Racism in Israel, anti-Soviet propaganda, and weaponization of immigrants - with Yasha Levine
Moderate Rebels
Moderate Rebels
4.7 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Yasha Levine about racism in Israel, anti-Soviet propaganda, the cold war, the Zionist movement, and weaponization of Russian Jewish immigration.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is Moderate Rebels, and I am Ben Norton. I'm joined by my co-host, |
| 0:09.5 | Max Blumenthal, and we did a live stream with a friend of the show, the brilliant journalist |
| 0:15.9 | Yasha Levine. We talked about a variety of issues. In fact, it was over three hours. So what we did with |
| 0:23.7 | the episode is divided it into three different episodes. If you're listening to this as a podcast |
| 0:29.8 | or if you're watching it as a clip on YouTube, we discussed in this first part the very |
| 0:37.3 | interesting history of anti-Soviet propaganda |
| 0:41.6 | supported by the United States and Israel, claiming that Soviet Jews were facing genocide, |
| 0:50.1 | were facing this horrible repression and had no choice but to immigrate to Israel. |
| 0:56.6 | Yasha, who was born in the Soviet Union and then raised in the United States, |
| 1:01.0 | has done a lot of really interesting reporting on this, looking into the propaganda, |
| 1:05.9 | and how it was a key weapon in the first Cold War, |
| 1:10.3 | just as how similar bogus accusations are now being |
| 1:14.4 | leveled against China in the new Cold War. And my colleague Max, he also talks about the extreme |
| 1:21.6 | racism inside Israeli society, not just against Palestinians, the indigenous Palestinians, but also against |
| 1:29.4 | other Jews. So without further ado, this is part one of our interview with the journalist |
| 1:34.8 | Yashal Levine. |
| 1:36.1 | I'll never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don't care what the facts are. |
| 1:43.4 | Why are we going to sit down and talk to these quote unquote moderate rebels? |
| 1:47.0 | Who are the truly moderate rebels? |
| 1:49.0 | The search for the moderate rebel? Do these moderate rebels exist? |
| 1:56.0 | Moderate Rebels. |
| 2:01.8 | Hey, everyone, so we are live, and I'm guessing that most of the people watching this are going to be watching on YouTube. |
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