I recently had the pleasure of joining Johnny Vedmore on his show with TNT News, and we had a great discussion about the need to end the US government’s policy of supporting Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians. Listen to our illuminating conversation here:
Here are some of the specific topics that we covered:
- How both Jews and Palestinians are descended from Canaanite tribes, and why so many people believe hoax claims, such as that Palestine was uninhabited until Jewish immigrants began to populate the land and that Arabs only recently came to inhabit that land as a result of mass immigration to take advantage of the economic development from Jewish immigration.
- How Western governments and media propagate Zionist propaganda narratives because of Western governments’ support for the Zionists’ settler-colonialist project of reconstituting Arab Palestine into a demographically “Jewish state”.
- How the Biblical story of the Israelites being foreigners to Canaan and conquering the land through genocidal violence is unsupported by archaeological evidence and contradicted by genetic studies.
- How the secular political movement of Zionism was initially opposed by many Orthodox Jews on the grounds that it was heretical and by many European Jews who had assimilated into European cultures on the grounds that it would serve to fuel anti-Semitism.
- How Israel is increasingly isolating itself among the international community as a rogue state bent on violating international law with impunity, starting with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, through its illegal occupation and apartheid regime ongoing since 1967, and including its genocide in Gaza since October 2023; and why this cannot persist indefinitely but will eventually result in the collapse of the Zionist regime.
- How Israel initially supported Hamas as a counterforce to Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and how the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained a policy of utilizing Hamas as a strategic ally to block any movement toward peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
To learn more, purchase my book Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Thanks Jeremy,
Any thoughts on where Johnny gets the data on the Canaanite DNA of Israelites and Palestinians? The claims of geneticists such as Eran Elhaik and others seem to contradict this in saying the Ashkenazi Jews ancestry does not originate in the Middle East.
I’m not sure what specific studies Johnny had in mind, but I reviewed many in the writing of my e-book here:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/newsletter/brief-history-of-palestine/
As I explained in the book, the way to reconcile conflicting data on the ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews is to understand that there remains a link to the Levant along paternal lines, whereas along maternal lines, there was much conversion to Judaism.