Starvation as a Weapon in History and in Gaza

A lecture I gave on May 9 organized by the Canadian Association of Food Studies. The panel was a great one and the whole event is available on youtube. I've just excerpted my part here but the other talks were great. To watch the whole thing: • Food, Empire and Colon... .
Not a sit rep, I know - I'll have one tomorrow. This will tide you over.

[@justinpodur]

For those looking for the history podcast it's in the usual places podcasts are found, called "The Anti-Empire Project with Justin Podur"

[@boboflavorAnas]

@@justinpodur thanks for the update

[@yashaashayeri7055]

You're back! and Julian Assange is free! What a day!

[@CryptoLab21]

So happy to see you Justin....We all missed your wisdom so much 😊

[@historydiscover]

Thanks for this I really needed to hear it. The Israeli soldier that killed my aunt Huda Hawarjeh in the Aida refugee camp of Bethlehem smiled on camera and said he was purifying the land. We never got justice and so much worse has happened but people will simply say it isn't true. This specific situation we have on camera and I appreciate the CBC covering it. The CBC report with interview I have uploaded to my youtube channel but it's famous online.

[@a_gent99]

Terribly sorry for your loss and the deplorable insult to injury that is really second nature to the Israelis. I just wanted to say, I stopped listening/watching the CBC ever since covid, at that time it really hit home that they're nothing but a govt funded mouthpiece of the globalist/WEF agenda, although every once in a while they make a pretence of being fair and balanced, they serve the same rapacious and racist imperialist interest of most other Western govts.

[@ewee4735]

Thank you! Free Palestine!!! ❤🇵🇸

[@paul4366]

Missed ya justin

[@johnnyb6368]

look who's back 🎉🎉

[@oceejekwam6829]

Same day Julian Assange is freed.

[@doriswelsh1223]

Wonderful to see you Justin! Thank you for this excerpt!

[@laurasantillan2192]

Justin is back!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Although he kept us updated during his trip... 😉 He always professional!

[@timwalter7874]

Welcome back! 🍉

[@Nitabean212]

So happy to see you, missed your very brilliant and deeply thought analysis and extremely dry humor ❤

[@makhan89]

Whooo Justin!!

[@laxonfive]

I was wonderingva couple of hours ago when will we be lucky enough to watch anything new from the anti-empire project! Thank you for this informative episode 🙏🏻

[@tirusew]

Nice to see you back.

[@mutawi3i]

Man we missed ur splendid videos and coverage and especially ur humanity and authentic coverage. Welcome back mate.

[@sisypheantask9242]

Good to see you, Justin!

[@LemonLadyRecords]

Yaaahooooooooo! I think of you almost every late night, and have sure missed you! Glad you are back and hope you can stay for awhile. You don't know how much good you do. You look and sound rested and well, your break, if that's what it was, worked (I need one! I need Tanky Therapy!)) . I hope Jon Elmer joins once a week, too. ❤ 💔🖤🤍💚🇵🇸🔻

[@rolex6170]

FINALLY!

[@imagineroses2021]

Was getting worried about you. Glad you are back

[@timwalter7874]

You should have another talk with Gabriel Rockhill ....... on this subject. 👍

[@JoeReed-v4z]

You are a force par excellence Justin ✊️

[@DianaJennySantosHernández]

Saludos desde México! Deseo que estés muy bien. 🙏🤗

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@@DianaJennySantosHernández Saludos! Ahora, desde Bucaramanga, Colombia. 🇨🇴

[@bendyrland7213]

You are back!

[@pitbcitw]

Great to see you back buddy! Missed your analysis!! Two weeks is like a year in this conflict..

[@shareebauld5956]

So glad you're back. You add a different and important slice of the reporting pie along with greyzone, ei, and others.

[@nads5907]

He's back! Just in time to stop me from losing my mind ;)

[@stephaniesunderland1974]

Yay❤

[@robertjprince1]

What a wonderful teacher you are! Glad you are back

[@nsnawas]

What a good surprise! You are back!

[@CPeter0912]

Outstanding!! I have learned so much… so much to think about. Thank you.

[@massford2767]

Really happy to see you JP. Welcome back.

[@YTShadowBan]

Welcome back ❤

[@MsCat71]

Thank you! Good to see you back! 😺

[@missmissy2490]

I’m so happy to see you, Justin! Thank you ❤️

[@gulliegulliver4546]

You are back, YAAY! Thank you for this Justin, I am learning so much from you.

