The Antony Loewenstein Podcast

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF Antony Loewenstein explores the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith and the wider legacy of Australia’s war in Afghanistan, a conflict defined by civilian deaths, media silence, political lies, and almost no accountability. This episode asks what the West was really doing in Afghanistan, and why the crimes committed there are...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode of The Antony Loewenstein Podcast, Antony argues that Judaism is facing a profound moral crisis driven by the conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism and Israel’s actions in Gaza, the West Bank, and beyond. He reflects on Jewish history, including long traditions of anti‑nationalism, and explains why...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony Loewenstein examines Israel’s decision to legalise the execution of Palestinians and what it exposes about the wider realities of occupation, apartheid, and state violence stretching from Gaza and the West Bank to Lebanon and Iran. Cutting through media spin and Western complicity, he argues thi...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF The Palestine Laboratory Podcast: Privatising The OccupationNOTE: First released in late 2024 with the US outlet, Drop Site News, we are now re-releasing this series. For more information, see:  https://www.thepalestinelaboratorypodcast.com In the wake of 9/11, Israel’s defense industry boomed, positioning itself as a...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF Antony Loewenstein examines how Israel’s modern identity has been shaped by a powerful founding idea: the creation of the “strong Jew.” In this conversation, he unpacks how early Zionist leaders, including David Ben-Gurion, framed a new national identity in direct contrast to the perceived “weakness” of European Jews d...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF NOTE: First released in late 2024 with the US outlet, Drop Site News, we are now re-releasing this series. For more information, see: https://www.thepalestinelaboratorypodcast.com Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers how the Palestine Laboratory has operated since 1948, detailing Israel’s long-standing...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this podcast, Antony Loewenstein examines a Middle East engulfed in war, from Lebanon and Iran to Gaza and Palestine. He explores the forces driving chaos, the profiteering around conflict, and the global politics shaping the region at this pivotal moment. An unfiltered dose of independent journalism that cuts throu...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein questions the narratives he was taught growing up in the Jewish Diaspora as he traces the origins of Israel’s military-industrial complex, examining how Israel became one of the world’s leading arms and tech exporters. When a military force essentially creates a nation, can t...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony Loewenstein discusses the real reasons behind the US and Israel’s strike on Iran, drawing on his firsthand reporting inside Iran and years of journalism across the Middle East. He unpacks the wider geopolitical agenda driving the conflict, Australia’s role in backing it, and why mainstream narra...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony Loewenstein speaks with Latin America expert Dr. Rodrigo Acuña about the dramatic US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in January 2026 and what it reveals about the future of American power in the region. They unpack the long history behind the crisis, including how Venezuela has...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony Loewenstein examines the global surge of far-right populism and its obsessive focus on immigration and Islam across Australia, the US, the UK and Europe. Using recent comments by Pauline Hanson as a starting point, he explores how anti-Muslim rhetoric has been normalised in mainstream media and...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF This week on the Antony Lowenstein Podcast, we examine the controversial Australian visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog: Why he came, how the visit was framed, and why it triggered protests across the country. Publicly positioned as a gesture of solidarity following the Bondi massacre, Herzog’s trip quickly became...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF For years, Jeffrey Epstein has been framed primarily as a lone sexual predator embedded in elite social circles. While his crimes against underage girls are real, horrific, and central to his story, this episode examines a dimension of the Epstein case that much of the mainstream media has avoided: his deep and sustain...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony traces how the post-9/11 “War on Terror” helped shape today’s political and media climate including the normalization of anti-Palestinian racism across many Western elite circles. He revisits the early messaging of “tolerance” from George W. Bush alongside the reality of Afghanistan, torture, re...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF This week, Antony Loewenstein speaks with Randa Abdel-Fattah; Palestinian Australian writer, academic, and former lawyer, and author most recently of “Discipline”. They reflect on knowing each other for over two decades, before turning to Randa’s visits to Palestine in 2000 and 2010 with her father, including returning...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, Antony Loewenstein speaks with Grace Tame; survivor, advocate, columnist, and former Australian of the Year, about the accelerating crisis of child sexual abuse in the age of artificial intelligence As AI tools become cheaper, faster, and more accessible, Grace explains how child sex offenders are once...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In the first episode of 2026, Antony Loewenstein unpacks the political aftershocks of the Bondi attack and the fight now raging over how it’s being used. From the push for a Royal Commission to the weaponisation of antisemitism claims, to the shrinking space for Palestinian and Muslim voices in Australia’s cultural ins...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode independent journalist Antony Loewenstein joins Jan Fran to discuss the Bondi terror attacks and the timid media response to proposals that curb civil liberties.  Jan Fran and Antony move carefully through the tension between allowing victims time to greive and challenging political agendas that seek to...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF Recorded less than 24 hours after the horrific massacre in Bondi, this episode is a raw, urgent response to violence, fear, and the political weaponisation that has already followed. Speaking as a Jewish Australian, I reflect on grief, anger, and the dangers of conflating antisemitism with criticism of Israel. I unpack...

If you value independent journalism, support this show : https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, independent journalist Antony Loewenstein explains how Silicon Valley once promoted itself as the centre of innovation and connection, designing tools that would improve the world. Those days are long gone with many Silicon Valley “leaders” going full MAGA, embracing Trumpism, militarisation and Israel...

If you value independent journalism, support this show: https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF In this episode, independent journalist Antony Loewenstein breaks down the surge of far-right politics in Australia and across the West and explains why calling it “fringe” is pure delusion. Using the latest polling on One Nation, Australia’s third biggest political party, global parallels from Europe and the US, and th...