30 May 2026
https://juliansayarer.substack.com/p/podcast-appearance-resistance-is

This was the first podcast I've done in a while, on a subject that's
deliberately made hard and controversial to talk about, but one essential to the
liberation of Palestine.

The episode title probably explains it best: Is judeophilia a problem for the
left?

The whole conversation was over an hour, and it's been great to get feedback
from people saying how much they valued it. Obviously jewish zionists use legal
and violent harassment to smother discourse on Palestine, but their most
effective method - specifically because it influences the behaviour of most
people - is to make people uncomfortable mentioning sensitive issues like jewish
overrepresentation.

I hope this conversation can help people feel more confident orientating a
territory that has been purposefully made fraught. Below are a few extracts from
it.

Why do leftists applaud the very small jewish minority that perform acts of
minor protest as a way of deflecting from the broader jewish majority that backs
and enacts zionism? Is this the equivalent of saying Not All Men as a response
to patriarchy?

Video extract

Does jewish overrepresentation in leftist media ensure a prevalence of zionist
and jewish-centric discourse at the expense of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and
those directly enduring the impacts of jewish zionism?

Video extract

How do we address the jewish fixation on "anti-semitism" and the determination
of a majority white group, heavily represented in politics and media, to remake
themselves as permanent victims. What does this say about and do to jewish
psychology?

Video extract

It was great to talk to Benji and Indi about this. As well as them getting my
thoughts out of me, Benji as a French-Canadian reflected a little on how his own
experience in leftism led him to question the prevalence of jewish perspectives,
and how idealised understandings of jewish values among leftists had, even in a
time of genocide, made him start questioning the function of this prevalence.

It was really good to have Indi's perspective as a Sri Lankan, which implicitly
reminds that when we say "the left" we typically mean "European & North American
left". Meanwhile the majority of the world's population is left to look on at
both the horrors of zionism, confused at why our leftist discourse remains so
obedient to the talking-points and representation of the group primarily
responsible for the crimes of zionism.

We also talked about how this relates to imperialism, the declining US Empire,
and reliance on a 1940s, Eurocentric obsession with the Second World War as the
definitive moral framework for how Euromericans read the world.