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In this timely conversation on Israel’s Election, from Beirut to Haifa, Diana Buttu @dianabuttu
provides an update on Israel’s election and the resultant gridlock. She also addresses the peculiarities of the new contender Eisenkot as well as the nature and politics of the ck in the context of the remarkable convergence of Israeli polity on the far and fascist right, regardless of “competing” parties. We close with a discussion of Netanyahu’s endless maneuverings to stay in power.
Hosted by Bassam Haddad @4Bassam
Today! Friday, 30 October 2026, 1 pm EDT
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Produced by the Gaza In Context Project
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provides an update on Israel’s election and the resultant gridlock. She also addresses the peculiarities of the new contender Eisenkot as well as the nature and politics of the ck in the context of the remarkable convergence of Israeli polity on the far and fascist right, regardless of “competing” parties. We close with a discussion of Netanyahu’s endless maneuverings to stay in power.
Hosted by Bassam Haddad @4Bassam
Today! Friday, 30 October 2026, 1 pm EDT
WATCH LIVE:
YOUTUBE.COM/@JADALIYYA/STR…
X.COM/JADALIYYA
Produced by the Gaza In Context Project
PalestineInContext.org
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My Connections podcast with Professor Michael R. Fischbach about Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan, and Palestine.
RFK, Sirhan Sirhan, and Palestine, with Michael R. Fishbach x.com/i/broadcasts/2…
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We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, "Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide," a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people.
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Genocide in Gaza was not the inevitable continuation of the Zionist settler-colonial project, it was a choice
"There is a lot of racism in Israeli society and the bloodlust and the desire to commit genocide is not something brought by Netanyahu. But it's also not something that n, because from the, let's call it, rational perspective, strategic Zionism, those very smart strategic people who created this apartheid system, does it necessarily have to break down into genocide, into this collapse, into this zombie situation that we see now? I don't think so. I think it's a choice." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 3): Israel's Breakdown Into Tribes w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QJTTm1Ep1mA
"There is a lot of racism in Israeli society and the bloodlust and the desire to commit genocide is not something brought by Netanyahu. But it's also not something that n, because from the, let's call it, rational perspective, strategic Zionism, those very smart strategic people who created this apartheid system, does it necessarily have to break down into genocide, into this collapse, into this zombie situation that we see now? I don't think so. I think it's a choice." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 3): Israel's Breakdown Into Tribes w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QJTTm1Ep1mA
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Big salute to Michael Che’s clever Genocide commentary re Israel’s Elections on Saturday Night Live last night. Watch:
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Israeli youth have been primed to be racist and fascist and to commit genocide without remorse
"What's fascinating is, if you see the signs that are put up everywhere, [...] there was one sign that was a picture of Mamdani and Mahmood Abbas and Erdogan and the assassinated t says, "these guys are banking on Netanyahu losing. Don't let them win." Mamdani? What does Mamdani have to do with our election, right? Or Erdogan? What are these guys? [...] But this is [...] what this generation has been seeing. Another one was on the back of a bus where there was a sign that said, "occupy, expel, and settle." Now, which bus line did they decide to put this sign? On a bus line where the drivers were 90% Palestinians. And that's why we saw in one day alone, six Palestinian drivers were attacked. So you're looking at a generation, this younger generation that's much more racist, much more fascist, that is able to carry out genocide at the push of a button and not have any remorse about anything that they're doing. They've been educated and told that it's all about them. So there needs to be a major de-Zionization process for this generation." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
"What's fascinating is, if you see the signs that are put up everywhere, [...] there was one sign that was a picture of Mamdani and Mahmood Abbas and Erdogan and the assassinated t says, "these guys are banking on Netanyahu losing. Don't let them win." Mamdani? What does Mamdani have to do with our election, right? Or Erdogan? What are these guys? [...] But this is [...] what this generation has been seeing. Another one was on the back of a bus where there was a sign that said, "occupy, expel, and settle." Now, which bus line did they decide to put this sign? On a bus line where the drivers were 90% Palestinians. And that's why we saw in one day alone, six Palestinian drivers were attacked. So you're looking at a generation, this younger generation that's much more racist, much more fascist, that is able to carry out genocide at the push of a button and not have any remorse about anything that they're doing. They've been educated and told that it's all about them. So there needs to be a major de-Zionization process for this generation." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
