You Don’t Need to Post About Israel and Palestine
Social media is never compulsory.
Hear Me Out · Celeste Headlee
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Show Notes
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… when silence is violence.
The war in Israel and Palestine is a rapidly-evolving situation – and one that’s bringing up a lot of emotions for a lot of people. Couple that with the flood of mis-and-disinformation on social media, and “to post or not to post” becomes an extremely loaded question.
Are you ever required to speak up on social media? Even if you don’t know the whole story? And if you elect not to say anything, is that inherently choosing a side — and causing harm to others in the process?
Social strategist and writer Rachel Greenspan joins us to say that, as a Jewish woman, she doesn’t expect her friends to post about this moment in history… and maybe, neither should you.
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Podcast production by Maura Currie
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