at Bondi Beach in December, Australia witnessed within hours a highly distasteful and co-ordinated attempt to politicise the massacre by many in the mainstream media and pro-Israel lobby.

Apparently it was the fault of the pro-Palestine marches since 7 October 2023 and criticism of the Jewish state’s actions in Gaza and beyond. There was no evidence for this, more a pre-determined vibe that joined dots that didn’t exist.

It was all deeply cynical and must be rejected by sane people everywhere. Anti-Semitism is an ancient disease and will be fought vigorously. Talking about Israeli war crimes and genocide in Palestine is NOT anti-semitic (as much as many want to claim that it is).

(For a reasoned and compelling examination of anti-Semitism, what it is and what it certainly is not, I recently read this fantastic book on the subject, On Anti-Semitism: A Word in History by historian Mark Mazower).

Now is the time for sober and reasoned conversations about Palestine, free speech and the egregious attempts to shrink the public space for honest debate.

What needs to be repeated ad nauseam: Israeli criminality, live-streamed to our phones for 2+ years, plus the Zionist lobby’s insistence on curtailing free speech is leading to way more anti-Semitism in the wider community. That’s the conversation that’s rarely had.

It’s a period where most in the mainstream media have shown themselves to be utterly unwilling, unable or ignorant of the threat of the far-right, the growing collusion between Israel and global fascism and Big Tech oligarchy.

Corporate media won’t save us.

Independent media and voices have never been more important.

Please support me.

(I can happily report that I’m currently working on a new book and film, to be released in the second half of 2027 with leading publishers, about Israel/Palestine. I can’t say more at this point but it’ll be a global investigation with major revelations.)

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website via Substack and here.

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Since the Bondi terror attack, I’ve spoken out extensively about the weaponisation of Jewish trauma in the service of draconian and racist policies + ideas.

I recently launched The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, a weekly show with comments and interviews on issues of the day. It’s available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. I’m also now on TikTok.

Less than 24 hours after the Bondi massacre, I recorded this:

(My wonderful producer on the series, Lem Zakharia, wrote about the vile attacks that we both received after speaking out).

Here are my interviews since the Bondi attack (including CNN, Al Jazeera English and Democracy Now!):

I was also interviewed by NBC News in the US and the Al Jazeera English media show, The Listening Post.

The Australian media’s coverage of the Bondi attack was often incomplete, biased and taking its cues from the Netanyahu government. Seriously:

Late last year, I discovered that I appeared near the top of an Israeli government hit list claiming that I’m a “key generator of anti-Semitism and delegitimisation in Australia”:

It’s utterly absurd, offensive and likely best ignored (though it’s certainly a bit unnerving).

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

The Israeli arms industry continues to test its wares in Gaza and beyond, making a fortune in the process. I spoke to Al Jazeera English about it:

I recently traveled around Indonesia on a book tour, promoting the Bahasa edition of The Palestine Laboratory.

Here’s more interviews from that tour (recorded in Jakarta and beyond):

The news site that I co-founded and co-edit with Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia, continues to publish ground-breaking work.

The latest, from writer Kellie Tranter, is on Australia trailing a weapons-system tested in Gaza.

Read our January 2026 newsletter, please subscribe and support us!, on our achievements and the vital need for independent journalism.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website, via Substack and here.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

I’ve been a journalist for over 22 years, reporting on issues around the world including Israel/Palestine, disaster capitalism, the US-backed war in Afghanistan, privatised immigration and the war on drugs.

I’ve long thought about starting my own podcast to opine, share ideas and interview guests who will provoke thought in these dangerous times. Fascism is at the door in many nations.

That’s why I’ve recently launched The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, a weekly show of considered ideas to inject some sanity in a media that’s too often exploitative, dishonest, morally blind and consumed with rage bait.

Think conversations about Palestine, Silicon Valley’s embrace of war, AI “utopias”, the border industrial complex and so much more.

Established in collaboration with the wonderful podcast producer Lem Zakharia, the show is already generating a lot of interest around the globe. I think that’s because many people are desperate for sober, reasoned and accurate information.

The show is available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple (with more platforms to come).

You can donate $ to keep the lights on, as an independent journalist I rely on your support to make this work happen and thrive, and all relevant information is here.

Episode 1 is on the surge of fascism around the world:

Episode 2 is on Silicon Valley’s descent into full MAGA, embracing Trumpism and the military industrial complex:

Here’s a wonderful clip of my producer Lem explaining how she created the theme music for the podcast:

Please watch, listen, share and donate.

Stay tuned for a big 2026.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

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Since my most recent book, The Palestine Laboratory, was released in 2023, there’s been a lot of public discussion about its thesis. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has certainly shown its potency.

One of my favourite magazines, the US-based Jewish Currents, recently hosted me in conversation/debate about this issue on its podcast, On The Nose:

I recently toured Indonesia after the release of the Bahasa edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory.

Here’s a positive book review in The Jakarta Post:

And an interview with one of the country’s leading outlets, Tempo:

Israel is the global leader in murdering journalists in 2025. Alongside this outrageous fact is that Israel continues to block any independent Western journalists access to Gaza.

I spoke to the Columbia Journalism Review in the US about what this portends for the future:

“Other countries will have no hesitation to do the same thing,” agreed Antony Loewenstein, an Australian journalist who has covered international affairs for more than two decades. In his book The Palestine Laboratory (2023), Loewenstein documented how the Israeli military-industrial complex has used Palestinians as guinea pigs for an array of weapons aimed at suppressing dissent. These tools have included defense hardware—think: killer drones—and software developed close to home and then exported at great profit, such as the program used to hack the cellphone of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident journalist who was tortured and murdered by government agents. “What happens in Palestine never stays there,” Loewenstein said. “Israel has shown how to get away with it—how to get that impunity themselves. So you’ll see many other nations being far more brazen in targeting journalists, including the Trump administration.”

