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Episode 491 Promo - Endlessly Critiquing Opposition to Genocide (w/ Dr. Assal Rad)

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Scholar of Middle East history Dr. Assal Rad returns to Bad Faith to discuss Israel's Rafah concentration camp, the IDF's admission that it targets civilians, the latest Gaza massacres and the "ceasefire" talks between Trump and Netanyahu last Monday. Also, how Zohran Mamdani's win has Ritchie Torres and other Zionist Dems on the back foot, and a forensic take down of why BreadTube star ContraPoints' viral Gaza take is a disaster.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

I mean, the consensus is clear, but you have the minority that wields power to actually

0:06.9

stop it, to stop giving Israel military aid, to stop providing the weapons that's killing

0:10.9

people, to sanction Israel, to hold it accountable under international law that refuse to do so.

0:15.8

And in order to get around this global backlash and the sort of denigration of the entire international

0:21.8

system, they have to make things up. So they say, well, no, see, we're not starving them.

0:26.4

We're trying to get around Hamas stealing the aid, even though Cindy McCain, who's the head

0:31.6

of the World Food Program, told you there's no evidence that Hamas is actually stealing the aid.

0:36.3

Like, this is just something that is being

0:37.8

said when the UN was in charge of food distribution, food was being distributed without killing people.

0:44.4

The reason they took over that wasn't because they were trying to get around Hamas. That's the

0:49.4

excuse that is used because they wanted to control the aid because they want to make sure people

0:53.1

aren't getting enough aid and that it's essentially a death trap. Why do you think the GHF centers,

1:00.1

three of the four, were all the way in the south? Because they're trying to push the population

1:05.1

south in order to take the land. I mean, it's very clear what the actual strategy is, but there's all this

1:11.7

propaganda and language that's used to mask it. And the Western press for its role is

1:18.0

filtering it through the propaganda lens. And that's essentially why you get these different

1:24.0

tactics and strategies. It's all to play within this game of trying to present it as

1:30.1

humanitarian. I mean, it's literally called GHF, the H stands for humanitarian, which is ridiculous.

1:34.5

There's nothing humanitarian about it. And they're calling the concentration camp a humanitarian city.

1:40.4

This is basic propaganda. But the reason for it is because we have the internet. We have, people are connected to what's going on. They're seeing what's going on in Gaza. There's still protests that are happening in Europe and in the US. There are still consequences, like the elections that we saw in the US, there are consequences to the fact that this is being allowed to go on

2:02.3

by the very people who claim the sort of mantle of civilization. I mean, it is literally described as

2:09.5

Israel genocide against Palestinians is described as a war for Western civilization. Which one would

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