Bad Hasbara – The World’s Most Moral Podcast

Matt and Daniel are joined by actor and activist Jacob Berger to talk about the Jewish Chronicle’s spate of fabulism, his impending move to Cairo, and where to come up on some stanky gorgonzola on the NYU campus.

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Matt and Daniel are joined by Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House to survey the grooming proclivities of Israel’s freelance hacks, the problem with the Dutch, and the suburban Chicago dad’s threshold for declaring something “Our 9/11.”

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Matt and Daniel are joined by Katie Halper (The Katie Halper Show, Useful Idiots) to cover the tragic killing of Aysengur Eygi by an IDF sniper, the difficulty in extracting a straight answer from the US State Department, and the Israeli tween publicity corps.

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Matt and Daniel are joined by Nora Barrows-Friedman of the Electronic Intifada for a talk on the future viability of Israeli settlements, the zionist podcast-sphere, and whether yinz could get a good wooder ice in the Philadelphi Corridor.

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Hey we did another live stream and for those of you who love the podcast but hate to look at our stupid faces, here is the audio from the stream. Our guest is producer Adam Levin!

Filmmaker Rebecca Pierce joins Matt and Daniel to survey the meaning of Jewish identity in the WASP gaze, the false choice between Black American rights and support for Palestinian liberation, and whether white people have ever actually scored an invitation to the cookout.

Find Rebecca’s work at rebeccapiercefilms.com

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NOTE: Sorry we were so late with this week's slop my beautiful hogs. There will be extra make-up slop in the coming weeks for you to stick your snouts into. I swear.

Matt and Daniel are joined by comedian and former United Nations war crimes attorney Jess Salomon to discuss arboreal colonialism, the Democratic National Convention’s aversion to Palestinian speakers, and a particularly cursed rendition of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s Crossroads where all the words were said.

Watch Jess’ new special “Sad Witch,” out September 24, 2024 at https://youtube.com/@800pgm or find all of her info at https://jesssalomon.com/

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We have decided for the sake of tickling your fancy (?) we are releasing the interview portion of the Patreon-only episode with Jacob Berger. There's another 45+minutes of show after this so if you want the full thing, become a patron by joining the Patreon.

Matt and Daniel are join by Palestinian American filmmaker Rolla Selbak for a conversation about the state of Hollywood, a psychotic article about Gal Gadot in the Jewish Chronicle, and the Haaretz investigation into the IDF literally using Palestinians as human shields.

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We are joined by psych phd student, sex and trauma therapist, and anti-zionist jewish content creator Katie Bogen for a conversation about sexual trauma and activism, and how Josh Shapiro not being VP is somehow antisemitic.

Hey, people in Chicago who want to see Matt do stand up! We ADDED A LATE SHOW to the stand up night at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Please buy tickets.

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Here is a taste of this week's patreon-only episode of Bad Hasbara with comedian Jacob Berger. DON'T WORRY THERE WILL ASLO BE A FREE EPISODE RELEASED AS WELL!!!

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This week Matt and Daniel welcome comedian and Irishman Tadhg Hickey back to the pod to talk about his trip to Iran, Bibi's trip to the US Congress, and so much more.

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Matt and Daniel visit with Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill (late of the Intercept, now repping Drop Site) to talk the truth of 10/7, Biden's history with Israel, and Hamas' preferred video conference vendor.

For independent news on politics and war visit Jeremy and Ryan's new home at Drop Site: https://www.dropsitenews.com/ 

SEE MATT DO STAND UP AT THE SAN FRANCISCO PUNCHLINE JULY 24-27. Matt will be featuring for the hilarious Helen Hong! Buy tickets here.

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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Matt and Daniel talk to former US Army Ranger, Co-Host of Colonial Outcasts and State of Play for Mint Press News, Greg Stoker. With the Trump assassination attempt in the rearview; they discuss IDF rank inflation, destroying tanks in flip flops, and the Nuseirat camp operation casualties.

All Greg's Links: https://linktr.ee/greg.j.stoker

SEE MATT DO STAND UP AT THE SAN FRANCISCO PUNCHLINE JULY 24-27. Matt will be featuring for the hilarious Helen Hong! Buy tickets here.

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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Matt and Daniel welcome Most Moral Brother Aaron Maté from The Grey Zone to cover the Ha'aretz Hannibal Directive story, watch Aaron dismantle some hasbara on Piers, and coo over a very cute picture of the young Maté brothers. Plus! Daniel's reeeeeeemix of the Bad Hasbara theme.

