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Katie talks about Mohsen Mahdawi, the SECOND Palestinian Columbia student unlawfully arrested with one of his Jewish American-Israeli classmate Aharon Dardik and journalist Alex Kane. Aharon talks about moving from the U.S. to the West Bank where he and his family were settlers, and then going to prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Alex talks about his investigation into who funds The Canary Mission. Then Katie talks to political comedian Lee Camp about Ben Shapiro and trying to do comedy in this insanity. Aharon Dardik is an Israeli-American ex-settler, conscientious objector to the Israeli military, and nonviolent activist. He is currently getting his undergraduate degree in both Philosophy and Political Science at Columbia University, where he founded Columbia Jews for Ceasefire in the wake of the Israeli military's response to the October 7th attacks. Aharon is a close friend of Mohsen and a partner in their peace efforts, hoping to bridge the Israeli and Palestinian communities together towards a shared future. Their work together has ranged from trying to craft Columbia campus policy changes that would be supported by both the Jewish and Palestinian communities, to crafting the framework for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan designed to meet the needs of all the inhabitants of the land. Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish currents and has also reported on The Canary Mission for The Intercept. Lee Camp is the former host of Redacted Tonight and current host of Unredacted Tonight on YouTube. He used to perform comedy with Katie Halper! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

Vermont has been thrust to the center of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.On April 14, Mohsen Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University and a legal permanent resident of the U.S. who lives in the Upper Valley of Vermont, traveled to Colchester for his naturalization interview, the final step in becoming an American citizen. Mahdawi was born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has lived in the U.S. for a decade and holds a green card.Mahdawi has been a Palestinian rights activist at Columbia, though he did not participate in the student protest encampment there last spring. He is set to graduate next month. He suspected that his immigration appointment was a “honey trap” meant to lure him out to be deported, as happened to his friend, Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder and a fellow Palestinian student activist at Columbia.Before traveling to Colchester on Monday, Mahdawi alerted his attorneys, Vermont's congressional delegation, and journalists in the event that he was arrested. When he showed up for his naturalization interview, he was taken by hooded plainclothes officers who placed him in handcuffs before he could leave the building.Mahdawi has not been charged with a crime. According to his attorneys, he was detained under an obscure law that permits foreign nationals to be deported if they pose "serious adverse foreign policy consequences." Mahdawi's attorneys argue that he is being punished for protected speech in violation of the First Amendment and his right to due process. In response to an emergency petition filed by Mahdawi's lawyers, Vermont federal Judge William Sessions ordered the Trump administration not to deport him or move him out of the state while he reviews the case.A CBS News crew interviewed Mahdawi the day before his arrest. He told them, "If my story will become another story for the struggle to have justice and democracy in this country, let it be."Also on Monday, attorneys for Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University, argued before Judge Sessions in Burlington that Öztürk's arrest on March 25 violated the law. Öztürk, a former Fulbright fellow who is from Turkey and is in the U.S. on a student visa, was grabbed off the street in Somerville, Mass., by masked plainclothes men, a scene that was captured in a now-viral video. She was whisked to Vermont that night before being flown to Louisiana the following morning. A federal judge in Boston ruled that her case should be heard in Vermont. Judge Sessions is now considering the matter.Öztürk's attorneys assert that the Trump administration secretly revoked her student visa and targeted her for co-writing an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper that criticized university leaders for their response to demands that the school divest from companies with ties to Israel.Both Mahdawi and Öztürk have been targeted by shadowy right wing pro-Israel groups.  Mahdawi was named by the militant Zionist organization Betar US, which placed his name on a “deport list” that it gave to the Trump administration.Öztürk was targeted by Canary Mission, a right-wing group that claims that she “engaged in anti-Israel activism,” an apparent reference to her op-ed piece.Vermont's political leaders denounced Mahdawi's arrest. Rep. Becca Balint, and Senators Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders issued a statement saying that Madahwi's arrest “is immoral, inhumane, and illegal.” They demanded that he “must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.”Gov. Phil Scott stated, “Law enforcement officers in this country should not operate in the shadows or hide behind masks.”On Tuesday, Democratic leaders in the Vermont Senate demanded that Vt. Gov Phil Scott terminate an agreement that allows federal immigration authorities to lodge detainees in state prison.The Vermont Conversation spoke with two attorneys at the center of these cases.“The larger concern here is one's right to free speech,” said Cyrus Mehta, an immigration attorney based in New York and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. He is part of Mohsen Mahdawi's legal team.