[@MariamHussein-fb3eg]

Welcome back 😊 back to the resistance and liberation news.

[@YeasminiPhone]

Good to have you back ❤

[@thelandofmint]

Great to see you back. You were missed❤

[@Knotyoma]

✌️🍻

[@AvatarArkmage]

Great to see you've returned, even of this subject matter is simultaneously infuriating and enlightening. Keep up the good work!

[@rouzbehteimouri7202]

where can I find your historical podcast?

[@stevejagger8602]

Thank you Justin for this excellent overview of food deprivation used as an imperialist weapon to subdue native populations. In the 1990's I worked with an Iraqi engineer in the UK whose parents ran a children's hospital in Baghdad. Under sanctions their work of caring for children was made very difficult. They also noticed an acute rise in the number of deformed babies post the first US invasion of Iraq. This is likely due to the extensive use of depleted uranium anti tank shells. My friend also said that date palms along the Euphrates river never flowered properly and either never fruited or were deformed after that 1990 invasion.

[@talatm2074]

Finally, you are back. But the situation in palestine is the same :(

[@esmaanderson1802]

To tide us over... 😂

[@seeibe]

Trees will regrow, Israel won't

[@decmurray1096]

Ireland will never forget weaponised starvation. That's why we stand with Palestine

[@zakai-kaz]

Yay we're back🎉🎉🎉

[@lisaalderson8555]

I'm so glad you're back, Justin! It's been harder to cope with everything that's happening without having your videos to watch.

[@corbynite2004]

Welcome back Justin! Will you talk about what you were doing on your trip, or did you already talk about that and I missed it?

[@smilectics]

thanks justin. makes me think also of the intentional starvation of korea and cuba during the 90s

[@Masatepe1960]

In many African countries, older generations had better nutricional outcomes as compared to the younger ones.

[@janineskywalker527]

Crazy destruction of Fruit Trees is pure Evil ! J.

[@DanaDoe]

Whether you focus on race/racism, public health/epidemiology, biology/ecology, sociology, any faucet, it is all by the book colonialism and imperialism 101. And this is set up purposely over the course of time. On a smaller scale this is how many of our cities and towns are set as well. Ecosystem is the first level of life and orchestrated death. Good to see you!

[@maxgurman633]

Ive learned so many of these events over the past few years from various places, and their connections from you previously. To have them all connected into a clear pattern in such a short talk is quite a feat. You are giving invaluable diagrams of the empire’s strategy and tactics

[@CommunistConsensus]

What we have now is what happens, over time, when political sociopaths are afforded adult authority in a society. A political sociopath is someone who is willing to do harm to another for the sake of opportunity, social capital, hierarchy, profit and/or pleasure.

[@mitchellbaker4806]

Welcome back, Justin.

[@1MrAngel1]

Cop City Atlanta Wualanee Forest

[@maxfelson9467]

Welcome Back comrade, good to have you back.

[@Crooklyn_k]

Nice to see you Justin ✊🏽

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Welcome back ! Missed you❤

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🙏🏻🇵🇸❤🇵🇸🙏🏻

[@joshuarobitaille9068]

Ayyyy my boy!! We’ve missed you!!!!

[@topooly]

Good to have you back. I thought there would be a ceasefire by the time you came back but there really is no end in sight.

[@bingus.5]

FORBIDDEN FRUIT 🍎

[@Cameo19]

Welcome back!

[@deaftears]

Native Americans never understood the destruction of trees. They called it the end of living and the beginning of survival.

[@jaypie8]

Dude ....Absolutely excellent info... Thankyou ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

[@Trimmertop]

Jon Elmer has often show us Israeli buldozers demolishing greenhouses

[@michaelfoley3777]

Brilliant 🚹thanks for your excellent analysis! Most Sincerely Michael Foley 🤔

[@richardclark8656]

Thank you for this episode. It is such basic, basic information. Without it we know nothing, really, we’re just ignorant.

[@desert.mantis]

Fascinating presentation, Justin! Thank you for your research and for the education.

[@michaelfoley3777]

Wonderful to see 👀you back Justin thanks! Most Sincerely Michael Foley 🤔

[@enkaiscott]

Every forest was planted. When you abandon God you leave reason behind.

[@SueB-k5c]

Sigh. Imperialism is insidious! Thank you so much for this information! Also learned a little more from Breakthrough News with guest Nina Farnic. Step by Step...open my eyes.

