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    <title>Mapping the ADL’s Origins in Settler-Colonial Liberalism, State Power, &amp; Civil Rights as Cover... - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we are joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Gelman excavates the Anti-Defamation League's origins as a white, settler colonial institution founded by German-Jewish elites—not to combat antisemitism broadly, but to manage class respectability and suppress Eastern European Jewish immigrant socialists whom they viewed as a racial and social threat. 

 Gelman looks back at how early Jewish settlers had built fortunes through participation in 19th-century US territorial expansion, Indigenous dispossession, and slavery's economic system, understanding themselves as white Europeans racially distinct from the "vermin" arriving from the Pale of Settlement. The ADL and its predecessor, the American Jewish Committee (founded 1906), operated as Progressive Era eugenicist charities designed to "correct and fix" rather than support self-determination, preemptively capturing Jewish political identity to prevent autonomous radical organizing.

 Gelman traces how the ADL evolved from an instrument of McCarthyite purges—coordinating mass firings of Jewish leftists in 1951, offering its services to McCarthy committee members, and abandoning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to execution while denying antisemitism played any role in their prosecution (the judge who sentenced them sat on the ADL's Civil Rights Committee)—into a key architect of Cold War anti-communism and neoconservative "democracy promotion." The organization attacked Arab League representatives speaking about Zionist violence in Palestine as early as 1946, treating Palestinian and Arab organizing as "foreign insurgency" while framing Jewish fundraising for Israeli settlement as natural civic participation. After Israel's 1967 military victory, the ADL strategically re-racialized Jews as non-white within the framework of race liberalism, allowing it to cast Israeli militarism as defensive racial liberation and Arab calls for refugee return as antisemitic rather than anti-colonial. This racial pivot occurred precisely as European Jews had achieved economic whiteness through the GI Bill, suburbanization, and the collapse of university quotas—benefits systematically denied to Black populations through redlining.

 Emmaia Gelman is the author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League as a Cold War neoconservative institution (UC Press, 2026) and co-editor of The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader (Pluto Press, 2026). She co-hosts the podcast Unpacking Zionism. Emmaia is co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City.

 She is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions in Palestine and transnational contexts. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as levers in surveillance, “anti-terror”, and war. Her teaching spans academic and community spaces."

[also here:
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/mapping-the-adls-origins-in-settler-colonial-liberalism-state-power-civil-rights-as-cover-with-emmaia-gelman 

See also:

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, by Emmaia Gelman (2026)
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-anti-defamation-league-and-the-racial-state/hardcover 

Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
https://criticalzionismstudies.org/ ]]]></description>
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In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Martin Jacques, author of the million-copy bestseller When China Rules the World, makes the case that China has already eclipsed the United States as the world's leading power, and that the West still fundamentally doesn't understand why.

This episode explores China's identity as a civilisation-state, the century of humiliation, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Xinjiang question, the decline of American hegemony, Trump's failing strategy against China, and why Jacques believes the future global order will be built around China and the Global South.

UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:13 China is already No. 1
4:27 Economic dominance, explained
7:36 China's soft power lag
12:22 How Martin found China
19:05 Love and East Asia
26:00 What the West misunderstands
28:31 Civilisation, not a nation
35:31 The century of humiliation
44:34 The economic miracle
47:08 China's leadership model
52:04 Human rights in China
57:22 Belt and Road, explained
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1:38:17 Trump and US decline
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    <title>Propaganda, Politics, Academy Awards &amp; Film — Studio Technique</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-08T21:43:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Here  is my commentary after sitting through this film — a film that never once mentions the word Palestine, never once criticises Israel, purposefully left out the recordings and forensic evidence where Hind was killed in cold blood, framing her death as though it was an accidental tragedy,  emphasising her family is situated in Germany and avoided addressing why they were in Gaza, implying that they accidentally wandered into a “restricted war zone" that they were not meant to be in. Not once addressed Israel or the IOF, they only said "armies". The only time they used the word “Israel” was to coordinate with Israel who was portrayed as benevolently handling the rescue missions that the Palestinian Red Crescent is portrayed as incompetent to manage without them. This is a form of history-revisionism, and needs to be critiqued in how it is placed in the current historic context (see Cedric Robinsons’ critical scholarship). This film also takes advantage of grieving families who are persuaded to participate in the hopes of their loss being used for some good, which we have also seen in projects like The Perfect Neighbor.  Hind’s family has put their approval behind many other films and documentaries about this tragedy to help spread awareness, including a Palestian-Jordanian production, which also coordinated with the Palestine Red Crescent Society."

...

"The Voice of Hind Rajab is a highly problematic film."

...