More than 2.5 years after my book, The Palestine Laboratory, was first published, translation editions continue to be released. The latest is the Japanese version:

The outlet I co-founded and co-edit, Declassified Australia, continues to do vital reporting that is largely ignored by the mainstream media.

Our latest piece is by my co-editor, Peter Cronau, on Australia’s ongoing shipment of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Happy holidays and here’s to a more peaceful 2026.

Take care.

Antony

The 20th century saw a brutal history with the US, British, Australian and Israeli-backed Suharto dictatorship, from the mid-1960s, unleashing genocide on the Indonesian population, killing up to one million people.

Today, under President Probowo Subianto, a military man with a dark past and complicity in war crimes in East Timor and West Papua, this sprawling state is becoming more authoritarian. And flirting with the possibility of formally recognising Israel.

I recently visited Indonesia on an 8-day, 3-city book tour for the Bahasa edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory:

The response was extraordinary, showing a real hunger for debate about Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the arms industry and how Indonesia fits into the global agenda. Indonesia is diverse, rich in culture, big fans of coconut water, humid and beautiful.

I spoke at countless events, including at universities, and many media outlets and one overriding theme was despair over Israel’s actions in Palestine (plus a desire to get far more Indonesians active and engaged against it).

During my interviews with BBC Indonesia and popular outlet, Tempo, I discussed the potency of the Palestine Laboratory for many countries, including Indonesia, who want to crack down on dissidents, critics, minorities or indigenous populations.

Here are some details about the Indonesia tour (and my book is about to go into a second printing there after such strong interest and sales including being the biggest seller at the Jakarta International Literary Festival):

See my Instagram feed for more photos, videos and information.

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The British broadcaster and journalist Louis Theroux hosts a popular podcast in which he interviews celebrities and interesting guests. He recently spoke to the British musician Bob Vylan about Palestine and free speech. It was a thoughtful and compelling interview (and Theroux kindly mentioned my Palestine Laboratory book at the end because I explain how Israel is a model for the global far-right).

However, after the interview went to air, there was a faux outcry by some to silence Theroux, Vylan and even the idea of conversation about these issues because it’s apparently “anti-Semitic” to raise them.

I explain the controversy below and why it’s dangerous to call for censorship when discussing actual facts around Israel’s growing ties to the global far-right and its ugly ideologies:

Here’s my short reaction video to one of Australia’s most polarizing politicians, Pauline Hanson, recently walking into the federal parliament wearing a burqa. What does this say about the political and cultural moment, as the far-right surges globally?

This is a little teaser for my forthcoming podcast series, where I’ll be analyzing the big issues of the day and interviewing interesting guests from across the globe. From Palestine to Silicon Valley and fascism to AI ‘utopias’, stay tuned for a wild and timely ride:

My recent work has mostly focused on the situation in the Middle East (including the disaster capitalism-type plans for Gaza). There’s a small selection of my interviews below with Al Jazeera English, TRT World and others and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

My interview with the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges on the Palestine lab and how Israel is a viable model for the global far-right:

The Chris Hedges Report

The Palestine Laboratory: Exporting Occupation Technology (w/ Antony Loewenstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

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My latest film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, was originally broadcast in September on Al Jazeera English. It’s a collaboration with the UK director Dan Davies and Black Leaf Films. Watch it now and continue its global journey:

Some behind the scenes photos and videos:

The film screened recently to a sold out crowd at London’s Frontline Club.

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, is now out in at least 17 global editions, in around 11 languages, with more to come (Japanese, Bangla and Czech are on the way).

Here’s the Japanese text and artwork:

The film series based on my book, The Palestine Laboratory, was broadcast on Al Jazeera English earlier in the year. It’s since been seen by millions of people in every corner of the planet. It’s a collaboration with the UK production company, Black Leaf Films.

We’ve recently discovered that it’s now appearing on multiple global networks in Italian, Portuguese and other languages. All details here:

It was an honour to recently meet and speak to the award-winning writer Omar El-Akkad, author of this incredible book below on the profound failings of the West (really since 9/11 but certainly since 7 October 2023 and Israel’s genocide on Gaza).

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

Anybody who thinks that Donald Trump, Tony Blair and Jared Kushner have the best interests of the Palestinians as their priority needs to be examined by a doctor.

These aren’t just personal feelings after seeing innumerable photos and videos of Palestinians being tortured, suffocated, killed, massacred and trapped in the last years but reflective of what Palestinian friends from Gaza are telling me. The sense of fear and uncertainty is ubiquitous. Israel is still murdering huge numbers of Palestinians.

Key questions remain: how to rebuild when the Israeli occupation continues? How to access lost homes when Israel still controls more than 50% of Gaza? Where’s the accountability for the Israeli soldiers, politicians and generals who proudly advocated and enacted a genocide in Gaza?

Perhaps these are questions for another day but peace without justice isn’t justice at all.

And then this wholly unsurprising news emerges:

Disaster capitalism has wrecked havoc across the world for decades - I’ve made a book and film about this insidious thinking - and it must not become a reality in Gaza (let alone the West Bank where Israeli apartheid is surging).

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

My recent work has mostly focused on the situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below with CNN, Al Jazeera English and others and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

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My recent documentary film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, has been generating a lot of interest. Watch it here (originally broadcast on Al Jazeera English last month):

It’s a collaboration with British director Dan Davies and the amazing London-based production company, Black Leaf Films.

