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Zach Weinersmith

Anyone wanna link me to a thoughtful podcast or debate or whatever on Israel/Palestine.

(Snarky rejoinders less appreciated than sharing the thing requested)

23 September at 16:47 | Open on mastodon.social
19 comments
Eugene Meidinger
Grant Gould
pettter

@ZachWeinersmith The Dig has been doing a great primer series on 20th century Arab politics that goes into it a bit: thedigradio.com/Thawra/

23 September at 16:50 | Open on mastodon.acc.umu.se
p

I think Norm Finkelstein is something worth listening to
@ZachWeinersmith

23 September at 16:51 | Open on raru.re
@now@n
vksxypants

@ZachWeinersmith if you do find a good one please post it! Would love one too.

23 September at 17:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Shaun Chamberlin

@ZachWeinersmith
This struck me as a particularly brave and important conversation between a Palestinian and an Israeli who care about each other, agonisingly trying to reach some common understanding from wildly different perspectives.

Important because, after all, we don't make peace with those who already see things the same way. It can only be made with our 'enemies', through these kinds of conversations:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

@ZachWeinersmith
This struck me as a particularly brave and important conversation between a Palestinian and an Israeli who care about each other, agonisingly trying to reach some common understanding from wildly different perspectives.

Important because, after all, we don't make peace with those who already see things the same way. It can only be made with our 'enemies', through these kinds of conversations:

23 September at 17:12 | Open on mstdn.social
Groenendael (or Frank)
miscellanium

@groenendael @ZachWeinersmith seconding this one, he admits it's a very basic overview but imo he does a good job providing context for his most important points.

23 September at 17:23 | Open on blorbo.social
Clancy Parliament

@ZachWeinersmith
Bob Wright and Steven Walt from a month ago
nonzero.social/@robertwrighter

There's a more recent Non-Zero one that's also good, but I think it's still behind the paywall

23 September at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.online
B O

@ZachWeinersmith John Oliver did a very nice episode on it

23 September at 17:55 | Open on techhub.social
Brian Marick

@ZachWeinersmith Fordham University has a three part history of Israel and Palestine, with an Arab scholar (of Lebanese descent) and a Jewish American scholar.

Part I: How Did We Get Here?: A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine, 1882-1948 youtube.com/watch?v=bRhfr5Zpox

1948-1967: youtube.com/watch?v=q2N-ccLmgN
1967-2023: youtube.com/watch?v=DfutwRpH7q

23 September at 18:07 | Open on mstdn.social
Nat Rhein

@ZachWeinersmith

The Ezra Klein Podcast has been my favorite for thoughtful, not-completely-one-sided discussion of Israel:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

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I recall this EconTalk episode being a good (if meandering) discussion, specifically re the difficulty reconciling each sides' notion of the truth:

econtalk.org/the-challenge-of-

Finally, here's one from Destiny - it's rather heated, but very chill compared to most of his debates, and it focuses on the legal details of Israel's actions; it's more nuanced than almost every other similar discussion I've seen:

youtube.com/watch?v=7p1D1IqYfl

@ZachWeinersmith

The Ezra Klein Podcast has been my favorite for thoughtful, not-completely-one-sided discussion of Israel:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

23 September at 18:12 | Open on c.im
Chaogomu
egrets

@ZachWeinersmith if you don't need it to be audio/video (though he has clipped videos from elsewhere), the following blog post by documentarian Adam Curtis is well worth reading: bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/ent

23 September at 18:37 | Open on mastodon.online
atomkarinca
@ZachWeinersmith https://guerillahistory.libsyn.com has been doing great episodes since october 7. They have done episodes on indigeneity, apartheid, colonialism aspects in detail. Hosts and the guests are mostly history scholars.
23 September at 19:48 | Open on fe.disroot.org
Peterson Silva

@ZachWeinersmith Some More News is informative and entertaining, although their take was more pointedly about genocide denialism: youtube.com/watch?v=LrGlRax9Ai

23 September at 20:21 | Open on kolektiva.social
raccoona_nongrata

@ZachWeinersmith

If you want analysis of current events that often includes historical context, the Majority Report podcast/youtube is good.

They cover Israel/Palestine quite a bit these days since the most recent stage of the genocide began last year.

If you really know nothing about Israel or Palestine, ypu might be best served going back to their podcasts/videos starting last year or so.

23 September at 20:25 | Open on mastodon.social
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