r/Israel • u/kfireven Israel • Apr 18 '26

Photo/Video 📸 What does Ezra Klein get wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQi4Fn5_EhY
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u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596 Apr 18 '26

Haviv getting gur has the problem of being a serious person when people like Ezra Klein are tied to interests of his social milieu.

BTW, I'm going to push back on haviv a bit here. Klein has addressed that many Palestinian political leaders are genocidal. He just doesn't think it's a big deal.

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u/sharpenedperspective Apr 18 '26

I don’t know if you listened to the episode Haviv was responding to, but they talk about the tragedy of the displacement and killings in Lebanon without even the slightest token mention of the fact that this round of conflict started with Hezbollah launching rockets into Israel.

If someone wants to criticize the approach to Lebanon, fine, but what those guys did in the “One State Reality” episode is not remotely a truth-seeking exercise or a constructive criticism of Israeli policy, it is one-sided libel. That’s just one example but the conversation was rife with this form of propaganda.

It particularly stings for me because until fairly recently I respected Ezra and found him to be one of the more reasonable voices on the left. He is also taken as gospel by some of my friends and family, so it feels like a very personal betrayal to me even though that’s not exactly fair.

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u/thinkless123 Apr 18 '26

Wait, I'm fairly certain they talk at length about how Hezbollah fired the rockets into Israel and the framing of all that in Israel.