Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Bulwark Daily · Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

I strongly, strongly believe that.

I also believe that even when we object to things that their leadership does, or that their government does, that we don't have the right to then subject them to genocide.

This country, in the lifetime of many people, overthrew the government of Iran because it didn't like it, then went and overthrew the government of Iraq because it didn't like it.

And we would be very, very angry if any group of people cited that as cause to do harm to civilians in this country.

The degradation of Palestinian life

that we have seen particularly over the past, I don't even know how long it's been now, but since the onset of this war, since October 7th, is horrifying.

And we will not get away with it.

I just strongly believe it.

I don't believe that you get to degrade life in one place and then escape from it untouched.

I just don't think that's how the world works.

And so to hear him talking like that,

you know, about these people who, you know, to be ruled over.

I mean, I'm at a point, and I'm sorry to rant about this, but, like, you're talking to somebody who has, you know, talked to people and who knows people who, you know, gotten out of Gaza.

And to hear these people talked about with no will, with no decision-making power, with no ability to determine, like, how they'll live and how they'll, you know, be ruled is just...

I don't know.

I feel like I'm not fully getting to the horror of it.

If I were to take it on the terms of everything I know, with no proof of this necessarily at all, nothing to cite, nothing to report.

I would say they probably plan to ethnically cleanse those people.

Those people won't be there.

Or at least there will be a significant minority of them who will probably live on what we would call a reservation and maybe work in places like that without any real empowerment in terms of deciding any politics.

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