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Episode 294 - RFK Jr. Palestine Fact Check

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Palestinian-American activist Omar Baddar joins Bad Faith for a point-by-point refutation of RFK Jr's views on Palestine, the conduct of the IDF, and what fellow Presidential candidate Marianne Williams has called "dated AIPAC talking points." In the wake of a controversial interview on the Jimmy Dore Show -- as well as Briahna's own showdown with RFK Jr. on Rising -- it's worth parsing what is and isn't true.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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This issue of whether Israel is being singled out, frankly, Israel should be singled out because,

0:06.6

as I mentioned, the longest military occupation in modern history,

0:09.9

and a system that every major human rights organization at this point,

0:14.2

acknowledges as a system of apartheid is what they roll over Palestinians with.

0:18.1

Those are indeed exceptional crimes that are deserving of exceptional focus, and to your point,

0:23.1

the fact that these are crimes that the US is funding and arming and supporting to the extent that

0:28.2

they are, obviously, merits a lot more attention from the American public.

0:58.4

All right. What a pleasure to be joined by Palestinian-American political activists,

1:08.8

experts, Omar Badar. Welcome to Bad Faith for the first time, Omar.

1:13.9

Very excited to be on, Brianna. Thank you.

1:15.9

I've asked you to talk to me today because I think a lot of the left is really been blown away

1:22.9

by the nature, and not only good way that way, but by the nature of RFK juniors, responses

1:29.2

and various interviews, both with me on rising at the end of last month and more recently on

1:35.1

the Jimmy Doors show, as he's asked specifically about the issue of Israel-Palestine.

1:40.8

The first inkling that he might have views that depart significantly from the broad feelings

1:50.0

on the American political left, even among many political liberals, came after he withdrew his

1:56.9

support of Roger Waters after he apparently received some criticism of the idea that Roger Waters

2:04.0

was anti-Semitic for the protests of the Palestinian treatment during his concerts. Instead of

2:11.1

defending Roger Waters, he walked it back and first appeared with Rabbi Shmouli, who seems to have

2:18.2

a close relationship with RFK juniors and has been a repeated presence by his side after every

2:23.7

other time, rightly or wrongly, that RFK juniors has been accused of anti-Semitism. And moreover,

2:29.7

he, because of those instances, has been asked repeatedly, both by me and by Jimmy Doors most recently,

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