International law is dead. The class struggle is alive | Norman Finkelstein | The Big Picture

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In a fiery and deeply personal return to The Big Picture Podcast, professor Norman Finkelstein explains why Israel and its allies in the West have destroyed the international order, and how the election of a Muslim socialist in New York threatens their grip on power. Finkelstein is a political scientist and one of the world’s foremost scholars on Israel-Palestine, as well as a critic of culture and empire. He is the author of 'The Holocaust Industry' and most recently, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It. TIMECODES: 00:00 - Intro 05:00 - Zohran Mamdani and October 7 08:50 - Anti-Zohran propaganda 11:00 - NYC is the capital of capitalism 27:00 - Israel's war on Iran 44:00 - Nazis and the nature of evil 51:00 - Israel's starvation of Gaza 53:00 - Antisemitism on campus 1:00:00 - Sabra and Shatilla massacre 1:10:00 - The greed of Arab leaders 1:19:00 - What my parents would think 1:29:00 - They're scared of Mamdani 1:36:00 - It's about a class war 1:46:00 - They're afraid of the movement 1:50:00 - Outro Subscribe and listen on all podcast platforms: https://thebigpicture.buzzsprout.com/ Support stories that matter. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR0fZh5SBxxMNYdg0VzRFkg/join Subscribe to our channel: http://ow.ly/AVlW30n1OWH Subscribe to MEE Telegram channel to stay up to date: https://t.me/MiddleEastEye_TG Middle East Eye Website: https://middleeasteye.net Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/MiddleEastEye Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/MiddleEastEye Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye