Bad Hasbara 80: Genocide Bad, with Sim Kern
Added 2025-01-29 06:42:40 +0000 UTCMatt and Daniel are joined by anti-zionist Jewish influencer and author Sim Kern to discuss the online hasbara sock puppet brigades, whether feeding prisoners of war is a trick, and to ask whether you can still call a perplexing assemblage of words a joke if it’s not funny in any language.
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Comments
Good ep- Unfortunately Sim has shared many times that they think the resistance is authoritarian, has related it to Zionism and has tried to lecture Palestinians on how to liberate themselves. Rly hope they do better on that front / it’s rly tone deaf - an Arab queer ⚡️
3antar Akkawi
2025-03-22 06:00:13 +0000 UTCI always learn so much listening to Sim, can’t wait to read their book!
Jen
2025-02-02 14:37:56 +0000 UTChttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture Long but v interesting!
Katie Nugent
2025-01-30 10:49:26 +0000 UTCEek. I used to work with a Christian Zionist who insisted the massacre in the Great March of Return didn't happen. I'm really glad I don't work with him any more. I'd probably have been arrested for assault before the first week was our.
LeobaL
2025-01-30 10:03:59 +0000 UTCThat final line hits so damn hard. S'iz golus do in undzer land = there is exile in our land. And of course the final verse is a banger too: No justice, no peace Just a dream become a Golem Which people will have no country? Both Israel and Palestine.
Taveet
2025-01-30 05:51:04 +0000 UTCAn even bigger banger IMO is Dumay Hob ikh mir in harts a kholem Heyb ik oyf a fon fun sholem In meyn kholem steyt a moyer Vol mit payn en vol mit troyer Af der moyer steyt a zelner Hinter im di greene felder Me hot geboyt tsufeel grenitsn Afn land un in di mentschen Oy, keyner met undz freyheyt gevn Me darf noch zi aleyn zikh schtrebn Zayn a fremder iz meyn shtand S'iz golus do in undzer land! (and each line is punctuated in Russian: THINK! THINK! THINK!)
Taveet
2025-01-30 05:48:43 +0000 UTCAf Yiddish: Oi ihr narishe tzionisten Mit euer narishen maykhl Ihr magt dokh gayn tzu dem arbiter Un lernen sikh ein saykhl Total banger. Great song.
Riaz Abdulla
2025-01-30 05:34:53 +0000 UTCMy favourite earworm of his is Dumay/Think
Taveet
2025-01-29 22:17:32 +0000 UTCThis was a great listen! I have Sim’s book preordered and I can’t wait ❤️
Agustina Montes
2025-01-29 20:42:57 +0000 UTCI've had Oh You Foolish Little Zionists stuck in my head all week
Dan
2025-01-29 17:02:03 +0000 UTCGuys, there is actually a left-wing criticism of identity politics that goes much further back from the likes of Adolph L Reed Jr., Walter Benn Michaels or Cedric Johnson.
Jay Ronimo
2025-01-29 16:15:56 +0000 UTCYAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS
Amy C
2025-01-29 15:35:37 +0000 UTCYay!!! Finally my two most moral sources coming together as nature intended.
E Shepard
2025-01-29 15:19:50 +0000 UTCDay 8(?) of asking to have Daniel Kahn as a guest on this podcast. Seriously the guy is a legend. Anti-Zionist Yiddishist Bundist klezmer musician.
Taveet
2025-01-29 12:07:03 +0000 UTCGood times as always. I listened to this episode seated next to the zionist lady at my work so it feels like some silent resistance. Sim is da best and I’m still tryna see if I’ll be able to get their book in Spain or the EU!
hileahrious
2025-01-29 11:05:51 +0000 UTCSuper excited to listen to this. Always getting the best guests on the most moral podcast. Thank you for your humor, wit and compassion.
Sat Pavan Kaur Khalsa
2025-01-29 06:45:34 +0000 UTC
