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A Friendly Massacre? (DCC21)
🕑 Added 2024-02-09 20:23:18 +0000 UTCAsa Winstanley of Electronic Intifada joins us to talk about his blockbuster new article "Israeli HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October." Asa is also the author of the excellent book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn. Check out Asa Winstanley’s Substack page!
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Comments
Cory
Love Asa. This is a great overview.
JB
I don't think many Americans understand Zionism at all, beyond some vague reference to the Holocaust and suspicion about Jews controlling everything. I really don't think Zionism has got much to do with pharma and insurance company led efforts against universal healthcare. The reality is that by the time Americans really started to clamor for national healthcare, the state was already in such an advanced state of disrepair that it couldn't get done. Remember how Obama's minions utterly botched the Obamacare website?
Hordeum
There is a materialist analysis of Israel. Racism serves to divide the working class. Israelis are deluded into thinking that they are superior to Palestinians and serve the interest of the ruling class to destroy them rather than destroying the ruling class. Israel serves a useful function of distorting American politics in ways that prevent things like universal healthcare. The cultural craziness of Zionism is a manifestation of its radical distortion of politics away from the material.