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Israel's newly elected government is a reflection of Israeli society and its Jewish supremacy
"Out of 120 seats, 101 of them [...] went to candidates who do not believe in equality or freedom for Palestinians. Why am I saying that? Because [...] the Palestinian-led party has got ose are the only ones who've been calling for equality and for an end to this system of Jewish supremacy. The rest of them are going entirely, [...] and let's be very generous, the rest of the seats are going to people who do not believe in equality, who believe in this process of Jewish supremacy. And so this isn't a Netanyahu problem, it's an Israel problem. Netanyahu is simply a reflection of Israel. That's it. And to somehow think that he's an alien when he's been the longest ruling prime minister in the country is just farcical. And even in this election, even after everything's been shown, he still managed to get 27 seats. His party still got the highest number of seats in this election." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
"Out of 120 seats, 101 of them [...] went to candidates who do not believe in equality or freedom for Palestinians. Why am I saying that? Because [...] the Palestinian-led party has got ose are the only ones who've been calling for equality and for an end to this system of Jewish supremacy. The rest of them are going entirely, [...] and let's be very generous, the rest of the seats are going to people who do not believe in equality, who believe in this process of Jewish supremacy. And so this isn't a Netanyahu problem, it's an Israel problem. Netanyahu is simply a reflection of Israel. That's it. And to somehow think that he's an alien when he's been the longest ruling prime minister in the country is just farcical. And even in this election, even after everything's been shown, he still managed to get 27 seats. His party still got the highest number of seats in this election." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
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Ghassan Abu Sittah on witnessing Gaza's systematic destruction as a doctor and on weaponization of Gaza's infrastructure
"There were two parallel military campaigns happening in Gaza from the very outset, from the 12th of October. One was an immediate kill as many as you can. tic destruction of all of the aspects of life in Gaza, even those that had no immediate benefit. So immediately, the water desalination plants were hit. Immediately, the sewage treatment plants were hit. Immediately, there was a systematic assassination program against the doctors. From early October, we started seeing colleagues being killed. Within half an hour of going home from Shifa, We lost our colleague in the plastic surgery department, his house was hit, he was killed. The nephrologist gets home, within half an hour he's killed. And [...] then immediately you start realizing it's a much higher percentage than the general population. And then you start hearing of a similar process happening with university, academics and deans. And so there is a kind of immediate slaughter, but there is a genocidal project that is laying the seeds for a much more, or laying the seeds for a genocidal project where everything can be weaponized to kill people. We see it now in the full blast. People are not just dying of the bombs and bullets. They're dying of starvation. They're dying because there are non-communicable diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes are not being treated. They're dying because of infectious diseases, because the sewage and water treatment plants have been destroyed. They're dying of illnesses because over 34 million tons of rubble in Gaza with all of toxicity. 40% of dialysis patients have died not of traumatic deaths, but of all of this together. And so you see that coming to fruition now, but the seeds for that genocidal project were sown at the very beginning of the war." - Ghassan Abu Sittah [@GhassanAbuSitt1]
Liberation Medicine During Genocide w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Long Form Podcast #10. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam] and Noura Erakat [@4noura]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/EiISt4RE3t4
