PREVIEW: London Protests: Analyzing Motive Beyond Information and Propaganda Guest: Joseph Sternberg Joseph Sternberg analyzes London protesters waving Palestinian flags, noting they are mainly British citizens of South Asian heritage. He cautions that wh
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
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Joseph Sternberg analyzes London protesters waving Palestinian flags, noting they are mainly British citizens of South Asian heritage. He cautions that while they may be uninformed about the war's specific contours or exposed to Hamas propaganda, their motivation is not an "information problem." Sternberg concludes they are motivated by the fundamental fact that they "don't like Israel," suggesting this is the core issue they are "very informed about."
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| 0:23.8 | Joseph Sternberg. He's in London for |
| 0:25.7 | the Wall Street Journal editorial page, reflecting upon the protesters in downtown London going on for |
| 0:31.8 | days now, waving Palestinian flags. What do they know of Gaza? What do they know of Palestine? |
| 0:37.4 | What do they know of a? What do they know of Palestine? What do they know of a dispute? |
| 0:40.8 | Joseph measures them very carefully and finds them wanting. And why? |
| 0:46.0 | Here's Joseph to explain those flags, the waving, the cheering, especially on October 7th. Why? |
| 0:58.5 | These are not Arab youth. These are not Palestinians. |
| 1:07.3 | These are dominantly British citizens from South Asia, very few from Arab states, and from Britain. |
| 1:11.3 | Why? Here's Joe to explain. More of this tonight. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, although I would be careful about using the word uninformed there because, I mean, |
| 1:23.7 | it's absolutely true that they are uninformed about the specific contours of the war that is going on and the truth of what is happening in Gaza, and they're uninformed about the extent to which so |
| 1:30.4 | much of what you hear is actually propaganda coming from Hamas. But this is not an information |
| 1:38.1 | problem because they ultimately don't care about any of that. That doesn't seem to be the thing that is motivating them. |
| 1:45.6 | And so they are very informed about the thing that does matter to them, which is that they |
| 1:50.2 | don't like Israel. |
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