Israel's Apologists Unleash Racist Firestorm
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Demonising protesters against Israel's onslaught has led - inevitably - to an anti-Muslim firestorm.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | A tsunami of anti-Muslim bigotry is sweeping through Britain, and it's been unleashed by |
| 0:05.4 | apologists for Israel's mass slaughter of the Palestinian people. |
| 0:08.6 | How's that happened? |
| 0:10.3 | Well, here's a succinct summary. |
| 0:12.8 | Last week, Labour, black-belled the Speaker of the House of Commons into overturning |
| 0:17.1 | parliamentary protocol. Well, that's according to their own sources who boastfully briefed |
| 0:22.0 | journalists that that's what they had done. |
| 0:24.6 | Why? |
| 0:25.6 | Because the SMB's motion called to an unambiguous immediate ceasefire and crucially charged |
| 0:30.7 | Israel with the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. |
| 0:34.0 | Why does that matter? |
| 0:35.0 | Because it means accepting the undeniable fact that Israel has committed war crimes. |
| 0:40.0 | And from that, logical conclusions follow, |
| 0:42.0 | such as ending arms sales, as well as sanctions, |
| 0:45.8 | and so on and so forth. |
| 0:47.1 | That is, using the only means that will have any impact on the Israeli state, |
| 0:51.2 | actual pressure rather than words, that is hand-wringing, which the Israeli |
| 0:56.0 | state knows it can easily just ignore, which is exactly what it does. |
| 1:00.2 | So the Speaker of the House of Collins then attempted to protect himself from the resulting firestorm |
| 1:04.4 | by claiming that his decision was actually driven by threats to the security and lives of politicians. |
| 1:10.4 | How does this make any sense? Well, the Sky News, political correspondent Matthew Thompson, |
| 1:14.6 | tweeted, the question I keep asking myself this morning, and I suspect Lindsay Hoyle was asking |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Owen Jones, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Owen Jones and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

