Hey David, I am a student at Western and I came across your channel while preparing for my PhD Qualifying exams. Thankyou for helping me pass! But a bigger thankyou for not letting me down like most academics who do not apply what they teach. Thankyou for educating about Palestine and settler colonialism.

Hi David, I have been a subscriber to your channel for some years. Your work and scholarship have informed and continue to inform my work as a PhD student; to say that I appreciate you is an understatement. I thank you for tackling the Palestinian question with poise and clarity. Your analysis is one of the best I have heard on this topic. In honor of your work, I donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

Thank you for speaking the truth when so many on KZfaq refuse (cough Esoterica, cough RFB). The existence of Irgun and their ilk is never taught in the West. This is what critical theory and philosophy should be! Not navelgazing about words "A people without a land for a land without a people" is a genocidal slogan, NOT "from the river to the sea"...

Your podcast helped me immensely during a philosophy course I was taking. Really helped my understanding of numerous philosophers!

I wouldn't expect less from someone knowledgeable in the history of colonialism to spot the same patterns repeating against Palestinians. Bravo, David and love the keffiyeh. ❤

David, earlier this year I unfollowed everyone who hadn’t spoken up about P. But somehow I kept subscribing to your channel, I knew you’d come out in your support. And here you are, thank you for doing your work and thank you for spreading awareness.

Thank you David, thank you a hundred times

Really appreciate your work

Really appreciate you speaking up about the history of Palestine and Zionism/the absolute madness of what's going on in Palestine currently. Emperialism must be ended; it's various tools, (war, colonialism, racism, supremicism, unilateral ability to impose economic sanctions) dismantled. Free Palestine 🍉

Thank you for doing this David, I wish other KZfaqrs dealing with the humanities had as much courage as you. That said the history you describe at around 12:00 has been challenged by some Israeli historians themselves. Shlomo Sand argues quite convincingly in “How the Jewish People was Invented” that the Romans never expelled the Jews and Arabs did not settle there en masse. In other words, present day Palestinians likely are, according to him and others, the descendants of Ancient Jews, they never left or were expelled, they just converted to Christianity and then Islam for the most part. I really encourage people to read that book, it really deconstructs the myths around Jewishness, it’s mind blowing.

Great perspective on the long and detailed history. Ty

Digging the keffiyeh🤙

Thank you for this! Those who for one reason (read, excuse) or another say, "It's complicated," should watch this video.

I've been everywhere and I always visit where the Jews used to live before Israel relocated them starting in the 1950s. Generally, the emigrants regretted their decision and wanted to return to their homeland. But because they had renounced their citizenship, had limited means, and were officially regarded as disloyal, they found themselves trapped in an alien and stratified society where their cultural, linguistic, and religious practices were stripped from them. The Jews who stayed behind retained their status and unique folkways, but are too few to be viable.

Hi David, I'm a Palestinian Arab living in exile. As an Arab I must thank you but remind you that we have a lot of capacity for evil as well. I can't relate to most of my culture and indeed anti semitism is a part of our identity. up to the point that we have not overcome nationalism in favour of humanism none of this would end. I hope you also try to educate my fellow Arabs and not focus only on the Israeli side. keep up the good work. much love.

I recommend “The Invention of the Jewish People” by Shlomo Sand.

Do you have a link to this article?😊

Salute from Egypt. Free palestine

Have you ever read Gilles Dauvé?

Do you have Twitter account??

That King of The Jordan River East Bank PalestineArab State, was NOT even a PalestineArab native.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, was a Nazi ally and got a promise from Hitler to build an extermination camp for Jews once the Nazis conquer the land. he also made blood libel to incite against Jews who have been living in Jerusalem and Hebron since biblical times (Jerusalem was majority Jewish until 1900's) which culminated in a pogrom that removed the native Jewish population in Hebron and in Gaza from their homes in 1929. This massacre took the lives of hundreds of defenseless people, and displaced thousands.

You mentioned The fact that Jews lived in Judaea, so you know that Arabism's claims are NOT correct, that Jews are foreign.

"Theory & Philosophy" Proceeds to talk about some Racket leader's pathic projections as deep as (math equation) riddle book.

Your channel and project are interesting, but your bias towards Palestine is disappointing and unnecessary. Free thinking should be neutral and balanced, not biased and misleading. By engaging in open political propaganda, you undermine your credibility.

Half the truth ranting makes no substance here.

Why is it that all of you guys, all of a sudden, are all saying " Zionist project" ?

Why aren’t you talking about Russia-Ukraine war? No issues there? No analogies? Is everything alright?

57 Muslim countries, 22 gargantuan Arab countries chock-full of oil.among them, one Jewish state. Seems fair.

I call your bluff. You describe whether Israel is or is NOT democratic. Then you ask whether there can or can NOT be PalestineArabs in leadership positions over Israel. Does that mean that your statements that Jews and Arabs getting along, before Zionism, that means that Jews can rule over a single PalestineArab state?