The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
J Street must decide what it wants to be -- a wide tent that allows all Jewish opinions on Israel or an orthodoxy that pushes only conventional platitudes -- but the Palestinians don't have time to wait.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Acehnese identity is intimately related to Indonesia's wish for integration into the world and historical desires for independence. Many there crave true freedom, but know it's long off.
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Parochial Jews love to feel like victims, despite the fact that they’re largely a successful, connected and wealthy community. Being a victim is terribly effective politically, despite its inherent dishonesty. In that tradition, here’s a recent letter in the Australian Jewish News : Where would we Australian Jews be without our demons? Without (in no particular order) The Age, the ABC, SBS, Antony...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
My following article appears in today’s Crikey: Antony Loewenstein writes from Washington DC: During this week’s first J Street conference in Washington DC — a US-based, “pro-Israel and pro-peace” lobby group that aims to widen the debate over the Middle East — an older woman stood up in a session titled “What does it mean to be pro-Israel'”...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... to about these issues is to my left. Many of those teachers are younger than me–Adam Horowitz, Antony Loewenstein, Anna Baltzer , and Seham–and I would argue that they are driving the conversation, and the conversation is moving leftward because the right and center are bankrupt, they have produced nothing but dispossession and permanent war.
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Here are the thoughts and reflections of Antony Loewenstein , a journalist and author of My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution, post J Street Conference. Anthony is a very non/anti/post-Zionist (in his book My Israel Question, he asks " whether the whole idea of Zionism - the movement for Jewish national liberation - needs a serious overhaul. Not surprisingly, his views...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
My following article in New Matilda is about the Indonesian province of Aceh: Despite recently implementing sharia law — including the stoning of adulterers and homosexuals — Aceh does not fit the stereotype of an Islamic state, finds Antony Loewenstein Muslim extremists in Aceh were outraged when a young woman from the province, Qori Sandioriva, won the [...]
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Slowly but surely, Israel is starting to realise where it matters (in the back pocket) that its criminality will come at a steep price. Who truly wants to normalise relations with a state that brutalises another people (over and over again )? Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The following interview is published this week in the literary journal, Quill: SYDNEY-BASED ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN is the author of the best-selling book, My Israel Question, a controversial discussion of one of the most important issues of our time, as well as The Blogging Revolution, a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... and new media is provides a forum for their reportage. Independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein says that he has reported from Gaza and elsewhere euqipped with: “…a laptop, a few contacts, a fixer (only in Gaza), cheap hotels, persistence and online and print outlets to publish my work. I covered Gaza with a small amount of money and arguably was more trusted because I...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The following article appears in Saturday’s Jakarta Post: A discussion about writers’ views on the United States President Barack Obama and on the Middle East peace process stole the show during the third day of the annual Ubud Writers and Readers Festival on Friday. Speaking at the discussion were Benazir Bhutto’s niece, Fatima Bhutto, Australian author Antony [...]
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... analysis and dissent within the media. It featured Fatima Bhutto, a journalist from Pakistan, Antony Loewenstein, a political journalist from Sydney and Jamal Mahjoub, a novelist from London by way of Sudan debating whether Obama has so far failed to live up to his promise through a lack of concrete actions or whether his message of hope and change and the very fact of his reaching...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The following article by Katrin Figge is published today in one of Indonesia’s largest English newspapers, The Jakarta Globe: For a person who gets hate mail and death threats on a regular basis, Antony Loewenstein remains surprisingly cheerful. The Jewish-Australian journalist, activist, blogger and author, who is based in Sydney, has stirred up plenty of controversy with [...]...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Following my letter in last week’s Australian supporting the targeted boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, Labor MP Michael Danby responds: Antony Loewenstein and Jake Lynch (The Australian, Letters blog, 22 September) criticise Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth for their opposition to the campaign for “boycott, disinvestment and sanctions” directed...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Following my article in yesterday’s Crikey about Saree Makdisi’s recent visit to Australia, the following letter is published today: Josh Landis writes: I don’t get it. What does Crikey see in Antony Loewenstein and why are his rants continually published? The latest offering says almost nothing. Summary: 200 people including about five Jews turned up to listen [...]...
