#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Air Date: 3/5/2019
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.
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SHOW NOTES
Israel has decided a repressive illiberalism is the best guarantor of safety. They’ve found plenty of allies on the American right for that project, but it’s one that shreds the humanistic and pluralistic ideals that many diaspora Jews believe in.
Paul Jay says anti-Semitism is deeply ingrained in Western culture, and can easily become more widespread during economic crisis
Israel drew condemnation for passing a law that defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and gives them the sole right to self-determination. Yousef Munayyer and Rebecca Vilkomerson respond.
While apologizing for Canada's shameful betrayal of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked the Palestinian rights movement BDS. Ali Abunimah discusses with TRNN's Ben Norton.
Noam Chomsky discusses the predictable rightward shift of Israeli politics since 1967 caused by the decision to implement the occupation of Palestine
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Dr. Roger Ray explains the problematic origins of Israel, the predictable forever-grudge that will be held against the country and how US support of Israeli human rights abuses stokes Arab anti-Americanism
Mike Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia and Israel as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman abandons the Palestinians. Professor Asad AbuKhalil says this alliance has never been closer, noting Israel's political allies have frequently been anti-Semites.
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| 0:42.1 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:46.5 | learn about how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated all but the most |
| 0:51.8 | far right white supremacist anti-Semitic, ironically fascist of their allies. |
| 0:59.4 | And the US of course, it's up to you decide how we fit into that list. |
| 1:03.6 | Clips today come from the Ezra Klein show, The Real News, Democracy Now, and a portion |
| 1:08.9 | of a progressive faith sermon from Dr. Roger Ray. |
| 1:18.9 | There is just a flat reality that if you have a liberal orientation towards foreign |
| 1:25.5 | policy, and your foreign policy is based on some level on a recognition of human rights |
| 1:31.0 | and a belief and a rejection of oppression, that where things have gone in Israel is just |
| 1:37.1 | it's objectively more offensive. |
| 1:38.6 | I mean, you write about this eloquently and constantly, but Israel has become a quite |
| 1:43.1 | brutal police state to the Palestinians. |
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