Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.

You know how the aftermath of the attack on Israel on October 7, 23, helped catapult an incredibly messy debate over anti-Semitism into the mainstream.

Well, this is a quick reminder that Israel was acting in a way

that was getting the praise of anti-Semites long before the current genocide playing out in Gaza.

Check this out.

This is exactly what I wrote to describe this episode a full five years ago in 2019.

Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast

majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country

with some of the most far-right, fascist, white supremacist,

anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies?

O'VRARAE.

Sources today include The Ezra Klein Show, The Real News, Democracy Now, and a progressive faith sermon from Dr. Lachery.

There is just a flat reality that if you have a liberal orientation towards foreign policy, and your foreign policy is based on some level on a recognition of human rights and a belief

and a rejection of oppression that where things have gone in Israel is just, it's objectively

more offensive.

I mean, you write about this eloquently and constantly, but, you know, Israel has become a

quite brutal police state to the

Palestinians. I mean, it is, it is not a reasonable way to make people to live. It's like there

are many moral atrocities happening all over the world at all times, right? It is not a unique one

happening there, but it is a real one happening there. And, you know, at some points, there's

just a much more active peace movement, but there's also

kind of been an Israel exception. But the worse it gets, just the harder it gets to like carve it

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