EDITOR—This discussion took place on May 2, 2024. It was co-sponsored by India & the Global Left and the Critical Theory Workshop. Here is IGL’s summary: “In this video, we have discussed the US sit-in and encampment movement in solidarity with Palestine. We have then discussed how the capitalist system produces propaganda against the Left. In this regard, Prof. Rockhill talks about the French theorists, Frankfurt School theories, the New York group of non-Marxist Left intelligentsia, and British Marxists. Finally, he offers a framework that can be an alternative to bourgeois propaganda culture.”
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CANTAROW / LOEWENSTEIN—The Antisemitism Awareness Act, which indeed weaponizes antisemitism against those protesting Israel’s savagery in Gaza and the cruelty of its overall occupation policies, is soon to be voted upon by the Senate. Its enactment would mark a giant step towards degrading the U.S. Constitution, in particular its protection of freedom of speech, assembly, and a free press. It also threatens the status of academia as a realm in which the free exchange of ideas can flourish.
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EDITOR—Using all the dog whistles in the Zionist playbook to justify Tel Aviv’s horribly disproportionate response to the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, CBS Sunday Morning is apparently happy to allow its huge megaphone to reiterate pro-Israel accusations.
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FELIX ABT—We also watch in disbelief as the last vestiges of moral decency are turned upside down: Those of us who oppose genocide are accused of condoning it. Those who commit genocide are exercising their right to self-defense! In September, before the paramilitary wing of Hamas overran the Israeli border on October 7, 2023 (a sober analysis can be found here), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map of the so-called New Middle East at a session of the UN General Assembly. The Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem had all been incorporated into a Greater Israel. Ironically, he insisted that Israel should extend “from the river to the sea.” Palestine had ceased to exist. Palestinians are forced to choose between death by bombing, disease, exposure, starvation or expulsion from their homeland.
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EDITOR—”I demand respect for our country… Chile does not harbor any terrorist group either within its territory or outside it,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric previously stated. [Notice that Boric here, by accepting the US empire’s designation of Hezbollah as a “terrorist” organisation, confirmed his fake-leftist /social democrat creds. Proudly “WOKE”, he’s safely ensconced within the empire’s folds. Boric, a descendant of Croats, a culture of notorious rightwingers and onetime WW2 allies of Hitler, is also among the denouncers of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine, an enemy of Nicaragua, Venezuela y Cuba, while claiming Kiev is a sovereign regime instead of an American puppet. He can’t be expected to push back against Washington or Argentina’s provocations.—Ed.]
