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🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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We just posted a Patreon-only episode of Bad Hasbara with journalist Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada to discuss the recent raid of Asa’s home and seizure of his devices by the bobbies (UK Feds). Here's a taste of the opening where we do a dramatic reading of a crazy tweet about how hasbara has failed.
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0:00.0 | His name is Matthew Feinberg and he has this long-ass post about how... |
0:07.0 | This is one of these ain't reading all that moments where we're actually going to read all that. |
0:10.0 | Yes, exactly. |
0:11.0 | He's a Maga-Zionist, he describes himself as a Florida Magizionist. |
0:16.0 | So he wrote this long post about how Hasbara has failed us. |
0:20.0 | Daniel, do you want to do a dramatic reading of it? Hasbara has failed us. Daniel, do you want to do a dramatic reading of it? |
0:22.6 | Hasbara has failed us. |
0:24.6 | For decades, we've relied on the same approaches to explain Israel's right to exist. |
0:29.6 | I'm going to have to stop you right there because this has a different feel to me. |
0:35.6 | Let's read it a little bit more like this. |
0:43.5 | Well, it certainly has the girth of this. |
0:46.2 | Oh, my God. |
0:47.9 | Bad Hasbara. |
0:49.8 | Oh, I love that you did this, episode 58. |
0:52.9 | Asa-based. |
0:54.6 | Hasbara has failed us. |
0:56.1 | For decades, we've relied on the same approaches to explain. |
0:58.8 | Is this the right accent? |
0:59.6 | Israel's right to exist, believing that if we could just provide enough facts and figures, |
1:03.6 | we'd win the argument. |
1:05.0 | We'd been playing by a tired script, Hildi, hoping logic would prevail. |
1:08.9 | But let's be honest, traditional Hasbara has failed us. Why? Because we're trying to reason with people who hate, and therefore aren't injured and here. |
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