Antony Loewenstein

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Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian political activist, atheist, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger.

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 others. He writes a regular column for online magazine newmatilda.com and is a board member of Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies. He appears regularly on radio, in public and at universities discussing current affairs and politics.[citation needed]

Loewenstein's book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question, was published in 2006. He contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, Not Happy, John! on the controversy over the awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to Hanan Ashrawi.

Loewenstein is the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV). IAJV represents a fringe, anti-Zionist minority in Australian Jewry, according to communal leaders down under, though it continues to generate debate in the mainstream media as a challenge to the Zionist position.[original research?][1]

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[edit] Public reception of My Israel Question

Loewenstein's book, My Israel Question, was described as "one of the best treatises which presents in the most lucid way possible why anti-Zionism can not be equated with anti-Semitism" by Ilan Pappe.[2] The Weekend Australian wrote that it "deserves a strong readership ... because it makes us uncomfortable".[3]

My Israel Question was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Award. The book was criticized in a review in Australian Jewish News.[4]

John Pilger described Loewenstein as "a truth-teller bar none".[5]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Jewish leaders blast new NGO as anti-Zionist | Jerusalem Post
  2. ^ My Israel Question
  3. ^ My Israel Question
  4. ^ Questioning Israel (July 28, 2006)
  5. ^ My Israel Question


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NAME Lowenstein, Antony
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger
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