Hen Mazzig: Jews have stood with the Left, why don't they stand with us?
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Jake - thanks for having Hen Mazzig as your guest. His perspective is invaluable, and I'm grateful for his activism. BTW - along with introducing your guests, please don't forget to take a moment to introduce yourself at the beginning of your videos. It's not necessarily evident to those of us only discovering you now. Thanks, friend.
The sound quality is dreadful.
Sound quality is not that bad.
For a professional company like the JC, it is quite lackluster.@@8_7478
AGREE! I was going to say! Jake needs some sort of mic that reduces echo!
“Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the ‘Freedom Party’ (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.” Excerpt from a letter published in the New York Times on December 4, 1948 protesting the visit of a right-wing Israeli politician to the United States. Among those who signed the letter are Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein.
Apartheid oppression and colonialism are wrong it’s that simple.
Muffled sound from Jake. Great interview though.
“The most important aspect of our [Israel’s] policy must be our ever-present, manifest desire to institute complete equality for the Arab citizens living in our midst. . . . The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people.” Einstein in 1955.
Very interesting. Like to always learn new perspectives. I’ll read his book in due course. Thanks for showcasing it. Stay safe and blessed my brothers. Am Y’Israel chai. Baruch HaShem. 🙌👏🏼👏🏼💐🇬🇧✡️🇮🇱☮️❤️🇬🇧
The editor of the JC just said he is against identity politics. Think about that.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
In a 1968 essay titled "The Territories", Leibowitz postulated a hellish future:
The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials, and police-mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the State of Israel. The administration would suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israel Defense Forces, which has been until now a people's army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who will have become military governors, resemble their colleagues in other nations.
So funny; those things like being gay and secular don’t put him on the periphery as a Jew.
If Israel can use the latest hi tech to win this conflict the Jewish Chronicle can provide a decent microphone for its editor. Really annoying to listen to.
Did you just bastardize Nietzsche in your thumbnail and try to pass yourself of as the quotes progenitor?
עם ישראל הי
Hen is rightly against tokenizing jewish voices and orgs but thinks it is a good thing the way people have flocked to Yoseph Haddad? you are just against the racist tokenizing that happens to Jews, not arabs if that is the case.
Israel is here to stay. Arabs must fight for the land.
Why?
@@benqurayza7872 Very simple. What has the Arab world brought to the world besides showing off with expensive golden wrapped cars in London streets? I don't want to talk about Jews. You do the research with your Intel chip computer.
“If we continue to treat the Arabs (Palestinians) like this, we’re going to have a disaster here.” -Hebrew scholar and Rabbi in Palestine in 1895. Also, are you seriously going to bring up Hannah Arendt and NOT mention how she compared far-right nationalistic Israeli political parties to the Nazis? You’re just cherry-picking facts to suit your narrative.
As with Jews, saying 'the Left' ignores the differences that exist within it over israel. Under its post Corbyn leadershio, the UK Labour Party, unlike certain other western parties both left and right, has stood firm in its defence of Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas. So do all my leftist associates, who, like myself, would take offence at this blanket condemnation.
I am not so sure the Labour Party is united in the view that Israel has every right to defend itself. Certainly it is better than it was under Corbyn. I wish it was, as the Conservatives, who tend to be more united on this issue,are taking every opportunity to win over Jews.
I am not so sure the Labour Party is united in the view that Israel has every right to defend itself. Certainly it is better than it was under Corbyn. I wish it was, as the Conservatives, who tend to be more united on this issue,are taking every opportunity to win over Jews.
You are right But I never said, or implied, that it was. However, most of the hard-core Corbynista Jew-baiters have either been expelled or left, while many who left under Corbyn have returned. The German SPD is also firmly pro-Israel. These are the two largest left centre parties in the world, and that is why it is so wrong to lump together all the left as being anti-Israel.
Because you can take the Jew out of the Marx, but you can't take the Marx out of the shtetl.