<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>From Wikipedia:</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>Antony Loewenstein</b> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist" title="Atheist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">atheist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jewish</a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian" title="Australian" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Australian</a> political activist, freelance journalist, author and blogger who is based in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sydney</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">Loewenstein has written for <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Guardian</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0,
128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Haaretz</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Washington Post</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald" title="Sydney Morning Herald" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sydney Morning Herald</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Australian" title="The Australian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Australian</a></i>,
Sydney's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun-Herald" title="The Sun-Herald" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sun-Herald</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin" title="The Bulletin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Bulletin</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNet" title="ZNet" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ZNet</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Issue" title="The Big Issue" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Big Issue</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crikey" title="Crikey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Crikey</a></i>,<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CounterPunch" title="CounterPunch" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">CounterPunch</a></i> and the online magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newmatilda.com" title="Newmatilda.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">newmatilda.com</a> among others. He appears regularly on radio, in public and at universities discussing current affairs and politics.<sup
id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">Loewenstein contributed a chapter to <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Happy,_John" title="Not Happy, John"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Not Happy, John</a></i> (2004), a book on the controversy over the awarding of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Peace_Prize" title="Sydney Peace Prize" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sydney Peace Prize</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ashrawi" title="Hanan Ashrawi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hanan Ashrawi</a> that was a bestseller in Australia. His book on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Palestine_conflict" title="Israel-Palestine conflict" class="mw-redirect"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Israel-Palestine conflict</a>, <i>My Israel Question</i>, (2006 and in new editions in 2007 and 2009) was described by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9" title="Ilan Pappé" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ilan Pappé</a> as "one of the best treatises which presents in the most lucid way possible <span style="background-color: rgb(253, 239, 43);">why <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism" title="Anti-Zionism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">anti-Zionism</a> can not be equated with <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism" title="Anti-Semitism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">anti-Semitism</a></span>".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Australian" title="The Australian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Weekend Australian</a></i> wrote that it "deserves a strong readership ... because it makes us
uncomfortable".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup> It was short-listed for a 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_Premier%27s_Literary_Awards" title="New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New South Wales Premier's Literary Award</a>. The book was criticized in a review in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Jewish_News" title="Australian Jewish News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Australian Jewish News</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup>His next book, <i>The Blogging Revolution</i> (2008), is about the impact of the internet in countries with repressive regimes. It was updated in 2011 after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring" title="Arab Spring" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arab Spring</a>. Both <i>My Israel Question</i> and <i>The Blogging Revolution</i> are
available in translation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">He contributed to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verso_Books" title="Verso Books" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Verso Books</a> release, <i>A Time to Speak Out</i> (2008), on the rise of global Jewish dissent.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">He is the co-editor with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Moor" title="Ahmed Moor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ahmed Moor</a> of the 2012 book <i>After Zionism: One State for Israel and
Palestine</i> which includes essays by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Barghouti" title="Omar Barghouti" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Omar Barghouti</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer" title="John Mearsheimer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Mearsheimer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9" title="Ilan Pappé" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ilan Pappé</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Roy" title="Sara Roy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sara Roy</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cook" title="Jonathan Cook" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jonathan Cook</a>, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup> In 2012 he also published <i>Left Turn</i> about failures of capitalism.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Loewenstein#cite_note-7"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a></sup></div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">He is currently working on a film and book on<span style="font-size: 32px;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_capitalism" title="Vulture capitalism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">vulture capitalism</a></span>, <i>Profits of Doom</i>, to be released in 2013 and a book on religion, faith and politics, <i>For God's Sake</i>, in the same year.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif;">Loewenstein is the
