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Ep. 27: Why vegans should care about genocide/ecocide in Gaza

Think Like a Vegan 11 October 2025


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A podcast bringing you thought provoking deep dives across a wide variety of subjects from one of the authors of Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics.

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Researcher Rimona Afana unflinchingly exposes the hidden victims of Israel’s war on Gaza: the natural world and nonhuman animals. She reveals how advanced weaponry creates a psychological distance enabling destruction on a colossal scale, making ecocide a feature, not a byproduct, of modern conflict.

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Rimona Afana

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana

https://web.gs.emory.edu/vulnerability/visiting-scholars/2018/afana-rimona.html 

Ecodide/Speciesism: Legislating hieararchy, interdependence, death

https://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism 

Other links

Israel’s Crimes Against the Dead and Unborn in Gaza 

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-crimes-against-the-dead-and-unborn-in-gaza

Emi Leese

https://emilialeese.substack.com 

http://thinklikeavegan.com 

http://emilialeese.com 

Instagram @emi.leese

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thinklikeavegan/videos 

Credits

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Rimona Afana

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions; https://www.bloodyvegansproductions.com 

Graphics: Catherine Dorrell https://www.messyvegancook.com 

Music

Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business 

Interlude: Birds from Shwikeh, Tulkarem, Palestine by sounds_from_palestine — https://freesound.org/s/802437/ 

— License: Creative Commons 0

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business

This podcast is part of iROAR, the Animals Podcasting Network https://iroarpod.com

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