Nationality Australian Genre non-fiction | Name Antony Loewenstein Role Journalist | |
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Organizations founded Independent Australian Jewish Voices Books My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, Disaster Capitalism | ||
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Antony Loewenstein is a freelance journalist, author, atheist Jewish-Australian, German political activist and blogger.
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Disaster capitalism w antony loewenstein 911 was used to legitimize bombing countries
Life
Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sydney's Sun-Herald, The Bulletin, ZNet, The Big Issue, Crikey, CounterPunch, and the online magazine newmatilda.com among others. He appears regularly on radio, in public and at universities discussing current affairs and politics.
Loewenstein contributed a chapter to Not Happy, John (2004), a bestseller 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". The Weekend Australian wrote that it "deserves a strong readership ... because it makes us uncomfortable". It was short-listed for a 2007 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award. The book was criticized in a review in Australian Jewish News. 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 release, 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. In 2012 he also published Left Turn about failures of capitalism.
In 2013, he released a book on vulture capitalism, Profits of Doom, (with a new edition in 2014) and a book on religion, faith and politics, For God's Sake.
In 2015 Loewenstein released a book with Verso Books, Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out of Catastrophe, and is currently making a feature-length documentary on disaster capitalism.
Loewenstein is the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV).