Antony Loewenstein
Native name
Antony Löwenstein
Born1974 (age 49–50)
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NationalityAustralian
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GenreNon-fiction
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Antony Loewenstein (born 1974) is an Australian-German freelance investigative journalist, author, and film-maker.[1]

Life

Loewenstein has written for The New York Times, The Guardian,[2] Haaretz, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sydney's Sun-Herald, The Bulletin, ZNet, The Big Issue, Crikey, CounterPunch, and the online magazine New Matilda among others. He appears regularly on TV, radio, in public and at universities around the world discussing current affairs and politics.[3][4]

Loewenstein contributed a chapter to Not Happy, John (2004), a best-seller in Australia which highlighted the growing disenchantment with then-PM John Howard. His book on the Israel-Palestine conflict, My Israel Question, (2006 and in new editions in 2007 and 2009) was described by Ilan Pappé as "one of the best treatises which presents in the most lucid way possible why anti-Zionism can not be equated with anti-Semitism".[5] The Weekend Australian wrote that it "deserves a strong readership ... because it makes us uncomfortable".[6] It was short-listed for a 2007 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. The book was criticised in a review in Australian Jewish News.[7]

His next book, The Blogging Revolution (2008), is about the impact of the internet in countries with repressive regimes. It was updated in 2011 after the Arab Spring. My Israel Question is available in an Arabic translation. He contributed to the Verso Books collection, A Time to Speak Out (2008), on the rise of global Jewish dissent.

He is the co-editor with Ahmed Moor of the 2012 book After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine which includes essays by Omar Barghouti, John Mearsheimer, Ilan Pappé, Sara Roy, and Jonathan Cook, among others.[8] In 2012 he also published Left Turn about failures of capitalism.[9]

Loewenstein's book on vulture capitalism, Profits of Doom was published in 2013 (a new edition followed in 2014) and a book on religion, faith and politics, For God's Sake. Verso Books published his Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out of Catastrophe (2015), and he's the writer/co-producer of the documentary, Disaster Capitalism, released in 2018. His book on the global "war on drugs", Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, was published in 2019 in the US, Australia and India and 2020 in the UK.

With South African film-maker Naashon Zalk, Loewenstein was co-director of a 2019 Al Jazeera English documentary on abuse of the opioid drug tramadol in Nigeria, West Africa's Opioid Crisis. He appears in the 2019 documentary, This Is Not A Movie, about The Independent's Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk.

Loewenstein co-founded the Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV).[10][11] He won the 2019 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, one of Australia's leading peace awards, for his work on Israel/Palestine.

In 2021, he co-founded Declassified Australia with fellow journalist Peter Cronau. The news website critically reports on Australia's relations with the world.[12] He and UK film-maker Dan Davies co-directed the Al Jazeera documentary Under the Cover of Covid.[13][14]

In 2023, he released the book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World, in the UK, US and Australia with multiple, translated editions to come. It was a long-list finalist in the 2023 Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing and a best-selling book in New Zealand.[15][16][17] When, in November 2023, Loewenstein was awarded, in partnership with Banki Haddock Fiora, the Walkley Book Award for Longform Journalism for the book,[18] judges commented that it was; "Hard to imagine a more timely exposé of the policies, weaponry and technology - from hacking software to drones and even 3G mapping - that the Israeli government has deployed against Palestine, and which countries, democratic and dictatorial, around the world have bought, adopted and adapted. Deep, solid research. Fairly written - not a polemic. Brave independent journalism at its finest, backed by a small committed publishing house."[19] The book was also shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction.[20]

Bibliography

Author
  • My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict. Melbourne University Publishing. 1 September 2009. ISBN 978-0-522-85945-4.
  • Profits of Doom: How vulture capitalism is swallowing the world. Melbourne University Publishing. 1 August 2014. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-522-86723-7.
  • The Blogging Revolution. Jaico Publishing House. 2012. ISBN 978-81-8495-286-5.
  • Profits of Doom. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522866827.
  • Disaster Capitalism: Making a killing out of catastrophe. London New York Verso Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-78478-116-3.
  • Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. Scribe. 2019. ISBN 9781925713367.
  • The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Scribe. 2023. ISBN 9781922310408.
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References

  1. ↑ Loewenstein, Antony (23 September 2013). "How I, an Australian Jewish-atheist, became a German citizen". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Antony Loewenstein". the Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Antony Loewenstein Short Biography Archived 6 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Foreign Correspondents' Association.
  4. ↑ Antony Loewenstein: Changing people's perceptions about Jews, Jakarta Post.
  5. ↑ My Israel Question Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Weekend Australian, 29 July 2006, cited on My Israel Question (2007 reprint), p.i
  7. ↑ Questioning Israel (28 July 2006) Archived 27 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor, After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine Archived 20 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Saqi Books, (28 August 2012), ISBN 0863568165 ISBN 978-0863568169
  9. ↑ Review of Left Turn from the Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ↑ Andra Jackson, New group takes on Jewish lobby, The Age, 6 March 2007
  11. ↑ Australian Jewish leaders blast new NGO as anti-Zionist, The Jerusalem Post, accessed 15 September 2012.
  12. ↑ "Declassified Australia - ABOUT". Declassified Australia. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  13. ↑ "Under the Cover of Covid". blackleaf-films.co.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  14. ↑ "Under the cover of COVID". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  15. ↑ "The Palestine Laboratory: How technology helps Israel cosy up to the world's autocrats". Middle East Eye. 14 June 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  16. ↑ "The Palestine Laboratory". Australian Institute of International Affairs. 17 July 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  17. ↑ "News". www.cgmoorefoundation.org. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  18. ↑ https://www.walkleys.com/68th-walkley-awards-winners-announced/
  19. ↑ Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) (2023), The Walkley Magazine Yearbook 2023, Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, ISSN 1440-298X
  20. ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
External videos
video icon Book Discussion on Disaster Capitalism, C-SPAN, 8 October 2015
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