Scabs for Israel (ft. Muhannad Ayyash)

Show Notes

Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah.

Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back out of at a totally apolitical menorah lighting ceremony that was billed as an opportunity to demonstrate "SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL." And according to reporting from Aryn Toombs at LiveWire Calgary, it didn't disappoint.

Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, who joined the paper as a filthy scab in 2000, went as far as to say the mayor isn't fit for office because of her disloyalty to Israel.

Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)

Decolonize Palestine reading list
Read some of Muhannad's Al Jazeera columns
Emma Paling - CBC featured more Israelis even as Palestinian casualties rose, data shows
Vincent Bevins - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Tareq Baconi - Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
The Deprogram - Free Palestine (ft. Decolonize Palestine)
James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

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