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Will McCaffery is a leftist content creator focused on anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, and anti-capitalism, and the author of a new Current Affairs article on Israel’s upcoming election.
He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what Israel’s elections reveal about the limits of liberal democracy, the political consensus behind apartheid and occupation, and what those same dynamics can teach us about elections and empire in the United States.
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0:00–4:52 How Western Media Frames Israel’s Election
4:52–7:53 Can an Apartheid State Be a Democracy?
7:53–9:54 Why Have Arab Parties in an Ethnostate?
9:54–13:37 “Pragmatic” vs. “Evocative” Fascism
13:37–19:08 The Ethnic Supremacist Consensus in Israeli Politics
19:08–22:13 Why Israel’s Far Right Is More Honest About Zionism
22:13–29:28 Bringing the Critique Home to the American Empire
29:28–32:43 The Iran War and Whose Lives American Politics Values
32:43–37:54 The Victims of Empire Don’t Get a Vote
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