Slobering all over Israel used to be an electoral asset, expressing any kind of sympathy or solidarity,

with the Palestinians or recognizing their rights was an electoral burden.

That has now been completely inverted increasingly. Alignment

with Israel is becoming an electoral bird rather than asset. after the NASA. So, It is a true pleasure to be joined on bad faith podcast today by Muin Rabani.

You know him as so many millions of people now

famous viral debate on the Lex Freeman podcast on the side of Norm Finkelstein who we had recently on the podcast

on the podcast but also co-editoreditor of Jedelia and one of the most important

voices that have emerged in conversations around the ongoing siege of Gaza.

Welcome to Bad Faith podcast.

Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to be with you and thank you for having me.

I really mean it.

I know that that debate, I guess, will call it,

went viral for a lot of reasons,

some substantive, some superficial.

But I really do want to convey to you how much I appreciated your tone and

some of the think more undersung points you were able to make. I was saying to Norm

Finkelstein recently that I thought you're kind of good cop bad cop tonally ended up being very effective

because in these relatively quieter moments you were so incredibly

persuasive and there could be no argument that it was kind of a

driven by personal animus or an emotional response or anything like that.

And I really do think that some of your moments were some of the best moments during the debate,

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