In 2010, I went back and visited the West Bank in 2010. There you really see like whether or not you want to say that this is in some technical sense apartheid. It's crazy to say that anybody who calls what's happening in the West Bank apartheid must be motivated by anti-Semitism. This stuff has been going on long before we were worried about a guy through as Baruch Goldstein's photo on this office wall for years.
A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable discourse for a given topic and how this “Overton window” changes over time. This episode is available for free for everyone, the remaining episodes will appear at the Very Bad Wizards Patreon and Robert Wright’s Nonzero Newsletter on Substack.
00:33 What is this new Overton Windows series about?
10:05 Tamler’s connections to Israel and Bob’s experiences there
19:22 What does Zionism mean in practice?
27:35 The shifting Overton window around Israel/Palestine
45:35 The heavy-handed response to the BDS movement
57:13 What the Israel/Palestine discourse says about Overton windows
1:02:09 So where should the boundaries be set