"There were two parallel military campaigns happening in Gaza from the very outset, from the 12th of October. One was an immediate kill as many as you can. tic destruction of all of the aspects of life in Gaza, even those that had no immediate benefit. So immediately, the water desalination plants were hit. Immediately, the sewage treatment plants were hit. Immediately, there was a systematic assassination program against the doctors. From early October, we started seeing colleagues being killed. Within half an hour of going home from Shifa, We lost our colleague in the plastic surgery department, his house was hit, he was killed. The nephrologist gets home, within half an hour he's killed. And [...] then immediately you start realizing it's a much higher percentage than the general population. And then you start hearing of a similar process happening with university, academics and deans. And so there is a kind of immediate slaughter, but there is a genocidal project that is laying the seeds for a much more, or laying the seeds for a genocidal project where everything can be weaponized to kill people. We see it now in the full blast. People are not just dying of the bombs and bullets. They're dying of starvation. They're dying because there are non-communicable diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes are not being treated. They're dying because of infectious diseases, because the sewage and water treatment plants have been destroyed. They're dying of illnesses because over 34 million tons of rubble in Gaza with all of toxicity. 40% of dialysis patients have died not of traumatic deaths, but of all of this together. And so you see that coming to fruition now, but the seeds for that genocidal project were sown at the very beginning of the war." - Ghassan Abu Sittah [@GhassanAbuSitt1]
Liberation Medicine During Genocide w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Long Form Podcast #10. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam] and Noura Erakat [@4noura]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/EiISt4RE3t4
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Teaching about colonialism and liberation struggles got the course suspended
"Censorship doesn't necessarily arrive as somebody standing at the microphone, saying, "you are not allowed to say this." It also arrives in this series of procedures that make saying particular things d it's in that sense much more subtle, like [...] suddenly you're not allowed to book a room. Or suddenly, as happened in my case, one of my courses gets suspended because I was accused of talking about colonialism and liberation struggles, which was deemed as an act of indoctrinating students." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
"Censorship doesn't necessarily arrive as somebody standing at the microphone, saying, "you are not allowed to say this." It also arrives in this series of procedures that make saying particular things d it's in that sense much more subtle, like [...] suddenly you're not allowed to book a room. Or suddenly, as happened in my case, one of my courses gets suspended because I was accused of talking about colonialism and liberation struggles, which was deemed as an act of indoctrinating students." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
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82% of Israelis support genocide, with young people being more right-wing than older generations
"The 82% figure is one part, but then you have to deconstruct it. When you're looking at that 82% figure, the higher portion of that 82% figure is from younger people. Younger people g, much more fascist than people who are older. There was another poll that was just conducted this summer, and this one's even, in a weird way, a little bit more eerie. [...] They asked Jewish Israelis, should Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship be entitled to vote? And 32%, almost 33% said no. The problem isn't just that 33%. It's that the question was asked in the first place." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
"The 82% figure is one part, but then you have to deconstruct it. When you're looking at that 82% figure, the higher portion of that 82% figure is from younger people. Younger people g, much more fascist than people who are older. There was another poll that was just conducted this summer, and this one's even, in a weird way, a little bit more eerie. [...] They asked Jewish Israelis, should Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship be entitled to vote? And 32%, almost 33% said no. The problem isn't just that 33%. It's that the question was asked in the first place." - Diana Buttu [@dianabuttu]
Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/YC22UcJKyyE
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Ghassan Abu Sittah talks about being a doctor in Gaza from the beginning of the genocide
"By Sunday morning, I was on the flight to Cairo. And then at 4 o'clock in the morning, you get a taxi to Rafah. And got in on the Monday morning. I was outside Rafah at 7 o'clock in the opened, I went in. I was through by 11 o'clock. By 1 o'clock, the Israelis bombed Rafah. I got to my uncle's house in Gaza. And I thought that's where I, because it's walking distance from Shifa, I thought I'll stay there. It's comfortable. And then every day, as I did in the 2014 war, I'll walk to Shifa. Within half an hour, the whole neighborhood was in the streets. They were evacuating. There was an evacuation. Remember, Rimal was bombed the first night. So we had to move to another cousin's house. And then we got pinned down that night. There was 300 air raids. So I didn't make it into Shifa Hospital until the Tuesday the 10th. And I remember walking in through the gates of Shifa and running into Dr. Abu Salmiya who had been arrested and Dr. Abu Rish and Dr. Marwan Abu Saada who's still there. And them joking saying, we only know that it's really bad when we see you. So that was my entry, and I stayed in the system until I left, literally. Moved around in ambulances, but I'd never, you know, I slept in a trolley in the operating room for the duration of the war." - Ghassan Abu Sittah [@GhassanAbuSitt1]
