Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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Independent journalist Abby Martin has spent much of her career reporting on Israel's oppression of Palestinians, and was personally affected by anti-BDS legislation when she was disinvited from speaking at Georgia Southern University because she refused to sign an anti BDS pledge. Today, she joins Bad Faith to discuss the new wave of "hasbara," or Israeli media manipulation, that has quickly shifted the focus from 40 imaginary beheaded babies, to a non-existent "command center" under Al-Shifa hospital, to "new" allegations of sexual assault on October 7th. Meanwhile, the media ignores dead Palestinian babies left to decompose in the NICU by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian children shot in cold blood in the West Bank, and the authoritarian bent of congress deeming anti-Zionism anti-Semitism. How do they get away with it all, and what's the current state of things on the ground in Gaza?

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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    You may know him from his viral questions posed to the heart of empire, but independent journalist Sam Husseini has much more to say than what’s allowed at State Department press briefings. On today's show, Sam argues that activists should focus on pressuring governments that are already willing to acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza to invoke the Genocide Convention treaty so that the International Court of Justice can hold Israel accountable for war crimes. Why haven’t any countries sympathetic to Palestine who are party to the treaty done this— even Palestine itself? Sam also unpacks a theory about RFK Jr’s commitment to Zionism and its possible relationship to his uncle and fathers’ assassination.

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Craig Mokhiber resigned as Director of the UN's New York Office of the Higher Commissioner for Human Rights citing the organizations insufficient response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the pushback he received even before 10/7 when critiquing the human rights violations perpetrated by Israel. In our interview, Craig applies his expertise as a human rights lawyer to substantiate the claim that Israel is in fact committing a genocide and dives deep into what is broken at the UN, such as capture by US interests, and what must happen to advance the rights of Palestinians.

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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    Ryan Grim, D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, has done some of the most important reporting on the influence of AIPAC on the American political system. He joins Bad Faith to discuss the recent AIPAC pledge to devote $100 million to unseat the Squad following their calls for a ceasefire, and delve into the history of how AIPAC became so powerful in the first place.

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In this very special Thanksgiving episode, Liv Kunins-Berkowitz & Jason Farbman, two representatives for Jewish Voice for Peace, join to describe how they organized massive events at Grand Central Station, the Statue of Liberty, the Cannon Rotunda, and more, before discussing the crucial role Jewish voices are playing in the movement for Palestinian rights and the challenges that intra-group conversations about Zionism present --including over Thanksgiving dinner.

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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    Northwestern journalism professor Steven Thrasher gives Bad Faith access to his class on Manufacturing Consent, explaining what Noam Chomksy and Eduard Hermans’ classic work on media manipulation can teach us about how the media is treating the siege on Gaza. How are the five filters of editorial bias working to color the public’s perception of the ongoing occupation of Gaza, the mass murder of civilians, and the complicity of US policy? And how do supporters of human rights push back?

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Consumer advocate & 2000 Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader joins Bad Faith to weigh in on the revolving chairs of the Green Party's presidential candidates, the strategic value of Cornel West running as an independent, & how left voters should decide between a hypothetical 2024 match-up between Dr. West and Dr. Jill Stein. Briahna also asks Nader to address recent reporting that he would "help Joe Biden win," how people power can beat AIPAC, and whether he, as perhaps the most prominent Arab-American politician in the US, has been able to connect with Rashida Tlaib since her censure by Congress. Nader also explains the immense value of his print media publication Capital Hill Citizen and why every leftist looking to push left politics forward should pick up a copy.

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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    The foremost scholar on the Israel-Palestine conflict returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on why he refuses to condemn Hamas despite acknowledging the atrocities of October 7th and update the pod on the most recent hospital bombing. Dr. Norman Finkelstein also destroys Jake Tapper and Hilary Clinton's rationales for Israel's siege against the civilians of Gaza and debunks common talking points circulated by Zionist mainstream media figures. This is an epic, nearly three-hour conversation you're not going to want to miss.

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After the siege of Gaza began Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to assuage the public about America's investment in Israel: Don't worry, she said, we can afford two wars -- both the war in Ukraine and Israel's bombardment of Palestine. Brie asked Richard Wolff, Marxist economist, New School professor, and Janet Yellen's former classmate: Is she right? What about the inflationary effect of military spending? Do alternative ways to address inflation like a wage/price freeze undermine our labor goals? And what's next for the Cornel West campaign? We discuss it all on this week's free episode.

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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    Esteemed journalist Chris Hedges returned from weeks in Europe to find huge changes to the Cornel West campaign, Biden's reelection chances, and the fate of Palestinians in Gaza. He talks about what he hopes to have accomplished in Europe vis-à-vis Julien Assange's extradition and weighs in on Dr. West leaving the Green Party, the campaign manager switch-ups, and what's left for the left to do now that the geopolitics of the moment make Biden a less viable candidate than ever.

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