finkelstein, thanks so much for joining me on a bright. thank you for having me. you've been an advocate for palestinian freedom for decades. you devoted much of your lives, certainly your scholarship to this. you've been called quote, the foremost jewish anti semite one planet or something we will call you a holocaust deniers. why does your work generate these types of responses? um, i think it's a kind of power docks and tell you the truth because you will know my actual political opinions are very conventional and well within the main stream. for example, long after the whole of the left went over to this notion of one state. i was still advocating tuesday. whereas the whole left was trying to anchor their thinking and things like settler colonialism and this and that i was very firm. and just in repeating what international law said, i thought that was the best vocabulary to try to reach a broad audience. so the culture virtual part comes, i think, from there's a certain element of i will say. so now the system to me, which is i read e

and then we have norman finkelstein who taught us, he wrote a book called gaza, an ininto mart -- martyrdom points out it came well before your texas congressman's october 7th plea. whole world started in the middle east on october 7th, it didn't. but you, the zionists, not good jews that aren't zionists, and they, the knock was when the incoming jews drove and slaughtered and pushedded out of the area in israel which is also known as palestine many tens of thousands of palestinians and mowing the lawn, he points out too, is periodic killing of innocent palestinians just to keep up the grand design of exterm nation of a race. -- extermination. and that is michael newman, a contributor to the politics of anti-semitism. so-s thanks for letting me on. >> host: all right. and let's take a look, actually, at part of that hearing from yesterday. family members of hostages, american hostages, being held in gaza is testified before house lawmakers yesterday. here's ala portion. >> my name is aviva siegel, i'm keith's wife. iei was in gaza for 51 days, ani saw everything. i felt everything. and we n

we have norman finkelstein who wrote a book called "gaza, a question of martyrdom."hey came out well before you texas congressman's october 7 plea. the zionists, not good jews that are not zionists, it was windy and coming jews drove and slaughtered and pushed out of the area in israel, also known as palestinian, many tens of thousands of palestinians and mowing the lawn he points out is periodic killing of innocent palestinians just to keep of the grand designs of extermination of a race. that is for michael newman who contributed to the politics of anti-semitism. thanks for letting me on. host: let's take a look at part of that hearing from yesterday. family numbers of hostages -- american hostages being held in gaza testified before the house lawmakers yesterday. here is a portion. [video] >> i am keith's wife. i was in gaza for 51 days and i saw everything. i felt everything. we need to bring them back. we cannot allow ourselves as humans to let them go through one more day like i went through. i was starved while they ate in front of me. i was thirsty and did no