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Episode 498 - What Are Israelis Thinking? (w/ Shir Hever)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Scholar of Israel's occupation, genocide, and apartheid, and former coordinator for the BDS weapons embargo campaign Shir Hever returns to Bad Faith to offer insights into the politics on the ground in Israel, the interplay between the Iran war and Netanyahu's political ambitions, the implications of polls showing overwhelming majorities of Israeli's support Israel's genocide and even expulsion of Arab Israelis from the country, and the status of BDS campaigns around the world.

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Politicians like Bernie Sanders are acting in a very unwise way.

0:05.0

If they buy into this myth that the problem is Netanyahu and he's the only one who, he's the root of all evil, they're setting themselves up for failure. The

0:23.6

The All right, I'm so glad to have back on Bad Faith podcast, Shear Hever.

0:49.2

He is a scholar of Israel's occupation, apartheid, and genocide. And also, you might remember him from his

0:56.2

appearance. Last year, at which time he was the coordinator for the BDS movement's military

1:02.3

embargo campaign, and it can also offer some thoughts about the continued BDS movement. Welcome

1:07.7

back to Bad Faith Podcast. Thanks for having me, Brianna.

1:18.1

First off, I want to address something that we talked about on your last appearance on Bad Faith podcast. I was re-listening to it this morning. And it was interesting to reflect on

1:25.0

our back and forth about how we thought Joe Biden versus Donald Trump

1:30.9

were going to continue funding if there was going to be any break in Biden's policy by

1:37.1

Donald Trump, who was at the time running on sort of an America first line and promising

1:41.7

that the war would be quote unquote wrapped up quickly, et cetera.

1:45.5

I do wonder if there's anything surprising from your perspective on how Donald Trump has

1:51.5

continued to litigate this genocide. Well, I think it's not just him, right? He has a whole

1:59.0

team of people working with him and the whole

2:01.1

GOP and his advisors and so on. So I think there's a certain tension now between Trump and the way

2:08.2

that he speaks and the people around him because Netanyahu has been very unapologetic by

2:14.1

referring to Trump basically as his lackey, something that I did find surprising that didn't

2:19.9

offend Trump because he's a very easily offendable person. When Netanyahu refers to him as his

2:26.3

puppet, then Trump would be maybe a two-year-old kind of personality that he has, would intentionally

2:33.3

try to prove him wrong. But what we saw

2:35.9

last month in June when Israel attacked Iran, it was very clear, especially to the Israelis, that

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