Democracy in Exile reports:

“The end of the bombs does not mean the end of the genocide, unfortunately,” award-winning author and journalist Naomi Klein says of the cease-fire struck on January 15 between Israel and Hamas. “Gaza is a crime scene. I think that there’s still going to be a great deal of effort to suppress an honest examination of what has happened in Gaza and what is ongoing.”

In a wide-ranging interview with Democracy in Exile, Klein discusses Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the ideology animating his base. She warns of the abuses of tech oligarchs and how “we have never seen wealth like this.” She describes the catastrophic fires ravaging Los Angeles as the long-predicted impacts of climate change coming to pass, forcing us to “reimagine how we live and face our responsibility in rich countries in having created this crisis.” And she calls the timing of the Gaza cease-fire a “tragedy,” in the way it was orchestrated by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “as a kind of a welcome gift” for Trump’s second inauguration. “Trump and Netanyahu have implemented a plan designed to advance both of their wills to power, at the expense of thousands of Palestinians who died in the interim in all the months when the same elements of the deal were on the table,” she says.

Klein is the best-selling author of nine acclaimed books, most recently Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, which explores the online underworld of misinformation and conspiracy theories. A columnist for The Guardian and widely published journalist, she is the UBC Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Klein is also active in Jewish Voice for Peace, serving on its Advisory Board for more than 15 years. “I see myself as part of a left tradition within Judaism,” she says. “The moments where I feel a sense of the possible is when I’m with my comrades in Jewish Voice for Peace and with Palestinian friends who want to get out of the kind of genocide loop humanity is in.” [Continue reading…]