Matt and Daniel are joined by survivor of the Nazi Holocaust Stephen Kapos, for a wide ranging discussion of Stephen’s escape from Transylvania, the parallels he sees between his own ordeal and the Palestinians’, and the current political climate in his home country of England. Please visit https://gazafunds.com/ to donate to Palestinians seeking safety and security. See The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini and Matt Lieb May 30 in Los Angeles: https://bit.ly/bitchuation-la Subscribe to...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 111
On this week's Patreon exclusive episode, the boys discuss the killing of Israeli diplomats in DC and the intimidation of Western diplomats in the West Bank. Listen to the full episode by subscribing to Patreon. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
May 24, 2025•4 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by political activist Rafael Shimunov to examine the social construct of whiteness as it relates to pod favorite Shai Davidai, to witness a Shai on Shaiel war of words, and to open their collective third eye to irrational hatred of the other while getting a good stretch. Please donate to Gaza Great Minds: gazagreatminds.org Raf asks New York City voters to rank Zohran Mamdani first, and fill in the rest of their ballot as they please - omitting Cuomo - in the June 24 D...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 47 min
Subscribe to the Patreon to get the full episode and an extra Bad Hasbara every week! https://www.patreon.com/badhasbara Matt and Daniel are joined by returning champion, journalist Sana Saeed to examine NYU withholding the degree of Logan Rozos over his graduation speech. Please donate to Children in Conflict: childreninconflict.org See The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini and Matt Lieb May 30 in Los Angeles: https://bit.ly/bitchuation-la Find Sana online at https://x.com/sanasaeed Su...
May 20, 2025•34 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by comedian Ahmed Bharoocha to talk over an IDF recruiting commercial, news media getting rope-a-doped again by reports of tension between the US and Israel, and whether nepo babies should stop gatekeeping caring about occupied peoples, and commit to being gatekept by the true arbiters of who gets to care about causes: opinion columnists. Please donate to Mercy Corps: https://www.mercycorps.org/ See The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini and Matt Lieb May 30 in...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 107
On this week's Patreon exclusive episode we welcome back Greg Stoker of Colonial Outcasts to talk about the NY Post's smear article on a Pulitzer Prize winning Palestinian poet. You can listen to the f ull episode by joining the Bad Hasbara Patreon right now! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
May 12, 2025•7 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by a survivor of Chabad mob intimidation and violence to talk the dissonance of antisemitism czars, Australian zionist watersports fanatics, and absolution for the groogrux king himself: Dave Matthews. Use promo code MOSTMORAL at CBDistillery.com for 25% off your purchase. Specific product availability depends on individual state regulations. Please donate to the Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/ Subscribe to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/badh...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Matt and Daniel welcome Yugo, JT and Hakim from The Deprogram for a swing through Shael Ben-Efriam's sudden awakening to actual reality, followed by his immediate ejection from establishment zionist circles, and to discover whether an Israel-Palestine peace accord can be induced by an art form that's historically caused so much pain: boy band music. Please donate to the Sameer Project: https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project See Matt and Francesca Fiorentini at Cobb’s...
May 01, 2025•2 hr•Ep. 104
Here is a little snippet from our patreon exclusive episode with comedian Lana Saleh. You can listen to the full episode by joining our Patreon! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Apr 30, 2025•6 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by four-time guest, Associate Editor at The Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman to reflect on the passing of Pope Francis, to celebrate the wild Irishmen and senior citizen-adjacent punkers supporting Palestine at Coachella, and to find out if Canada prefers a stuffy technocrat or a smug golf dad as their leader. Please donate to Islamic Relief USA: https://irusa.org/ See Matt and Francesca Fiorentini at Cobb’s in San Francisco May 7: http://bit.ly/mattfrancobbs...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 102
Matt and Daniel are joined by writer and activist Jasper Nathaniel to celebrate 100 episodes of the show with a survey of Israel’s archaeology-based land claims, the excruciating experience of the IDF customer support line, and Benjamin Netanyahu gettin’ down on a muffin with the five bad boys from Beantown. Please donate to United Palestinian Appeal: https://upaconnect.org/ See Matt and Francesca Fiorentini at Cobb’s in San Francisco May 7: http://bit.ly/mattfrancobbs Jasper on IG: https://www....
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 100
Matt and Daniel are joined by Daniel's father, author and activist Dr. Gabor Maté to reach a deeper pun-derstanding of Daniel's sense of humor, to ponder the pleas for empathy from Gaza's aggressors in Israel, and to ask whether Miss Rachel should be jailed at Guantánamo Bay, or possibly offered the leniency of our famously chill domestic SuperMax prison system. Please donate to Children in Conflict: https://www.childreninconflict.org/ See Matt and Francesca Fiorentini at Cobb’s in S...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 100
Hey everyone, early access to our very special episode with Daniel's dad is available right now for Patrons. Join the Patreon to listen before everyone else! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Apr 09, 2025•6 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by returning champion Brace Belden (TrueAnon) to examine Betar’s one-time figurehead - the oddly shaped Ross Glick - as well as Brace’s aversion to the Ivy League and whether Tarantino’s Bear Jew presupposes the existence of twink and otter Jews. Donate to the Palestine Red Crescent Society: https://www.palestinercs.org/en See Matt and Francesca Fiorentini at Cobb’s in San Francisco on May 7: http://bit.ly/mattfrancobbs Visit TrueAnon at https://podcast.trueanon.com/ S...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 97
Brace is back on Bad Hasbara this week, and you can hear the whole episode right now on our Patreon or wait patiently to listen with all freeloaders on Thursday. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Apr 01, 2025•5 min
Matt and Daniel were lucky to chat with Bad Hasbara returning champion Kat Abughazaleh about her newly launched primary campaign in Illinois' 9th District. Enjoy this sample from the interview and subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/badhasbara to hear the whole thing - this is just half of the interview! Please donate to United Palestinian Appeal: https://upaconnect.org/ Visit Kat online for campaign events, information, and donation links: https://www.katforillinois.com/ See Matt Lieb and ...
