Antony Loewenstein is an Australian-German investigative journalist and author who has written a number of books on topics as varied as the Israel-Palestine question, capitalism, and the war on drugs. His latest book is The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (Verso, 2023). Loewenstein is also the author of My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict (Melbourne University Publishing, 2009), Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World (Melbourne University Publishing, 2014), and Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs (Scribe, 2019). Diwan interviewed Loewenstein in mid-January to discuss The Palestine Laboratory, which has especial relevance as the war in Gaza continues.
Big Brother of the Levant
In an interview, Antony Loewenstein discusses how Israel has successfully marketed its instruments of repression and surveillance worldwide.
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