Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate. Joining me is Norman Finkelstein, author and scholar specializing in Israel, Palestine, author of many books, including Gaza, an inquest into its martyrdom.

This is a complete disaster.

It's a complete and total disaster for Israel.

What has happened?

Yesterday I'm in Bay Ridge.

It was unbelievable.

Bay Ridge and neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Oh, yeah.

Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.

Part of the Palestinian community in New York City.

Yeah, it's overwhelmingly Palestinian.

Oh, I would say Arab, and of the Arab population, I would say it's predominantly Palestinian.

And it was, first of all, huge numbers.

Second of all, it was kind of like a Black Lives Matter demonstration.

I went on all the demonstrations in, during the George Floyd demonstration, George Royd killing.

And it was the same spirit. It was all wall to war. It was all 20-something year olds.

There weren't even that many 30-year-olds, believe it or not. And we're talking about thousands of people.

It was all young people. It was like the new multinational working

class of young people. Of every race, every religion, every sex, every nationality. It was

a George Floyd demonstration, but the theme was Palestine.

Now here's the point.

First of all, I've never seen anything like that.

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