Morbid Symptoms

Making the accuser holy makes everyone innocent, until accused, then automatically guilty. That's totalitarian. The weaponization of sexual assault for political or enconomic interests is a morbid symptom.

Anthony @ThePoetMarch25 joins to discuss his recent ethnographic study - including some unexpected, for me at least, observations.

ALBA Party Candidate NICK DURIE for Glasgow North shares his positions on Israel/Palestine, Scottish Independence & Gender Self ID. We are also joined by Elenor Huston (veteran community activist) and Nick's election agent, and friend of the show, the indomitable @formerdecentIS Laura Jones

Special Guest: Rubble of Empires who applies a Marx-ish take on the ritual gender mutilation industries, and now, Zionism. https://www.youtube.com/@rubbleofempires

Tara is joined by Laura Jones, a radical feminist, international socialist, pro-Scottish independence housing and homelessness campaigner, to discuss her work and to ruthlessly critique PERF tweets regarding Israel/Palestine.

PERFs lose it over EuroVision NB Witch, Drawing and More!

Does the lack of daylight between Trans Rights Activists and Zionist Rights Activists pain you? You are not alone!

art 2 of how the "Do you condemn Hamas" question functions as a thought-killing mantra that contributes to the manufacturing of consent by both removing the conflict from its 100 plus year history and by setting the parameters of what is acceptable dissent from the established Israel-Palestine narrative: only those who absolutely condemn Hamas without qualification are worthy of being heard.

While most of the media pretends that the conflict started on Oct 7th, they should be looking into the history and aims of Zionism.

Garrett from The Social Populist joins to discuss his latest Substack: Cornell West, Jimmy Dore, and the Inevitability of Fred Hampton Leftism. Before delving into his article we first discuss cultural nationalism as such, or what today gets discussed in terms of "identity politics". Cultural nationalism defines a people (e.g., Black, Latino, Jewish, LGB etc) in terms of shared beliefs or practices rather than in terms of a shared language and land (e.g., American, French, Ethiopian, Chinese etc). This leads to a cultural politics focused on vindicating, protecting or affirming, for example, "blackness" vis a vis "white supremacy". Fred Hampton's Leftism, ironically, coincides with Dore's much more than it does with West's: “We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class…Those that don't admit to that are those that don't want to get involved in a revolution, because they know that as long as they're dealing with a race thing, they'll never be involved in a revolution." Link to article: https://socialpopulist.substack.com/p/cornel-west-jimmy-dore-and-the-inevitability

Tara and Garrett from The Social Populist critique Ashley Frawley's Compact Magazine article that condemns both Hamas and those on the Left who do not condemn them as "nihilists" getting off on "carnivalesque" acts of violence. We disagree and point out the false premises her argument rests upon and how it is at best Israel apologia and at worst genocide denial.

Topics: Homelessness in Los Angeles, Gaslighting media and govt officials, Elon Musk's Israel apology tour and F-bomb, US Congress resolution that anti-Zionism is antisemitism (it isn't) & US warmongers: rhetoric v. reality

Joined by reporter & author Anita Bartholomew to discuss her forthcoming book The Woke Commandments: A Lifelong Liberal Dissects the Belief System That Could Doom Liberalism. Woke has many facets, we zero in on gender ideology with a particular focus on kids and schools.

Episode 9 - Mya, a psychotherapist and political scientist, joins The Morbid Symptoms Podcast tomorrow to reckon with: ➡️astute critics of wokeism, gender ID, Covid or Ukraine turning into IDF spokespersons overnight ➡️those who know better continuing to act "as if" our governments & MSM aren't gaslighting us ➡️those proudly & publically indifferent to supportive of Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity

Episode 8 - Garrett Ramirez from The Social Populist joins us to debate/respond to The Cutrone Zone Hamas, the Left and Socialism episode that aired last month on Sublation Media. Links: Morbid Symptoms & Tara van Dijk: https://linktr.ee/TaravanDijk The Social Populist https://socialpopulist.substack.com/ Cutrone Zone episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6v_4MEI4bA&pp=ygUSY3V0cm9uZSB6b25lIGhhbWFz

Episode 7 - Tara & Athony use Herman & Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent model to discuss how the "war on terror" works to depoliticize, decontextualize, and criminalize armed movements resisting either state tyranny, imperialism, or both.

Tara will go over her latest Morbid Symptoms substack piece on how Israel's reponse to Hamas has changed the past 20 years and how it is flouting International Humanitarian Law with impunity. https://morbidsymptom.substack.com/p/i-know-for-a-fact-that-israel-is

Many have come down with selective historical amnesia when it comes to the 75+ year Israel-Palestine colonial conflict. A colonial conflict, that was 40 years old, before Hamas was founded in a Gaza refugee camp. Saturday Segments: 🏆Norm (Finkelstein) Knows Best 🤡Hamas Derangement Syndrome

Tara and guest, Peter from Kashmir, discuss how Western liberal democracies now unable or unwilling to resolve geopolitical conflicts politically seem increasingly willing to sacrifice people and places that refuse to acquiesce or suffer in silence.

Tara and Anthony discuss her two years teaching at the American International School in Gaza 2002-04 during the second intifida against the occupation.

Tara is joined by Azade, a Kurdish Iraqi feminist to discuss how Israel-Palestine unmasks the cultural chauvinism and hypocrisy of many Western "gender critical" feminists and women and children's rights campaigners.