Hasbara at home: A deep dive into Zionist Hebrew media w/ Dror Dayan
Release Date: 02/22/2026
Hasbara at home: A deep dive into Zionist Hebrew media w/ Dror Dayan
The East is a Podcast
**Note: This episode contains a lot of discussion of screenshares. Unfortunately, we didn't do the best job describing every graph for audio listeners, so watch the video edition if you are interested in seeing the graphs cited and the slides prepared by the guest.*** Filmmaker Dror Dayan returns to the show to provide us with an overview of the Zionist media machine in Occupied Palestine. You can follow him on Twitter Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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The prehistory of Al Aqsa Flood w/ Mujamma Harakat (pt.1)
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***This conversation with Mujamma stretched slightly over two hours and covered a lot of terrain. Part 2 will be available to patrons in the coming days, as will the video edition of the entire episode. If a few of you sign up for the Patreon, I will unlock it in a couple of weeks on the free feed.*** The first half of a two-part episode with academic and translator about the historical trajectory of actors, social forces, and ideologies that propelled the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine (HAMAS) from its early history to today. Support Mujamma's fantastic work on SubStack ...
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Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
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**Producer's note: The folks at Popular Front asked me to moderate this discusssion of Gabriel Rockhill's latest book on the history of the Frankfurt School. Make sure to check out !** --- We’re thrilled to host author and philosopher Gabriel Rockhill on his book tour in Toronto. One of the key intellectuals of our movement today, his latest work explores ideas that are essential to understanding the challenges and necessities in building a socialist movement—especially for those of us living in the West. Starting with a talk from the author, followed by a discussion with a...
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"We are simply people who love life": Voices from the Gaza holocaust
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**Note: As I explain in the introduction to this video, this is a very special episode that consists of two halves featuring three Palestinians in Gaza sharing their stories. It has become more than evident that our racist ruling class and their media warriors are simply refusing to allow anything that humanizes Palestinians in the slightest into the mainstream. It falls to us to help break the narrative blockade on Palestinians and their liberation struggle. I hope to do more of this content in the future, so if you know people in Gaza who want to make their own episodes in this format, reach...
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"They won't leave us alone": Organized chaos and hybrid war in Iran w/ Navid Zarrinnal
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***Note: Navid's internet has been very unreliable for weeks now, so when I managed to get hold of him with a stable VPN, we decided to hurriedly record. In haste, both of us managed to mangle our respective recordings. I have been forced to resort to--please forgive me, cruel podcast gods---AI audio enhancer tools to see if it could be improved, which it mostly did but there are some funny spots on my side.*** Navid Zarrinal, host of , and one of the oldest friends of The East is a Podcast, described what he witnessed during the last few weeks in Tehran. Watch the on The East is a...
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Tankie Group Therapy #36: Empire of Lulz
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Tankie Group Therapy is back after a long, long hiatus! Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy hosts this special, extra-super-duper-sized edition featuring all your TGT faves: Justin Podur, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Alex Avina, Joe Emersberger, Sina Rahmani, Arama Rata, Jared Ware, Adnan Husain, Asa Winstanley, and more! Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Michael Parenti: "US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR" (1986)
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***RIP Michael Parenti*** Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Colorado, Boulder: "US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR" April 15, 1986 Source Check out the for more great archival mixes Join us for a live edition of Tankie Group Therapy Sunday @ 3:30
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"Listen to the Iranians": Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast)
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**Note: When stuff in Iran goes down, my natural inclination is to avoid doing content and stay above the fray, at least until the media hysteria dies down. Not the best way to run a media project, I know, but I just have a hard time with all the breathless coverage--BREAKING!!!--and don't really want to feed it. Even then, I am still Iranian, and if people ask me to record during these times, my cultural programming compels me to accept the invitation. This episode of was recorded as I was travelling for work recently and at the end of a busy, emotional day. The...
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Sina Rahmani: "This is hybrid warfare" (The Freedom Side, Jan 15th)
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I have been on the road and unable to do a proper episode on what's happening on Iran, so I decided to post this quick spot I did with The Freedom Side from BT News. You can watch the on their YouTube channel If you can't wait until I am able to record a full episode on Iran (I will try to do one tomorrow night or Saturday morning), my comrade and I recently did an episode of our paywalled show, , and we discussed a little bit about what has been happening but that is already three days ago and out of date! Consider supporting the show
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Psychic Militancy - Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance
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***I have been working with Lara Sheehi on her new show. Make sure you subscribe to her and feeds to listen to the rest of this episode**** Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and liberation. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon. He...
info_outline**Note: This episode contains a lot of discussion of screenshares. Unfortunately, we didn't do the best job describing every graph for audio listeners, so watch the video edition if you are interested in seeing the graphs cited and the slides prepared by the guest.***
Filmmaker Dror Dayan returns to the show to provide us with an overview of the Zionist media machine in Occupied Palestine.
You can follow him on Twitter
https://x.com/DrorDayan
Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/5fkp6GdlgcE
Consider supporting the show
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