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🗓️ 26 July 2024
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Palestinian writer and poet Mohammed el-Kurd is from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. He became known around the world when he resisted the theft of his family home by Israeli settlers.
Now, as he and his community continue to resist, he is constantly asked in Western media: But what about their feelings? Where will the settlers go?
His response created a meltdown for corporate media elites: “I truly don’t give a f***”
In a new satirical parody of the disingenuous Western media, Mohammed expands his answer: “Why should I care about what happens to the settlements? What happens to the people who have been bombed to smithereens? What happens to our relatives who are in prisons rotting away without charge or trial? But what I'm asked to care about is the hypothetical future of the settlers who drink their coffee from my balcony.”
So we chat with Mohammed on Useful Idiots to find out why he’s using satire to make fun of the corporate media that treats Palestinians so disingenuously.
“Ever since this genocidal onslaught on Gaza started,” he says. “It's become more and more circus-like. Being a Palestinian in the media sphere almost feels gimmicky, like it's being done for entertainment values. We are told to take these ridiculous accusations seriously, to respond to them in good faith. In reality, when you're responding to them in good faith, you're giving them power over you.”
Mohammed’s parody, which he made with Jewish Voice for Peace activist Morgan Bassichis, is instead titled In Bad Faith. “When you're satirizing them, when you're dismissing them, you are in fact flipping the script. It teaches the audience at home something. It inspires them and incentivizes them to be more flippant, to be more irreverent, to refuse these kinds of investigations and interrogations.”
What is serious: Mohammed goes in-depth on what it was like to have people violently raid his community and steal their homes.
“They would look at us like they were at an auction for zoo animals. And that's how it felt. We grew up with settlers doing all kinds of sexual harassment, verbal abuses, and they're always protected by police. We would have busloads come into our front yard and sing their religious songs and scream their expletives at us, spit at us. If I didn't live that life, I would not believe it.”
Subscribe for the full interview with Mohammed el-Kurd where we ask him if there’s any difference between Trump and the Democrats, discuss the New York Times’ complicity with their rampant anti-Palestinian propaganda, and find out: will Kamala Harris be any different?
00:00 Intro
00:58 Netanyahu goes to Congress
16:26 Mohammed el-Kurd interview
17:20 MSM parody "In Bad Faith"
21:34 Why should I care about settlers?
25:02 College encampments
27:34 How settlers took their homes
32:17 Killing poets
40:00 Trump vs Dems: What's the Difference?
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie helper. I'm Mary Matche. |
0:07.0 | Thank you so much for being here. Our website is useful idiots podcast.com. Go there, support the show and get |
0:16.7 | bonus content. It's a crazy time in the world. The president has announced he's the president of the US |
0:23.0 | Joe Biden is not running for re-election he was pushed out by his party elite |
0:27.1 | Kamala Harris is now taking his place Democrats are feeling energized and excited. The Trump campaign, they were |
0:35.5 | coasting. Their man had survived an assassination attempt. And Joe Biden, of course, was the best opponent |
0:43.3 | that could possibly ask for, and now he's gone. |
0:45.6 | And meanwhile, both parties are coming together |
0:47.3 | to welcome arch-war criminal, arch-evil figure Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington and we're going to cover all that |
0:57.0 | and more in today's show. Yeah so for Democrats suck let's take a look at how |
1:01.7 | Democrats reacted to Netanyahu addressing Democrats who we have a sense of what we're dealing with. Many anti-Israel protesters, many choose to stand with evil. |
1:18.3 | They stand with Hamas. |
1:20.6 | They stand with rapists and murders. They stand with people who came into the kibbutzim, into a home. |
1:28.0 | The parents hid the children, the two babies in the attic, in a secret attic, they murder the |
1:34.7 | families, the parents, they find the secret latch to the hidden attic, and then |
1:40.2 | they murder the babies. |
1:43.0 | These processors stand with them. |
1:44.8 | They should be ashamed of themselves. |
1:46.6 | And then of course for saying that Nenejo gets one of his many standing ovations from this bipartisan chamber. |
1:57.0 | What he's saying there though, along with dozens of other claims that he made, was a lie. |
2:02.0 | Those babies were not murdered. |
2:04.2 | There's only one baby that was killed on October 7th, |
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