[@margaretkneller4670]

thank you for explaining arboricide, in history

[@JustinMcLean-x3i]

Another interesting case, this one from Java: the kulturstelsel program instituted by the Dutch after the Diponegoro War/Java war (really a rebellion). Great show, thank you.

[@alexandrabarnes4511]

Don't forget Winston Churchill's involvement in the Bengal famine of 1943 and what he said about Welsh miners - "If the Welsh are striking over hunger, we must fill their bellies with lead"!

[@boboflavorAnas]

Great research work Justin, God bless the resistance, Free Palestine

[@anndomgal]

What a pleasant surprise! Good to see you again. Your critical examinations of imperialist barbaric methods are always on point.

[@NT-ro6rz]

thank you for this historical perspective on what is happening today.

[@1May1312]

Welcome back, Justin! Excellent talk!

[@cathalsurfs]

The Great Hunger, which was an imposed famine on the Irish people by the Colonial brits, was only the half of it. Since the time of Cromwell, they systematically destroyed much of our ancient woodlands. It's a brit thing. That and cutting out your tongue for speaking your native language. Brits out.

[@Emily-fw5hk]

One weird trick that imperialists hate! Good to see ya Justin!

[@nabilaiqbal6410]

Hi! Please don't block me I just want to ask one question, there is a guy named Sami Hamdi, he claims that there is a sectarian war( shia sunni) going in Syria and Assad is enabling this. He said this in an interview on 'The thinking Muslim' on 22 June 2024. So is it true? I heard this claim for the first time. PS: I support Assad, he is a very handsome guy😇.

[@abrielferreira]

Hi Justin, as always, this was excellent! I hope your work travels are going well! I have so many questions for you on the current situation but I will wait patiently (and by the time you're back who knows what will have changed). Where can I find your history podcast?

[@enkaiscott]

Amazing historical perspective, underscoring the importance of looking at our shared history. This is why the Irish are all about Palestine, they know what genocide is. This is why so many North and South American native communities understand the struggles Palestinains are enduring, to regain their property, land and soverignty.

[@KateBates22zabu]

Glad your back Justin. Famine has always been a fear of mine.

[@back2basics597]

Lapu Lapu in Mactan Island the Philippines, upon learning the Spanish landed, immediately attacked the foreigners, killing most and drove the survivors out to sea. You would think he was a savage but I suspect he knew these foreigners would be their destruction if he didn't repel them.

[@pipers-689]

I also rejoice at the fact that you are back, Justin. I kind of lost my balance with the temporary loss of your sitreps because what I get here, I can't get it anywhere else. I should be able to stand alone as the adult that I am but as it happens, these bleak times have changed us in different ways and we look to hold onto something. Anyway, you're back, hurray!🎉 Please don't do it again 🙃

[@phoenixazulhtx]

Glad you’re back and wow, kind of surprising but this show actually brought tears to my eyes. I knew that colonialism has used starvation as a weapon of war but the detail and extent of it as you described in this mini episode helped me grasp what an overwhelming crime against humanity it really was and is today. Then, that upset gave way to hope and gratitude for the brave heroes around the world fighting and dying to restore what colonialism has stolen from us. I know some people don’t like the phrase “land back” but it really does encapsulate the most basic form of justice, for all people, but especially indigenous people. To me at least. Thank you so much Justin.

[@none_remaining]

Thank you for sharing this and the larger video it came from. Really nice to see some of your other academic focus intersect with this, and give more detailed look at that First/Imperial Colonial Way of War.

[@oldpondfrog788]

That's me gonna have Nick Drake rattling around my head for the rest of the day Fwooot twee fwoot treee

[@jahithalil4097]

Justin this episode has blown my mind, thank you

[@jylyhughes5085]

Justin ... Yay, you are back! And Julian Assange is FREE!

[@RobinHerzig]

So that's what you've been working on 👏

[@OneOopsimath]

Well look who decided to show up. Kidding of course. Appreciate the hell out of you brother. Great lecture 🙏

[@stasiandme]

I’m born sovereign, what has food to do with it?! After all, the food is there to serve me.

[@donnalawson6236]

Great to see you! Have missed your insights!

[@sovietcupcakes328]

Crop trees in the Amazon rainforest are unnaturally hyper-dominant, it's almost a man-made jungle surrounding dozens of giant cities larger than those in Europe at the time.

[@KJSullivan4601]

Thank you for the insights. Good to see you.