Sheen is an investigative journalist and an expert on Kahanism and other forms of Jewish extremism both inside present-day [occupied Palestine] and around the world.
Last year he wrote an important essay on the history of Kahanism, published by The Institute for Palestine Studies. In this episode of the podcast, Sheen takes us through some of his findings.
He explains the history of Rabbi Kahane and his followers. Sheen explains how the Kahanists have for decades infiltrated local Democratic Party politics in the United States – the topic of the bulk of the essay.
Due to the fact that most American Jews tend to vote Democratic, explains Sheen, “if a politician wanted to so-called ‘Get the Jewish vote,’ then their way to do so is to present themselves as a Democrat. And Kahanists realize this.”
This is the reason Dov Hikind — a former Jewish terrorist with incredibly regressive and bigoted politics — was a Democratic Party lawmaker in the New York State Assembly for 35 years, Sheen explains.
My colleague Nora Barrows-Friedman and I interviewed Sheen a few days before the current genocide began — on 4 October 2023 to be precise. But we’ve decided to release the interview in full, as the issues it raises are more relevant than ever.
In a new introduction for the episode, filmed recently, Sheen says that “if anything, the thesis of the monograph has been borne true: that the Democratic Party can be even worse in some cases than the Republican Party.”
He said that “what we have in recent months is the culmination of all that: we have the [Democratic Party] president of the United States [Joe Biden] who was the biggest recipient ever of AIPAC aid, supporting genocidal policies, supporting Kahanist policies.”
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Click here for events that happened today (August 11).
1938: The Empire of Japan lost to the Soviets in the Battle of Khasan.
1940: Under the aegis of the Fascist consulate in Monaco, a mass to commemorate the liberation of the internees of Saint‐Cyprien and Vernet, officiated by Don Luigi De Biasi (himself a former Saint‐Cyprien prisoner), was held in Monaco’s Principality.
1943: Luigi Petrucci, the Italian ambassador and authorized minister in the NDH, and General Mario Robotti, the commander of the Second Italian Army and administrator of all annexed and occupied Croatian territories, held a meeting discussing questions concerning the relationship between Fascist Italy and the NDH. Meanwhile, Brazilian police apprehended the Axis spy William Marcus ‘Willy’ Baarn in the small town of Gargau.