The Real News Podcast It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
Sep 2, 2025
24:58
“Colonial racism helps explain the Trump administration’s adulation of Israeli violence against Palestinians,” Professor Aviva Chomsky writes at The Nation. In fact, colonial racism is the common thread binding the violent, eliminationist politics of Donald Trump in the US and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. In this installment of our ongoing series “Not in Our Name” on The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Professor Chomsky about how Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza is the grim culmination of the settler-colonial project of Zionism, and how the repression of political dissent under the guise of “combatting antisemitism” is an extension of that violent project.
Guest:
Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of many acclaimed books, including Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration; and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.
Additional resources:
Aviva Chomsky, The Nation, “Colonialism is alive and kicking in the US’s obsession with Israel” Aviva Chomsky, The Nation, “This group’s definition of antisemitism is providing cover for genocide”
Credits:
Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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Guest:
Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of many acclaimed books, including Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration; and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.
Additional resources:
Aviva Chomsky, The Nation, “Colonialism is alive and kicking in the US’s obsession with Israel” Aviva Chomsky, The Nation, “This group’s definition of antisemitism is providing cover for genocide”
Credits:
Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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