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Behind the News: How Israel Exploits the Shoah w/ Pankaj Mishra

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Pankaj Mishra, author of a recent article for the London Review of Books, "The Shoah after Gaza," talks about the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust. Nancy Folbre, co-author of a recent report on household economic well-being, discusses assigning a monetary value to care work.


Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html



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0:00.0

The Oh, Hello and

0:34.0

welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Order in the universe has been restored

0:38.0

as we return to the usual two-guess lineup.

0:41.0

Pankashmeshra talks about, among other things, the Holocaust in Israeli identity, and Nancy

0:46.2

Fulbre takes account of unpaid household labor.

0:50.1

First a correction of a mistake I made last week.

0:52.6

In the course of describing a review of Abigail Schreier's new book, Bad Therapy, and

0:56.5

Compact magazine, I said its author, the sociologist Frank Ferady, is the guru of a formation that

1:02.1

originated as the Socialist Workers Party, UK.

1:05.4

It most definitely was not the Socialist Workers Party.

1:08.4

Sorry, I should have said revolutionary Communist Party, which is no relation to the American Party of the same name.

1:15.0

The British RCP prided itself on contrarian positions like opposing the 1985 miners strike.

1:20.8

It eventually morphed into spiked the Libertarian website and conference sponsor that has gotten some funding from the right-wing Koch ATM.

1:28.0

RCP not SWP. Apologies.

1:32.0

Hong Kosh Mischer wrote an excellent long essay based in a lecture, The Shoah after Gaza, which is in the current

1:38.0

print edition of the London Review of Books, and was posted to their website back in February.

1:43.0

It took some time to catch up with him, but here he is for the behind the news audience.

1:47.0

It's an incredibly rich analysis of the use of the Holocaust,

1:50.0

not merely in justifying Israel's brutal wars against its neighbors,

1:53.8

starting with the Palestinians at this place 75 years ago,

1:57.0

but also in creating the modern Israeli identity.

1:59.8

Misura recalls of the show was not talked about much in the early decades after World War II,

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