Oh my goodness me, where to start.

Just a bit of context first actually.

Now racism and cheerleading for the state of Israel, let's put it this way, they often go together.

It's important to say this because those who oppose the subjugation of the

Palestinian people, the generations of ethnic cleansing, occupation,

apartheid, siege, colonization, land theft, mass incarceration, torture, repeated mass

daughters and indeed now genocide, we're often defamed as racist. This is an

example of the world turned upside down by us being called racists by actual raging

screaming racists. An odd re-definition of racism to say the least so if you cheerlead

for the subjugation of an entire people by a state whose politicians,

army officers and media outlets repeatedly make clear they regard that subjugated people as inferior. Indeed that's codified in law, not a racist.

If you believe in equal rights for all who live in historic Palestine, for example, you're a racist.

At the same time, of course, we've seen the rise of an authoritarian far right

in the Western world, not least in the United States,

which has felt ever more involved in about its racism, not least its anti-Muslim hate.

That brings me on to this latest example.

CNN.

That's where this happened.

The target was Medi Hassan.

A friend of mine, brilliant journalist, I proudly work with him, of course it's Zetio.

He was on a show alongside someone called Ryan Goderski, someone I'm glad to say I was not

previously familiar with, I wish it had stayed that way

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