A Duty, Not A Crime: Anti-Fascist Politician Israel Wants Silenced
Super Humanizer
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Join Dr. Ofer Cassif, Israeli Knesset member for Hadash and the only Jewish member of the Arab-majority party's delegation, as he traces the road from a Labor Zionist childhood to communist conviction.
He tells Dr. Hani Chaabo and Katie Bogen why he refused reservist duty in Gaza during the First Intifada and served four terms in military prison, how he survived an expulsion vote of 85 fellow MKs, and what it means to be suspended, silenced, and dragged from the podium simply for quoting a beloved Israeli novelist. From a memorial in Masafer Yatta to a Darwish poem, this is dissent as a way of life. Weeks before the October 27 election, Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to bar him from running.
Full episode + show notes: https://www.superhumanizer.com/episod...
Prefer to read? 👉🏼 Check out these blog posts:
• Always Cast Doubt: Ofer Cassif on Growing Up Labor Zionist and Choosing Refusal
https://www.superhumanizer.com/post/a...
• Ten Months of Silence: Ofer Cassif on What Israel's Treatment of Its Loudest Dissenter Reveals About Its Democracy
https://www.superhumanizer.com/post/t...
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Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to SuperHumanizer
0:10 Support the show
1:00 Meet Dr. Ofer Cassif
4:03 What brings you joy: music, books and cooking
14:08 Labor Zionist family: 'a victim of brainwashing'
21:15 The image that opened his eyes: 'they broke his bones'
25:50 Refusing the intifada: four terms in military prison
33:12 Learning politics beside Meir Vilner
42:50 Marx, Kant and treating people as ends
46:11 South Africa's genocide case and the impeachment vote
52:17 Suspended for quoting David Grossman
58:13 Making the crack: 'we paved the way'
1:03:46 How he knows this is fascism
1:11:15 The killing of Awdah and the memorial police shut down
1:20:08 Firing zone 918: the map-drawn land grab
1:22:34 As a Jew: 'what my people suffered from in the 30s'
1:28:27 Hope: the occupation will end 'within a few years'
1:35:30 The peace partnership vs the 'business of peace'
1:41:50 Running again: the October 27 election
1:47:24 'Anti-Zionism is a duty, anti-Semitism is a crime'
1:52:18 Ofer's poem: 'Think of Others' by Mahmoud Darwish
1:53:44 Heart shares and goodbye
Cover photo of Ofer Cassif: Amir Deeb, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
#Palestine #Israel #Knesset #OferCassif #Hadash #SuperHumanizer
A Duty, Not A Crime: Anti-Fascist Politician Israel Wants Silenced
Super Humanizer
3,751 views
Join Dr. Ofer Cassif, Israeli Knesset member for Hadash and the only Jewish member of the Arab-majority party's delegation, as he traces the road from a Labor Zionist childhood to communist conviction.
He tells Dr. Hani Chaabo and Katie Bogen why he refused reservist duty in Gaza during the First Intifada and served four terms in military prison, how he survived an expulsion vote of 85 fellow MKs, and what it means to be suspended, silenced, and dragged from the podium simply for quoting a beloved Israeli novelist. From a memorial in Masafer Yatta to a Darwish poem, this is dissent as a way of life. Weeks before the October 27 election, Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to bar him from running.
Full episode + show notes: https://www.superhumanizer.com/episod...
Prefer to read? 👉🏼 Check out these blog posts:
• Always Cast Doubt: Ofer Cassif on Growing Up Labor Zionist and Choosing Refusal
https://www.superhumanizer.com/post/a...
• Ten Months of Silence: Ofer Cassif on What Israel's Treatment of Its Loudest Dissenter Reveals About Its Democracy
https://www.superhumanizer.com/post/t...
Listen on:
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0JHnFsv...
• Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2284534
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to SuperHumanizer
0:10 Support the show
1:00 Meet Dr. Ofer Cassif
4:03 What brings you joy: music, books and cooking
14:08 Labor Zionist family: 'a victim of brainwashing'
21:15 The image that opened his eyes: 'they broke his bones'
25:50 Refusing the intifada: four terms in military prison
33:12 Learning politics beside Meir Vilner
42:50 Marx, Kant and treating people as ends
46:11 South Africa's genocide case and the impeachment vote
52:17 Suspended for quoting David Grossman
58:13 Making the crack: 'we paved the way'
1:03:46 How he knows this is fascism
1:11:15 The killing of Awdah and the memorial police shut down
1:20:08 Firing zone 918: the map-drawn land grab
1:22:34 As a Jew: 'what my people suffered from in the 30s'
1:28:27 Hope: the occupation will end 'within a few years'
1:35:30 The peace partnership vs the 'business of peace'
1:41:50 Running again: the October 27 election
1:47:24 'Anti-Zionism is a duty, anti-Semitism is a crime'
1:52:18 Ofer's poem: 'Think of Others' by Mahmoud Darwish
1:53:44 Heart shares and goodbye
Cover photo of Ofer Cassif: Amir Deeb, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
#Palestine #Israel #Knesset #OferCassif #Hadash #SuperHumanizer