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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: El Jones and Jonathan Liew decode how sportswashing works and why Israel is struggling to use it
Description: This episode comes out at a time when the movement for Palestinian liberation is relentlessly holding groups accountable for supporting and whitewashing the state of Israel's annihilationist violence against Gaza's people. The shaming of companies, states and cities for their complicity and quietism on Gaza has reached a fever pitch. Here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Tennis Canada was set to play Team Israel in the Davis Cup, but the event was closed to spectators as a result of public pressure (although the reasons cited were related to "security," a refrain that Jones says should be identified as anti-Palestinian racism...