Palestinian American historian Ussama Makdisi on Gaza, Palestine & Israel - Jung & Naiv: Folge 762

Unterstützt uns finanziell ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv Diskutiert im Jung & Naiv Forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/ New guest: Ussama Makdisi is a Palestinian American historian, specializing in the history of the modern Middle East. He is a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. Makdisi is part of a notable academic family — his uncle is the renowned literary theorist Edward Said, and his mother is Jean Said Makdisi. Tilo talks to Ussama about him being a historian, specializing in the history of the "Modern Middle East", the situation of student protests all around the US and Germany against the war in Gaza, devaluation of Palestinian history, the war in Gaza and the silence of mainstream media, easy access to propaganda through social media, the deafness of German and American elites, supporting Israel atrocities, the history of European imperialism in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th century, European antisemitism, the birth of Zionism and the Belfor Declaration, the partioning of historic Palestine after World War II and the conflict of the "Arab" and the "Jew" as a European solution to a European problem und much more. Please support our independent political journalism! Konto: Jung & Naiv IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine