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Episode 505 Promo - "One of the Bravest Things I've Ever Seen a Comedian Do" (w/ Sana Saeed)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Former Al Jazeera journalist Sana Saeed joins Bad Faith to discuss comedian Adam Friedland's viral interview with Zionist Representative Ritchie Torres and the internet's harsh reaction to Sana and other critics who questioned whether the enthusiastic reaction to this particular interview is reflective of the disproportionate value the West places on the feelings of Jewish people versus the Arab victims of Israel's genocide. Also, Sana digs into Taylor Lorenz' viral story exposing a number of liberal content creators as paid mouthpieces for the DNC and ends with Kshama Sawant's takedown of Rep. Adam Smith's rhetorical shift "left" on Palestine.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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we have been inundated with either conversations or, I'm talking about like national conversations

0:06.0

or conversations in the news media about stories and viral media clips about Jewish feelings

0:12.5

about security and safety on campus and the streets and the government wherever.

0:17.4

Or we've been inundated about Jewish feelings of discomfort about this and by this,

0:23.1

I mean like, you know, the extermination of an entire nation of Palestinians by a Jewish ethno-national

0:27.7

apartheid state about what this means for the future of Jewish identity. And at the core of

0:35.2

any and all critical conversations about the impact of the last two years has been, and it still remains Jewish feelings.

0:44.2

And like, I get it.

0:45.2

Like, you know, there's so many people who reached out to me privately to kind of talk about this and, you know, about why it's important for people with a platform like Freeland to talk about

0:55.0

this and the way they're talking about it. I get it because I absolutely believe that for the

0:59.9

longest time. Like I understand the specific type of gravitas or the weight that Jewishness itself

1:08.1

holds in the American registrar, the American psyche. I get it, and especially

1:13.5

for older Americans, but there is something so fundamentally dehumanizing about how Palestinians

1:22.3

are barely even an active consideration in these conversations. And again, I'm not only talking about the

1:29.5

Friedland interview, although in the interview when you watch it, and especially the last 25, 30

1:34.3

minutes where they're talking about, I mean, they're talking about the genocide without even

1:38.2

talking about the genocide in and of itself. But Palestinians are barely mentioned.

1:42.5

And if they are mentioned, I think two, three

1:44.8

times policies are mentioned, it's a very passing consideration. And we have to reckon with the

1:50.3

fact, especially for those of us who see this, you know, as a genocide, who see this for what it is.

1:55.6

We see Israel as an apartheid state. We see it as an occupying state, as a settler colonial

2:00.7

country. If we see

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