Mainstream Media’s Collaboration with Israel’s War on Gaza

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Dr. Assal Rad.  Dr. Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad

[peterandjoycevanbreemen]

Thank you two for this. God bless you and the effort to tell the truth.

[DariusSarrafi]

Assal's evenhandedness is admirable. She sees the big picture which is The Empire and doesn't get bogged down by identity in which she personally has so much at stake.

[lawrencenoctor]

We have "Newspeak"today. 1984 is here.