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Loewenstein: My Israel Question
Znet Article, September, 11 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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Jamie Glassman is a British Jewish writer on The Ali G show, a comedy program known for intentionally offending deserving establishment figures. Glassman recently attended the Edinburgh Arts Festival and was disturbed. He wrote in the London Times...
Loewenstein: Spinning us to war in Iran
Znet Article, March, 08 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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During former US President Bill Clinton’s recent trip to Australia, he said the two greatest threats facing the 21st century were terrorism and global warming. The Age welcomed Clinton’s presence in Melbourne as the coming of an al...
Loewenstein: Paying the Price for a Crazy War
Znet Article, January, 23 2006
Antony Loewenstein
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2005 will be remembered as the year citizens across the world started to awaken to the rules of the game in the “war on terrorâ€. Extraordinary rendition, US supported and administered torture, unauthorised spying on citizens, priva...
Loewenstein: Stop the press!
Znet Article, October, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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“Melbourne University Publishing should drop this whole disgusting project. If they proceed, I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly The Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence. That is our best response...
Loewenstein: Media lacks self-criticism
Znet Article, May, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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Veteran political commentator Michelle Grattan gave a speech recently at the Deakin lectures in Melbourne. She argued that the relationship between media and politicians was at an all-time low: When I arrived in Canberra in the 1970s, if you wer...
Loewenstein: Australian Media
Znet Article, April, 12 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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During last year's Federal Election campaign, I ran the Counterspin blog (http://www.smh.com.au/blogs/counterspin.html ) on the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and Melbourne Age websites. It was an instructive experience. The ABC was the only other ma...
Loewenstein: God Under Howard
Znet Article, March, 20 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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Many voters had never heard of the Family First party before the 2004 election. When candidate Steven Fielding won a Victorian Senate seat (due to an ALP preference deal gone wrong), many Australians thought that a far-right, Christian-based moral...
Loewenstein: In Praise Of Soeharto The Despot
Znet Article, March, 19 2005
Antony Loewenstein
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In a speech to the Australian Parliament on November 23, 1999, Prime Minister John Howard articulated his reasons for the country leading a peacekeeping force to East Timor, the former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 with Australian...
Loewenstein: How Australia reported Arafat's death and legacy
Znet Article, November, 29 2004
Antony Loewenstein
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Israel has a population of about five million Jews and nearly 1.3 million Arabs. There are around four million Palestinians registered as refugees by the United Nations. The death of Yasser Arafat will not, despite the rhetoric suggesting otherwis...
Loewenstein: Facts Among the Flotsam
Znet Article, August, 30 2004
Antony Loewenstein
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A Certain Maritime Incident Tony Kevin (Scribe, $32.95) When John Howard claimed victory at the 2001 election, it was in no small part due to his tough border protection policies and whipping up of refugee-phobia. In Dark Victory (Allen & Unwin)...
Loewenstein: Bush Books
Znet Article, August, 24 2004
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Imperial Hubris: Why The West Is Losing The War On Terror Anonymous (Brassey's Inc, $49.95) / Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency Of George W. Bush John W. Dean (Constable & Robinson, $24.95) / Banana Republicans Sheldon Rampton and John S...
Loewenstein: Bush and Books
Znet Article, August, 10 2004
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"THERE is nothing that bin Laden could have hoped for more than the American invasion and occupation of Iraq," writes a senior serving CIA official with nearly 20 years' experience. Calling himself Anonymous, he recently published a damning cri...
Loewenstein: Australian Refugees
Znet Article, April, 10 2004
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Why does [Australia] only follow USA for going to war and other matters against human beings but does not follow USA regarding humane matters? I don't know, are you aware that USA governments have given 10 million visas to people who were living i...
Loewenstein: Israel's Crossroads
Znet Article, February, 01 2004
Antony Loewenstein
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Anti-Semitism is a scourge that never washes away. Anti-Israel hatred is rising throughout the world, especially in the Middle East and Europe. This was proven by a recent opinion poll in the European Union where respondents claimed Israel was the...
Loewenstein: 'There is no space for news'
Znet Article, December, 03 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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In an age of worldwide mass internet usage, a common misconception suggests that the public has never been so well informed and is therefore in touch with current affairs, news events and goings-on. If only this were the case. The opposite is in f...
Loewenstein: Why the War Was Wrong
Znet Article, November, 20 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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The Coalition is bogged down in Iraq and the mounting death toll of Westerners suggests a growing resistance to the occupation. In light of the continuing problems in post-Saddam Iraq, seven Australian academics and commentators have laid out thei...
Loewenstein: Hanan Ashrawi and the Price of Dissent
Znet Article, October, 23 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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It's not easy advocating Palestinian rights. Edward Said frequently commented upon the constant abuse he had received throughout his life. Upon his death, the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) in Australia (related to the Anti-Defamation League (AD...
Loewenstein: Groveling to Power
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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Since being in Washington on September 11, 2001, Prime Minister John Howard has inextricably tied much of Australia's foreign policy to George W. Bush's America. Commentators have spent millions of column inches explaining the reasons behind Howar...
Loewenstein: Australia's National Broadcaster
Znet Article, September, 11 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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Who will save Australia's national broadcaster? It's a question many are dying to know. The ABC is the Australian equivalent of the BBC and the last months has seen furious debate across wide sections of the community, as well as a government seem...
Loewenstein: Weapons of Mass Deception
Znet Article, September, 08 2003
Antony Loewenstein
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What a difference a few months can make. It was not so long ago that the leaders of America, Britain and Australia were continually talking up the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. We were informed, through the ...
