I produce the Mondoweiss Podcast – AMA!

[u/MondoweissOfficial]

Hi r/JewsOfConscience, I'm Dave and I am the product manager at Mondoweiss. I produce the Mondoweiss Podcast, assist with video production, and various other work related to running an independent, non-profit news and opinion publication.

https://mondoweiss.net

https://mondoweiss.net/podcast/

Ask me anything!

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[u/conscience_journey]

You cover an emotionally charged topic, the long-lasting military occupation of a people. What work makes you most emotional, positive or negative? Is there a specific incident that made you the most emotional?

[u/MondoweissOfficial → u/conscience_journey]

Mondoweiss is publishing every day and we publish a lot of Palestinian writers, so you get to know people, even if you haven't been in the same space with them.

This last series of Israeli attacks on Gaza were the first time we've had a dedicated staff member in Gaza. Our awareness of the attacks started when Tareq posted to our internal communication service "the airstrike was only 70 meters away from my home." So that, combined with the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has made it more emotionally taxing, for me anyway.

We also published an extraordinary piece Tareq reported where we interviewed the families of every Palestinian killed in Gaza in these latest attacks. We were all working on this story with him in some capacity and that was very emotionally draining to read these profiles and see the images of all these people, many of them very young, who were killed. And then to understand that the reason for the attacks that killed them was likely heavily influenced by political considerations inside Israel, is very difficult.

Here is that piece from Tareq Hajjaj: Israel’s ‘Operation Breaking Dawn’ killed 49 Palestinians. These are their stories.

[u/conscience_journey → u/MondoweissOfficial]

Thank you for sharing that Dave.