Antony Loewenstein

“Ethnonationalist ideology grows when accountable democracy withers. Israel is the ultimate model and goal.”
― Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

“This kind of dehumanization is the inevitable result of endless occupation. It is also an export asset. What’s appealing to growing numbers of regimes globally is learning how Israel gets away with politicide. That term was adapted to Israel/Palestine by the late Israeli scholar and professor of sociology Baruch Kimmerling, who argued in 2003 that Israel’s domestic and foreign policy is “largely oriented towards one major goal: the politicide of the Palestinian people. By politicide I mean a process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of the Palestinian people’s existence as a legitimate social, political, and economic entity. This process may also but not necessarily include their partial or complete ethnic cleansing from the territory known as the Land of Israel.”
― Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World