Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

Before we come to today's episode, just a quick word on a PTO live event that will be taking place next month.

On the 16th of May, Richard Seymour will be in conversation with me on the topic of disaster nationalism

and the crisis of the Liberal International Order.

We'll be talking about the root causes of the rise of the far right,

how the left should respond, and whether what we are seeing is the emergence of a 21st century iteration of fascism.

The event is free and will be taking place on the evening of

the 16th of May at Space Fall in Finsbury Park, North London. And there should be some additional

speakers announced in the next week or two. You'll find a link to book your spot at the event

in the description of today's episode. It'll be wonderful to see lots of you there.

And now to today's episode. Since October 7th, Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's

supporters have routinely mobilized feminist narratives in defense of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza

and sought to betray Palestinian resistance to Israel

as suffused with religiously inspired misogyny.

In a recent article in Salvage, Sophie Lewis wrote about the way in which Zionist feminists

have worked to defend the settler colonial project, and how it places them in a long lineage

of self-described feminists who have, perhaps surprisingly,

been enthusiastic supporters and participants in imperial conquest.

In our conversation, we talked about that history and whether we're seeing a decline in Zionist feminism

that parallels the broader crisis of liberal Zionism.

Sophie Lewis teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research on Feminist History, Transfeminism and More Besides.

She's the author of Abolish the Family, A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Full Surrogacy

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