We examine the American Jewish response to Israel's criminal attack on Gaza, its abandoning of hostages and their families and where the Jewish left & progressives are succeeding and failing. We play listener calls, including one criticizing us for spreading misinformation about Israel's "moral army", Women in Black, and upcoming events around #CeaseFireNow.

Gaza in Crises

Israel & Israel advocacy organizations have adopted messages that unwittingly strengthen anti-Israel narratives.

As Israel sends soldiers into Gaza to fight Hamas, Lizzy Oziel & Yehuda HaKohen discuss the challenges and benefits of understanding the narrative of the Other during war.

The two also discuss the failure of the hasbara industry's efforts to properly frame the conflict and effectively present Israel's position.

The Next Stage 

TNS 108: Narratives & Warfare

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Political scientist Norman Finkelstein shares his thoughts on Gaza, Biden, Sam Harris, Bill Maher and more. But first, Palestinian-American college student Jamal Mohamad talks about being harassed and filmed by Rabbi Shmuley for daring to say "free Palestine" to him and offering him a fist bump while skating in a video that has since gone viral.

Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world. 

Jamal Mohamad is a second-generation Palestinian-American born and raised in North Carolina. He is the current president of the Arab Student Organization at North Carolina State University and has  first-hand witnessed the brutal Israeli occupation and apartheid system during his time in Palestine.

Jamal's Twitter: @jamal_mohamad02
Jamal's Instagram: jamal.mohamad_


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Norman Finkelstein SLAMS Alan Dershowitz, Defends Claudine Gay; Jamal Mohamad On Rabbi Shmuley

2,000+ hateful comments and one week later, what I have I learned from the Hasbara Trolls?

What Are the Pro-Israel Trolls Trying to Accomplish?

The thousands of troll accounts spewing genocidal propaganda on my Facebook posts are abhorrent and completely full of crap, but they have a fascinating narrative, albeit completely farcical.  All the more fascinating is the fact that, although obviously farcical to anyone with an actual clue, the western press and politicians generally accept the narrative as self-evidently accurate.

What I Learned From The Hasbara Trolls

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Katie speaks to Jeremy Loffredo, an investigative journalist and filmmaker back from Israel where he filmed Israelis admitting to war crimes and calling for genocide.  Then Kevin Gosztola joins to give us the latest breaking updates on Julian Assange's case.


Jeremy Loffredo is an investigative journalist and filmmaker based in New York. He has spent the past few months documenting the explosion of settler violence in the West Bank and the increase of political and religious repression against Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem. Most recently, Loffredo spent time within the ranks of the Jewish Israeli nationalists invading Gaza to establish Jewish settlements and blocking humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians at the Gaza border. The Israelis admitted to war crimes and clamored for genocide.

Kevin Gosztola Curates The Dissenter at http://TheDissenter.org, is the author of “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange," and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast.

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Journalist Films Israelis ADMITTING to WAR CRIMES + Latest Julian Assange Updates

My pet battalion of pro-Israel internet trolls have migrated their operation from Facebook to X, and refined their emphasis as well.

The Hasbara Trolls Switch Platforms

After years of branding Israel as a 'Western nation' closely allied to the United States, the campus-based pro-Israel advocacy organizations shouldn't be surprised when Israel is perceived by many students as a settler-colony.

Yehuda HaKohen is joined by Vision student organizer Sharon Levy to analyze why the mainstream pro-Israel advocacy organizations have failed so miserably on North American university campuses.

The Next Stage

TNS 122: The Failure of the Hasbara Industry (with Sharon Levy)

First EP under the name Judean.Negus . Pro-Zionist music

Hypocrites

Issac And Ishmael

Hamas - Aganda

Late Nights In Tel Aviv

“I was still a true believer, but doubts were starting to creep in at a certain point when you saw a large segment of our coalition cheering the brutal death of Rachel Corrie under a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. And then, you know, a month later, cheering for the death of Tom Hurndall who was killed protecting a Palestinian child from Israeli snipers and was shot in the head by an expert marksman looking through a scope.” 

Jonathan Kadmon is on the leadership team of Real Progressives and writes for the website. He also helps put out this podcast. Today, however, he is talking to Steve about his vast knowledge of Zionism, Palestine, and US support for Israel.  

Jonathan was raised in a Republican household and became a passionate supporter of Israel during his college years, when he was given training and taken on trips by powerful players in the Israel lobby. After growing up a Jew in the South, he now became part of a powerful community and embraced it with pride.  

He talks of his experiences and describes his increasing discomfort as discrepancies between fact and propaganda became too great to ignore. 

Steve, a vocal critic of the administration’s role in the current genocide in Gaza, is regularly attacked for his views. Jonathan, having studied in Israel and been trained by AIPAC, says:  

“That stuff bounces off me like I was wearing body armor... I'm like, oh yeah, you're going to tell me I'm a self-hating Jew? Are you kidding me? My resume and my credentials here probably outstrip anything you have. And the fact of the matter is, I do this because I am a Jew and I'm proud of being a Jew. And I'm proud of my history and my heritage. I learned the lessons of my history and my heritage.” 

The discussion goes into historical and political manipulation by Zionist organizations to blur the lines between Jewish identity and support for Israel, the erasure of Palestinian history, and the media and political complicity in perpetuating the Zionist narrative. 

 The episode includes profound insights into Holocaust education, which is intentionally designed to emphasize the trauma and neglect the political economy.  

Jonathan Kadmon is on the leadership team at Real Progressives, where he is a writer and a co-host of the weekly discussion group, Macro ‘n Chill. 

@JonathanKadmon on X

Deprogramming Hasbara With Jonathan Kadmon

1	Sammy Davis Jr	Mr Bojangles (live)
2	Frank Sinatra	That's life
3	Natalie Cole	I got love on my mind
4	Chris de Burgh	Here is your paradise
5	Elvis Presley	Always on my mind
6	Idan Raichel Project	מדברים בשקט
7	Yonathan Bitton	שנייה לנחיתה
8	Assaf Amdursky	רוך וקושי
9	Nir Knaan	שיר לנטע
10	Chantal Acda & the Atlantic Drifters	The friends parade
11	St Vincent	New York
12	Sabrina Carpenter	Please please please
13	Steely Dan	Dirty Work
14	Gotye	Somebody that I used to know
15	Evan & Jaron	Crazy for this girl
16	Radiohead	Black Star
17	Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox	Creep (Radiohead cover)
18	Nouvelle Vague	I just can't get enough
19	Carla Bruni	Raphael
20	Francis Lai	un homme et une femme 
21	Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell	Sunday Morning
22	Jon Batiste	Butterfly

Unwind Rewind 118

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Macroeconomics has never been so ... delish!  Macro and Cheese explores the progressive movement through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory, with hot and irreverent political takes, spotlights in activism, and the razor sharp musings of Real Progressives Founder and host Steve Grumbine.  The cheese will flow as experts come in for a full, four course deep dive into the hot queso. 

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