Katie Halper joins us to discuss Zionist backlash against Jonathan Glazer’s recent movie The Zone of Interest. Glazer was the only awardee to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza in his speech, in which he rebuked the co-optation of Jewish identity and the trauma of the Holocaust by violent supporters of an ethnostate. The movie, as we note, has clear and resonant parallels to modern-day violence: it presents the idyllic life of oppressors shadowed by the ever-present but never-quite-seen suffering of their victims.
I just watched the film a couple of days ago and I agree with everything that is said here! When you think you can live a normal life and ignore cruelty, just because it is walled-in, you are mistaken! Hamas just proved this with the terrorist attack. You can not eliminate Hamas by military means, you eliminate them by eliminating their recruiting arguments! Continued oppression not only damages the humanity and psyche of the oppressed, it also damages the humanity and psyche of the oppressors.
I just watched the film a couple of days ago and I agree with everything that is said here! When you think you can live a normal life and ignore cruelty, just because it is walled-in, you are mistaken! Hamas just proved this with the terrorist attack. You can not eliminate Hamas by military means, you eliminate them by eliminating their recruiting arguments! Continued oppression not only damages the humanity and psyche of the oppressed, it also damages the humanity and psyche of the oppressors.
Good interview!