Fired By The Guardian Over Israel Tweets w/ Nathan Robinson

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The Guardian fired its own columnist Nathan Robinson (https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson) over his totally inoffensive tweets about the special relationship between the governments of Israel and the United States, which both governments acknowledge and praise. Nathan (http://nathanjrobinson.com), Editor of @CurAffairs (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/0...) talks about his experience and if he feels the same way about "cancel culture" as he did before. He will then be judged by Katie and her council of two Bens, Ben Burgis (https://twitter.com/BenBurgis) & Ben Spielberg (https://twitter.com/BenSpielberg). Thursday-night co-host Leslie Lee (https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii) renders his own verdict as well. Ben Spielberg will also talk about Neera Tanden and Jared Bernstein, his colleague, as well as other wonky things. And Ben Burgis will talk about some nerdy theory things.

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0:00.0	Hello and thank you so much for listening to The Katie Helper Show.
0:17.5	On today's episode, I talk to Leslie Lee, one of my two co-hosts, and our guests are
0:23.8	Nathan Robinson, Editor and Founder of Current Affairs, and up until very recently, a
0:29.7	columnist at the Guardian, and as you'll hear more about, he was fired over very mild
0:35.5	tweets mentioning Israel and the relationship between the United States and Israel.
0:41.0	We also talk to Ben Burgess, who is the host of the YouTube show, give them an argument.
0:47.0	He's also a philosophy instructor and a Jacobin contributor, and we speak to Ben Spielberg,
0:53.4	the co-founder of 34 Justice, the former manager of the full employment project at the Center
0:58.6	for Budget and Policy Priorities.
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