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UNLOCKED: 805 - My First Genocide feat. Ali Abunimah (2/8/24)

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today, executive director of the Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah joins us to discuss the war in Palestine. We cover recent attempts to delegitimize and destroy UNRWA, atrocity propaganda, evolving capabilities of Palestinian resistance, changing attitudes towards Israel in the U.S., and the life, career and death of Palestinian author Refaat Alareer. Find the Electronic Intifada here: https://electronicintifada.net/ And on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheElectronicIntifada You can find Gaza Writes Back, the short story collection edited by Refaat Alareer, here: https://justworldbooks.com/books-by-title/gaza-writes-back/

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0:00.0

The All I'm going to be is a jumble.

0:24.0

We're in a problem.

0:26.0

I'm a damn they're so.

0:28.0

All I'm gonna be a jump.

0:31.0

Hello everybody, it's Thursday February 8th and Chappo is back with you. So

0:39.1

basically since this show has started but certainly since October 7th you know we've tried to do

0:45.6

our best to speak our minds about what Israel is and what the situation is

0:51.1

there is like for the people of Palestine.

0:53.8

And I've tried to do, we tried to do our best with that.

0:56.2

But joining us today is someone who's been working and covering this issue

0:59.8

and living it for a much longer time than this show has been around and as someone who's

1:03.4

writing up and following for a long time it's my pleasure to have join us on the

1:07.5

show today Ali Abunima the executive director of the electronic intifada

1:11.8

Ali welcome to the show.

1:13.3

Thank you, Will.

1:14.4

Ali, like I said, like we've been, since October 7th,

1:18.5

we've obviously had to focus on little else but the situation in Gaza and I guess I just want to open things up by asking you as someone who's covered this for a long time because at the same time right now we are seeing horrors that can really only be likened

1:33.0

to how on earth unfolding in front of our very eyes.

1:36.1

But at the same time, we're seeing many individual

1:39.0

and collective acts of bravery and resistance

1:41.3

to the Zionist project in like a sort of a breaking of the

1:44.8

dam in public opinion that we have not seen certainly in my lifetime. So Ali as

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