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Antony Loewenstein has recently been silenced by The Australian (several times), ABC radio, ABC television, Gleebooks, the Sydney Morning Herald, Sky News, the Age, Dymocks Books, and Triple J. Latest to silence him is SBS:
THEY TRIED TO SILENCE ME SAYS AUTHOR
Here’s something Antony may wish to keep quiet: according to Nielsen’s Bookscan, only 318 copies of My Israel Question were sold in its first week. Loewenstein’s supporters blame a Jewish conspiracy.
UPDATE. Loewenstein is now silencing leftists.
318 would about cover the readers of his loopy conspiracy theory blog, close family members, League of Rights members and the total population of persons of Middle Eastern appearance who can actually read, so I’d say the remainer bins are going to be pretty well stocked with Antsy’s tortured prose for some time.
Perhaps some of his green/left admirers can come up with a useful purpose for the unsold stock, like an artificial reef somewhere, or as biodegradable landfill, or perhaps with the addition of a couple of loops of rough hemp twine, a snappy pair of sandals and a statement as well- just the thing for those anti-globalisation/evil murdering Jews/IR legislation/free the refugees demos.
I bet all those 350 copies sold were a combination of
1) Ant himself
2) His main fan, Addamo
3) Various Zionists and RWDBs taking the piss.Posted by Quentin George on 2006 08 09 at 02:14 AM • permalinkIf they make the second print-run small enough it could easily go into a third re-print.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 09 at 02:41 AM • permalink#10 It has dual purpose as both an attempt to silence Ant whilst also being Your Israel Question.
Maybe there’s a book in it.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 09 at 03:00 AM • permalinkIt must suck being the only Jew not invited to join the conspiracy. Someone should write a book on it.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 09 at 03:11 AM • permalinkMUP does seem to be getting publicity of the all-publicity-is-good-publicity type with another current title, as well.
Australia’s poetry world is at war, and the vitriol is flying. A “kiss and tell” memoir by an internationally renowned poet, John Kinsella, has enraged two of his peers, who he claims were his partners in crime during a debauched youth.
Robert Adamson and Anthony Lawrence, both highly respected, award-winning poets, were horrified to read Kinsella’s lurid accounts of communal drug-taking sessions and pornography-watching. They have accused him of betraying their friendship, and of fabricating some of his stories.
The pair counter-attacked in the way they knew best: with words. They fired off a stream of florid e-mails, brimming with metaphors and allusions to blood and gore…
Last weekend [Kinsella] failed to appear at one of Australia’s main literary festivals, in Byron Bay, northern New South Wales.
He’s applied for AVOs against the poets (an account which also mentions “grants squandered on prostitutes”, a phrase some might find less meaningful than “grants squandered on poets”), but we all know it’s a cover: it’s Bob Ellis he’s really frightened of.
His publisher’s comments are well-rehearsed:
Louise Adler, chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing, defended Kinsella’s book as a true version of events. “We stand by our author 100 per cent,” she said.
I stole this comment from Andrew Bolt’s Blog, because I thought it was v.good.
Posted by Barrie in Adelaide on Wed 09 Aug 06 at 01:39pm:
The Loewenstein Saga is looking more and more like the Demidenko Fraud saga.
1. Major lit. figures and publishers have to admit that big errors ‘got under their guard’, but defend the indefensible anyway.
2. The author is a shameless publicity hound but is put in print by the MSM despite being arguably anti-semitic.
3. The left close ranks and defend the ‘young’ author against ‘savage victimisation’ by ‘heartless’ Rightists trying to suppress ‘young ethnic talent’.#15.Infidel Tiger, that has to stand as the funniest thing I’ve read today.
I am so glad that I’m not drinking at the moment. Otherwise I might need yet another keyboard.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 09 at 04:13 AM • permalinkActually I HOPE I crack 500 sales in my first weeks when I write something. Of course, I won’t have 2/3 of all Aussie media outlets commenting on my work…
Seriously, it isn’t the Latham Diaries and maybe 500 is a useful number in that time. What would be a good comparison for drawing power, maybe a Gough biography? What does Pilger sell in his fantasy titles?
I came across this ANTI anti-semitic joke recently which makes a good statement about hypocrisy in the media.
A man in Paris saw a pit bull dog attacking a toddler. He sustained some injuries, but managed to kill the pit bull with his bare hands and saved the child’s life. Reporters swarmed over the fellow to cover the story….
