Promo - Episode 582 Debunking the Rape Hoax Redux (w/ Ali Abunimah)
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Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Executive director of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, returns to Bad Faith to break down the latest attempt by Zionists to push the "mass rape" narrative that has greased the runway for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, but stays to debate the role Tucker Carlson should play in advancing the lefts anti war and anti imperialist aims. A fascinating exploration of ethnics, media, and progressive values with one of the left's best journalists.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | They are spending enormous amounts of money. |
| 0:03.0 | There are reports in the Israeli media |
| 0:04.5 | that the Israeli government is greatly multiplying its propaganda budget. |
| 0:09.5 | I think they've just allocated another $740 million for propaganda. |
| 0:15.9 | But I think it's going to be very difficult for them to put the shine back on Israel, because |
| 0:22.1 | the whole world has seen what Israel has done and has been doing for almost three years. |
| 0:29.7 | Well, for 80 years, really, but in terms of this genocide, and many more people were |
| 0:36.1 | waking up to it, we're talking about since October 7th. |
| 0:39.3 | And this hasn't stopped. |
| 0:41.3 | The month of May was the bloodiest month in Gaza |
| 0:46.3 | of the whole year. |
| 0:48.3 | Israel killed 119 Palestinians in the month of May. |
| 0:52.3 | This is supposed to be a ceasefire. Since the so-called |
| 0:55.8 | ceasefire in Gaza began in October, Israel has killed 936 Palestinians there. Can you imagine |
| 1:03.9 | if Palestinians had killed 936 Israelis or 96 Israelis or nine Israelis during the so-called ceasefire, how much coverage there would be. |
| 1:17.3 | We'd know all their names. |
| 1:19.3 | No coverage of this. |
| 1:20.7 | And that's not to mention Lebanon, where Israel is carrying out the same style of massacres every day. So it's this situation where public |
| 1:33.7 | opinion is in the United States, in particular, but all over the world, but in the US, we have |
| 1:40.4 | this historic shift where majority opinion is now negative towards Israel. We haven't seen |
| 1:47.5 | that in at least in the 30 years that I've been looking at these things. And among Democrats, |
| 1:54.3 | it's 85, 90 percent negative views of Israel. But even on the right, we're seeing that. We're seeing a debate |
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