Hasan Piker

They had a practice called necklacing, where they would put a tire around the necks of collaborators and light it on fire.

It was a heinous practice.

Um, and it was of course condemned after the fact, but none of the people that were engaged in it, if I recall correctly, even in the truth and reconciliation committee were actually, uh, legally charged for it because there's this understanding when we look back at like some of the more heinous things that resistance groups have done and militancies have done.

Uh, we matched that up against the far larger, far broader systematic violence that an entire people have been subjected to.

And it makes me feel silly to consistently, uh,

You know talk about what Hamas has done Especially when there has been an October 7 times a thousand if not more than a thousand at this point in the hands of Israel Against the Palestinian population in its entirety.

I mean they're doing an October 7 to Lebanon right now as we speak just take it from the Palestinian perspective Don't you think Hamas's decision?

No, of course not.

I think they were hand in hand, but I think it was, it might've been Kwame Torrey who said it, you know, you can only shame someone who has a conscience.

And if your enemy has none, it's impossible to get them to react to your civil movement.

The Palestinians have tried civil movements.

I mean, the Great March of Return, where hundreds of Palestinians were sniped directly by the Israeli occupation forces.

And they openly celebrated that too.

They said, we have an accounting of every single bullet that we shot at the Palestinians.

And then they had to delete that.

I mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the war crimes galore that we're talking about.

Because even the everyday maintenance of apartheid,

which Israel is, is an incredibly violent endeavor.

That maintenance requires you to constantly be a military force that is ever-present, that is dominating and ritualistically humiliating and subjugating millions of people.

So my perspective is always looking at this from the perspective of the people that are being dominated rather than placing a lot of the emphasis on structural violence or rather