Welcome back to the re-education. This episode examines why so many intellectuals have chosen to reclaim solidarity with the movement that conducted the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust.

What is it about revolutionary violence that seems to excite and not repulse so many women and men of letters.

My guest is the founder and editor of Liberties, Leon Weaselteer.

Even as horrific acts were being carried out, many of which we would not learn about until later.

There are many guzzan of goodwill, many Palestinians conscience,

who abhor violence, as do you, as do I, who abhor the violence as do you as do I who abhor the targeting of civilians as do you as do I

who were able to breathe they were able to breathe for the first time in years it was exhilarating that was

russle rickards offering a small crowd some sinister babble for the gossans he tells us the scenes of

hamas savages slitting the throats, displaying young women on the back of trucks,

burning whole families in their homes, and live streaming these atrocities for the world to see,

well, it was all so exhilarating, even for Palestinians who despise violence and the deliberate

targeting of civilians, even for Russell Ricards himself.

Well, this man is not a mental patient.

He's not a cult leader.

He's not a fringe activist wearing a sandwich board,

sputtering about the Rothschilds and the Bilderbergs.

He is a professor of history at Cornell University, with a PhD from Columbia.

His book, We Are an African People,

Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, won the Hooks Institute National Book Award, so named for the famed civil rights leader, Dr. Benjamin Hooks. Russell

Ricards is a member in good standing of the American Republic of Letters,

and he is not alone.

Similarly, I think, yes, understanding Hamas Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive

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