Zionism's SHOCKING HISTORY, 2023 Year In Review, & Ritchie Torres EXPOSED

Historian and host of the podcast Historiansplaining Samuel Biagetti looks back at the biggest stories of 2023, provides the historical context for them and talka about the history of zionism. But first Jason Rosenberg, Ilana Cruger-Zaken and Richie Merino talk about why they infiltrated discussion between U.S. Representatives Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), moderated by Mijal Bitton and held at 92Y on New York's Upper East Side. Lawler and Torres introduced a bill to create a new Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords (which normalizes relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) which passed in the House of Representatives through the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024 (NDAA). The audience members said things like "GET HER OUT! GET THE F*CK OUT! WE'RE GONNA DOX THE SH*T OUT OF YOU!" The security guards were rough with the protestors and one woman in the audience assaulted one of the protestors. Jason and Richie will discuss Torres's record as well as Israel's pinkwashing.

Then Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel gives a West Bank update.

00:00 intro
00:01:50 video of protestors disrupting Ritchie Torres
00:04:12 Jason Rosenberg, Ilana Cruger-Zaken and Richie Merino on disrupting Torres
00:13:25 What Pinkwashing is
00:24:00 what their identities have to do with protesting Torres
01:00:00 Yumna Patel on Israel's "torture camps"
01:16:41 Palestinian prisoner on his death bed after three months in Israeli prison
01:32:10 Samuel Biaggeti on the history of Zionism
01:54:35 Full Chat With Samuel here