"This film mimics campaigns designed towards upholding imperial soft power structures and Hollywood-washing. Hollywood is trying to co-opt the Pro-Palestine movement (we already know that there is an increase in the propaganda budget for 2025) and there is a massive campaign around coopting and commodifying this. Hollywood is not an isolated actor on the political stage, it is part of an apparatus that cooperates with news media, music, and sports industries, among many other cultural structures. Likewise, directors and actors are not independent contractors, they are employees of agencies that are also corporate organisations.

Some useful points to consider:

• This film is promoted by White, neo-liberal, Democrat-supporting, Hollywood heavy-weights, who are only speaking out since Trump was in office (for those following this phenomenon, this is a conversation on its own). They are commodifying Palestinian tragedy and rewriting themselves on the right side of history.

• Brad Pitt is also part of/represented by CAA**, a publicly pro-Israeli agency which made a public statement in support of Israel. Those critical of Israel had to resign from the agency. (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/caa-maha-dakhil-resigns-board-israel-social-media-posts-controversy-1235764577/ )

• It’s also important to ask why are they all White liberal faces on the promotion of this project and not one Palestinian directing creative? Casting actors does not help, none of the directing, or decision-making roles appear to have a single Palestinian.

• Hollywood films (these can also be called First and Second Cinema - for more information look up Third Cinema) are funded by the CIA and Pentagon. Please read the peer reviewed scholarship by Alford & Secker, Lenoir, Der Derian, Stahl, Mirrlees. (American Journal of Economics and Sociology by Matthew Alford and Tom Secker is available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12180 )

• On Hollywood affiliated productions, directors are not the conceptualisers of the films. Directors and writers are hired by someone else to create a predetermined film. They are picked to appeal to targeted audiences (mainly Americans). Understanding this logic we can see how a Tunisian director from a France-based studio that tours Cannes is an ideal candidate to be sought out for this role, mainly because they are not Palestinian. This: 1) Further distances and orientalises Palestinian voices. 2) All Arabs are the same for their purposes and audiences, and someone more “politically palatable” is preferable.

• This film contributes to ensuring that the famous events of the G-cide are remembered, shaped and curated in cultural memory that is in the form that Western interests want.

• These films pacify resistance by neutralising radical ideas through narrative justifications, commodify it, and shape the story to uphold American value systems like American exceptionalism and hyper individualised hero-stories. These are key narrative structures that the imperial apparatus wants in films; the CIA is content to prioritise this even at the expense of making the government look bad, because the core idealogical messaging that must be put through offers more value laden returns for hegemony (see Alford & Secker).

• One last thing, because they did the same thing with the Black Panther franchise (using Oakland) and Andor (referencing the Battle of Algiers). We need to ask why choose  Hind's story? Why not another? These references they use are the most accessible. They go to the easiest access that they think will hold the largest audience impact. They also want to co-opt any narratives that might cause people to start asking questions and reshape history by re-situating the context of these narratives in a way that favours the imperial violence that the US upholds. Because Hind was known among White circles due to Hind's Hall at Columbia University, this was the story that created cracks in the colonial mainstream narrative. This is a common strategy historically repeated, and there is a long paper trail of receipts on these tactics as well.

We also need to ask if these people like Brad Pitt and co. are so altruistic, why aren't they speaking out against the G-cide? why aren't they speaking out about how their studios and industry help R&D and propaganda for the US military? Their promotion of this film aligned with the events of the Freedom Flotilla, where even other celebrities were on the ground supporting it. Why aren't they getting on the flotilla or seeing it off? Even better, why aren't they using their own personal yachts, or the yachts of their society friends to join the flotilla? Why aren't they investing in sending aid to Gaza through its borders? For perspective, the funding given to this film will cost more than the millions of dollars in weapons that Canada just sent to Israel. Why aren't they doing something of material significance to people in Gaza with their money? Instead they are investing in an all White promoted production, hiring a Tunisian employee, and profiting off it. Why are these White company-men owned by pro-Israeli agencies being the ones to be the faces of a Palestinian story and not use their voices to uplift any Palestinians to tell their stories? There are Palestinian screen writers, directors, etc. in the US, as well as in Palestine and other countries.

More importantly, and I know I'm being a bit blunt, but as a directing creative on the inside, I have witnessed how effective our work has been on influencing the average person. How visceral and emotional the push back can be from the audiences that we filmmakers — essentially — dupe. When you work at high levels on the inside, it’s very different to what the public thinks it is, and I am constantly astounded at how much people believe in these productions or what we choose to reveal as "behind the scenes". So if there is a knee-jerk response in anyone to be immediately excited about this, or jumps on board to defend or celebrate it without questioning, I think this is what we have to work on unravelling in ourselves and in our socialisation. There is no legitimate logic behind this behaviour when it is interrogated. There is, however, ample documentation in scholarship and journalism that illustrates how, since WW1, and especially WW2, Hollywood is America's greatest soft power asset. What needs to be interrogated is why do we even think figures like these Hollywood celebrities have anything of value to contribute morally or intellectually, and why do we rely on, and promote, their approval. This reflects poorly on us as a whole, the celebrity obsession reflects how easily we are persuaded.

