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.
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