To see people who describe themselves as progressive cheer for Kamala Harris – a presidential candidate whose current administration has been literally supporting a genocide – has been one continuous exploding head moment for me.
It feels insane.
And it is this insanity that I want to acknowledge and deconstruct in my episode.
I recorded it having a full understanding that Harris and Trump are not the same. There are plenty of important differences in US domestic policy that one should expect from them.
Yet the exploding head moments don’t come from that. They come from the seeming lack of understanding or acknowledgment that Kamala Harris’ “more humane” stance on Palestine might only come as a small detour from a policy of fueling this genocide — something that her (not Trump) administration has been doing.
Let’s not insult our own critical thinking capability and pretend to forget that it is the Biden-Harris administration that has just announced it will be sending another $20bn worth of weapons to Israel after all.
Learn more about Harris’s missed opportunities to condemn Israel’s crime in an excellent article by Jewish Currents.
Find the podcast episode with Vijay Prashad that I reference in my episode here (Bad Faith is an overall excellent show I highly recommend).
As always: stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
Find all my work on Palestine here.
Latest from the Blog
On One of The Gravest Crimes against Humanity That Not Every Country Chose to Condemn at The UN
The UN just voted to describe the transatlantic slave trade as ‘the gravest crime against humanity’. Yet not every country, according to its vote, agrees. My commentary is on what the abstentions show.
Your Antiwar Voice Is Needed More Than You Might Think
The war machine won’t stop until it’s stopped, just as its propaganda won’t just disappear on its own. It was to be actively pointed to, deconstructed, and rejected as loudly as possible. And this is where everyone’s voice matters.
Good News: We Are on a Boat Ride Together; Bad News: It’s Being Steered by Psychopaths
We’re on a boat steered by psychopaths — and they’re not taking us anywhere nice. As the U.S. and Israel are destroying Lebanon and Iran, one thing can’t be clearer: it is the whole world that has to make them stop.
The Exploding Head Media 