Jacques and Jennifer talk about Israel's denial of its genocidal onslaughts on the Palestinian people and the different ways it seeks to mask the truth in strategies of 'occlusion'.

Examples include the planting of forests over 'emptied out' Palestinian villages in a mass exercise of 'green washing', the building of a 'Museum of Tolerance' on the site of the largest and most important Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, and the frequent declaration that Israel is a 'democracy' despite the opposite being obvious to millions around the world (and why 'we' need to support Israel against presumed 'terrorists' and presumed other 'non-democracies'...).

References

Rashid Khalidi 2024, The hundred years’ war on Palestine: A history of settler colonial conquest and resistance, London: Profile Books.

Saree Makdisi 2023, Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial, US: University of California Press.