Minds Under Siege: Weaponizing Trauma for War
The recording is now available on our website. We encourage you to share it with your friends and community.
Websites
Books
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire by David Michael Smith
Eretz Yisrael in the Past and Present by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Other Resources
How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war - Article by Naomi Klein which was the inspiration for the conversation
The Rise of October 7th Tourism - Article by Maya Rosen
How ‘Genocide’ Was Coined - Article by Ben Zimmer
The War On Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund - Article by Molly Crabapple
Shoah - Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Aisha's Story - Documentary Film about a grain miller keeping the Palestinian food culture alive in exile
Bad Hasbara – The World’s Most Moral Podcast by Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté
Music
Opening: Majâz by Le Trio Joubran
Closing: Salaam by Farah Siraj
"I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." Antonio Gramsci, A Letter from Prison (December 1929)