Douglas Murray, Medhi Hasan on Gaza - Munk Debate

[George K]

The whole thing - I know what I'm doing tonite:

Link to video

[Renauda]

Link saved. Will definitely watch that in the coming days.

[jon-nyc]

The podcast should be out any day now for those for whom watching videos isn’t their thing.

[Horace]

Listened to it last night. It was a strange choice of proposition, one that easily devolved to semantics. "Anti zionism is anti semitism". Like, I don't actually care much about anybody's verbal framing that allows them to answer that question however they want to. A better proposition would have been more to the heart of the contention, such as "Israel is using too much force in response to Oct 7".

[George K]

Listening now, and I agree with @horace that the proposition is odd.

[George K]

Gawd, Hasan is an odious creature.

[jon-nyc]

There was a Munk debate a few weeks ago on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s on the podcast channel

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Douglas Murray, Medhi Hasan on Gaza - Munk Debate:

There was a Munk debate a few weeks ago on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s on the podcast channel

Again too easily devolved into semantics. I do not care about verbal framings where something is or is not some top-shelf rhetorical impact word. (c.f. the "insurrection") These discussions become a battle over language and top shelf words, and ideas like "too much force in response to Oct 7" become secondary.