Here’s my interview with the popular US show, Breaking Points:

Dan and I appeared on a German podcast detailing the process and politics of the film:

I’m continuing to post photos from the May shoot in Germany:

The film even upset the pro-Israel Murdoch media.

If you’re in London on 29 October, I’ll be appearing remotely (with other special guests) at the wonderful Frontline Club to discuss the film.

I’m excited to share that my Al Jazeera English film series, The Palestine Laboratory, has been short-listed in the Documentary category of the Walkleys, Australia’s leading journalism award:

It was a global collaboration with director Dan Davies and Black Leaf Productions.

It’s pleasing for an independent project on this timely subject to be recognised.

You can watch the two-part series, which has been viewed well over 1 million times on YouTube, here:

I was recently interviewed on this popular Dutch TV current affairs program for a 20-minute documentary about my work, the Palestine laboratory and the era of mass surveillance:

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, continues to be released in new translated editions. 2.5 years after its first release, there are now at least 17 editions globally.

A Polish edition is just out (and I’ve been doing interviews with Polish media outlets and appearing remotely at a massive music festival in Krakow):

An Indonesian edition is released in November (with Bangla, Japanese, Czech and more versions coming):

What are the long-term ramifications of Israel’s recent military strike in Qatar? I spoke to The Stream on Al Jazeera English about it:

With the genocide in Gaza not over, the lack of any pathway towards accountability for Israeli crimes guarantees that they will be repeated in the West and beyond. The British writer Owen Jones tackled this in his recent Guardian column (and references my book):

My monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

In the last month, my colleague Peter Cronau at Declassified Australia, the outlet I co-founded and co-edit, has broken some massive stories on Australia still sending weapons parts from Australia to Israel on commercial flights:

Earlier in the year, the Melbourne-based artist Tia Kass released an amazing portrait of me and entered it into Australia’s leading art prize, the Archibald.

It didn’t win, but generated a huge amount of interest.

I was recently able to finally see the large portrait in person and I’m glad to report that it’s now been sold to a good home (not my own!):

In other news this month:

• The ever-exploding number of people using cocaine shows no signs of abating at the moment when the Trump administration is ramping up the failed “war on drugs”. I spoke to The New Statesman about it;

• The growing alliances between Oracle, Tony Blair and Israel are a murky story and I spoke to journalist Carole Cadwalladr to explain;

• My book review for The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age on an important new book, Turbulence, detailing the toxic relationship between Australia and the Trump administration;

• A massive fundraiser for Palestine recently took place in Sydney. 1600 people. $100k raised. I spoke with other journalists on the failures of Western journalism:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

The result? A massive decline in public backing for Israel and surging support for Palestinians.

Meanwhile, Israel’s campaign of annihilation in Gaza, the West Bank and beyond shows no sign of stopping. In fact, Israel’s extremist government (and far too many Israeli Jews) are determined to ethnically cleanse all of historic Palestine. And so far, much of the world is doing little tangible to stop it.

The ramifications will be felt for generations.

Germany is one of the most oppressive countries in the Western world around Palestine. By fundamentally misunderstanding the lessons from history, a people whose ancestors committed genocide should learn that backing a present-day genocide in Gaza will be a stain on their name.

As a German Jew, I take this issue incredibly seriously and personally but my new film, Germany’s Israel Obsession, isn’t just about me. Instead, it’s an investigation into how Germany has become the state that it has, the empowering of the fascistic far-right and attempts to erase Palestinian and Arabs voices.

Made in collaboration with the wonderful UK production company Black Leaf Films and director Dan Davies, I’m incredibly proud of this documentary, released last week by Al Jazeera English, and already generating a huge global response.

Watch it now:

In less than 12 hours after premiering, a fully annotated German Wikipedia page was published that detailed the film.

Here are some social media clips from the film:

The film’s trailer:

I was interviewed about the documentary on the popular Australian ABC radio program, Late Night Live.

I’ve started sharing photos and videos from the film shoot in Germany in May:

Germany’s Israel’s Obsession was made with the same remarkable British team with whom I made this year’s award-winning series, The Palestine Laboratory (based on my global best-selling book):

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

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My recent work has mostly focused on the horrific situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below with Al Jazeera English and others and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

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My book, The Palestine Laboratory, continues to be released in translated editions (Indonesian and Bengali soon) and Polish very shortly:

My latest monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

I recently gave the keynote speech at the annual dinner for one of Australia’s leading civil rights organisations, the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. The address tackled the weaponisation of anti-Semitism and building a society that welcomes “controversial” views.

The full speech has been published by the great, new independent outlet, Deepcut News:

Deepcut News

Antisemitism has been weaponised by the Israeli supremacist agenda

The following speech was delivered by investigative journalist, filmmaker and author of the global bestseller The Palestine Laboratory, Antony Loewenstein, at the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties annual dinner on 28 August 2025…

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During a recent speech outside Downing Street in London, British journalist Sangita Myska gave a speech about the profound failures of the Western press when covering Gaza in the last two years. Listen to the whole thing (and she kindly references some of my words, too):

In other news:

• I was interviewed by the Australian podcast 7am about Australia’s role in providing weapons parts to Israel;

• As the co-founder of co-editor of independent news website, Declassified Australia, our latest story, via freedom of information documents, is how Australia continues to be complicit in Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

But the real story behind this, beyond just Western racism and dehuminisation towards Arab reporters who don’t work for the corporate media in London or New York, is an Israeli military strategy to deliberately (and falsely) link Gazan journalists to Hamas.

The outlet +972 Magazine explains the plan:

The Israeli military has operated a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell,” tasked with gathering intelligence from Gaza that can bolster Israel’s image in the international media, according to three intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call and confirmed the unit’s existence.