SEE MATT DO STAND UP AT THE SAN FRANCISCO PUNCHLINE JULY 24-26. Matt will be featuring for the hilarious Helen Hong! Buy tickets here.

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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Matt and Daniel talk with journalist David Sheen – author of Kahanism and American Politics – about Kahanism, where those tzedakah box coins go, and the elegant good looks of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

Read David's piece for Electronic Intifada "How an Israeli colonel invented the burned babies lie to justify genocide"

Find out more about our guest at davidsheen.com

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This week we had TrueAnon's Brace Belden on the pod to tell us about his experience at the Nova Festival Exhibit in New York. Also we talked about the Adas Torah pogrom in Matt Lieb's old neck of the woods.

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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Today Matt and Daniel welcome political analyst and host of Night School, Marc Lamont Hill for a conversation about debating zionists, Christian Zionism and about how Matt is treyf.

Watch Marc Lamont Hill's new YouTube Show Night School

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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Our guest is Palestinian American analyst Omar Baddar. A funny thing happened while we recorded this episode, we thought Chomsky died. So the last 25 minutes is a eulogy to an alive guy.

Will you be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention? So will I! Me and my wife Francesca Fiorentini have a couple of live shows we are doing! On Monday and Tuesday August 19 and 20, Francesca and I will be doing shows at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. Monday will be a live Bitchuation Room Podcast with me and some other great guests, and Tuesday will be a live stand up show with us and some friends.

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This week Daniel and Matt talk to former Media Matter's video producer Kat Abughazalehkat, a Palestinian American political analyst and all around badass about her experience in the last 8 months. We also talk about the killing of over 270 Palestinians by the IDF at the Nuseirat refugee camp and the surrounding hasbara, as well as Israeli appropriation of Palestinian liberation symbols.

ARE YOU IN LOS ANGELES THIS SATURDAY?? Come yell at Biden and his friends/donors on Saturday June 15th at 5pm at the Peacock Theater. Find more info about this rally at JVP Los Angeles's insta page or follow my own page here.

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Due to it being late in France where most moral co-host Daniel is currently visiting, Matt did a solo episode with writer and commentator Wajahat Ali about how bad the hasbara has gotten.

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Today we had comedian Aamer Rahman on the pod who joined us from Istanbul and Daniel joined us from France. Matt was in his home, the same place he's been for years. He needs a vacation.

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Matt and Daniel talk to Dr. Arash Javanbakht, Director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Center at Wayne State University.

Plus, the definitely real and not fake phone recording from Rafah.

AFRAID by Dr. Arash Javanbakht

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Comedian, activist, and IDF refusenik Noam Shuster-Eliassi joins Daniel and Matt to talk about being one of the few leftists in Israel, refusing to serve in the IDF, news from the ICC, and so much more.

This week, Matt and Daniel talked to Palestinian and most moral comrade of the pod Mohammad Qasem about what it was like growing up in the occupied West Bank and more.

Here is the audio version of a live stream Matt and Daniel did the other day.

This week Matt and Daniel welcome co-host of The Majority Report Emma Vigeland to the show to talk about liberal panic over Biden's reelection prospects, white zionist girl tears, and Israel's UN ambassador bringing a cute little baby shredder as a prop.

Today Matt is joined by Francesca Fiorentini (The Bitchuation Room) and Rafael Shimunov (Beyond The Pale) We talked about the campus encampments and zionist agitators.

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Hey all,

Sorry about the wait but here is the new episode! THE VIDEO WILL BE LIVE TOMORROW AFTERNOON!

Daniel Maté is at Matt's LA studio along with guest Hadar Cohen for a conversation about student protests and the Zionist erasure of Arab Jews.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist whose work focuses on multi-religious spirituality, politics, social issues, and community building. She is the founder of Malchut, a spiritual skill-building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. She teaches and consults in a variety of settings and formats, from one-on-one coaching to online group classes and in-person retreats.  Her podcast, Hadar’s Web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran. Subscribe to her Substack for access to her latest writings, offerings, and media appearances. 

hadarcohen.me or malchut.one.  // @hadarcohen32

Surprise! This week we got our biggest and most moral guest in Bad Hasbara history. Comedian Bassem Youssef was kind enough to come by and talk to Matt and Daniel about our collective gaslighting by Israel. What a fun little treat for all of you most moral listeners.

Palestinian YouTuber and drag therapist Indie Nile joins Matt and Daniel for conversation about zionism, drag, Iran's retaliation for Israel's attack, and Eylon Levy's saddest hasbara.