“The Supreme Court has long held … that everyone in the United States, whether they're citizens or non-citizens, including green card holders, have a First Amendment right to free speech. The free speech might not be to your liking. You may not agree with it. But as long as it's lawful, as long as you're not engaging in criminal conduct, that speech should be protected under our First Amendment.”“It is against the interests of the United States to harshly go against students, treat them like criminals -- even worse than criminals by detaining them, not giving them bond -- and their only offense has been speech that has not particularly been favored by this administration.”Mehta warned that denying rights to green card holders “will slowly extend to U.S. citizens, we will all lose this cherished First Amendment right to express ourselves.”Grabbing people off the street by masked plainclothes officers “absolutely bears many of the hallmarks of a kidnapping,” said Lia Ernst, legal director of the ACLU of Vermont, who is on Rümeysa Öztürk's legal team. (Disclosure: I serve on the board of the ACLU of Vermont).“The notion that the administration — with no due process, with no judicial review — can sneak someone around the country, as happened in our case, and then, as has happened in these other instances, out of the country, and then claim they are powerless to do anything about it, is utterly foreign to the American legal system. It's utterly foreign to the rule of law, and it is abhorrent.”"It's just horrifying, and I believe intentionally. The government is not trying to just punish Rümeysa for her speech. It's trying to tell everyone else they better only express opinions with which the government agrees. And that cannot be in the United States of America.”As President Trump and his allies stymie court orders, will the legal system hold?“I have to believe that it will, but it will not do it on its own,” replied Ernst. She cited the importance of recent protests.“There is real power in the people standing together and demanding adherence to the rule of law … and to stand up to this administration and to say that its refusal to abide by the constitution and to abide by the rule of law will not be tolerated. But the legal system can't do it by itself.”

*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, you can subscribe below underneath the show description.The initial arrest and deportation plan for Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the U.S., and the “secret police” style arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk during Ramadan - one openly facilitated by Canary Mission - should be the final nail in the coffin of the U.S. Constitution. Canary Mission is a shadowy organization - which takes open responsibly for Ozturk's arrest - with shadowy funding that compiles lists of people considered enemies of Israel and then presents what amounts to a “hit list” to the White House for carrying out the dirty work. Similar organizations are behind the forgotten deportation of illegal immigrants so the “feds” can focus on legal residents, and as the precedent is set, American citizens who criticize a foreign government. The only crime committed by Ozturk was writing an OP-ED for her university calling for transparency and abiding by school conduct code. Her arrest, along with the extortion-like letter sent to Columbia by the Federal Government, South Dakota's speciality anti-semitism law, and the DOJ Special Anti-Semitism task force, indicates that a powerful agent is in control the U.S. Government, AND it wants the First Amendment shut down: speech, protest, publication, privacy, and religion. Well, also the 2nd Amendment too. -FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKMAIN WEBSITECashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.

Hamas makes peace efforts despite Israel 's Gaza bloodbath Israel has killed at least 29 Palestinians in fresh air strikes on besieged Gaza amid its carnage on the blockaded enclave. Meanwhile, Palestinian sources close to Hamas have said that talks were underway between the resistance group and mediators from Egypt and Qatar to revive a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal for Gaza. Rubio defends visa cancellation of Turkish scholar " US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed the revocation of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa and defended her arrest following an article she co-authored criticising Israel. Ozturk's friends and family say she was arrested following a campaign by Canary Mission, a pro-Israel website that blacklists pro-Palestinian students and activists. Without providing any evidence linking the Turkish student to violence, Rubio defended the decision, saying those who are “vandalizing universities, harassing students and taking over buildings” will not be granted a US visa. " South Sudan peace deal collapses after Machar's arrest " South Sudan's main opposition party has said that a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war has collapsed, following the arrest of its leader, Riek Machar. The United Nations has warned on that the country was teetering on the edge of a renewed civil war following fighting in the north between an armed group allied to Machar and government forces. " Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan holds key talks during US visit " Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has held a series of high-level meetings during his two-day visit to Washington, engaging with US officials on critical bilateral and regional matters. Fidan met US Congressman Joe Wilson at the Turkish Embassy in the US capital. Fidan also received representatives of the American Coalition for Syria at the Turkish mission." Carney labels Trump's auto tariffs 'direct attack' on Canada Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that US President Donald Trump's auto tariffs are a "direct attack" on his country and that the trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low. Carney also said he needs to see the details of Trump's executive order before taking retaliatory measures.

