EDITOR—Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist and the son of Holocaust survivors, debunks several talking points sprouted by Amy Schumer on her Instagram recently Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors, talks about Israel’s latest attack on Gaza and debunks some of the most pervasive talking points used to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the suicidal and utterly absurd pro-Israeli posture adopted by RFK, Jr. regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and how this will surely demolish his chances of mounting a credible independent presidential campaign in 2024. Ajamu Baraka highlights the repulsive role played by establishment “Negroes” like the obedient and self-serving Cory Booker, one of many ambitious charlatans still defending and profiting from a criminal status quo.
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MONDOWEISS DISPATCH— Ben-Gvir has been a staunch proponent of establishing a National Guard in Israel, which rights groups say would effectively serve as a “private militia” of armed, ideological, and nationalistic Jewish Israelis, serving under the discretion of Ben-Gvir, a settler and former terror-convict himself. Earlier this year, Netanyahu agreed to push forward plans for establishing a National Guard, in exchange for Ben-Gvir putting a temporary pause on controversial judicial reforms.
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THE SAKER—The sad and disgusting reality about the Zionist entity is truly coming out, seeping under the propaganda walls of the Empire, and slowly but inevitably resulting in a common reaction of outrage and utter disgust for what is nothing else but the last officially racist country on the planet, the only country with an open-air concentration camp it surrounds on all sides, the only country which truly, openly and sincerely does not give a damn about international law or about the lives of non-Jews (while calling their own lives sacred, of course!).
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JIM MILES—One of the more striking ideas was the concept that even as Hamas is criticized for its sometimes coercive and violent control of Gaza, those very acts create and sustain the idea of ‘Palestine’. The inhabitants of Gaza recognize Hamas not just as Hamas but as the government, as the nation – as Palestinian. Even earlier than Hamas’ takeover of Gaza’s government, Sen discusses the idea that the the postcolonial moment began with the Oslo Accords, and in spite of all its flaws and the poverty of its intentions, it put into writing the concept of ‘Palestine’ – undefined and subject to many onerous conditions, but still – Palestine.
Liberation in this context starts well before Oslo. Palestine has been seeking liberation since the end of World War I: first from the British empire and its League of Nations imposed mandate; and subsequently from Jewish settler-colonialism during the mandate and on into the establishment of Israel.