Established after October 7, the unit sought information on Hamas’ use of schools and hospitals for military purposes, and on failed rocket launches by armed Palestinian groups that harmed civilians in the enclave. It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters — the latest of whom was Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli airstrike this past week.

According to the sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target, one source said.

As a journalist who’s visited and reported in Gaza since 2009, here’s a short film I made after my first trip, Palestinian journalists are some of the most heroic individuals on the planet. They have to navigate both Israeli attacks and threats and Western contempt for their craft.

I stand in solidarity with them. And so should you:

After the recent Israeli murder of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, I spoke to Al Jazeera English about him and Israel’s deadly campaign:

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My recent work has mostly focused on the apocalyptic situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below with global broadcasters CNN, Al Jazeera English and others and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

I can now reveal that my next documentary film will broadcast globally in September. It’s about the toxic relationship between Israel and Germany, the abuse of historical memory and empowering the far-right. I’ve been working on it with an incredible team in the UK, Black Leaf Films, for much of the year.

I’ll share concrete details very soon:

With a growing number of major Western nations pledging to recognise Palestine soon, it’s worth asking what it means in practice (hint; not much). I spoke to Al Jazeera’s show The Take about it:

Following a recent cinema screening in Sydney, Australia of my film series, The Palestine Laboratory, (watch part 1 and part 2 here), there was an informative Q&A afterwards where we discussed how Israeli surveillance and weapons are exported globally:

The impoverished and war-torn nation of South Sudan in East Africa is reportedly in discussions with Israel about potentially taking in some Palestinians from Gaza. It’s a grossly irresponsible and illegal plan that must be rejected out of hand.

I was based in South Sudan in 2015 with my aid-worker partner, Ali, so had some thoughts about the viability of this idea:

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been translated into countless languages, including Spanish, and here’s a wonderful clip from CNN Chile where they talk about the book and its timely message (if you can’t speak Spanish, you’ll get the gist pretty quickly):

The number of journalists murdered by Israel in Gaza is unprecedented. Australia’s leading media union, the MEAA, of which I’m a member, organised this powerful tribute to them:

My monthly column for UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

Australia and Israel are currently in a diplomatic spat over Gaza, aid and Palestine recognition. It’s arguably little more than theatre because both countries continue to trade heavily so a few thoughts:

While politicians bicker in Israel and Australia, Israel’s campaign of mass destruction continues in Gaza and the West Bank:

I’m honoured to be the keynote speaker at the annual dinner for one of Australia’s leading civil rights organisations, the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties:

We live in an age of rampant conspiracies. A new book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain, recounts a seminal conspiracy theory from the late 1960s and how it still resonates today. I reviewed it for The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age:

The iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge recently saw a massive pro-Palestine march with up to 300,000 people attending. It was a remarkable show of solidarity with the people of Palestine. I marched with my family and so many others from a diverse range of backgrounds:

I gave the following speech (in the pouring rain):

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis is being taken to court by the pro-Israel lobby in a test case for free speech around Israel and Palestine. I spoke at a recent event in support of her where I detailed some of the background, history and fears of the lobby:

My first book, My Israel Question from 2006, is still available here:

As the co-founder of co-editor of Declassified Australia, an independent news site, I’m proud of the work that we’re producing. Here’s some of our recent ground-breaking investigations (and you can read them all at our website):

In other news:

• My book, The Palestine Laboratory, will soon be released in many new translated editions including Polish, Bangla and Indonesian in October;

• The book was positively reviewed in one of India’s leading outlets, The Wire;

• A recent academic study into the Israeli company, Cellebrite, that references some of my work.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

This is the logic of disaster capitalism (I’ve written a book and made a film about this in the last decade).

There’s no way that Israel could maintain the longest occupation in modern times without huge support and investment from some of the biggest companies in the world (looking at you Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Palantir etc).

Pressuring companies to divest, or shaming them into action, is one of the key challenges facing those of us who want to end this decades-long abomination in Palestine.

There’s a growing ideological and financial connection between Silicon Valley and Israel, led by anti-Muslim and pro-Trump sentiments, that’s helping to boost the Israeli economy.

The need for a profound shift in the Middle East is now.

The deliberate and planned starvation and mass killing of Palestinians is just the latest example of Israel’s genocide mania. These are views shared by far too many Israeli Jews and Jews in the Diaspora (while others just live in wilful denial).

Adversarial to power journalism is sorely needed at this moment.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

My recent work has mostly focused on the horrific situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below with global broadcaster Al Jazeera English and and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

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I’m excited to announce that my next documentary film is nearing completion. I can’t say much about it yet but I’ve been working on it with a remarkable team for most of the year. Yes, it’s about Israel and Palestine and was filmed around the world. It’ll be broadcast on a major global broadcaster in the coming months.

Watch this space.

Francesa Albanese is the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories. She recently released a report detailing the companies complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It’s a ground-breaking report (and led to the Trump administration sanctioning her).

I’m honoured that Albanese references my global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory, throughout the report:

Albanese has long been mentioning my book as a way to understand the economy of Israeli occupation. After the release of her new report, she continued to do so, including in an interview with famed writer Naomi Klein:

The role of Big Tech in Israel’s architecture of occupation needs to be understood, scrutinised and challenged.

In a long interview with the UK outlet, Middle East Eye, I discuss these issues and also how we’ve allowed these unaccountable companies to rule our lives. Without massive pushback and viable digital alternatives, we’ll remain slaves to the whims of Silicon Valley moguls:

The global life of my film series, The Palestine Laboratory, continues. Released earlier this year with Al Jazeera English and made with the amazing UK production company, Black Leaf Films, you can watch both episodes now.

