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With the anniversary of Oct 7 coming up, I suspect it will be a topic for some friends of mine. Due to some work I’ve done on them over the past year, I think they might actually be amenable to learning more about Palestine and everything that’s happened in the last 100+ years.

Problem is, these people really have no idea what’s going on or what happened. I don’t know if they could find Palestine on a map. They literally haven’t moved beyond “Jews and Arabs have an ancient grudge and this is just the continuation of that.

What are some basic - and I mean basic videos I could send to them. I think 1948 Creation & Catastrophe is amazing but its scope is a bit narrow. There’s also that many-hour video Hasan did with historian Zach Foster that’s very good but it’s more about debunking hasbara.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not great, but it's better than you'd expect; John Oliver did a Last Week Tonight on the West Bank settlements. It mainly focuses on the modern situation. The jokes are... unfortunate. But he is a voice yankee liberals listen too (they still associate a British accent with being educated)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqK3_n6pdDY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: