Since October 7th, 2023, we’ve covered the Israel-Palestine conflict quite a bit. Many of our articles have focused on the discourse surrounding the war and the anti-Semitism — not criticism of Israel, actual anti-Semitism —that has been so prevalent within the pro-Palestine movement.
Writer Johan Pregmo has done more than contribute a couple of these articles — he’s spent the past year and a half deep in the online trenches actively debating Western pro-Palestine and anti-Israel activists. I wanted to sit down with Johan to pick his brain about it. We discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict, anti-Semitism in the pro-Palestine movement, common fallacies, tactics, and responses in debates, the psychology of Western pro-Palestine activists, whether these debates are useful, what Israel should be criticized on, why the truth matters, and more.
At one point in the conversation, it was stated that Israel’s population is around five million. The correct figure is 9.7 million.
Our Israel-Palestine pieces:
“Intentionally Killing Civilians is Bad. End of Moral Analysis.”
“Cancel Culture Comes for Anti-Semites”
“Young Voters Are Furious at Biden. That’s Nice.”
“No, Winning a War Isn’t ‘Genocide’”
“Israel and Genocide, Revisited: A Response to Critics”
“With Pro-Pals Like These, Who Needs Enemies?”
“A Year of Leftist Anti-Semitism”
The American Dreaming podcast is now officially up and running. Outside of Substack, you can find it on Spotify and Pocket Casts, and the sidebar links on this post allow you to easily import it into other podcast players. We’re working on getting American Dreaming indexed on Apple Podcasts, but Apple is being the absolute worst. We’ll get it ironed out eventually.
Subscribe now and never miss a new post. You can also support the work on Patreon. Please consider sharing this article on your social networks, and hit the like button so more people can discover it. You can reach me at @AmericnDreaming on Twitter, @jamie-paul.bsky.social on Bluesky, or at AmericanDreaming08@Gmail.com.
Share this post