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Bad Hasbara 80: Genocide Bad, with Sim Kern

🕑 Added 2025-01-29 06:42:40 +0000 UTC

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3antar Akkawi

Good ep- Unfortunately Sim has shared many times that they think the resistance is authoritarian, has related it to Zionism and has tried to lecture Palestinians on how to liberate themselves. Rly hope they do better on that front / it’s rly tone deaf - an Arab queer ⚡️

Jen

I always learn so much listening to Sim, can’t wait to read their book!

Katie Nugent

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/30/israel-and-the-delusions-of-germanys-memory-culture Long but v interesting!

LeobaL

Eek. I used to work with a Christian Zionist who insisted the massacre in the Great March of Return didn't happen. I'm really glad I don't work with him any more. I'd probably have been arrested for assault before the first week was our.

Taveet

That final line hits so damn hard. S'iz golus do in undzer land = there is exile in our land. And of course the final verse is a banger too: No justice, no peace Just a dream become a Golem Which people will have no country? Both Israel and Palestine.

Taveet

An even bigger banger IMO is Dumay Hob ikh mir in harts a kholem Heyb ik oyf a fon fun sholem In meyn kholem steyt a moyer Vol mit payn en vol mit troyer Af der moyer steyt a zelner Hinter im di greene felder Me hot geboyt tsufeel grenitsn Afn land un in di mentschen Oy, keyner met undz freyheyt gevn Me darf noch zi aleyn zikh schtrebn Zayn a fremder iz meyn shtand S'iz golus do in undzer land! (and each line is punctuated in Russian: THINK! THINK! THINK!)

Riaz Abdulla

Af Yiddish: Oi ihr narishe tzionisten Mit euer narishen maykhl Ihr magt dokh gayn tzu dem arbiter Un lernen sikh ein saykhl Total banger. Great song.

Taveet

My favourite earworm of his is Dumay/Think

Agustina Montes

This was a great listen! I have Sim’s book preordered and I can’t wait ❤️

Dan

I've had Oh You Foolish Little Zionists stuck in my head all week

Jay Ronimo

Guys, there is actually a left-wing criticism of identity politics that goes much further back from the likes of Adolph L Reed Jr., Walter Benn Michaels or Cedric Johnson.

Amy C

YAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS

E Shepard

Yay!!! Finally my two most moral sources coming together as nature intended.

Taveet

Day 8(?) of asking to have Daniel Kahn as a guest on this podcast. Seriously the guy is a legend. Anti-Zionist Yiddishist Bundist klezmer musician.

hileahrious

Good times as always. I listened to this episode seated next to the zionist lady at my work so it feels like some silent resistance. Sim is da best and I’m still tryna see if I’ll be able to get their book in Spain or the EU!