It’s a really depressing testament to how good we are at our jobs that people are so desperate to have their story told by this system that they will promote it.

At ‘best” this film is racist, at worst it is sinister and nefarious."

[See also:

"Hollow tokens of conscience: The hypocrisy of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’"
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250909-hollow-tokens-of-conscience-the-hypocrisy-of-the-voice-of-hind-rajab/

via:

"The Voice of Hind Rajab is a Disturbing Master Class in Propaganda ft. Samantha Youssef"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnj_5dCduwo ]]]></description>
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    <title>What If Israel Was Banned From Sports? - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pressure is mounting for Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, with calls for action emerging at sporting events like Spain's La Vuelta. Disrupting sports can be very effective – just look at what happened during apartheid in South Africa. Can the same tactics be used to pressure Israel? AJ+ Editorial Lead Tony Karon discusses."]]></description>
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    <title>From Lenin to Žižek: The Disgraceful End of Western Marxism - feat. Gabriel Rockhill - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-27T21:53:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This interview was organized by Ottolina TV (https://ottolinatv.it/) as part of its summer festival. The original show notes appear below.

🔴🔴🔴

New Interview — Gabriel Rockhill on Western Marxism, Intellectual Complicity, and the Global Class Struggle

What if the dominant forms of Marxist theory in the West were not simply flawed, but deeply complicit with the very imperial system they claim to critique?

In this explosive new interview, we speak with Gabriel Rockhill—philosopher, cultural critic, activist, and one of the sharpest critics of Western Marxism today. He’s the author of The Intellectual World War: Marxism versus the Imperial Theory Industry and editor of the new English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism, which is the focus of our conversation.

Rockhill shows that Western Marxism is not merely a geographical label, but a theoretical project born within the imperial core, shaped by the material privileges of the labor and intellectual aristocracies. It marks a historical retreat from revolutionary Marxism, and is defined by four crucial betrayals:

1. A retreat from revolutionary politics, especially anti-imperialism
2. A retreat from the working class, as theory moves into elite academia
3. A retreat from materialism, rejecting dialectics of nature and historical development
4. A retreat from real socialism, denouncing actually existing socialist states while clinging to utopian blueprints

One key focus in this conversation is the retreat from dialectical materialism. Rockhill warns that knowledge production itself is embedded in the global structure of imperialism. Intellectuals don’t float above history—they’re shaped by, and often serve, class power.

Rockhill challenges Perry Anderson’s inclusion of Gramsci and Lukács in the Western Marxist canon, showing how Losurdo offers a sharper definition grounded in 1917 as a turning point, and in the division between revolutionary and domesticated Marxism. Unlike the Western academic left, both Gramsci and Lukács remained committed to real political struggle.

The stakes of this divide are visible today. From Ukraine to Iran, Western Marxist figures like Žižek echo imperial talking points—championing “democracy” and “rights” while ignoring the material realities of NATO expansion or the asymmetric application of humanitarian standards. The result? A left that speaks the moral language of empire while turning its back on anti-imperialist resistance.

A key feature of Western Marxism has always been its opposition to actually existing socialism—from the USSR to China. Rockhill sees in this a messianic purism, rooted in petty-bourgeois detachment. Socialism becomes a perfect idea that justifies withdrawing from struggle, reducing politics to performance, and revolution to rhetoric.

This detachment, Rockhill argues, has material roots in Lenin’s theory of the labor aristocracy: those sectors of the working class in the imperial core whose relative privileges bind them to imperial capitalism. While not all workers fall into this category, many in the professional-managerial class clearly do. But as imperialism enters crisis and surplus extraction falters, new opportunities for rupture emerge—and the battle is on to prevent these sectors from being captured by actual neofascism.

All of this brings us to the core of Rockhill’s message: only a dialectical, materialist analysis can truly grasp the contradictions of theory and its place in global class struggle. Western Marxism, as commodified theory for elite circulation, must be rejected—not in favor of dogma, but in favor of a revolutionary theory rooted in praxis, history, and the global movement for emancipation."]]></description>
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    <title>Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days | Abed Abou Shhadeh | MEE Opinion - YouTube</title>
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days ]

"In this opinion video, political activist Abed Abou Shhadeh argues that Israeli society is in a state of “hypernormalisation” - a term coined by anthropologist Alexei Yurchak to describe the surreal final years of the Soviet Union, when everyone knew the system was broken but pretended otherwise.

