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

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.^[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]

Author

• My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict. Melbourne University Publishing. 1 September 2009. ISBN 978-0-522-85945-4.
• Profits of Doom: How vulture capitalism is swallowing the world. Melbourne University Publishing. 1 August 2014. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-522-86723-7.
• The Blogging Revolution. Jaico Publishing House. 2012. ISBN 978-81-8495-286-5.
• Profits of Doom. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522866827.
• Disaster Capitalism: Making a killing out of catastrophe. London New York Verso Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-78478-116-3.
• Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. Scribe. 2019. ISBN 9781925713367.
• The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world. Scribe. 2023. ISBN 9781922310408.

Contributor

• Kingston, Margo. Not Happy, John defending Australia's democracy. Paperback, 240 pages. Penguin Books, (2004) ISBN 0-14-300258-9.
• Antony Loewenstein; Jane Caro; Rachel Woodlock; Simon Smart (1 July 2013). For God's Sake. Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 978-1-74328-913-6.

Editor

• Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor, eds. After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, Saqi, (2012), ISBN 9780863568398
• Jeff Sparrow; Antony Loewenstein, eds. (2012). Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left. Melbourne Univ. Publishing. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-0-522-86143-3.