Liberation Medicine During Genocide w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Long Form Podcast #10. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam] and Noura Erakat [@4noura]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/EiISt4RE3t4
"By Sunday morning, I was on the flight to Cairo. And then at 4 o'clock in the morning, you get a taxi to Rafah. And got in on the Monday morning. I was outside Rafah at 7 o'clock in the opened, I went in. I was through by 11 o'clock. By 1 o'clock, the Israelis bombed Rafah. I got to my uncle's house in Gaza. And I thought that's where I, because it's walking distance from Shifa, I thought I'll stay there. It's comfortable. And then every day, as I did in the 2014 war, I'll walk to Shifa. Within half an hour, the whole neighborhood was in the streets. They were evacuating. There was an evacuation. Remember, Rimal was bombed the first night. So we had to move to another cousin's house. And then we got pinned down that night. There was 300 air raids. So I didn't make it into Shifa Hospital until the Tuesday the 10th. And I remember walking in through the gates of Shifa and running into Dr. Abu Salmiya who had been arrested and Dr. Abu Rish and Dr. Marwan Abu Saada who's still there. And them joking saying, we only know that it's really bad when we see you. So that was my entry, and I stayed in the system until I left, literally. Moved around in ambulances, but I'd never, you know, I slept in a trolley in the operating room for the duration of the war." - Ghassan Abu Sittah [@GhassanAbuSitt1]
Liberation Medicine During Genocide w/ Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Long Form Podcast #10. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam] and Noura Erakat [@4noura]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/EiISt4RE3t4
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Who is "competent" enough to speak on genocide in Gaza?
Scene from the Circus of Complicity:
"The ringmaster scans the room, feigning a thoughtful pause before forcing a strange smile. "Very well," he announces, his voice striving for authority. "In the spirit of academic ntertain a debate on the Israel-Palestine "conflict." " His hands gesture expansively, as though bestowing a grand concession. "But let us tread carefully. These matters are complex, sensitive, divisive." He pauses, nodding to himself. "Only the most qualified individuals shall take a ride." His eyes sweep across the audience, landing on a group of prominent scholars in the front row, luminaries who have built careers analyzing international conflicts and peace processes, documenting past genocides, championing Western feminism, and studying development processes in the Global South. More recently, some of them also hopped on the decolonization bandwagon. These are the voices we often find in newspapers, academic journals, and opinion blogs, eager to weigh in on the latest fashionable topics, yet over the past years they have remained conspicuously silent on Israel's atrocities. As the ringmaster's gaze settles on them, they shift uneasily, their expertise seemingly confined to the ivory tower, while the world outside burns." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
Scene from the Circus of Complicity:
"The ringmaster scans the room, feigning a thoughtful pause before forcing a strange smile. "Very well," he announces, his voice striving for authority. "In the spirit of academic ntertain a debate on the Israel-Palestine "conflict." " His hands gesture expansively, as though bestowing a grand concession. "But let us tread carefully. These matters are complex, sensitive, divisive." He pauses, nodding to himself. "Only the most qualified individuals shall take a ride." His eyes sweep across the audience, landing on a group of prominent scholars in the front row, luminaries who have built careers analyzing international conflicts and peace processes, documenting past genocides, championing Western feminism, and studying development processes in the Global South. More recently, some of them also hopped on the decolonization bandwagon. These are the voices we often find in newspapers, academic journals, and opinion blogs, eager to weigh in on the latest fashionable topics, yet over the past years they have remained conspicuously silent on Israel's atrocities. As the ringmaster's gaze settles on them, they shift uneasily, their expertise seemingly confined to the ivory tower, while the world outside burns." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
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Israel's Election, with Diana Buttu, Hosted by Bassam Haddad x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Join us on Monday, 2 November for a conversation with Michael Fischbach about his new book, I Did It For My Country: Sirhan Sirhan, Palestine, and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. This episode of the Connections podcast examines how Palestine played a central role in US n the late 1960s.
