Connections Episode 114
How to Sell a Genocide
Mouin Rabbani Interviews Adam Johnson
Monday, 8 June 2026
2:00 PM ET | 20:00 CET
Join us on Monday, 8 June for a conversation with Adam Johnson about media complicity in the Gaza Genocide. This episode of the Connections podcast examines how media organizations sought to manufacture consent for the Gaza Genocide, why they failed to launder Israeli crimes, and the implications for Israel, the Palestinians, and the media.
Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest
Adam Johnson is co-host of the Citations Needed podcast and author of the newly-published How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press, 2026).
Host
Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, and a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report.