Shortly after attending last week's funerals for some of the six hostages executed by Hamas, Israel's antisemitism special envoy, Michal Cotler-Wunsh, flew to Canada for a speaking engagement. And while she was here, she made a point to attend the pro-Palestinian protesters' return to the University of Toronto campus for their first fall rally and march. Cotler-Wunsh was appalled by what she saw on Sept. 6—both because the university once again allowed protesters to intimidate Jewish students, and because there were only a handful of people from the local Jewish community to stand up and support the students. Cotler-Wunsh sat down with The CJN Daily‘s host Ellin Bessner to reflect on her tumultuous year since being appointed to the post right before Oct. 7, and why she feels Canadians need to show more courage and leadership—especially to support their students on the front lines. What we talked about Learn what the judge ruled about antisemitism and hate speech when he granted U of T's injunction to dismantle the encampment by July 2, in The CJN Read the U of T policy on protests, including what is and what is not permitted, dated from Aug. 29, 2024 See the new Canary Mission report on more than 100 U of T professors who participated in the encampment and protests Listen to our first interview with Michal Cotler-Wunsh after her appointment, in November 2023, during a Hamas rocket attack over her home, on The CJN Daily Credits Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner) info@thecjn.ca Production team: Zachary Kauffman (producer), Michael Fraiman (executive producer) Music: Dov Beck-Levine Support our show Subscribe to The CJN newsletter Donate to The CJN (+ get a charitable tax receipt) Subscribe to The CJN Daily (Not sure how? Click here)

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En dos semanas, van al menos 900 estudiantes arrestados por participar en protestas pacíficas contra la campaña militar de Israel en Palestina y la financiación estadounidense. Entre los arrestados está la candidata presidencial del Partido Verde. Algunos estudiantes han sido evacuados de sus dormitorios y las autoridades han amenazado con revocar las visas a estudiantes extranjeros. Su activa participación política podría definir el futuro político de Estados Unidos en un año electoral. La estatua de George Washington estaba arropada por una kefia y una bandera de Palestina. Alrededor había carpas de estudiantes en una de las plazoletas principales de la universidad que lleva el nombre del libertador estadounidense. “Free, free Palestine… free, free, free Palestine”: “Palestina libre” cantaban estudiantes, musulmanes, judíos, católicos, y de diferentes partes del mundo que se tomaron la plaza de la Universidad George Washington después de que Columbia propagara esta forma de protesta en más de 60 universidades del país y en otras más de Inglaterra, Francia, Japón, Australia y Canadá. “Estas protestas no tienen precedente en cuanto a la escala, el número y la expansión que han tenido”, dice Samar Saeed, palestina estadounidense que estudia un doctorado en Historia en la Universidad de Georgetown y se unió a este campamento el primer día. Para Samar, los estudiantes saben que tienen el poder, que pueden detener la actividad de las instituciones, que tienen la libertad de protestar y exigir que se protejan sus derechos como lo dice la Constitución. “Ellos le están mostrando a la sociedad que Estados Unidos ha invadido muchos países en nombre de la libertad de expresión y la democracia, pero ahora los estudiantes están siendo censurados y reprimidos por expresar su rechazo a Israel”, expresa. “Los estudiantes se cuestionan por qué están siendo arrestados, encarcelados y hay tanta represión, si solo están criticando el genocidio actual”, agrega Samar. La represión de los cuerpos policialesEl primer día de protesta en George Washington, hubo policías armados en los techos de los edificios cercanos a la universidad. Una situación similar se presentó en la Universidad de Indiana donde hubo francotiradores durante los primeros días de protesta.En esa línea, unidades de contraterrorismo de la Policía de Nueva York han estado presentes en la Universidad de Columbia a pedido de la administración, y la Universidad de Texas en Austin hizo un despliegue amplio de fuerzas policiales estatales para tratar de acabar con los campamentos y arrestar a los que se resistieran.A la fecha las autoridades