Connections, hosted by @MouinRabbani offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
"Connections Podcast Episode 118: RFK, Sirhan Sirhan, and Palestine with Michael R. Fishbach (2 November)"
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Connections, hosted by @MouinRabbani offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
"Connections Podcast Episode 118: RFK, Sirhan Sirhan, and Palestine with Michael R. Fishbach (2 November)"
jadaliyya.com/Details/48050/…
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In this conversation, @dianabuttu provides an update on Israel’s elections and the resulting gridlock. She addresses the peculiarities of the new contender Eisenkot as well as the nature and politics of the Palestinian parties/block in the context of the remarkable convergence of ar-right and fascist right, regardless of “competing” parties. The conversation with @4Bassam close with a discussion of Netanyahu’s endless maneuverings to stay in power.
"Palestine in Context: Israel's Elections with Diana Buttu (30 October)"
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"Palestine in Context: Israel's Elections with Diana Buttu (30 October)"
jadaliyya.com/Details/48135
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Genocide in Gaza exposed the Israeli army as a disorganized settler militia incapable of achieving strategic goals
"What we saw with the genocide is that, yes, the so-called "sophisticated military" has completely abandoned its principles and just said, yeah, it's a moment of of national unity, and we will go back to service. But the army didn't return to function as an army. It functions even now as soldiers out of control, without discipline, doing whatever they want. And when there were many cases in the last two years in which soldiers just didn't feel like obeying orders, they were not punished. Do you know that there's a standing order in the Israeli military that soldiers are not allowed to bring their phones into Gaza? And if you just look at social media, the hundreds of thousands of videos that soldiers are taking with their phones from Gaza, openly, you can see their face. And of course their officers know who they are. Not one of them was punished. Not one of them was punished for disobeying a direct order. So this is not an army. This is a settler militia. And a settler militia is really a tribal force. It's not a national force. And it doesn't have a strategy and it doesn't have the ability to achieve strategic goals. So the "great Israeli military," the "strongest army in the Middle East," as people like to say, has been fighting two years in Gaza without achieving any strategic goals, which compare it to the war of '67, in which this Israeli military, through coordination, military discipline, intelligence, was able to fight and expand the territory of the country by 40% in a matter of six days." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 3): Israel's Breakdown Into Tribes w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QJTTm1Ep1mA
"What we saw with the genocide is that, yes, the so-called "sophisticated military" has completely abandoned its principles and just said, yeah, it's a moment of of national unity, and we will go back to service. But the army didn't return to function as an army. It functions even now as soldiers out of control, without discipline, doing whatever they want. And when there were many cases in the last two years in which soldiers just didn't feel like obeying orders, they were not punished. Do you know that there's a standing order in the Israeli military that soldiers are not allowed to bring their phones into Gaza? And if you just look at social media, the hundreds of thousands of videos that soldiers are taking with their phones from Gaza, openly, you can see their face. And of course their officers know who they are. Not one of them was punished. Not one of them was punished for disobeying a direct order. So this is not an army. This is a settler militia. And a settler militia is really a tribal force. It's not a national force. And it doesn't have a strategy and it doesn't have the ability to achieve strategic goals. So the "great Israeli military," the "strongest army in the Middle East," as people like to say, has been fighting two years in Gaza without achieving any strategic goals, which compare it to the war of '67, in which this Israeli military, through coordination, military discipline, intelligence, was able to fight and expand the territory of the country by 40% in a matter of six days." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 3): Israel's Breakdown Into Tribes w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QJTTm1Ep1mA