Part 1:

Part 2:

The film continues to screen in cinemas around the world including recently in Sydney, Australia. Here’s the full Q&A with me after the screening:

After the recent Sydney screening, the Australasian Muslim Times ran an editorial that really moved me. Read it to find out why.

My monthly column for UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

As the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia, we’re independent media so please support us, my colleagues have recently broken some ground-breaking stories that have gone global and viral:

These investigations were recently mentioned in the Australian Federal parliament and dismissed by Foreign Minister Penny Wong:

We have every intention of continuing to investigate this subject; Australia’s complicity in Israeli crimes.

Nearly 2.5 years after being released, my book, The Palestine Laboratory, shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, its momentum rolls on.

The Swedish translated edition is just out:

This edition is already generating interest in Sweden.

There are now 16 editions of my book, either out or coming soon, and at least 11 translations.

It’s been a remarkable journey for a book, first released in May 2023, that’s traversed the globe and detailed for hundreds of thousands of readers in countless countries the ugly reality of Israel’s arms and surveillance industries.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

And yet don’t be fooled into believing that Israel is any more secure in the region than before 7 October, 2023.

It still remains more unsafe to be a Jew in Israel than virtually anywhere else on Earth. Zionism hasn’t brought safety for Jews but in fact the complete opposite. Endless war, ghettoisation and militarism are the only ways that Israel can survive in the coming decades. Anybody sane can see that Israel’s genocide in Gaza has unleashed white-hot anger across the globe.

Global legitimacy for Israel has never been less obtainable.

What’s the Israeli vision for longevity? Constant bombing of its neighbours and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Palestine?

Israel has chosen its path and it’s the job of normal people globally, including us in the Jewish community, to reject it entirely and forge a different, more inclusive identity in the Diaspora while demanding justice and equality for the peoples in Israel and Palestine.

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My recent work has mostly focused on the grim situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below with global broadcaster TRT World and Indian channel Wionews and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

Israel’s war economy is thriving, boosted by nearly two years of war. I spoke about this on Al Jazeera English’s The Take program:

The weaponsisation of anti-Semitism is a major issue. It reduces the ability to fight real anti-Semitism and instead frames legitimate criticism of Israel as Jew hatred.

The Australian state of New South Wales is holding a pubic inquiry into anti-Semitism and I was recently asked to testify:

Here’s my introductory comments and select video clips from the Q&A:

You can watch my entire testimony from 7:38:11:

This is the Israeli “vision” for the Middle East, guaranteeing endless war (despite what the propagandists tell you):

During the recent war between Israel and Iran, I’ve been thinking of my visit to Iran in 2007 while researching my 2008 book on internet repression, The Blogging Revolution. I published a selection of my photos from this remarkable country:

My film series, The Palestine Laboratory, based on my international best-selling book of the same name, continues to circulate. Made with the UK production company, Black Leaf Films and broadcast on Al Jazeera English in early 2025, the two-part series provides unique insights into Israel’s military industrial complex and how it threatens the globe.

Part 1:

Part 2:

One of the most gratifying parts of the success around my Palestine laboratory book is seeing how it’s reaching people in every corner of the world.

Here’s just one recent example; a Dutch man cycling from Amsterdam to India and finding my book a major eye-opening experience:

Building critical Jewish voices is a mission I’ve pushed for over 20 years and it’s never been more important in this time of Israeli genocide.

I’m involved in the Jewish Council of Australia and we recently held a sold-out event in central Sydney that proved the real appetite for community in this time of crisis:

The New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties is one of Australia’s leading civil rights organisations. I’m honoured to be delivering the 2025 keynote address so if you’re in Sydney on 28 August please come along:

This is my monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

In other news this month:

• I’m speaking (remotely) at one of Poland’s largest music festivals in October about my work on the Palestine lab;

• My interview on Melbourne radio, 3RRR, on Israel’s war against Iran;

• Trump’s America is increasingly restricting access to people with critical views. I told The Guardian that it’ll lead to an intellectual impoverishment in the country;

• Israel plays a key role in the European Union’s war against migrants in the Mediterranean. I explained how it works to New Lines Magazine;

• After the recent Global March to Gaza was held in Egypt and repressed by the state, I was reminded of me when I attended the 2010 Gaza Freedom March in Cairo and made a feature length audio documentary for ABC Radio Australia about it;

• As the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia, my colleague Peter Cronau recently wrote a story about an old plan for Israel and the US to attack Iran that was remarkably similar to what recently happened;

• My recent conversation with podcaster Josh Szeps about Israel and its actions in the Middle East:

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• My comments to global broadcaster TRT World about how Israel and the US have “normalised” the concept of starvation in war.

There’s never been a better time to read the edited collection I released last year, co-edited with Palestinian Ahmed Moor, called After Zionism. It’s still available at all good bookstores:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

An overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews support the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza, according to a poll by Pennsylvania State University.

The survey, conducted in March and published by Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, 47 percent of Israeli Jews answered yes to the question: "Do you support the claim that the [Israeli army] in conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites did when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, ie to kill all its inhabitants?" The reference is to the biblical account of the conquest of Jericho.

As I’ve long argued, the problems in Israel extend far beyond Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extremist government. Alongside rampant state censorship of the media, mainstream Israeli society has been indulged and pacified for so long, by local press and international governments, that there’s been no tangible price for illegally occupying Palestine for decades and calling for the murder of Palestinians.

This is how we’ve reached the point where no credible legal authorities now doubt that genocide is taking place in Gaza. And it’s backed by a sizeable proportion of Israeli Jewish society.

