FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author and journalist Antony Loewenstein about his upbringing in Australia, his film “Germany’s Israel Obsession”, and the seminal book he published in 2023, “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World”, and the possibility of a one-state outcome after a genocide.
Recorded November 4, 2025
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Participant Biographies
Antony Loewenstein is a freelance investigative journalist, author, and film-maker based in Sydney. He covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is known for his criticism of the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli Government. His grandparents had escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, but Loewenstein decided to take up German citizenship as an adult. His 2023 book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, won and was shortlisted for several global literary awards.
Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a 2025 Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University.
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