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Ep. 02 - All Our Liberation Is Linked

This is Episode 2 of the Palestine Pod. A Palestinian-American Lawyer & Jewish-American comedian break down the latest Palestine-related news with commentary & interviews every week. In this episode, Lara and Michael cover the latest assertions of the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the UN Gilad Erdan who, following a trip to the "American south," said he was touched by learning about segregation and the Jim Crow era calling it an "incredibly moving trip." The Times of Israel reports that the ambassador compared slave plantations in the US to concentration camps but said there was "no comparison" between Israel's treatment of Palestinians and struggles for racial justice in the US. Lara and Michael play a quick round of “Sounds like Jim Crow or Not” to test the ambassador’s unsupported assertions on the reality of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians which according to Michael “fold like a house of cards after Kevin Spacey got accused.” Lara and Michael reject the ambassador’s attempts to exploit the Black struggle in the US and erase a deep history of Black-Palestinian solidarity going back to the 1960s and existing until today. Citing the book Black Power and Palestine, Lara and Michael cover the positions of leading Black activists throughout the ages including Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, and Angela Davis, and describe the anti-imperial, anti-colonial, and anti-racist connections that undeniably form the foundation of the solidarity between Black liberation and Palestinian liberation activists. Lara and Michael coin the term “crocodile sympathy” to refer attempts by Pro-Israel apologists to posture themselves as compassionate supporters of equality in situations not involving Palestinian rights, meanwhile hypocritically participating in the system that deprives Palestinians of the very rights they purport to support elsewhere. Lara and Michael offer other examples of crocodile sympathy, including (i) IDF soldiers’ social media posts about donating their hair to cancer patients as they participate in the very institution that denies Palestinians access to health care by bombing hospitals in Gaza, denying permits to seek health care elsewhere, restricting importation of medicine and medical equipment, preventing pregnant Palestinian women from reaching hospitals at checkpoints, and (ii) Israel’s provision of COVID-19 vaccines to Honduras and the Czech Republic while blocking the entrance of COVID-19 vaccines to Gaza, denying 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza vaccines in violation of its international obligations as an international power, and the demolition of a COVID-19 testing site in the occupied West Bank earlier this year. 00:00 Intro 02:56 The notion of "Crocodile Sympathy" 07:46 Does Israel Practice Jim Crow on Palestinians? (Yes) 18:50 US Police & IDF plant "drop weapons" on unarmed civilians 24:31 Longstanding ties between Black & Palestinian Liberation activists 36:58 Israel tries to attract "Lone Soldiers" 40:17 Lara remembers Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor and activist 42:37 More Crocodile Sympathy 47:39 More about Hedy Epstein 49:32 Name That Colonizer! 52:25 The Palestinian Connection to Nature in the land of Palestine 56:50 Obama talks AIPAC influence over US Government 1:02:23 Lara reacts to International Criminal Court (ICC) case v. Israel Support us on Patreon!   / palestinepod   Follow Lara:   / gazangirl     / thegazangirl   Follow Michael:   / michael_schirtzer   https://linktr.ee/MikeyB_on Music By: https://www.morganjay.com/ Graphics by:   / dalia.ea     / r3shonetwo   All sources relied upon in the preparation of this episode can be found at: https://www.palestinepod.com/episodes...