His 2023 book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, won and was shortlisted for several awards.
Early life and education
Antony Loewenstein was born in Australia in 1974. His father's parents left had left Germany just before World War II, but many members of their family had been killed in the Holocaust.[1]
Loewenstein became a German citizen, while maintaining Australian citizenship, as an adult in 2011, "as a way to rightfully re-claim our birthright", to honour his family that Germany, and to be allowed to work in European Union countries. However, he said in 2013 that he feels neither Australian nor German, describing himself as a "non-practising Jewish atheist currently based in Sydney".[1]
He won the 2019 Jerusalem (Al Quds) Peace Prize, one of Australia's leading peace awards, for his work on Israel/Palestine.[citation needed]
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 published 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] 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] and the Nonfiction Book Award at the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards.[17]
^"The Palestine Laboratory". Australian Institute of International Affairs. 17 July 2023. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
^"News". www.cgmoorefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.