Hamas w/ Tareq Baconi

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com
0:04.0	and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:10.3	One that you might like is Palestine, a socialist introduction, edited by Sumayo Wad and Brian
0:15.9	Bean. As Israel's latest brutal assault on Gaza continues, it's more critical than ever to cut
0:22.1	through the misinformation and deflections propagated by Israel and its Western allies.
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0:50.8	defined as a commitment to anti-imperialism and uses it to place Palestine into local,
0:56.7	regional, and global historical context. The book connects the past to our present
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1:30.3	Welcome to the DIG, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting
1:36.9	from Providence, Rhode Island. Any attempted understanding Hamas has been stigmatized as supporting
1:43.7	Hamas. To provide context is to effectively condone the massacres of Israeli civilians in
1:50.1	October 7th. Condemning Hamas must be the very first sentence out of your mouth before saying
1:56.3	anything else about what's happening. And even that is not good enough. But understanding Hamas
2:02.8	is precisely what must happen if we are to end injustice and create peace. Because the
2:09.2	monsterification of Hamas above all else serves the purpose of mystifying what causes violence
2:15.8	and what will end it. It obscures the political roots of the violence and thus also the political
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