co-founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Australian_Jewish_Voices" title="Independent Australian Jewish Voices" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Independent Australian Jewish Voices</a> (IAJV).<img
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href="http://antonyloewenstein.com/2011/03/12/neo-nazis-love-zionist-treatment-of-muslims/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Neo-Nazis love Zionist treatment of Muslims" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: lighter; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(205, 35, 44); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 32px;">Neo-Nazis love Zionist treatment of Muslims</a></h2><div class="entry hyphenate" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: freight-sans-pro, sans-serif;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;">Who are really the most strident backers of Israel these days? Christian fundamentalists and far-right bigots.</div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;">More than 60 years after the Holocaust, Nazis take comfort in the Zionist
state. <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/europe-s-extreme-righteous.print.html" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(57, 95, 144); text-decoration: none;">Tragic and yet utterly logical</a>.<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Newsweek</em> reports:</div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To the casual observer, the visiting Europeans at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial in the hills above Jerusalem, looked like any other foreign delegation. In the Garden of the Righteous
Among Nations, where Gentiles who protected Jews are honored, they laid a wreath and posed for a photo before signing the visitors’ book with the solemn promise: “We will want to make sure that ‘never again’ really means never again.”</em></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55);"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But these were no ordinary travelers with Zionist sympathies. Rather, on this trip to Israel were a Belgian politician known for his contacts with SS veterans, an Austrian with neo-Nazi ties, and a
Swede whose political party has deep roots in Swedish fascism—unlikely visitors to pay their respects at Yad Vashem, perhaps, unless one considers the political currents in Israel and Europe, and the adage that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend.</em></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Only a few years ago, many of Europe’s far-right politicians were openly anti-Semitic. Now some of the same populist parties are embracing Israel to unite against what they perceive to be a common threat.</em></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;
line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Over the past few years, Europe’s right-wing political leaders have tapped into rising worries over immigration from Islamic countries to predominantly secular and Christian Europe, where the number of Muslims has grown from 29.6 million in 1990 to 44.1 million in 2010, or up to 10 percent of the population in countries such as France. Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam firebrand whose Party for Freedom last July gained a record 24 seats in the Netherlands’ Parliament, likens the Quran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and has called Muhammad a “devil” spreading a “fascist ideology,” and has vowed to stop Muslim immigration. In Switzerland, 57 percent of voters banned the construction of minarets in a popular referendum in late 2009. In poll after poll,
large majorities of Europeans say they worry about the spread of Islam and that Muslims have not properly integrated.</em></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Invited by a right-wing Israeli businessman named Chaim Muehlstein, the December visitors did not compose an official delegation. “Jesus Christ,” fumed a government spokesman anonymously when asked about the visit; Yad Vashem spokeswoman Estee Yaari cringed when NEWSWEEK asked her about the group. “Millions come here every year, and I definitely didn’t meet these people,” she said.</em></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But members of the Knesset did meet with the group, which signed a “Jerusalem Declaration” guaranteeing Israel’s right to defend itself against terror. “We stand at the vanguard in the fight for the Western, democratic community” against the “totalitarian threat” of “fundamentalist Islam,” says the document, which was signed by members of the group that included Heinz-Christian Strache, head of the Austrian Freedom Party; Filip Dewinter, head of Belgium’s ultranationalist Vlaams Belang; René Stadtkewitz, founder of the German Freedom Party; and Kent Ekeroth, the international secretary for the Sweden Democrats, a populist anti-immigration
party.</em></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">During their trip, the Europeans drove through Palestinian villages in a bulletproof bus to meet Jewish settlers in the desolate West Bank outpost of Har Bracha, set on a windswept mountain bluff with views into Jordan. While there, they vowed that the settlements were necessary to defend Israel against its Arab enemies.</em></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; font-size: 15px; color:
rgb(55, 55, 55);"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: justify;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As if to prove his readiness to defend the Holy Land, Strache donned camouflage war paint and an Israeli Defense Forces combat jacket for a picture with paratroopers of the 101st “Cobra” Battalion on their base near the Gaza Strip. (The last photo of Strache in military regalia became a minor scandal in Austria when it surfaced in 2008. The picture showed him with leading Austrian neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers, and was apparently taken around 1990 when Strache was reportedly active in the Viking Youth, an illegal neo-Nazi group.) The history of the Sweden Democrats is equally controversial. Until 1995 the party was headed by Anders Klarström, who had previously belonged to the openly fascist Nordic
Reich Party. Convicted in 1986 for illegal possession of firearms and death threats against a Jewish actor, whom he called a “Jew pig” and threatened to burn, Klarström was one of dozens of officials and members purged by the party in the 1990s. Still, Lena Posner-Körösi, president of the Official Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden, describes the Sweden Democrats as a “neo-Nazi party.”</em></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>