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Comfortably dumb

3 March 2018

9:00 AM

3 March 2018

9:00 AM

Sanitising a hate-filled political campaign like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign is difficult. It obviously has repugnant historical parallels with the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1930’s Germany. So what do you do to get away from the image of jack-booted stormtroopers menacing people outside shops in Berlins swanky Kurfürstendamm?

You do what host Waleed Aly did with his recent interview with BDS promoter Roger Waters, the ex-Pink Floyd musician, during his recent appearance on the Channel 10’s infotainment programme The Project.

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