Journalism
Loewenstein traveled to the Palestinian Territories soon after the end of the Second Intifada. In July 2002, she wrote in the Palestine Chronicle; "Heaps of concrete, broken pillars with wire sticking out, people's shoes, clothes, bedding, strewn haphazardly among the rubble, dust everywhere, a hole in the landscape where a two-story apartment was just yesterday: the hardest part for me is how familiar it has all become," "The Israelis are masters in the art of destruction. And as I wander through another mass of wrecked lives I'm struck by the sense of deja vu that comes over me."
Her work is strongly anticolonial and is particularly harsh on abuses of human rights. Loewenstein charges Israel with being responsible for "the dehumanization and destruction of an entire people," and writes that Israel and the United States "have long since resided in the lowest circle of Hell for betraying the name of humanity...the Neo-Jewish Masters and their allies in the United States...have no intention of making a just peace with the lower forms of life in their midst."
She has been extremely outspoken about Operation Cast Lead and American coverage of the event, stating that “The state terror unleashed from the skies and on the ground against the Gaza Strip as we speak has nothing to do with Hamas. It has nothing to do with ‘Terror.’ It has nothing to do with the long-term ‘security’ of the Jewish State… what you will find is the naked desire for hegemony...”
David Horowitz responded to this criticism by saying that " ... is herself a Jew, but obviously a self-hating member of the tribe, with a sordid lineage going back to the 'kapos' who shoveled their companions into the ovens and collaborated with their murderers. Like many of her political comrades in the secular and religious left she has joined the forces of Islamic barbarism that are ranged against the civilized people of America and Israel."
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