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It’s been two years since my book, The Palestine Laboratory, was first released. It’s taken on a life of its own, spreading around the world in multiple languages and cultures, and becoming a best-seller in a time when so many people are desperate for accurate information:

This year alone, the book will be released in Swedish, Bangla and Indonesian editions and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I’m deeply thankful for all the support, encouragement and love I’ve received from across the globe.

I’ve been writing books for over 20 years but never has any book of mine resonated so widely.

As an independent journalist, all I can do is write credibly on issues on which I have knowledge and deep research.

Rest assured, there’s a lot more coming in the next years.

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My recent work has mostly focused on the grim situation in the Middle East. There’s a small selection of my interviews below and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

It’s been a few months since my acclaimed Al Jazeera English film series, The Palestine Laboratory, went to air. Made with the remarkable UK production company, Black Leaf Films and director Dan Davies, we remain deeply grateful with the ways in which the work continues its global journey.

Watch Episode 1:

Watch Episode 2:

There are growing numbers of public screenings at institutions and universities across the globe.

Here’s details about the recent screening and Q&A at the University of Padua in Italy, one of Europe’s oldest universities:

My introductory remarks for the event:

The film screened at London’s Palestine House:

The film recently won a Silver Award at the prestigious Telly Awards, a global TV prize. We won in the Public Interest and Awareness category:

My latest monthly column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

The leading Dutch newspaper, NRC, published a feature story on my work around the Palestine laboratory and how Gaza has become a key testing ground for new forms of Israeli weapons and surveillance tech (for example, Israel is deploying facial recognition tools in Gaza its in vile plans to distribute “aid” in the destroyed territory):

My interview with Australia’s ABC Radio program, Late Night Live, on the many Western nations still providing weapons and/or parts for Israel’s war machine including the US, UK, Germany and Australia.

Some of this information comes from the stellar reporting skills of my colleagues at Declassified Australia:

American-Jewish writer Peter Beinart is one of the most outspoken Jewish critics of Israel in the US. I was recently in conversation with him in Sydney, organised by a wonderful group that I’m involved with, the Jewish Council of Australia.

During my recent trip to London, I spoke at the famous Frontline Club about my work on Palestine alongside UK journalists Matt Kennard and Sangita Myska:

In other recent news:

• An introduction to my book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the Indian newspaper, Loksatta, in the Marathi language;

• My interview in the Italian media about the role of Israeli security firm CGI Group in Italy;

• Switzerland has long claimed to be neutral country but in reality it has close ties with Israel. My book is referenced in the Swiss outlet, Woz.

• My partner Ali and I promoting the vital work of the Readers and Writers Against the Genocide campaign:

• Amidst all the carnage in Palestine, it’s possible to miss some of the horrific news coming out of the region. A useful summary:

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

Such vile comments (and policies) are now routine in Israel, even mainstream.

The great Israeli journalist Gideon Levy recently wrote:

It was only to be expected: The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and bloodletting has been legitimized.

Likud lawmaker Moshe Saada proclaimed on Channel 14 TV that he was "interested" in starving an entire nation. "Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this is our obligation;" a relatively popular singer, Kobi Peretz, is convinced that we are "commanded" to annihilate [the Biblical arch-enemy] Amalek. "I don't pity any civilian in Gaza, young or old…I have not a shred of pity," he was quoted as saying on the cover of the daily Yedioth Ahronoth's weekend magazine.

Meanwhile, in many Western nations the politicians and journalists tell us that Jewish feelings are hurt with accusations of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank.

I’m Jewish and I’m offended by an Israeli government (and many of its supporters in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora) who either back these policies or wilfully ignore them. Starving Palestinians in Gaza is the stated goal. Forcibly removing them to other nations is the Israeli and US 'vision”.

What’s worse: Jewish discomfort or genocide in the name of Jews?

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My recent work has mostly focused on the grim situation in the Middle East and I’ve spoken to many media outlets including Al Jazeera English. There’s a small selection of my interviews below and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

My recent film series, The Palestine Laboratory, made with the wonderful UK production company Black Leaf Films and director Dan Davies, is still spreading around the world.

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Almost daily, I hear from viewers in every part of the globe who find the film stimulating and educational.

In Germany, where honestly and publicly discussing Israel’s genocide in Gaza is close to impossible due to the repressive nature of the state, activists recently screened the film:

In Los Angeles, the film was projected onto LAPD headquarters:

I’m posting videos and photos from last year’s global film shoot. Here’s information from the US/Mexico border:

Ramallah, Palestine:

Native American territory, US/Mexico border:

US/Mexico border:

Shu’fat refugee camp, Palestine:

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My latest column with the great UK outlet, Middle East Eye, where I’m a monthly columnist.

The talented Melbourne artist Tia Kass recently painted my portrait for Australia’s leading art prize, the Archibald.

He released some fascinating behind the scene images to show how his evocative painting evolved:

I’ve been writing books for nearly 20 years (my first book, My Israel Question, was released in 2006). They’re all still available for purchase on a diverse range of topics from disaster capitalism to Palestine.

You can find all my major books listed on my website.

My most recent book, The Palestine Laboratory, released two years ago, continues its remarkable global journey. With 13 editions in the world or out soon, including 10 translations, I’ve never had a book that’s resonated so deeply with people in literally every corner of the planet.

Thanks to everybody who has bought, shared, discussed, borrowed and learned from this title.

Just like this person:

A fine new book is just out and I’m happy to have endorsed it. You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave is a riveting account of present-day Greece by the fine journalist, Patrick Strickland.