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Statements of concern from institutions are staged, part of a show that allows genocide in Gaza to continue
Scene from the Circus of Complicity:
"The scrolls are slowly rolled out. We condemn violence on all sides, one of them reads. Another one reads, the loss of all lives is his scroll even higher, its message equally vague: we call for peaceful dialogue and mutual understanding. The crowd groans. These proclamations are really hitting home, landing as they do with all the weight of a falling feather. Draped in the veneer of moral equality, these statements give way to a far more unsettling silence, one that transcends the deliberate quiet of the mime artists. It is the silence of omission, an absence that speaks louder than words about what is being deliberately left unsaid. No naming of an aggressor, no acknowledgment of the decades long systemic violence suffocating Palestinian lives, not even the most timid call for the bare minimum, a cease fire. This was written in March 2024." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
Scene from the Circus of Complicity:
"The scrolls are slowly rolled out. We condemn violence on all sides, one of them reads. Another one reads, the loss of all lives is his scroll even higher, its message equally vague: we call for peaceful dialogue and mutual understanding. The crowd groans. These proclamations are really hitting home, landing as they do with all the weight of a falling feather. Draped in the veneer of moral equality, these statements give way to a far more unsettling silence, one that transcends the deliberate quiet of the mime artists. It is the silence of omission, an absence that speaks louder than words about what is being deliberately left unsaid. No naming of an aggressor, no acknowledgment of the decades long systemic violence suffocating Palestinian lives, not even the most timid call for the bare minimum, a cease fire. This was written in March 2024." - Gert Van Hecken
The Circus of Academic Complicity, Part 2 - With Gert Van Hecken. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/i-HvYklsnzU
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On conversations about genocide in Gaza with Israelis living in Israel
"And usually people would start by saying, you don't have the fact, you're wrong. When I give them the facts and prove the facts, because it's not so hard to prove them, they say, oh, I didn't know. And then w you know what are you going to do about it, then they say, oh, actually, I didn't know all along, but whose side are you on anyway? This is how the conversations used to go. I think now it's different. Now it's only the number one on your list, so you don't have the right information and you're completely wrong. But if I respond in any way, the conversation stops immediately because of tremendous fear. And I can understand the fear. And I have actually some human understanding to what it means because I told one of my family members, if you're right and I'm wrong, and actually everyone in Gaza is living a good life and there is no genocide, I would be so happy. I would be so happy to be proven wrong at this point. But if I'm right and you're wrong, and you find out that you've supported these atrocities, how will you live with yourself? And at that moment, the conversation stopped." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 5): The Disinformation Bubble w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Ly2xRfuRX4Q
"And usually people would start by saying, you don't have the fact, you're wrong. When I give them the facts and prove the facts, because it's not so hard to prove them, they say, oh, I didn't know. And then w you know what are you going to do about it, then they say, oh, actually, I didn't know all along, but whose side are you on anyway? This is how the conversations used to go. I think now it's different. Now it's only the number one on your list, so you don't have the right information and you're completely wrong. But if I respond in any way, the conversation stops immediately because of tremendous fear. And I can understand the fear. And I have actually some human understanding to what it means because I told one of my family members, if you're right and I'm wrong, and actually everyone in Gaza is living a good life and there is no genocide, I would be so happy. I would be so happy to be proven wrong at this point. But if I'm right and you're wrong, and you find out that you've supported these atrocities, how will you live with yourself? And at that moment, the conversation stopped." - Shir Hever
Israel's Zombie Economy (Part 5): The Disinformation Bubble w/ Shir Hever. Hosted by Bassam Haddad [@4Bassam]
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Ly2xRfuRX4Q
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