“Tell us! What’s your name? All Paris will love you! Tomorrow’s headline will be: ‘Parisian Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!!!’”
The man said, “But I’m not from Paris. “Reporters: “That’s OK. Then the whole of France will love you, and tomorrow’s headline will read: ‘French Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!!’”
The man said, “I’m not from France, either.” Reporters: “That’s OK also. All Europe will love you. Tomorrow’s headline will shout: ‘EU Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!’”
The man said, “But I’m not from Europe, either.” Reporters: “So, where ARE you from?”
“I’m from Israel.”[Pause]
“Ah, well - that makes tomorrow’s headline ‘Vicious Jew Kills Family Pet.’”
1,000 sales is about average for a narrowly focussed academic book in Australia, with most going to university libraries and specialists in the field. A best seller in academia would be around the 15,000 mark. Given that most academics don’t get a single review in the mainstream press (and are only reviewed in specialist journals), the fact that Ant can only sell 318 after what for academics would amount to carpet bombing publicity speaks volumes for the guy and his ideas.
Maybe his target audience are waiting for the audio book?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 09 at 05:01 AM • permalinkAntony who?. Sorry, I’ve been living on Mars, in a cave, with my fingers in my ears.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 09 at 06:08 AM • permalinkYou realize that if no one buys his book then we are all effectively silencing him. It’s not fair.
What if we buy his book, but use it as toilet paper? What then?
Of course, it’s pretty much full of shit already.Posted by Quentin George on 2006 08 09 at 06:24 AM • permalinkMaybe his target audience are waiting for the audio book?
Or the comic. Loony can draw it.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 09 at 06:32 AM • permalinkOh for cryin’ out loud Lowenstein, here how to reach George Soros. It’s his Open Society homepage.
In the little “search box”, enter your request…Please Buy My Book, My Israel Question. I understand, George is of the same ilk. Blaming Israel for everything.
Should George comply with your request, you will be filthy and rich. Why hell, you could even move to, say Syria.
33 murph
Joe Lieberman has lost endorsement
Unfortunately a good man’s party ‘left’ him, long before the election. BUT he shall prevail as an Independent. I hope. For if he does not, the U.S. is in trouble, the surrender’ists will start negotiations, to sue for peace with the ‘bollah army of Persia.
#45 Anagallis: You’re undoubtedly referring to the Junior PulpMaster, for at-home use. Yes, sales of that item have been pretty brisk. We sold one, in fact, to a “Mrs. Lowenstein”, who has agreed to provide a testimonial for our new sales brochure (“When my son, the idiot, brought out his awful book, the Junior PulpMaster was there to help me turn that book into nutrient-rich mulch. You should see my petunias!”).
I sold more than 380 copies of my book On the Plu-Perfect Tense of the Verb ‘To Have’ “in the first week of publication. My mother bought all except one (my wife bought that one and gave it to the dog to play with). I suggest LowLifeStein teach the Aussie Lebs to read. That should increase his market.
OT, anyone seen wronwright lately?
Strange holes in the ground discovered in Krasnoyarsk region
Or maybe someone’s preparing a dumping ground for a large amount of unsold books?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 09 at 09:23 AM • permalinkI posted at L’s site twice presenting a pro-Israel view. I was silenced twice.
My general contention was that Hezbollah is criminal in firing missiles from civilian areas in Lebanon to civilian areas in Israel. They want to kill Jews and want dead Lebanese civilians to serve their propaganda puposes.
Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation taking its orders from Iran. This is leading to the deaths of innocent Israeli and Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah comprises some of the worst people on this planet.
How reasonable I am being - why should a freedom loving democrat like L ban me? Why does he claim to be victimised?
By the way Ant’s book is being torn to shreds by far more knowledgeable folk than himself, he’s gunna wish he was silenced.
The guy is a total boob.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 09 at 10:26 AM • permalinkEl Cid - no doubt Kos and his kind are celebrating Lamont’s victory over Lieberman. Their smug satisfaction may have a short shelf life, however. I read somewhere that Lamont’s polling popularity peaked two weeks ago. Many of Lieberman’s Democratic supporters will still vote for him. Many moderate Republicans will tactically vote for him. Lieberman stands a real chance of winning as an indy. It will be that much sweeter if Lieberman loses in the primaries, but bests Lamont in the vote that really counts.
