I apologize for making two comments in a row defending Piker, but I really don't think Piker is platforming a big newspaper like Haaretz in this situation. Aside from problems in his message that are true wherever he gives it, it's generally good to go on reactionary major media platforms to be able to present your arguments to their audience. If it was some tiny zionist rag, then of course he shouldn't go there and give them air, but this is not that situation.
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I really thought we solved the whole radlib platforming/deplatforming discourse years ago; if they're bigger than you, you're the one being platformed
Anti-zionism advanced in any medium is good
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I’m begging people to touch grass on this. Hasan is being attacked by the entire mainstream media apparatus right now, with Democrats and Republicans tearing into him for pushing anti-Zionism.
Seriously, he is not your enemy in this lol. He might not have your same exact approach in fighting Zionism, but that doesn’t matter. Be normal and realize when an ally is an ally.
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Also Hasan when he meets and praises Bernie Sanders and Brad Lander: "They are not like other liberal zionists."
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I don’t understand why suddenly so many people on the left are accusing Hasan of being a zionist. Is it because he’s on the news all the time so he faces more scrutiny for being more famous? Is Finkelstein also a zionist? Is Hamas a zionist organisation for publicly supporting a 2 state solution?
I understand that people criticise his moves in electoral politics but the accusations of him being a zionist are a recent development.
With these standards most Palestinians would even be considered zionist because they usually lean very pragmatic in their political demands.
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oh no, the newest influencer sweetheart of Usian established liberal zionist politicians is... gasp! a liberal zionist? never meet your heroes, kids.
that being said i was a baby leftist once, and Hasan was an integral part of that development. is he actually a principled socialist playing both sides to keep his job/mansion? has he actually sold out for the clout (and the "hella israeli hasanabiheads")? who the hell knows, but actions speak louder than words or thoughts. wouldn't be the first demsoc to sell out ig
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This seems like a bad idea, you generally shouldn't give interviews to the people who have done everything in their power to smear you and lie about your position, all it does is legitimize their claims about you, and they won't play fair in the interview at all.
The inevitable conclusion to any debate pervert's story arc
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Doesn't it seem a little odd that the publisher puts in an aerial view of Khan Yunus, where you can see a square mile in which every single building is reduced to rubble?
Normally the Zionist sources are saying "it's not that bad, it's exaggerated" but then they show the entire city destroyed, in comparison with a photo of a few burnt cars allegedly from the Nova music festival.
The choice of pictures is almost making Hasan's point for him.
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"I've condemned October 7, I've talked about the crimes that took place. I've talked about the heinous violence we saw unfold, as did everyone else," he says. "I see it as an unfortunate and tragic consequence of 75 years of apartheid and occupation, where desperate people are leaning into unfathomable acts of violence as a final way to try to remind people that they're there and to make the occupation as costly as possible."
– Hasan "not a liberal Zionist" Piker
and this is how they repay him lmao, why aren’t you nicer to us
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