Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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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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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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