han arrestado al menos 900 estudiantes y profesores en todo el país, según cálculos del Washington Post. De hecho, ha llamado mucho la atención el arresto de la candidata presidencial por el Partido Verde, Jill Stein, por protestar contra el genocidio en la Universidad de Washington de la ciudad de St Louis. Además, en redes sociales se ha podido ver cómo profesoras han terminado arrestadas por apoyar a los estudiantes, como le pasó a Caroline Fohlin, profesora de Economía y Noëlle McAfee, directora del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Emory en Atlanta. A 53 estudiantes que participan en los campamentos les cancelaron la vivienda subsidiada en los campus y en algunos casos como en Barnard Collegue, les dieron apenas 15 minutos para sacar las sus pertenencias de los apartamentos. Algo similar les ha ocurrido a estudiantes de la Universidad George Washington que cuando salieron de la cárcel se encontraron con que no tenían donde dormir porque los habían evacuado de sus apartamentos. En ciudades tan costosas y donde la vivienda es tan limitada, la renta es una herramienta de intimidación. Para estudiantes inmigrantes que dependen de la visa estudiantil para permanecer en Estados Unidos, hay constantes amenazas de parte de políticos para revocarles su visa. El senador Marco Rubio, republicano de Florida, dijo que presentará un proyecto de ley para exigir a la administración de Biden que revoque visas de cualquier visitante extranjero que apoye "activamente" a Hamás. Rubio, quien ha recibido más de un millón de dólares en donaciones a su campaña por parte del lobby israelí, afirmó que promoverá otra ley para quitar fondos federales a universidades que no repriman protestas que apoyen "actividades terroristas".Por su parte, el presidente del congreso Mike Johnson viajó hasta el campus de Columbia a dar un discurso al frente de los estudiantes, pidió la renuncia de la presidenta de la Universidad, Minouche Shafik, por no ser lo suficientemente fuerte contra los supuestos ataques antisemitas de los estudiantes. “Es detestable, Columbia ha permitido que estos agitadores y radicales sin ley se empoderen. Si esto no se contiene rápidamente, y si estas amenazas e intimidaciones no se detienen, llegará el momento adecuado para la Guardia Nacional. Debemos restaurar el orden en estos campuses”, dijo Johnson, entre abucheos de los estudiantes. Cabe mencionar que tras el arresto de 108 estudiantes en la Universidad de Columbia que desató esta ola de protestas en todo el país, el jefe de patrulla del NYPD, John Chell, le dijo al periódico estudiantil The Columbia Spectator que “los estudiantes que fueron arrestados estaban en paz, no ofrecieron resistencia alguna y estaban expresando lo que querían decir de manera pacífica”.“La censura y la vigilancia está en todas partes por eso mucha gente tiene que cubrirse el rostro. Yo misma ya estoy en Canary Mision... Intentan mostrarnos de manera negativa y eso sucede tanto en internet como en la vida real”, dice Iklil Bouhmouch, estudiante de Georgetown que participó en el campamento de la Universidad George Washington, donde hasta la fecha han suspendido y arrestado a nueve estudiantes.Canary Mission es una página web difícil de rastrear que crea perfiles públicos de los estudiantes, activistas, profesores y organizaciones que apoyan la liberación de Palestina y critican a Israel en su ocupación y campaña militar en Gaza. Un estilo de lista negra, como en las épocas del mccarthismo que tiene como objetivo perfilar socialmente y perjudicar el futuro profesional de estas personas y organizaciones.Un sentimiento de comunidadA pesar de que la policía ha aislado los campamentos con vallas en muchas universidades para evitar que simpatizantes externos se unan al movimiento, el número de simpatizantes sigue creciendo. Exalumnos, profesores, familiares de estudiantes, empleados de las universidades han creado grupos de apoyo a través de WhatsApp.Como corresponsal y exalumno de la universidad de Columbia, nuestro corresponsal Cristóbal Vásquez fue incluido en un grupo de cerca de 500 exalumnos para apoyar con asesoría legal, financiera, logística, emocional, informativa, de vivienda y transporte. “Estamos tratando de generar un sentimiento de comunidad dentro del campamento para que la gente se sienta más segura y cómoda. Leemos historia, poesía, hacemos bailes culturales, celebramos las tradiciones religiosas judías y leemos la Torá. Estamos ayudando a los estudiantes que más se han visto afectados por las decisiones de la universidad”, explica Alejandro Rojas, estudiante de origen colombiano que también es veterano del ejército estadounidense y visitó países árabes en sus misiones militares.  