Antony Loewenstein | The New York Review of Books

Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein, a Jerusalem-based independent journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and other newspapers, is the author of several books, including My Israel Question (2006) and Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (2017), and made a documentary film, Disaster Capitalism. He is working on a book about the global “war on drugs,” forthcoming in 2019. (January 2019)

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Exporting the Technology of Occupation

Apartheid South Africa and its decline are a warning from history that Israel would be unwise to ignore. An economy built on military know-how and expertise in techniques of internal repression might seem a source of indomitable strength, but Apartheid was finished less than five years later.

January 4, 2019