Following up on my conversation with Toronto comedian Nour Hadidi: I'm haunted by one detail from the harassment campaign against her.

It's about how she posted the clip of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh refusing Christiane Amanpour's question, "Do you wish Hamas had never committed October 7th?" by dismantling its premise entirely.

I look at Adam Johnson's research on the "Do you condemn Hamas" formula as a media disciplining strategy, Frantz Fanon's analysis of the colonized intellectual required to perform Western values before being heard, Charles Cobb's history of the nonviolence demand inside the civil rights movement, and communications scholar Zohar Kampf's empirical study of adversarial ethnopolitical interviews.

Kampf identifies six options for interviewees facing the condemnation ritual, and only one of them doesn't feel like caving. 

Sources

Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Slammed CNN — YouTube

Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi — Citations Needed podcast

Noura Erakat — Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine — Stanford University Press

Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth — Grove Press

Charles Cobb — This Nonviolence Stuff'll Get You Killed — Duke University Press

Zohar Kampf — "Do You Condemn?" chapter in The Discourse of Indirectness — John Benjamins

Edward Said — Covering Islam — Penguin Random House

Ramzy Baroud — My Father Was a Freedom Fighter — Pluto Press

The Onion — Dying Gazans Criticized for Not Using Last Words to Condemn Hamas

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