Alejandro, de 26 años, resalta que hay mucho sentimiento de unión: “Todo es con amor, intención pura y aunque están protestando, también están demostrando lo positivo que emerge de la solidaridad entre los estudiantes”. Alejandro, agradecido por lo que Estados Unidos le ha dado, siente que las libertades básicas están en riesgo, pero quiere seguir luchando por ellas: “Día tras día más universidades y más estudiantes se están uniendo a nuestro movimiento e impulsando nuestro progreso. Más y más gente está expresándose y dejando su silencio”. El poder de voto de los jóvenes“Yo creo que muchas personas han perdido la fe y por buenas razones. Los demócratas y republicanos han demostrado ser dos caras de la misma moneda y literalmente de la misma moneda porque los dos partidos sólo buscan rentabilidad y llenarse los bolsillos de dinero a través de negocios armamentistas”, subraya Iklil Bouhmouch, agregando que Estados Unidos es básicamente un epicentro de negocios militares glorificado y que así ha sido por décadas, pero que la gente ya se está dado cuenta.Los jóvenes son importantes de cara a la elección porque en 2024 la generación Z -que incluye, en general, a los nacidos a mediados de la década del 90- representará más de 40 millones de potenciales votantes, entre ellos ocho millones de jóvenes que alcanzaron la edad de votación en 2022. Con los jóvenes millennials, estos representan casi un quinto del electorado estadounidense y son una gran fuerza electoral este año.Esta población fue clave en la elección de medio mandato del 2022, cuando evitó que los republicanos tomaran la mayoría en el Congreso; y en la elección presidencial del 2020, cuando  el demócrata Joe Biden ganó el voto joven por más del 20%.Sin embargo, la operación militar y el cheque casi en blanco de Estados Unidos a Israel, matizado ya por varias advertencias a Israel para que proteja a los civiles, ha generado una creciente oposición y sólo el 19% de los votantes entre 18 y 34 años aprueba la respuesta de Biden a la guerra. A esto hay que sumarle el creciente descontento de los estudiantes y el efecto que tiene en la opinión pública ver policías arrestando a jóvenes que tratan de manifestarse pacíficamente. “Parece que Joe Biden y el partido demócrata están tratando de perder los votantes menores de 30 años. Sólo esta semana han pasado medidas represivas con las que limitará al medio (TikTok) que usa la generación Z para comunicar su apoyo y organizarse”, afirma un joven que prefiere no compartir su nombre y cubre su cara por seguridad, en el campamento de la Universidad George Washington. Precedente histórico de la Universidad de Columbia“El 23 de abril de 1968, cientos de estudiantes de Columbia tomaron por asalto el edificio Hamilton Hall de la Universidad, manteniendo como rehén al decano Coleman. En los días siguientes, cinco edificios en el campus fueron ocupados. Los ocupantes exigieron que Columbia detuviera un proyecto de construcción que contribuiría a la gentrificación de Harlem, el fin de un proyecto de investigación secreto financiado por la CIA y amnistía para los manifestantes estudiantiles”, así lo describe un panfleto que estudiantes repartían para informar a las personas que participaban en la marcha. El panfleto explica que las ocupaciones finalmente llegaron a su fin el 29 de abril, cuando el NYPD asaltó los edificios ocupados, resultando en casi 700 arrestos. En respuesta, el cuerpo docente se declaró en huelga y el campus cerró por el resto del semestre. Nuevas ocupaciones en el campus y en los alrededores surgieron en las semanas siguientes. Eventualmente, la administración de Columbia cedió ante casi todas las demandas de los ocupantes.Sin embargo, más allá del precedente, la atención debería estar puesta en Palestina, como lo afirma Jared Kannel, un estudiante judío de la Universidad de Columbia: “Cuando hablamos de antisemitismo en el campus, le estamos quitando el protagonismo a Gaza y Palestina, y me lo están dando a mí. Yo estoy completamente seguro en el campus y esto es una distracción porque no quieren que sigamos hablando de la masacre continua en Gaza y Palestina a manos de soldados de las Fuerzas de Defensa Israelí”, enfatiza.

