Antony Loewenstein

My new book, “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World,” is released in May (@VersoBooks in the UK and US and @scribepub in Australia and New Zealand). It’s a global investigation that may shock you.

Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on. Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins "sov-corp", a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it. cnbc.com/2026/04/22/pal…

Unexpected (but predictable) plot twist: the arson attack on Brandenburg “antisemitism commissioner” Andreas Büttner, including the anti-Zionist graffiti on his house, was most likely the work of two pro-Israel business partners and friends half his age.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/antis…

🚨Bondi Whitewash Revealed 🚨 ASIO planning to blame Israel’s Gaza war for Bondi terrorists’ radicalisation, neatly letting #ASIO off the hook for earlier dropping them from their terror watch list. By blaming Gaza and not ISIS, ASIO is trying to sidestep responsibility for their massive intelligence failure — but most dangerously, this serves the Israel Lobby pressure by lumping the terrorists into the anti-Israel protests movement. There are huge ramifications of this if the Royal Commissioner accepts ASIO’s claim as factual — as it would risk: ▪️a massive security crackdown on the peaceful Gaza protest movement, ▪️denigrating the anti-genøcide campaign, thereby reducing attention and pressure on internationally condemned Israeli war crimes, ▪️criminalisation of protestors leading to workplace exclusion and vilification, ▪️increased intrusive surveillance and monitoring of lawful peaceful protesters, ▪️increased policing and harassment of the peaceful protest movement, ▪️increased security organisations’ infiltration and spying on peaceful groups, ▪️potential agent provocateur acts of incitement, ▪️a serious diversion of resources and attention from actual sources of terrorism, and ▪️a papering-over of the root causes of terrorism. “The ABC understands Mr Richardson queried the thoroughness of ASIO's original 2019 assessment of Naveed Akram, and whether he and his father were reassessed in the years before going on to kill 15 people at a Hanukkah event in the name of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.” “The ABC understands ASIO's internal review concluded the Akrams became radicalised after the outbreak of the Gaza war. That followed earlier interactions with known extremists and travel to areas of concern.” ABC: Former ASIO chief questioned scrutiny of Bondi gunmen before quitting royal commission - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2026-04-2…

Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/par… via @techcrunch

The Jewish National Fund is stopping most of its funding of programs in settler outpost farms in the West Bank. JNF Chairman Eyal Ostrinsky: "Regretfully… it turned out we were supporting activities… to help dispossess Palestinians from their land,"

🎥 Maysa Mustafa introduces Canary Mission and speaks to reporter Jacqueline Sweet about her investigation for Drop Site that found the secretive blacklist site is “entirely run” from Israel. Canary Mission compiles dossiers on students, academics, and activists it labels “antisemitic” — often targeting those outspoken on Palestine, with documented consequences for jobs and education. Sweet says the site’s impact escalated under President Trump, when the State Department and Department of Homeland Security used it to target foreign students for arrest and deportation — in some cases based largely on speech — even as officials admitted they did not know who was operating it. “The fact that our government is using a completely foreign organization to exert such influence on domestic policy is, I think, extremely significant,” Sweet says. @maysamustafa | @JSweetLI

I spoke with @sharifkouddous of @DropSiteNews about how Israel’s “Dahiyeh doctrine” during its 2006 war on Lebanon helped pave the way for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza

👀 SCOOP: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner told Politico staff Monday that those uncomfortable with the company's core values — including support for Israel's right to exist — should "work for other companies." @matthewkassel reports: ji.news/427jz

“Russia and the Gulf Arab states have engaged in foreign influence on US policy in various ways. But Israel’s foreign influence on US policy, now and over time, far outstrips that of these other countries. To emphasize the role of the former, while omitting the role of the latter, is a form of propaganda. Omission of crucial facts is no different, from a moral perspective, than lying.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The popular Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet set up a hidden camera in the street to get peoples' stand on the execution of Palestinian prisoners. Among the opinions were those who wanted them crucified as Christ was crucified.