My endorsement:

“The number of forcibly displaced people globally is currently at record highs and yet we too rarely hear their stories and challenges. This startling book could not be timelier as the far right surges in popularity from Austria to Germany and Sweden to Greece. Star investigative journalist and chronicler Patrick Strickland goes deep into today’s Greece and finds an ugly core, an emboldened fascism that provides inspiration to Europe’s anti-refugee alliances. This book is a warning that we’d be foolish to ignore.” — Antony Loewenstein, investigative journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory

Another new book that I’ve happily endorsed is by the Australian-Palestinian writer Micaela Sahhar, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family:

‘At a time when Israel is literally trying to wipe Palestinians off the map, this book lands with a powerful thud of fury, beauty and resistance. Weaving personal stories with history in all its unvarnished details, Micaela Sahhar delivers a deeply affecting story that articulates one of the great outrages of our time.’ – Antony Loewenstein, independent journalist, film-maker and author of The Palestine Laboratory

In other news:

• I recently spoke at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival about Palestine, democracy in peril and journalistic integrity in an age of lies;

• Following my recent review of the amazing book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Australia’s most aggressive pro-Israel zealots, AIJAC, were upset:

In Nine Newspapers (March 8), anti-Zionist writer Antony Loewenstein’s review of the book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad regarding the Gaza war was an unhinged rant.

With no evidence, he claimed that “Palestinians have been so demonised that killing them is viewed as a necessary, even noble, act.”

Continuing, he wrote, “I’ve lost count with the number of articles and opinion pieces in the mainstream Israeli and Western press that have claimed since October 7, 2023, that Palestinians are all guilty just by being born and living in Gaza. This genocidal thinking is often perpetrated by Jewish writers, yet another stain on our beleaguered religion and morality.”

We’re not aware of any mainstream articles that say anything like this. And if it were true, Israel would not have provided countless warnings to Palestinians ahead of military operations to vacate to safer areas nor would it have facilitated millions of tonnes of aid into Gaza since October 7.

• My interview with the major English language newspaper in Bangladesh, The Daily Star;

• My interview with Sweden’s leading radio current affairs program on Israel’s use/abuse of AI in Gaza.

As the co-founder and co-editor of the investigative news website, Declassified Australia, we continue to publish stories that nobody else does. Please support us with $, if you can.

In the last month, we’ve published exclusive stories on the ongoing trade between Australia and Israel since 7 October 2023 and the growing attempts to silence legitimate criticisms of Israeli actions.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

But we mustn’t look away.

According to many reliable sources, Israel is looking to establish concentration camps in Gaza:

This is from the self-described Jewish state and the “most moral army in the world”.

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This is a new painting by Melbourne-based artist Tia Kasambalis. It’s surreal to see the work completed, the first time that I’ve been painted on this scale.

For over six-months, Tia aimed to paint both me and representations of my work on the Palestine laboratory. Within the background are smoke clouds from drones and jets flying in and round the figure. There are also parts from the F-35 fighter jet where Australia (and many Western countries) provide essential parts. These planes have been actively deployed by Israel over Gaza during its mass slaughter campaign since 7 October 2023.

I’ve known Tia for more than five years and always admired his art and style and commitment to often featuring the underprivileged and “invisible” people in our society. His work is detailed, nuanced and political.

Tia’s stunning painting will be submitted into the Archibald Art Prize, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize. I hope it’s given the respect it deserves and highlights the ongoing outrages in Palestine being done in our name.

See the post below for many more photos and videos of this remarkable work:

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My recent work has largely focused on the grim situation in the Middle East and I’ve spoken to many media outlets. There’s a small selection of my interviews below and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

My recently released film series, The Palestine Laboratory, with UK director Dan Davies, continues to traverse the world:

I’m posting details of last year’s global film shoot in eight countries (from the Middle East to India):

There’s a screening in London on 24 April where I’ll be appearing remotely:

Related to the film, in late 2024 I released with US outlet, Drop Site News a 4-part podcast series inspired by my book, The Palestine Laboratory:

Drop Site News

Episode 1: Start-Up Nation

Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein questions the narratives he was taught growing up in the Jewish Diaspora as he traces the origins of Israel’s military-industrial complex, examining how Israel became one of the world’s leading arms and tech exporters. When a military force essentially creates a nation, can they ever be truly separated…

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This is an amazing new book, one of the most incisive written since 7 October 2023, about the moral and political collapse in the West in the last 18 months during the genocide in Gaza.

I reviewed it in The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers.

Pankaj Mishra is a fine writer and intellectual who’s spent his life documenting and critiquing the ravages of colonialism. His latest book, The World After Gaza, is a powerful examination of our current moment.

I recently interviewed him in person in Melbourne, Australia about Gaza, Western collusion as well as the role and responsibility of intellectuals in times of crisis:

Uncomfortable Conversations is a popular podcast with a host who’s more sympathetic to the concept of Israel than I am. Hence why I went on his show to discuss the Middle East and anti-Semitism and it was spicy at times:

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

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How should moderate, secular Jews feel about Israel? How brutalising must Israel’s Gaza policy be before more Jews denounce it? Is Israel a well-intentioned country hijacked by right-wing leaders from its true purpose of peace? Or is it intrinsically committed to destroying Palestinians? Was a Jewish ethno-state a mistake from the start? Or is Israel an…

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My podcast series, The Palestine Laboratory, has recently been a finalist in two major awards. My incredible team were “highly commended” at the Quill Awards in Melbourne, Australia:

At another awards ceremony, in a large cinema in Melbourne, a short clip from the podcast was played on the massive screen. It was a very powerful moment that showed the horrific carnage unleashed by Israel in Gaza:

10 years ago I published a best-selling book, Disaster Capitalism. In 2018, I released a documentary film adaption, filmed in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Haiti, with an amazing team. It’s now widely available again for viewing:

In other news this month:

• A timely discussion on the Australian media show, Fourth Estate, about the weaponisation of anti-Semitism in the service of Israel:

• I spoke on a panel at a South African writer’s festival about my book on Palestine:

• One of India’s leading newspapers, The Hindu, positively reviewed the Indian edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory;

• Many more translated editions of my Palestine laboratory book will be released in 2025. The next edition coming out is in Sweden in May.

