The Question of Hamas and the Left with Abdaljawad Omar

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Ай бұрын

Mondoweiss’s Managing Editor, Faris Giacaman, speaks to Abdaljawad Omar about his article, “The Question of Hamas and the Left.” In it, Omar argues that Leftist critics in the West of Hamas fail to understand the complexity of Palestinian politics and resistance. He writes, “One cannot ground solidarity with Palestine on a politics that dismisses, overlooks, or excludes Hamas.”
Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University.

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@shola1213 Ай бұрын

We are one day closer to liberation!!!!

@Muhr-u-Souleiman Ай бұрын

👏👏👏😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️🤲🤲🤲🤲

@hebael-saghier3493 Ай бұрын

This is a brilliant analysis by Abdaljawad Omar.

@RobinHerzig Ай бұрын

Loved the article (tho I'm reminded now to go back and finish it) really solid analysis of what's going on in the discourse about supporting Hamas and/or armed struggle. This breakdown here really nails it.

@amdclx4635 Ай бұрын

Cutting through the sea of misinformation and propaganda, many thanks

@dalchurb Ай бұрын

The best summary i have heard in all one place.

@axShinsei Ай бұрын

Much appreciation for this discussion. It dawned on me that friends and family here in U.S. bring up the idea of non-violent resistance as a way to end oppression or colonization or racism because they are buying into the false history that Gandhi and MLK did it.

@oh_aces Ай бұрын

and MLK was killed the instant he started becoming radical and growing closer to the more militant parts of the movement

@halakurshov1380 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your service 😊🙏

@1being Ай бұрын

This is a great analysis and so perfectly stated. I know examples of all the liberal perspectives demolished here.

@oh_aces Ай бұрын

What was that Malcolm X said about the liberal? ...something about being the biggest threat to liberation...

@NoGoZoon 21 күн бұрын

Very nice analysis. I ponder these same questions, and wonder how so few people arrive at the conclusion that i do...

@Cussy69_420 Ай бұрын

I read the article the other day, lookimg forward to this convo!

@timmoore3188 Ай бұрын

I like what you said about students not wanting to think. They want to get on with their lives. Dont we all. But when your conscience is traumatised with what we are seeing every day, you have to think about why this is happening and get to the causes. Some people like to stop that thought process because it feels painful.

@user-bs7qt8un7b Ай бұрын

@25:15 ...the necessity, the right and the material conditions through which resistance arises... @11:07 "If we start from that point of view, the world shifts..." So good. I would just add that the upper middle class will never start from such a perspective but will be able to tag along with the revolutionary class that can and will change the world.

@Keli-nw8fy Ай бұрын

Wow I was thinking about Mondowiess on my way home, and it is the 1st you tube vid on my phone

@syafiqsya465 Ай бұрын

❤️🇵🇸

@maritlebliss Ай бұрын

I got lots to think about out of this interview. Can I ask that you consider not finishing people's sentences? I do this myself and work hard to restrain myself. Seeing it here is helpful to me in that it reaffirms to me that I want to stop this behavior.

@fun_ghoul Ай бұрын

I think Faris was restraining himself.

@fun_ghoul Ай бұрын

18:55 follows on from the early kibbutzniks, a.k.a. "Jewish labour", which was to supplant native Palestinians.

@barryhay2024 Ай бұрын

Considering this weekends events.... Seems we have to ask Al Jazeera for all the hostages back... Pay these journalists more so they dont have to moonlight as Hamas terrorists....? Just a tought ...

@michelleberkon_aus Ай бұрын

I have one genuine question. You say that civilian casualties on Oct 7, which did include a few children, were from crossfire or the Hannibal Directive. Do you think that no civilians were intentionally killed by Palestinian insurgents? I am not remotely an apologist for Israel. In fact I’m a Jewish activist for Palestinian liberation. I understand the totally militarised nature of Israeli society, especially the colonial settlements in the Gaza Envelope.

@stv625 Ай бұрын

So what do you want to know? Are you not bored to chew through this mythological event of 7.oct. endlessly? Why not chew on ANY of the countless massacres, raids and individual killings of Palestonians during the past 100 years. I find it inappropriate to give that one day anymore attention given the CONTEXT BEFORE and especially the CONTEXT AFTER.

@BroonParker Ай бұрын

Assuming this to be a genuine question, the intentions of the attack can only be for Hamas to give, but my reading of their perspective is that there was the clear primary aim of taking Israeli hostages to bargain with their authorities to release the many Palestinians being held by Israel. One can only assume that such an aim, and the breakout needed to achieve it, could only be achieved through violent means and with inevitable casualties. To this extent at least, there had to be intention, and the distinction between civilians and the IDF is a very blurred one, especially in these particular settlements, so distinguishing purely "military" targets, with "civilians" also often armed, would be difficult or impossible. In fact military hostages seem to have been those most required in the attack and the key hostages now being held. The importance of the now debunked stories about babies and children from the Israelis is that they tried to reinforce the idea that the primary aim of the attack was simply to kill, not to take hostages. That there seem to be very few children that can actually be counted as casualties of the action was a detail that did not support this argument as adequately as the Israeli government and their supporters apparently required. I hope that we are all uncomfortable with such violence, as was the author interviewed on the podcast. Whether or not you feel this is an adequate justification for the October action is a question you will have to address personally, but the podcast and article does try to offer a point of view on this.

@michelleberkon_aus Ай бұрын

@@BroonParker yes, these things I know, and I agree. My question was about the suggestion that all civilian casualties were either crossfire or Hannibal, which I find untenable given evidence to the contrary. The question of whether military age noncombatants in such a highly militarised colonist society should enjoy the same protections as civilians is another matter.

@fun_ghoul Ай бұрын

@@michelleberkon_aus Occupiers are legally culpable for ALL war dead in an illegal occupation, including their own. Period.

@fun_ghoul Ай бұрын

@@michelleberkon_aus P.S. "Hannibal" is a disgusting marketing term. When the "Israeli" government kills "Israeli" civilians, it is not what Hannibal did to himself!

@megj308 Ай бұрын

New. I need more visual to retain interest. Better to just read the article. I support armed resistance. And what articles is he even referring to? Kind of useless.

@johnsomebody1753 Ай бұрын

People saying, "Y'KNOW", 3 or 4 or MORE times in a sentence, TIME after TIME, after fkkkkkkking TIME, can be more difficult to listen to, than people who J U S T S A Y W H A T T H E Y M E A N.

@BroonParker Ай бұрын

Why is this important to anyone but you?

@johnsomebody1753 Ай бұрын

It's important for y'know the same reason that people saying y'know what they mean, is important y'know for everyone. It minimises potential for confusion, makes it easier to follow what people need to say, and for those listening to understand, and prevent getting distracted by irrelevant, wasteful, pointless diversions. Are you pretending that there's some benefit to be had, from someone saying, "Y'know", 3 or 4 or more times per sentence ? If so, I'd love to know what it is, I may be missing out, so tell me please.