Bad Hasbara 14: Hate Crime or Bait Crime, with Owen Jones
Added 2024-02-20 22:58:50 +0000 UTCToday Matt Lieb is joined by British socialist, political commentator, and all around good guy Owen Jones to talk about how Israel uses accusations of antisemitism to justify brutality. They also talk about how Piers Morgan is an accidental ally.
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I assume you might know of RM Brown. He would be a great guest!
Mike Solan
2024-02-22 05:13:59 +0000 UTC… and speaking of people’s gratitude over this show know they’re not crazy, here’s exactly what I texted my 28, 21 & 18 y/o siblings on 10 Oct: “I was only in 2nd grade when 9/11 happened, and still younger than you are now when the U.S. invaded Iraq, but especially with the latter I remember watching society get sucked into a toxic militaristic mindset full of rabid racism/ islamophobia, which at least in part is what allowed the decade-plus wars in the Middle East and occupation of Afghanistan-and the 100,000s of civilian deaths. I feel like the situation in Israel/ Palestine has the potential to be similarly catastrophic, and I just want to say try to stay conscious of the toxic black & white rhetoric of war & politics. Bad actors/warmonger politicians/corporate ghouls will use loaded terms like "terrorism" & "the right to defend ourselves" to get people onboard with or tacitly endorse actions they'd normally be morally horrified by. . . . You may start to feel like you're going crazy, watching the 100% obvious, undeniable horror of all this, then hearing politicians & media call it something completely different, effectively saying ‘don't believe your lying eyes.’ . . . That's all I wanted to say for now, just try to stay clear-eyed about supporting (or not opposing) things you otherwise might not.”
Nick GiRAFfe
2024-02-21 11:06:57 +0000 UTCOh hell yes, a Mike Davis reference! If you liked ‘Late Victorian Holocausts’ I have to put this here: ‘A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present’ by Ward Churchill No single book has had as big of an impact on my thinking about colonialism, war, genocide, etc. I have it on my shelf immediately next to ‘Late Victorian Holocausts’ & ‘The Open Veins of Latin America’
Nick GiRAFfe
2024-02-21 02:43:19 +0000 UTCDidn't expect this crossover! Awesome!
Ro
2024-02-20 23:34:22 +0000 UTC4pm PST
Bad Hasbara
2024-02-20 23:23:09 +0000 UTCYT vid still uploading. Will by available at 4pm.
Bad Hasbara
2024-02-20 23:00:02 +0000 UTCI already know this is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rami Akawi
2024-02-20 22:59:52 +0000 UTC