Israeli defence companies are making a killing from the genocide in Gaza. It’s good for business.

I write about this phenomenon for US outlet Zeteo and what I saw when making my Palestine laboratory film series in multiple countries around the globe:

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How Palestine Became the Testing Ground for Israeli Military Exports

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The scale of devastation in Gaza is hard to process.

This new film on Al Jazeera English, Kids Under Fire, details in powerful ways the how the Israeli military is deliberately targeting children:

As the co-founder and co-editor of Declassified Australia, an independent news outlet so please support us with $ if you can, we’ve recently published some fine journalism. My co-founder Peter Cronau wrote about the growing tensions between Australia and China and human rights lawyer Kellie Tranter on how Australia has continued to trade with Israel in a major way during its genocide in Gaza.

In these dark times, we all need to find ways to decompress and stay sane.

The UK electronic band Underworld has long been a favourite and last year they played this amazing set at the Sydney Opera House:

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website, recently redesigned, has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony

Previous US administrations weren’t shy about threatening nations who didn’t bend to its will but now it’s blatant and in the open. It may work with some small states but the multilateral world is here to stay and will expand over the next decades.

Despite cutting huge amounts of foreign aid, one country that continues to receive unparalleled amounts of weapons and so-called aid from the US is Israel (US$12 billion since Trump took office).

Israel is the 9th biggest weapons producer in the world and its genocide in Gaza since 7 October 2023 has led to a booming defence sector.

The global arms industry is soaring with multiple conflicts and wars contributing to an increasingly unstable planet.

But what starts in Palestine doesn’t stay there and huge numbers of states are buying battle-tested missiles, drones, surveillance and border tech and satellites to be deployed against their own “enemies”, foreign or domestic.

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I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

The recent release of my film series, The Palestine Laboratory, adapted from my global best-selling book of the same name and broadcast on Al Jazeera English, continues to draw massive international audiences. Made with the great UK production company, Black Leaf Films, and director Dan Davies, the documentary is a global investigation into how the Palestine lab works in Palestine before it’s exported across the globe.

Watch Episode 1:

Watch Episode 2:

I was interviewed about the film by Declassified UK:

During the film shoots in 2024, when we visited seven countries in two months - Greece, Mexico, the US, India, South Africa, Israel/Palestine and Britain - I shot many photos and videos. I’ve started sharing some of them with accompanying stories:

We recently screened both episodes at London’s famous venue, Frontline Club, over two nights. More public screenings are coming soon.

I wrote a story for Declassified Australia, the outlet I co-founded and co-edit, about the making of the film.

My recent work has largely focused on the tough situation in the Middle East and I’ve spoken to media outlets including Al Jazeera English and others. There’s a small selection of my interviews below and you can see the rest on my website and YouTube channel:

I recently wrote a viral column for the UK outlet, Middle East Eye, on the complicity of Big Tech in Israel’s war machine.

It’s now been turned into a video:

Second Thought is a wildly popular YouTube channel, with close to 2 million followers, “devoted to education and analysis of current events from a socialist perspective.”

Its latest video is a brilliant 17-minute examination of the Palestine laboratory featuring an interview with me and presented in a highly compelling visual style:

My book was recently released in an Indian edition and I continue to receive messages from Indians about its contents.

The book is receiving very positive reviews and in a recent interview, with the Indian outlet, Middle East Insights Platform, I was pleased to discuss the Indian state’s complicity in Israeli actions (an issue that’s too rarely discussed in either country):

During a recent visit to Sydney airport, I was rapt to see my book placed this way in a bookstore (by a staff member, not me!):

My latest monthly column in the UK outlet, Middle East Eye:

The Indian essayist, Pankaj Mishra, has written for years about colonialism and its long shadows. His latest book, The World After Gaza, is a powerful indictment on Western complicity in the Israeli genocide of Gaza:

I recently interviewed Mishra in Melbourne, Australia (video coming soon), and it was a fascinating though dark look at Gaza, global affairs under Trump and surging fascism:

In 2024, I released a 4-part podcast series, The Palestine Laboratory, inspired by my book. It was a collaboration with the US outlet, Drop Site News, and a fantastic global team. Take a listen on your podcast platform of choice.

I’m rapt that it’s been nominated as “Best Audio Documentary” in one of Australia’s leading documentary awards:

My book continues to traverse the world, at least five new translated editions will be out this year, and I’m honoured that the work has been a touchstone for so many people in the nearly two years since its initial release.

Independent bookstores, support them daily!, are the backbone of the industry including the wonderful Gleebooks in Sydney, so thanks to all the readers who continue to purchase, read and share the book.

Over the next months I’ll be speaking at a number of literary festivals including Manly in Sydney and Newcastle (where one of my events is a conversation with the great Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy).

You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter for constantly updated content. My website, recently redesigned, has information about all my work, books and documentary films stretching back to 2003.

I’m an independent journalist without any institutional backing. If you’re able to support me financially, by donating money to continue this work, I’d hugely appreciate it. You can find donating options in the menu bar at the top of my website and via Substack.

Thanks very much for reading.

Take care.

Antony