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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

42: Where Were Your Grandparents During the War? (with Adam Broomberg)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Comedy, Government, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Adam Broomberg returns! The South African, Jewish artist updates us on his journey as a Palestine activist living in Germany, we discuss the censorship of anti-zionism in Germany and we also check in with ourselves and explore how this is impacting us all emotionally.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
Photograph from the Andy Hollingworth Archive 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So hello everybody, welcome to episode podcast 42 of the Alexi-Sail podcast. We're flying through them.

0:17.5

Yeah, we're doing one a week at the moment because of the situation in Palestine, in

0:22.2

Gaza. And this week we talked to an old friend of the show, Adam Brunberg. Adam is

0:28.9

South African Jew and a photographer, visual artists, those in Germany, and has always used his experience of his,

0:40.7

I suppose, powered in a way by his family's experiences during the Holocaust.

0:46.6

Yeah.

0:46.9

As he has empowered him or forced him in a sense to speak out for Palestine at the moment.

0:55.1

And his experiences in apartheid South Africa as well.

0:58.1

I think, you know, in the Netflix series, Stranger Things,

1:04.8

there's a kind of alternative reality called the Upside Down,

1:09.3

which is below the town where they all live.

1:11.5

And I think living in Germany at the moment must be like living in the upside down,

1:16.4

where those who speak for the oppressed, for people who are being made,

1:21.4

have the entire ferocity of the state brought down on them.

1:26.7

I find it of all the many hypocrisies

1:33.2

and lies and cruelties of the western world's behavior towards the palisiniscence i find the

1:39.8

situation in germany just i mean doesn't nobody mean, is there a German word for irony?

1:47.3

I don't know what it is, but, you know, I really think they should apply it. Anyway,

1:54.2

an old friend of the show in Gaza.

2:19.5

And now to look at the European dimension, I suppose, we have somebody who were

2:26.6

interviewed before from Germany.

2:29.8

We have Adam Brunberg.

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