The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine
Deconstructed
The Intercept
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim speaks to the filmmakers behind “Israelism,” a new documentary that takes a narrative look at the unique relationship between the American Jewish community and an idealized version of the state of Israel. Grim is joined by “Israelism” co-directors Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen. Axelman and Eilertsen are two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Simone Zimmerman and Eitan. Zimmerman, co-founder of the progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow, also joins the conversation. To watch the film, visit Israelismfilm.com; you can also find upcoming screenings on their website.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Deconsstructed. I'm Ryan Grimm. These are some pretty dark times, so I wanted to start with two pieces of good news from previous episodes. |
| 0:11.6 | Now first, you might remember the episode we did on the |
| 0:14.3 | county commissioners in the villages Florida who tried to fight back against the |
| 0:18.2 | local Desantis machine and they lost with two of them catching charges and one even spending 75 days in jail for what I described at the time as bogus |
| 0:27.7 | felony perjury charges. |
| 0:29.9 | After our report, listeners to this podcast and readers of the article donated tens of thousands of dollars to his legal defense fund, which enabled him to appeal his conviction, a three-judge panel made up entirely of Republicans some of them to Santis appointees, not only vacated |
| 0:46.1 | his conviction, but forced the same judge who railroaded him to enter a verdict of not guilty. |
| 0:52.4 | Not a plea of not guilty, not a plea of not guilty, but a verdict of not guilty. |
| 0:57.0 | And then the judge who railroaded him announced he was retiring, even though he was only fairly recently |
| 1:02.2 | re-elected. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, and next, Ron DeSantis is going to have to give Commissioner Orrin Miller his seat back on the County Commission |
| 1:09.0 | and pay him six figures in back pay. |
| 1:12.0 | Hard to imagine a more satisfying outcome for a piece of journalism, |
| 1:16.4 | and so thank you to everybody who listened and everybody who gave to that legal defense |
| 1:20.1 | fund making his appeal possible. And last April, if you'll recall, we interviewed |
| 1:25.5 | two DHL workers trying to organize a union at the major airport in |
| 1:29.2 | Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Not only did they successfully organize with the teamsters and |
| 1:34.3 | get recognized, they went on a 12-day strike and won an extremely good contract |
| 1:39.0 | for more than a thousand workers at the airport. I've been covering the labor movement for a long time and it's awfully |
| 1:44.8 | rare to see that big and fast of a victory. Meanwhile, of course, the world is continuing to spiral |
| 1:51.5 | out of control. The Biden administration claims it is |
| 1:54.6 | trying to restrain Israel and prevent the conflict from spreading region-wide, |
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