Join Dr Usaama al-Azami for a wide-ranging conversation with historian Dr Zachary Foster about Zionism and Palestine. Foster, author of "The Invention of Palestine," will discuss his perspective on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
I am a baby boomer, non-jew. I lived on a kibbutz when I was 18 for six months and was fed all of the propaganda that Zachary mentions. I followed the politics in the Middle East for decades and my research completely changed my views on Israel. I feel very betrayed by the propaganda and the current actions of Israel and the U.S. government. Last week I left the United States to live in Canada. I had the good fortune to become a Canadian through my Canadian mother. I can no longer be a part of supporting Israel's brutality.
Canada is part of the problem too!! Trudeau also declared himself a Zionist, our human rights lawyer federal Attorney General Arif Virani is hiding and says nothing and seems to be terrified of the issue, our govt is just tagging along with the US. BUT we have the NDP and an excellent brave MP Heather McPherson speaking out for Palestine, bringing motions in Parliament. So we have to keep fighting and pushing the govt here!
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I was just about to say the same thing! It should definitely be a back & forth, but the host doesn’t seem to know how to do so properly & doesn’t realize how it comes across. He also keeps saying “right right right” & “yeah yeah yeah”, while Zachary’s talking & then cuts him off unnecessarily which makes the conversation flow quite awkwardly. I doubt that we’re the only ones who noticed it. I always learn so much from Zachary & this time was no different. But I couldn’t help but feel frustrated by the host even though he did ask some great questions. He just wouldn’t let him fully answer them! It was just odd.
I'd rather listen to Dalia Ziada, Loay Alshareef or Dr Hussein Aboubakr Mansour. At least they give a more balanced and realistic account of the war and it's antecedents. Here we have the marriage of Islam and Marxism! It'll come to grief just as it did in the Iranian revolution.
I enjoyed this conversation, but it would have been better if you would have not kept saying "right" all the time, it made it kind of hard to follow the audio.
Your son's cameo was great! LOL. As to what people can do...I am surprised and dismayed at the seeming lack of interest in the facts on this issue. What I do is share credible information in bites that can be easily digested. I regularly share the posts of the organizations mentioned to give them that boost, but I stay away from the very emotional posts so as to be perceived as clear and to the point and not about manipulation. The other thing is i get information from all kinds of sources but I mainly share sources that are Jewish. I am not Jewish myself.
Zach, Russians also have the internet and often speak English, and have social media like Telegram ? that is outside state control and chuck full of dissenting and critical views .
dr usama, u r too long winded and repetitive. U need to develop succinct str8-2-d-point questions, please. We can barely understand yr questions. Even yr guest gave occassional eyerolls. We tried to watch and listen, but u lost us at the 30 mins mark. Sorry not sorry.
