Israeli election season has been dominated by Zionist debate over October 7, but this debate has not included discussion of ending the Gaza genocide because no one in Israeli society wants this to happen.
]]>Israeli election season has been dominated by Zionist debate over October 7, but this debate has not included discussion of ending the Gaza genocide because no one in Israeli society wants this to happen.
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Brazil’s Oct. 25 presidential runoff is a referendum on Israel and the final test of Latin America’s rightward swing, with Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro offering starkly different paths for Palestine.
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Adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism has become a marker of Latin America’s rightward shift, as governments across the region align with Israeli foreign policy and move to criminalize solidarity with Palestine.
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The upcoming U.S. and Israeli elections will likely lead Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to renew their misguided war on Iran with even greater ferocity than before in an effort to save their political lives.
]]>Our guest is Aharon Dardik. Aharon is an Israeli-American ex-settler, and conscientious objector to the Israeli military. While at Columbia University, he was a nonviolent activist. Earlier this week he was detained by Israeli forces while doing protective presence for West Bank Palestinians during olive harvest.
We discussed:
Dardik’s experience attempting protective presence
Trying to converse with soldiers
Dardik’s childhood in a settlement and how he outgrew it
Interacting with loved ones who still support Israel
Whether Israeli settlers should leave or remain, but as equals
(Apologies for the banding on Aharon’s video. I’m told it’s the result of an American camera operating with Israeli lighting.)
Notes:
There will be no live Zoom today.
I wrote in the monday newsletter I’d be interviewing Jordan Acker, but Jordan was feeling ill and had to cancel.