Watch Indie Nile's fantastic channel here 

Visit Daniel's website at https://www.danielmate.com/ and check out his mental chiropractic service at https://www.walkwithdaniel.com/

This week it's just Matt and Daniel talking about an Israeli propagandist named Hen Mazzig who recently got smoked in a debate. We also talk about Daniel Mate's latest walk and talk video.

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Daniel and Matt are together again and joined by the amazing independent journalist Abby Martin. This week we are talking about the recent murder of 7 World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza and the Israeli government's forced apology.

This week Matt welcomes comedian Mike Recine and singer/TikTok person @iamblakeley to the pod to talk trash about Michael Rapaport and some other things.

Catch Mike Recine's new comedy special on YouTube now.

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Nora is back on the pod and talking about her article in Electronic Intifada, the suspension of Eylon Levy, the condemnation of Jonathan Glazer, and UK grime music.

AJ+ host and media critic Sana Saeed joins Matt and Daniel to talk about Hollywood's big night being hijacked by one person with a conscience.

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Buy tickets to see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini headline the Punch Line in Sacramento on Sunday, March 17th at 7pm. 

This week Matt and sometimes co-host Daniel Maté talk about Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, RFK Jr being a coward, and Daniel breaks out into a Billy Joel song. Also, a voicemail from listener Amichai Axelrod.  

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Matt is back with sometimes co-host Daniel Maté and talking to Palestine historian Zachary Foster about the erasure of Palestine and the blood libel smear.

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This week Matt is joined by fellow LA Jew and co-founder of Jewish anti-apartheid group IfNotNow Simone Zimmerman who was recently featured in the new documentary Israelism.

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Today Matt Lieb is joined by British socialist, political commentator, and all around good guy Owen Jones to talk about how Israel uses accusations of antisemitism to justify brutality. They also talk about how Piers Morgan is an accidental ally.

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Irish stand up comedian Tadhg Hickey talks to Matt about UNRWA, zionism, and the Irish peoples' immunity to hasbara.

Buy tickets to see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini headline the Punch Line in Sacramento on Sunday, March 17th at 7pm.

Today Matt is joined by Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid to talk about stand up comedy, being banned on TikTok, and how Matt's wife's podcast is more professional.

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Matt is joined by fellow pro-Palestine stand up comedians Yedoye Travis  (“That’s Deep”  on Complex) and Michael Schirtzer (Palestine Pod)., talking about the state of cowardice in the industry and the Grammys.

Buy tickets to see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini headline the Punch Line in Sacramento on Sunday, March 17th at 7pm.

This week Nora Barrows-Friedman of Electronic Intifada joins Matt Lieb to talk about the Intercept's new piece about the relationship between the pro-Israel group CAMERA and New York Times executive Editor Joe Kahn.

Buy tickets to see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini headline the Punch Line in Sacramento on Sunday, March 17th at 7pm.

Matt Lieb and sometimes co-host Daniel Maté welcome student and Israeli activist Noy Katsman to the show to talk about the death of their brother Hayim Katsman during the October 7th attack and the Israeli government's exploitation of Jewish pain.

Dan Arrows (Iron Dice podcast and Three Arrows YT channel) is live from Germany talking to Matt Lieb about Germany and Israel's special relationship and the state of German liberalism and the German left with regards to zionism.

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Today Matt Lieb's guest is not only an accomplished podcaster, comedian, pundit on TYT and mother, she is also his wife Francesca Fiorentini. We talk about the ICJ, AI hasbara, and the Irish being the best.

Daniel Maté is back with his long lost sibling Matt Lieb to talk about zionist comedians and musical theater being used for evil.

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This week Matt's good friend and co-host of Ethnically Ambiguous Anna Hossnieh comes on the pod to talk electoral politics cynicism and much more.

The homie Daniel Maté is in studio with Matt Lieb and they vibe.

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A bonus solo episode of Bad Hasbara where Matt Lieb reads some emails and shows the latest in Israeli hasbara while his wife is at a New Years Eve party.

This week podcaster Shereen Lani Younes of Ethnically Ambiguous joins Bad Hasbara to talk about Israel and whatnot.

Welcome to the first episode of bad hasbara. Matt is joined his old Jewbook homie social worker and antizionist Jew Ben Ziggy (@evelkneidel), for a conversation about the IRL billboard poster JewBelong.

Hey everyone, here's the first episode (or like partial episode) of Bad Hasbara, a new podcast about Israel and propaganda. I was trying to only record a small trailer but I got lazy and decided to post the whole thing as is. Most episodes won't just be me talking at you, I promise.