Palestine Part I: Genocide Joe and the Total Destruction of Gaza

Crawdads and Taters: Red State Rebels

In Part One one of our series on Palestine, we review the horrific events since October 7th as the death toll in Gaza reaches nearly 6,000.

We analyze the US role in funding and providing political cover for Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide in the occupied territories of Palestine.

We explore the history of Israel as a settler colonial regime that began in 1948.

We hear from various Jewish voices for peace- Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté, Jewish Voices for Peace as well as historians of holocaust and genocide who describe why what's happening now in Gaza is a textbook definition of genocide.

We explore the history of the Zionist land claim on Palestine and deconstruct it through a settler-colonialist lens.

And we discuss Palestinian attempts at non-violent resistance that have been met with mass murder and extreme violence.

Stay tuned for Part Two of this series coming later this week.

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Reading Notes:

Israel Has No Right of Self-Defense Against Gaza

Gaza’s terrified children all too aware Israel’s bombs steal their joy

Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #17 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory

800+ Legal Scholars Say Israel May Be Perpetrating 'Crime of Genocide' in GazaGaza by Norman Finkelstein - Paperback - University of California Press

The roots of Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza

US opposes peace as Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians, waging war on ‘entire nation’ of Gaza

Outrage spreads across Middle East after attack on Gaza hospital

Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. Would that it were otherwise.

Dr. Gabor Maté on Palestine