Lieberman winning as an independent will also shake calcified Capitol Hill up somewhat, and that can’t be a bad thing.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 09 at 10:33 AM • permalinkAntony, I have just come back from a shopping expedition to Bondi, one of Australia’s foremost Jewish suburbs
Apartheid!!!
I hope they stopped him at a checkpoint.
Posted by SoCalJustice on 2006 08 09 at 11:38 AM • permalink318, huh? How many public libraries are there in Australia? Gotta be way more than 318. If there’s one thing publishers of lefty tomes in the US can count on, it’s the library sales.
How come whenever I go to Ant’s web site I get a big “Welcome back Kyda Sylvester”, but he never publishes anything I write? I don’t feel welcome…
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 09 at 11:54 AM • permalinkHang on to your hats, folks, he’s working on another one:
It’s clearly time for citizens and decent journalists alike to uncover some “secrets” our governments would rather keep hidden. Evidence of complicity in torture? Real reasons behind military deployments? Behaviour of US and Australian troops in Iraq? Rest assured, this information will surface soon enough. This is just one area I’m examining in my next book - on the Western media - and why we seem so reluctant to examine our own bad behaviour.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 09 at 12:25 PM • permalinkKyda - oh, god. The pretensions of a third rate intellect. After the decidedly cool response to his last effort at scholarship, you’d think he’d just give up. But no, he’s determined to humiliate himself further. Fine - give the man some more rope. After all, it’s chuckles while he chokes.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 09 at 12:37 PM • permalink54 James Waterton
Kos and his kind are celebrating Lamont’s victory over Lieberman.
Are they ever James. Check this..
At the left’s premier “progressive” web site, Daily Kos, the Kidz take a short break from crowing over empty suit Ned Lamont to suggest that the US should “impose” a “solution” on Israel: Daily Kos: Why the US can impose a one-state solution on Israel-Palestine.
Under the heading of…
The Protocols of the Daily Kos, Part 14 @ Little Green Footballs
All the scrawny little idiot (Kos) has to do, is grow a mustache. Order some 6 point Yellow Stars (to be affixed), get George Soros to buy a few cattle cars, burn some books and break some glass.
Rob, this is important….did they flush before or after wiping?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 09 at 05:00 PM • permalink#54 Lamont declared a new direction. On the podium on either side of him was felon Al Sharpton (Democratic presidential contender, the only such who can’t vote since he’s a felon) and leading hypocrite and ambulance chaser Jess Jackson (also once a democratic presidential contender). I imagine each one of them had a hand in a Lamont pocket, looking for something. We can tell the direction they’ll all be moving him.
#52 harryc
These are the rules for commenting on Loewenstein’s blog:
1. You must hate Israel, even better hate all Jews except Chomsky, Loewenstein, Robert Manne and Finklestein
2. You must advocate the defeat of American & allied soldiers in Iraq
3. You must know little or no Middle Eastern history or geography unless it supports the Blog owner’s view
4. You must defend terrorist organisations and portray them as victims
5. You must believe that western democrary is evil
6. Your grasp of the English language must be minimal
7. You must be prepared to swear and namecall when you don’t know the answer
8. You must have a dog named after any of the Jewish heroes (including myself) in Point 1.
9. You must buy at least 3 copies of my book and tell everybody it is brilliant.
#69 Rebecca
Oops I forgot to include the sooky, whingey conspiracy theories.
It’s very interesting that he has not come out and said a word in response to Lapkin’s critique of his book in Crikey.
Clearly, Loewenstein doesn’t have enough historical and geographical knowledge of the Middle East to make any sort of counter argument.
His book has certainly been shot down. Thank god.
Da guy’s Jewish after all, so I guess we could cut him a liddle slack? He’d almost attract sympathy if he was dirt-poor and getting some notice with his chutzpah spiel, trying to put a shirt on his back on the streets of New York, say about 1910.
Only prob. He’s middle class Australian Jewish - in 2006. Rolled Gold Schmuck.
Daphne: “he’s not come out and said a word in response to Lapkin’s critique”
Not quite true. AFTER being corrected by Lapkin on Abc TV about his false, apartheid-like claim of ‘Jewish Only Roads’in the PA, Luvvie repeated his canard at his very next public appearance.
The guy’s shameless enough to be certifiable.
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Ant’s looking like as canny an investment as Webdiary; oops, it’s Melbourne University Press- they’d be outraged to publish anything that actually sold, let alone made money.
I’d hold off putting a deposit on that finger wharf studio and the Beemer for a bit, Ants.