Author: Briahna Joy Gray

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton and Palestinian activist Omar Baddar return to Bad Faith to discuss Biden's unconstitutional bombing of Yemen, the broader context for the broadening regional war, and the latest from day two of the ICJ hearings, in which Israel attempted to defend it's 100 day siege of Gaza. Will growing public solidarity for Palestine on the international stage finally lead to accountability for Israel and the west?

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Norman Finkelstein is back to weigh in on billionaire Bill Ackman's attack on academic freedom and how it backfired colossally with accusations that his own wife committed worse plagiarism than Claudine Gay, whom he fought to oust from Harvard because she didn't crack down hard enough on anti-Zionist speech. The conversation broadens out into a two hour discourse on the history of academic freedom, whether "from the river to the sea" is a productive slogan, and more.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal joins Bad Faith to discuss his explosive reporting on the evidentiary failures of the New York Times' story on sexual violence in Gaza. He breaks down the inconsistencies in the Times' report, retractions from the family of an alleged victim, and the shaky credibility of witnesses. Then Max gives a first hand account of how the elite media has circled the wagons to attack his own journalistic credibility. A must-listen.

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Palestinian-American author, opinion columnist, and Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University in Beirut Rami Khouri joins Bad Faith to provide much needed background on how and why Arab nations are realigning in response to continued Israeli aggression in Gaza. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and others are part of what Khouri describes as an axis of resistance, but what is motivating these disparate groups, how do the last seven decades of conflict between Israel and its neighbors inform regional attitudes, and what is the potential for a broader regional war? Also, Khouri weighs in on the State Department's response to South Africa's petition for the International Court of Justice to charge Israel with genocide, and the Biden administration's response to Ben-Gvir & Smotritch's calls for ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Finally, he talks about the Nakba affected his own family, and how his Arab Israeli loved ones in Nazareth are experiencing post-10/7 Israel.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Distinguished scholar on Jewish Studies at Dartmouth University Shaul Magid joins Bad Faith to discuss the history of Zionism, conflicts within the Jewish community among Jews of different diasporic and racial backgrounds, the relationship between Blacks and Jews, and the role radical politics has always played in influencing the terms of that relationship. For the second hour, Brie and Professor Magid have a constructive debate about whether the left has sufficiently condemned Hamas’s actions on 10/7, and whether a failure to do so adequately is alienating potential Jewish allies.

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Jewish Currents Editor-at-Large & Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY Peter Beinart joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest piece in which he takes on the media frenzy around allegations of Ivy League antisemitism, and asks why none of Harvard’s Israel experts have been invited to join the group convened to investigate said claims. Is it because none of them would cosign overly expansive definitions of antisemitism? The pair also examines Beinart’s own journey away from Zionism toward what he describes as “cultural Zionism” and how the siege on Gaza is rapidly changing how Israel is perceived within the Jewish community.

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Author, physician, and trauma expert Gabor Maté joins Bad Faith to discuss how left disillusionment with Bernie Sanders style electoral movements, and Jewish disillusionment with Israel, are part of a painful yet positive progressive shift. He weighs in on 2024, Marianne & RFK Jr, holocaust trauma, and more.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Jewish Currents Editor-at-Large & Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY Peter Beinart joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest piece in which he takes on the media frenzy around allegations of Ivy League antisemitism, and asks why none of Harvard’s Israel experts have been invited to join the group convened to investigate said claims. Is it because none of them would cosign overly expansive definitions of antisemitism? The pair also examines Beinart’s own journey away from Zionism toward what he describes as “cultural Zionism” and how the siege on Gaza is rapidly changing how Israel is perceived within the Jewish community. 

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Osgoode Hall Law School Assistant Professor Heidi Matthews set off a social media firestorm when she weighed in on accusations of sexual violence on October 7th which resurfaced over the course of last week. Drawing on her expertise in International criminal law, the global legal regulation of political violence & gender, she cautioned against the weaponization of sexual violence in defense of an ongoing genocide. Supporters of Israel's siege were not happy -- to put it mildly. Matthews joins Bad Faith to elaborate on the evidence there is (and isn't) with respect to sexual violence on October 7th, and why it matters.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Left-Twitter has been beefing over the question of "Bidenomics": Are left criticisms "fair" given metrics which show improvements to the economy? Are they bad faith attacks levied by opportunistic leftists who think Biden doing badly is "good for the left?" Or are people praising Biden's accomplishments simply putting their electoral objectives (eg, reelecting Biden) over the sincerely held feelings of Americans who are struggling -- even as things improve? Two experts from either side of this debate -- Matt Bruenig and Claudia Sahm -- join Bad Faith to discuss the so-called vibecession with a focus on Eric Levtiz's recent piece in NY Mag. 

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