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Jan 2025
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Bad Hasbara 80: Genocide Bad, with Sim K...

Matt Lieb
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Matt and Daniel are joined by anti-zionist Jewish influencer and author Sim Kern to discuss the online hasbara sock puppet brigades, whether feeding prisoners of war is a trick, and to ask whether you can still call a perplexing assemblage of words a joke if it’s not funny in any language.

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