Antony Loewenstein

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Antony Loewenstein
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Antony Loewenstein (born 1974) is a Jewish Australian-German freelance investigative journalist, author, and film-maker. [1]

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Life

Loewenstein has written for a number of publications such as The Guardian , [2] and Sydney Morning Herald. [3]

Loewenstein contributed a chapter to Not Happy, John (2004), a best-seller in Australia which highlighted the growing disenchantment with then-PM John Howard. 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 . [4]

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. [5]

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). [6] [7] 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. [8] He and UK film-maker Dan Davies co-directed the Al Jazeera documentary Under the Cover of Covid. [9] [10]

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 and many territories. [11] [12] [13] When, in November 2023, Loewenstein was awarded, in partnership with Banki Haddock Fiora, the Walkley Book Award for Longform Journalism for the book, [14] The book won the People's Choice award [15] and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction. [16] . He's regularly interviewed on global media outlets from CNN to Al Jazeera English.

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