Anna Baltzer tells me that The Daily Show’s staff said last night’s heckler was their first in 11 years on the air. Wow. I thought Dr. Barghouti’s response to the interruption was brilliant:
This severe reaction sometime reflects certain nervousness on the side of people who are afraid of change. And the change is happening, the change is coming. Palestinians like everybody else are entitled to the same freedom that Jewish people should have. That’s what we are calling for – equal rights.
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Please write them and thank them for bringing on such important voices, and encourage them to feature more!
Done, with emails off requesting that friends and family do the same.
The Zionists have an organized network of intimidation, the other side does not.
The irony continues to strike me here: http://mondoweiss.net/2009/10/palestinian-equal-rights-joins-the-progressive-agenda-on-the-daily-show.html#comment-119401
where you float the notion of the anti-Occupation movement getting as organized as the Zionist movement and Witty’s reaction to that.
Talk about Jewish exceptionalism taken to its extreme! Although of course, to Witty, the only “real” Jews are apparently the Zionist ones. You can see it in his rhetoric on the whole notion of Jewish identity, as well as how he reacts to non-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Anna Balzer and even Phill Weiss — who he keeps claiming to be long time friends with, and then treats like dirt on his own blog.
I want to thank you for having Anna Balzer and Mustapha Barghouti on your show.
I am impressed with Barghouti’s commitment to non-violence. I’m not as impressed with Anna’s approach.
Both consistently deflected your questions, occassionally to the point of deception.
Rather than propose, both are fundamentally critical in orientation. For example, relative to the question of two state solution, they intentionally deflected that question entirely.
And, when any question relative to the deferred state of civil war between Hamas and Fatah, was entirely deflected.
Everybody spins. So, why shouldn’t they seek to pose the questions in the term that they desire, answering the question that ask themselves, rather than the question that you ask them.
I don’t see hope arising from the boycott movement, or from really any movement stated only in “anti” terms.
“Anti” constructs at best a silhouette, whether anti-Zionist or anti-Palestinian. The silhouette can be discernable and clear, or it can be vague and contain so many contradictions to be impossible.
Barghouti and Balzer didn’t leave enough in their silhouette to rely on, from my view.
Maybe the could if they engaged the questions that you asked, but they didn’t answer.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Zionists are the biggest threat that any Jewish person has to face. Just look at it in action up here. Jewish women in particular, it seems.
What you miss is that they don’t need to spin. With 15 minutes, knowing that it will turn into less than 10, you have to emphasize the overall message in order to get people to look into topic themselves. They are trying to make a just cause mainstream and change current discourse. We know their message is truthful and honorable – preaching the end of occupation, and preaching equal rights for Palestinians (whether that is a right to establish a country on 1967 borders, or a single country for all with equal rights)
Don’t delude yourself. There are plenty of places with discussion (such as this) that go into the details that you feel they deflected. Of course, you may be the best to know if they deflected because you do it all the time.
It was Jon Stewart’s questions that they intentionally deflected, more than deflected.
He fed them wonderful questions to answer, which Barghouti did ably mostly.
Where do you get off accusing people of deflecting questions? That’s pretty much your career now here on Mondoweiss, Witty.
Zionist core strategy: whatever you’re doing wrong, blame it on a Palestinian.
Fatah and Hamas are in a conflict over how best to hand Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the former being heavily corrupted by an apathetic acceptance of Israel’s ongoing conquest of Palestine, and the latter being a rejection of that. As for the arguments Stewart made:
Arguement: …Iran saying; hey, we would like to wipe [Israel] off the face of the earth.
Response: That’s actually a butched translation taken out of context, when in fact Ahmadinejad suggsted nothing of the sort.
A: …[Iranians] are building nucluar weapons…
R: There is “no credible evidence” of that. Arguments to the contrary are nothing but a variation of the same propaganda tactics which left us chasing smoke and mirrors into the mess which is our occupation of Iraq.
A: …[Palestinian] telivision shows for childern … that were very anti-Semitic…
R: While I agree the Mickey Mouse clone was awful, indoctrinating children into violence, at least from what I’ve seen of the show, it never suggested anything actually bigoted. Beyond that, it’s a shame organizations like Middle East Media Research Institute only cover the worst of Arab and Muslim media, as I’d like get a better idea of what television programing Israeli kids like this have been subjected to.
A: …in 1948 when Palestinians were forced to leave their land, many Jews were forced to leave their land, in Iran and Iraq and all those places…
R: When around 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from what became Israel in 1948, Zionists had been promoting Jewish immigration from around the world to bolster their numbers in Palestine, and many Middle Eastern Jews went willingly both before and after the war of 1948. The fact that some three quarters of a million Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed to create the “Jewish state” resulted creating distrust of Jews among the population of the Middle East, and various nations handled the situation differently. In the case of Iran, there was no policy of expulsion, and Iraq initially disallowed immigration to Israel after the War, as did most other Arab states. Of course there were expulsions since the 1948 war, and many Jews otherwise persecuted into leaving Middle Eastern countries since then, but it takes an absurdly superficial perspective of the situation to consider it analogous the ethnic cleansing of Palestine which established the state of Israel.
I don’t hold it against Jon that he made such arguments though, as I’m sure he was just trying to represent the opposition the best he could, and such lame arguments are basically all they have. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone else actually wrote those points on his cue cards for him, as from what I’ve seen of his comments on the conflict previously, I figure he would have preferred to agree with Baltzer and Barghouti far more than he did.
Done and Done. The extended interview was great, too bad it had to be edited for the show.
I would have loved that heckler to go down, after the interview, and defend his position. I’m sure that tag team duo would have easily buried him under his mound of propaganda
The Daily Show has a separate section called Interviews. You can usually find the long versions of the more interesting interviews parked there.
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