Justin Podur joined Matt to discuss the ongoing violence visited upon Palestinians by the US backed Israeli government. Justin is the founder of the Anti Empire Project and the host of the  Anti Empire podcast. He is also the author of America’s Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo and The Path of the Unarmed, and Siege Breakers For his day job, Justin is an Associate Professor at York University's Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Check out his website at podur.org  

Discussed in this Episode: 

-Zionism as an extension of Western imperialism 

-How to deflate the most common pro Israel- anti Palestine propaganda tropes

- The perpetual claims of victimhood by oppressors

- Settler colonial states stick together

- Shifting attitudes in the US towards Israel

- Justin's resource for countering anti Palestinian propaganda 

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