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Chris Hedges talks to Professor Joan Scott about the late Amy Kaplan's cultural analysis of the US and Israel's mythological shared history, and how it has manufactured consent for Israel's atrocities over the years. Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow me on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges (0:00) Intro (3:35) Who was Amy Kaplan? (7:55) Kaplan’s Zionist background (9:36) Myths uniting Israel and the West (13:13)The link between the Left and Israel (17:22) Co-opting Jewish Victimization and triumph (21:19) Bias leaking into media (25:09) How ‘Exodus’ Masculinized and Victimized Jews (30:35) The violence theme (33:09) The Holocaust (40:01) Christian Zionists (45:29) False equivalence (50:46) Outro