He says that the recent execution of 15 medics and rescue workers by the Israeli army in Gaza, caught on video, should have prompted outrage. Instead, it was met with silence inside Israel.

Abou Shhadeh points to a state unravelling from within: a military in disarray, a police force shaped by far-right ideologues, and a Supreme Court that legitimises inequality while projecting legality. Even Amnesty Israel, he notes, refused to accept its own organisation’s genocide findings - a striking symbol of national denial.

He says that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dismantling Israel’s own state institutions while pursuing reckless regional ambitions - from pushing for war with Iran to supporting the fragmentation of Syria. Meanwhile, he continues to push for his Gaza transfer plan, despite international rejection.
Abou Shhadeh argues that Israel’s vision of regional dominance is fundamentally flawed - not because it lacks military power, but because Israel fundamentally rejects soft power.

He concludes: “There is nothing normal about what’s happening in Israel right now. Netanyahu’s reckless regional adventurism is not only destabilising the Middle East - it’s tearing apart Israeli society itself.”"]]></description>
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    <title>What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war | Gamal Mansour | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gamal Mansour is a Syrian-Palestinian who was forced to move to Canada in 2012, as the Syrian uprising was turning into a civil war.

Mansour is also a political scientist who is currently researching strategies that the business sector under the Assad regime employed so that they could remain autonomous from the state.

In this marathon three-hour conversation, Gamal Mansour and the host Ashfaaq Carim discuss the genesis of the Syrian uprising amidst the Arab Spring and how it turned into a civil war; what the impact and scale of the war was both in terms of human devastation and in terms of ideological impact it had in the West and the Arab world, as Europe and North America moved to the right and Islamic State was born; and how brutal and devastating Assad's tactics in the war were.

They try to make sense of all the conflicting voices that are clashing over what the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham liberation of Damascus means, and are critical of the reluctance amongst the anti-US-imperial left to embrace the new reality in Damascus as most Syrians are.

Timestamps: 
00:00 Intro 
02:42 Sentiment of Assad's fall
04:46 Scale and impact of Syria's civil war
11:57 Gamal Mansour as a Palestinian-Syrian
18:15 Daraa - the genesis of Syria's Uprising
22:47 Syria's uprising in context to the Arab Spring
29:06 How the Syrian uprising turned into a civil war
33:54 How the Free Syrian Army came into being
39:43 How Assad armed the extremist parts of the resistance
45:52 How foreign actors, Hezbollah, Iranian militias, and extremists entered the conflict
52:46 Motivations of gulf states 
59:31 Contextualising Al-Qaeda and Isis
01:07:46 The US presence in Syria
01:16:07 How Russia wreaked Syria
01:24:06 2015: Escalation in brutality and refugees
01:33:06 Refugees, right-wing response and Russian soft power
01:38:05 What Assad did in Yarmouk
01:46:32 Hama 1982
01:50:43 Unpacking the mentality of anti-imperial leftists
02:01:35 What do you think is going to happen to Syria under HTS?
02:10:09 What will Israel and Turkey and others do? 
02:29:30 Will Israel be able to subvert the new state
02:36:58 SDF and the kurds"]]></description>
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    <title>Metaheaven, designers (The Netherlands) - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Metaheaven (The Netherlands)
Online lecture
22 November 2023

The work of Metahaven encompasses filmmaking, writing, and design. Their films include Capture (2022), Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018) and Information Skies (2016), nominated for the European Film Awards 2017.
Recent publications include Digital Tarkovsky (2018), a book-length essay about cinema. In 2010, they published Uncorporate Identity, co-edited with Marina Vishmidt.

Their forthcoming book on art and cognition is scheduled to appear in Spring 2025 with Verso. They write the “Cognitions” blog with Zora Zine, and are regular contributors to e-flux Journal and Harvard Design Magazine.

Metahaven have presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, ICA London, e-flux, New York, State of Concept Athens, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others, as well as participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, M HKA, Antwerp, the Gwangju Biennale, and the Sharjah Biennial, Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Their work is featured in collections of the Sharjah Art Foundation, the National Gallery of Victoria, M HKA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, among others.

Metahaven are heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at the Design Academy Eindhoven since September 2023, a programme in which they previously taught since its start in 2020. They are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and affiliate researchers at Antikythera, Los Angeles.

Metahaven‘s lecture is part of Fabrica’s “Co-ecologies” residency program curated by Carlos Casas."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2020-12-23T22:34:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[question and answer about China here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgbYQ5QAM0 ]

“In is address to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts, Economist and fierce EU critic Yanis Varoufakis considers the need for a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.”]]></description>
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