Why I Spoke Against Genocide - Israeli Academic w/. Prof. Lee Mordechai
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Prof. Lee Mordechai is a leading Israeli historian - and he went viral after he spoke out against what he describes as genocide: https://twitter.com/LeeMordechai/status/1780034934444331325
We have a lot to talk about - but history tells us how important figures like Prof. Mordechai are.
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| 0:00.0 | So what I try to do, as I've said quite a few times since this all began, is to try and elevate voices which won't be heard elsewhere and should be. |
| 0:10.0 | And someone who I've been reading a lot, |
| 0:15.6 | and as have many of you actually, |
| 0:17.7 | which will talk about, is an Israeli academic |
| 0:20.8 | named Lee Mordecai, who is a Israeli academic named Lee Mordecai who is a history academic and what he's |
| 0:27.4 | done is he's used his position as a citizen to speak out. |
| 0:34.0 | And two words which I think you're, well maybe you're not bored of me hearing as |
| 0:38.7 | listeners is moral clarity which I think have been the two for me, most important words since this all began. |
| 0:48.0 | And Lee has, I think, shown more clarity in ways which I think |
| 0:55.0 | are very profound, very moving and extremely courageous |
| 0:58.0 | for reasons I think we'll discuss. |
| 1:01.0 | And just before I just bring Lee in as he sits here, waiting for me to stop talking. |
| 1:08.2 | He wrote a viral threat. He went huge numbers of view you shared it, commented on it. I can see here got 1.9 million views. |
| 1:26.5 | Including a document where he writes, you know, is entitled bearing witness to the Israel-Gazah War, |
| 1:32.7 | which begins, I. Lee Mordecai, a historian and Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document as events were unfolding to the whole situation in the Gaza Strip. Lee, hello how are you doing? Hey Owen, great |
| 1:37.6 | great to be on. Thanks for having me on. It's an honor. No it's |
| 1:41.5 | honors or mine honestly. I just want to start because you call this bearing |
| 1:48.0 | witness and I'm just interested what why is it so important to speak out I mean you almost |
| 1:54.3 | it's really interesting reading through the document you've in a very long |
| 1:57.4 | thorough detailed document which I can see your academic training really comes in |
| 2:02.0 | it's very evidenced about what's happening in Gaza and why you consider this to be a genocide which will come on to you. |
| 2:09.0 | And it almost reads partly as it almost comes across as a missive to the future it almost |
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