US presidential candidate Cornel West slams Joe Biden’s Gaza policy | Real Talk

Recorded: 12 March 2024

Our guest in this episode is US independent presidential candidate Cornel West, and we ask him why he called Joe Biden a “war criminal”. 

He also explains why he feels Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a “gangster”, why Biden’s Gaza policy makes him a “hypocrite” and how Arab-American voters will turn their backs on him.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:33 How do you define US's Gaza policy?
• 2:40 Using aid as leverage against Israel?
• 5:45 What would you do in the White House?
• 7:44 Does Biden have a red line on Israel?
• 12:03 ‘Netanyahu is a gangster’
• 13:30 Biden to lose Arab-American vote?
• 16:22 What about the media’s role?
• 17:40 Gaza in the African-American community
• 20:04 ‘Black faces in high imperial places’
• 24:13 Will West be a Trump enabler?