Mar 31, 2025•24 min•Ep. 96
Matt and Daniel are joined by Adam Johnson of the Citations Needed podcast to discuss the detainment of Academy Award-winning director Hamdan Ballal by the IDF, Israel's place in the world happiness pecking order, and a couple of hot zionist jams racing up the charts in time for summer. Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco on May 7th. Tickets here: https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZb0MwzkkR/francesca-fiorentini-and-matt-lieb Donate...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 95
We are reading emails, listening to voicemail, and generally just putzing around in this Bad Hasbara livestream. Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco on May 7th. TICKETS HERE Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Mar 22, 2025•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 94
Matt and Daniel are joined by spiritual educator, mystic, artist and girlfriend of the pod Hadar Cohen to ask when Israel stopped thinking of itself as a colonial project, who gets to be indigenous, and to hear out the fresh ideas of a bright, young Democrat: one Charles Ellis “Stickball” Schumer. COME TO COBBS COMEDY CLUB TO SEE MATT LIEB AND FRANCESCA FIORENTINI. BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZb0MwzkkR/francesca-fiorentini-and-matt-lieb Please donate to Middle East Chi...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 93
Matt and Daniel are joined by comedian and actor Bilal Sharmoug to talk over the shocking ICE detention of Columbia grad student and protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, finding common cause with Ann Coulter, and a Beatle cucking in our nation’s intelligence capital: Nassau County, New York. Donate to Mahmoud Khalil’s legal fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/justice-for-mahmoud-khalil Matt and Francesca will be at the Sacramento Punch Line on March 16th! Buy tickets now! https://livemu.sc/4jS1qKf...
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 92
Here is a teaser from this week's bonus episode of Bad Hasbara with comedian Nato Green. You can listen to the whole thing by joining the Patreon. Join now! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Mar 09, 2025•2 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by friend of the pod Simone Zimmerman to ponder the No Other Land Oscar win, revel in pettiness toward Oscars prudism, and tease out liberal zionists’ ideological hair-splitting. Matt and Francesca will be at the Sacramento Punch Line on March 16th! Buy tickets now! https://livemu.sc/4jS1qKf Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco on May 7th. Tickets here: https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZb0MwzkkR/francesca-fio...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 90
Matt and Daniel are joined by spouse of a most moral cohost Francesca Fiorentini, host of the Bitchuation Room, to discuss Trump’s imagined Gaza, an iron-lion-zion(ist), and an online redhead fetish that’s depraved, but not in the regular way. Matt and Francesca will be at the Sacramento Punch Line on March 16th! Buy tickets now! livemu.sc/4jS1qKf Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco on May 7th. Tickets here: https://www.livenation.com/eve...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 89
Matt and Daniel welcome Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist Lara E., also known as @gazangirl. They discuss ChatGPT’s diagnosis of zionism, probe the professed morality of the IDFs leaflet airdrops, and examine the false choice between Biden and Trump’s policies in the region. Matt and Francesca will be at the Sacramento Punch Line on March 16th! Buy tickets now! livemu.sc/4jS1qKf Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco on ...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 88
Daniel returns to join Matt and long-awaited guest Hasan Piker to ask whether Hasan is the left-wing Joe Rogan, how he fumbled the “anti-semite of the year” bag, and whether it’s still too soon to let Spain off the hook for the inquisition. Please donate to Gaza Great Minds: gazagreatminds.org/donate/ Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up in Los Angeles at the Ice House on February 19th https://www.showclix.com/event/the-ice-house-new-world-disorder-02-19-25-7-30-pm Also Matt a...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 86
Here is a taste of this week's episode of Bad Hasbara with guest Hasan Piker. Early access to this episode (and all of our bonus episodes) available right now by joining the Patreon. Join now! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 17, 2025•6 min
While Daniel executes a covert mission off-comms, Matt is joined by Greg Stoker (Colonial Outcasts Podcast) and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maggie Freleng. They cover the ongoing Kamala Harris blame scapegoating, Israel state PR recycling their hasbara hits, and whether the senator from Pennsylvania should actually be called John Fetterman’s Monster. Please donate to Children in Conflict: childreninconflict.org Come see Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini do stand up in Los Angeles at the I...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 84
This week we finally talked about a hasbara movie! We watch "Golda" starring Helen Mirren with guests Vince Mancini and Zach Foster. You can listen to/ or watch the full episode by becoming a Patron. Do it now! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donations Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Feb 08, 2025•4 min
Matt and Daniel are joined by legendary Pink Floyd bassist and lyricist Roger Waters for a discussion of Roger’s introduction to anti-zionism and being called a shameful coward by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and we ask our audience to be chill and normal about the barks of one Sweet Georgia Brown. Support Muslim Aid USA at mausa.org Find everything Roger Waters at rogerwaters.com Subscribe to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/badhasbara Subscribe/listen to Bad Hasbara wherever you get your podcast...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 82
This week we are giving you a larger taste than normal because we loved it so much. Enjoy Matt, Daniel, and guest Rolla Selbak talking about the hasbara AI bot who got woke on Palestine. You can listen to the full episode on Patreon. ------ Please donate to Islamic Relief USA: https://irusa.org/ Visit Rolla Selbak online at https://www.rollaselbak.com/ Rolla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rollaselbak/ Safina Filmmaker Project: https://www.safinafilmmakerproject.com/ Daniel encourages...
Jan 31, 2025•53 min