An 18-year-old boy is about to be imprisoned in Israel’s torture camps, even though two courts ordered his release and all suspicions against him collapsed. How is that possible? Two and a half weeks ago, Hussein, from a shepherding family in the Jordan Valley, was arrested at a checkpoint while on his way to sell cheese his mother makes from their flock’s milk. Soldiers found a small knife and a face covering in his vehicle. In interrogation, held only 3 days later, Hussein explained the knife is used to open straw bales for feeding sheep, and the covering keeps his face warm in the morning and protects from sun and flies. The court accepted his explanation, ruled he posed no meaningful risk and could not obstruct the investigation, and ordered his release on 5,000 shekels bail. Occupation forces appealed the release order. 3 days later, the appeals court rejected the appeal and again ordered his release. Bail was paid, and his lawyer began release procedures. Nothing happened. Hours later it became clear why: occupation forces held another “hearing,” brought him an unknown Palestinian Authority lawyer because “his lawyer was busy” (busy at the appeals hearing), and extended his detention by six more days in order to issue an administrative detention order. The administrative detention order was issued after 5 days. Why make such an effort to turn an 18-year-old shepherd into a political prisoner? Because Hussein’s family, like many shepherd families in the Jordan Valley, faces settler attacks and harassment, invasions of their homes, denial of grazing, denial of water, livestock theft, army violence, and repeated attempts to expel them. And they refuse to leave. We have known Hussein’s family for years and witnessed dozens of abuses against him, his father, the family, and the community. There is no mystery here: Hussein’s only “crime” is being a proud Palestinian whose family lives on land Israel wants. As of April 2026, about 3,532 Palestinians are held in Israeli torture camps under administrative detention - thousands of people who, like Hussein, are jailed without trial because Israel sees their very existence as an obstacle to the continuation of its atrocities and ethnic cleansing.

Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the former head of the Mossad. This government is setting the stage for the next October 7 on the West Bank. timesofisrael.com/ex-mossad-chie…

NEW: US intelligence agencies are studying how Iran would respond if President Trump were to declare a unilateral victory and wind down the two-month-old war that ​has killed thousands and become a political liability for the White House, sources said w/ @ErinBanco

If this is what finally does it then fine, but it would be beyond perverse. Effectively announcing to the world that Europe literally values Ukrainian grain more than Arab lives.

👇A VERY important piece today in Israel’s Ynet by Nahum Barnea & Ronen Bergman on the botched regime change plan in the Iran war. It confirms regime change was “the heart of the plan,” with Netanyahu and the Mossad driving it and Trump on board: decapitate the leadership, foment protests, and back a Kurdish incursion from the west. What stands out most is the admission of how central Israeli influence ops in Iran became. Under Mossad chief Barnea, in recent years shaping Iranian public opinion shifted to a core priority, “driving influence moves” inside Iran and effectively turning it into a “weapons system” with effects “far beyond social media.” The strategy was explicit: topple from above and below, “lean on senior officials” while “fostering mass protest and armed resistance of minorities,” in "parallel." "The organization" for this op "began four years ago," the piece states, and "reached operational maturity two and a half years ago." The piece also acknowledges “immense” Israeli work in the “background” of the January protests, which were met with a violent crackdown killing thousands by Iranian authorities, who portrayed them as foreign-backed. The regime change war was itself was advanced because of these protests. The war was originally slated for June but expedited as conditions seemed to “ripen.” Yet it didn’t bear out to say the least. No mass uprising. No collapse. The regime “restored command and control” and survived what planners evidently thought would end it within days. Even more striking, the piece says the US was caught off guard by Iran’s Hormuz closure in part because Trump seemingly believed “the war would end within three days.” (!) The Kurdish component is especially revealing. It reflects a fundamental misreading of Iran’s internal dynamics, where an externally backed incursion involving separatist groups would more likely have triggered a nationalist backlash and unified much of the country against a perceived partition threat, rather than spurred mass uprising. In their own telling, Israel invested heavily in influence operation in Iran, fomenting unrest, and regime decapitation, but the core assumption that the system would collapse proved false. Now, after all this, the US is back to negotiations, with the goal of a likely narrower deal focused just on the nuclear file and sanctions relief. The piece ends with: “What started as a far-reaching Israeli move, rich in imagination, final in its solution, ends in heartache.” Link: #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ynet.co.il/news/article/y…

Antony Loewenstein Podcast: One Nation Series: How Pauline Hanson Change... youtu.be/1R1ApJLIYmg?si… via @YouTube

Not that Coetzee's thoughts on Israel have ever been secret, but this is a model of disciplined condemnation. ynetnews.com/culture/articl…

Worth pointing out that under the definition of antisemitism pushed by the ADL, this former head of Mossad and son of a Holocaust survivor would be considered antisemitic.

Who helped propagate far-right leader Pauline Hanson more than most? Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. This extract of @AmyRemeikis is from part 2 of the just released mini series on One Nation on The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, out now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Details how to donate $ to support independent journalism: bit.ly/m/theantonyloe… Produced by Lena Helou + @lemzakharia:

Former US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman says that Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip but also that the U.S. must keep supporting it. She also says the war has benefitted Russia and China and that Iran may just end up controlling the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely: bloomberg.com/features/2026-…