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Aaaand sign off. Mainstream Western media, Ladies and Gentlemen. Believe it or not, this reporter was actually somewhat professional by the typical standards we see from channels like CNN. I’ve seen much worse.

Watch the full interview here: https://www.instagram.com/p/COuuzG1l_yj/ 

Kurd’s comment on the interview: “I knew this interview was going to have a biased, inaccurate framing, and it did from the start. But I made sure I course corrected. I’m happy that you cannot edit a live interview, because there’s no way I could have spoken so bluntly about the myth of “both sides” and Israeli “self-defense” had this been prerecorded. Thanks CNN for taking my testimony about settler-colonialism.“

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Here are some backups (sadly in bits only), since some social media - like Instagram, conveniently deletes some posts about what’s happening in Palestine.

https://www.facebook.com/harryfear/videos/173620601322608/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2T6K4FXg5A

https://www.instagram.com/mohammedelkurd/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4Bb-5sMhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZJJONhvj0U

The only reason this interview went viral, is because it’s the first time a major American network like CNN had interviewed an actual Palestinian that’s directly affected by the violence, when all the other networks were busy interviewing Israeli ambassadors about their side of the story. 

Thanks to the fact that this was a live interview, Muhammad managed, without being cut off or having his word edited out, to list all of Israel’s war crimes and straight out called it what it is “settler-colonialism” as well as calling out the US’s historic bias toward Israel.

Muhammad el Kurd, as well as many other Palestinian activists, are regularly arrested and detained by the only democracy in the Middle East (Israel) if them speaking out against the crimes/abuse they face gets too much attention.

Looks like we have a bit of sticky situation here. What’s going to happen, Major… you’re going to stand up and walk out that door with us. No, I don’t think so. I’m afraid you and I, we both know, Captain. No matter what happens to anybody else in this room, the two of us aren’t going anywhere.