Whose voices you choose to amplify matters. Whose political career and choices you choose to normalise matters, too.
Having said that, have you seen who was on Jon Stewart’s show recently?
It was Annalena Baerbock, the current President of the UN General Assembly and Germany’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
If that all sounds fine, it really shouldn’t — not if you know a little bit about her stance on Israel.
In my video, which was, honestly, impossible not to make, I point to the biggest piece of satire that Jon Stewart chose not to comment on. Because, in the end, it is not journalism that he does, and so it shouldn’t be journalism that we should expect of him.
But when a progressive (!) comedian chooses to invite someone whose administration has a court case at the International Court of Justice for abetting genocide, and when that person talks about international law and represents an institution directly based on it, we have to point to that satire for him.
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