The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 212
The entire world is turning today around the “Palestinian” Cause, but what is it? It is a fabrication. It is a manipulation. It is a forgery. It is a psyop. This fact, and the many facts it is based upon, is plainly and beautifully articulated in Danny Burmawi’s new book Islam, Israel, and the West: A Former Muslim’s Analysis, which New Discourses recommends, especially for beginners to the subject. Burmawi himself is a Christian ex-Muslim who originally hails from Jordan, lived many years as a Christian in Lebanon, and has since moved to the United States where he has established the Ideological Defense Institute (IDI). In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads just a little over two short sections from Burmawi’s book to introduce the realities of the so-called “Palestinian Cause” to New Discourses listeners. Join him to understand that much with that situation is not as it appears.
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Without wanting to fully endorse post-colonial Theory, the absence of a Palestinian national identity before 1947 doesn’t mean there isn’t one now. For example, in pre-colonial India, there wasn’t an Indian national identity, but something like an Indian national identity arose because of colonialism, whether you see this as something dialogic in response to being colonised, or through ‘nation-building’ projects that served to homogenise governence, universalise communication and shrink geographic space; the disparate princely states, Zamindars, regions, etc., and the manifold ethnicties and religions they contained, were integrated into a national whole.
So, it’s possible that a Palestinian identity now has some real valency through the experience of opposition to Israel. Whether that identity has enough solidity to bear the weight of a peaceful two-state solution is another matter.