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Episode 329 - This Week in Hasbara (w/ Abby Martin)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Independent journalist Abby Martin has spent much of her career reporting on Israel's oppression of Palestinians, and was personally affected by anti-BDS legislation when she was disinvited from speaking at Georgia Southern University because she refused to sign an anti BDS pledge. Today, she joins Bad Faith to discuss the new wave of "hasbara," or Israeli media manipulation, that has quickly shifted the focus from 40 imaginary beheaded babies, to a non-existent "command center" under Al-Shifa hospital, to "new" allegations of sexual assault on October 7th. Meanwhile, the media ignores dead Palestinian babies left to decompose in the NICU by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian children shot in cold blood in the West Bank, and the authoritarian bent of congress deeming anti-Zionism anti-Semitism. How do they get away with it all, and what's the current state of things on the ground in Gaza?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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This is what our politicians are wasting their time doing,

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is passing ridiculous meaningless resolutions

0:07.0

that try to conflate and obfuscate the nature of their crimes.

0:11.4

And we should be super crystal clear about that because I think that at this point,

0:16.2

if anyone thinks that there's a lesser of two evil looking at both parties and the situation in

0:21.4

Gaza right now,

0:23.1

I don't think that there's any argument to be made.

0:25.0

I mean, Joe Biden, this is his legacy.

0:27.1

He is Genocide Joe, and he needs to be Punif

0:30.5

for what he's done. So, back for a second time I believe on bad faith, we have with us today, Abby Martin,

1:04.4

perhaps one of the most important journalists for the current political

1:07.8

context, you know her, as the creator and host of the Empire Files,

1:12.0

also a documentarian.

1:13.4

Welcome back, Abby Martin.

1:16.2

Thank you so much for having me again.

1:18.0

It's great to be on.

1:19.7

Now, you have been very busy.

1:21.5

I think a lot of people want to pick your brain right now

1:23.8

because you're one of the few independent media

1:26.1

journalists who has spent a lot of time on the ground

1:28.8

in the region currently in dispute.

1:31.4

And I just wanted first and foremost

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