Podcasts by Mazel Tov Cocktail

Episode 8: Maiya, Eva, the Israeli occupation and the US Jewish establishment from 2017-06-16T02:10:40

This episode I talk to Maiya and Eva from the IfNotNow Jewish activist group in the United States. We talk about Jewish and Palestinian coalitions against Israeli occupation, challenging the Trump ...

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Episode 7: John, Fascists, Islamophobes and Jews from 2017-05-12T04:06:38

This episode I talk to John Safran about his new book ‘Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables’. We talk about Islamophobes and white nationalists, a Jewish them...

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Episode 6: Ali, Yehuda and the new Australian Jewish left from 2017-05-03T08:14:41

This episode I talk to to a couple of Jewish lefties, Yehuda and Ali about their Jewish left group in the process of formation in Sydney. We talk about the actions they’ve done so far, opposing Net...

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Episode 5: Leandros, Angela and anti-racism from 2017-04-20T10:08:23

This episode I talk to Leandros Fischer, political scientist, and an activist in and expert on the German left. We talk about how to beat the far right, Angela Merkel perhaps not being our great li...

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Episode 4: Jordy and Multiculturalism, Zionism, the Holocaust and Turnbull from 2017-04-04T09:13:18

We talk to Jordy Silverstein,an activist with the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, and a historian at the University of Melbourne. We talk about the government's attempts to weaken the Racial...

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Episode 3: Christian and Left Renewal from 2017-03-22T01:52:05

This episode I talk to Christian from Left Renewal , the new anti-capitalist radical tendency within the Australian Greens party. We talk about the history of the Greens, the contradictions between...

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Episode 2: Faisal and the insecurity archipelago from 2017-03-09T02:51:43

I talk to Faisal Al-Asaad about settler colonialism, the limits of Muslim hyphenated identities, the global rise of the far right , the possibilities of developing non-nationally bounded relations...

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Episode 1: Allegra and Arendt from 2017-02-18T03:48:05

In this first episode of the Mazel Tov Cocktail podcast I talk to Allegra Reinalda about Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. We talk populism, anti-politics, conspiracy theories, Podemos an...

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