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Attribution: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimagesRalph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administration's policy of unconditional arms transfers to Israel in the response to the attacks of October 7th. Then, investigative reporter, James Bamford joins us to discuss his deep dive into how the Israeli government has recruited Americans as foreign agents to troll, dox, and blacklist college students and professors who dare to criticize Israeli policies.Josh Paul served 11 years in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at the US Department of State, before his resignation on October 17, 2023. Mr. Paul previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Army Staff, and as a congressional staffer.I have spoken with a number of members of Congress in the last few months and—even for those who haven't publicly called for a ceasefire—many are willing to acknowledge behind closed doors that yes, actually, they do believe that Israelis are committing war crimes, but they will not say it publicly. And that just seems to me such a moral abdication of the purposes for which you were elected. If you know something to be a fact, if you know the U.S. to be complicit in facilitating war crimes, but are unwilling to say it because you are afraid of how your donors might react or how your next election might go, why are you even in Congress?Josh PaulIt is interesting that the United States places control of arms transfers and security assistance within the State Department. That is a different model than most of our allies follow… And there is an advantage to putting them in the State Department, so that they can be considered as tools of foreign policy along with other diplomatic tools such as economic assistance, such as of course diplomatic engagement. So there is an advantage there, but of course there is also inherently by doing so a militarization of foreign policy. Particularly when we look at the massive amount of funding that is provided for military assistance. And of course, the way that that providing that assistance then links us to the actions of our partners, whether we want to be complicit in those actions or not.Josh PaulIt's been said that in the last three months, the pro-Palestinian people in the United States have controlled the streets, but the pro-Netanyahu people in the United States have controlled the suites in Congress and the Executive branch.Ralph NaderJames Bamford is a best-selling author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker for PBS, award-winning investigative producer for ABC News, and winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his writing in Rolling Stone on the war in Iraq. He is the author of several books, including Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence.I think some of these (American) groups should be arrested for being agents of a foreign government. I mean, if you're an American and you're contributing money and support to a clandestine foreign operation or clandestine foreign agency of a foreign government, then that's pretty much the definition of being an agent of a foreign government.James Bamford[People] get put on this blacklist—the Canary Mission list—and their job opportunities are extremely limited. Because if anybody goes for a job and their employer looks on the internet, one of the first things they'll see is that their name is on this blacklist where they're called a variety of names basically for doing something that's basically honorable.James BamfordIn Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantis* On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders forced a vote on Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act, which, if passed, could have resulted in the United States cutting off military aid to Israel, the Intercept reports. While this attempt failed by a wide margin - 72-11 – it did win the support of Senators Laphonza Butler of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Peter Welch of Vermont, along with Rand Paul the lone Republican to back the effort. However, as Andrew O'Neil, policy director for Indivisible, put it “It's frankly historic that this vote took place at all…The number of senators willing to take a vote like this even weeks ago, on the face of it, would have been zero.”* 384 leaders from around the globe, led by Representative Ilhan Omar and German politician Sevim Dağdelen, have signed a letter calling for “an immediate, multilateral ceasefire in Israel and Palestine, the release of all the remaining Israeli and international hostages, and the facilitation of humanitarian aid entry into Gaza,” per the Guardian. The letter continues “We further urge our own respective governments and the international community to uphold international law and seek accountability for grave violations of human rights.” Further American signatories include Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, André Carson, Greg Casar, Chuy García, Hank Johnson, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Nydia Velázquez and Bonnie Watson Coleman, who are joined by British progressive icon Jeremy Corbyn  and politicians from Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.* Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush have issued a statement of support for South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The representatives write “We unequivocally join world leaders and international human rights organizations in support of South Africa's case before the International Court of Justice alleging Israel violated the Genocide Convention. There must be an end to the violence—and there must be accountability for the blatant human rights abuses and mass atrocities occurring in the region. The historical significance of a post-apartheid state filing this case must not be lost, and the moral weight of their prerogative cannot be dismissed. The United States has a devastating role in the ongoing violence in Gaza, where already over 23,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 59,000 injured, and millions have been displaced. We must refuse to be silent as the majority of the world is calling for an end to the violence and mass human suffering, and the need for accountability. As one of the countries that has agreed to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. must stop trying to discredit and undermine this case and the international legal system it claims to support. Our commitment to protecting the human rights of all people must be unconditional. The best time to make a conclusive determination on genocide is when there is still time to stop it, not after. We will continue pushing for a lasting ceasefire, full accountability, and a just and lasting peace for everyone.”* The South African attorney Wikus Van Rensburg has formally delivered a letter to the leadership of the United States outlining that his firm “intend[s] to bring legal proceedings against the U.S. Government based on overwhelming evidence that the [it] has, and is, aiding, abetting and supporting, encouraging or providing material assistance and means to…the Israeli Defense Forces…enabl[ing]...crimes against the Palestinian people.” Legal advocates like Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein have long sounded the alarm that American support for Israel's actions in Gaza are in breach of international law, but it remains to be seen whether the U.S. will stand trial at the Hague for their support of this genocidal campaign. This from Al-Mayadeen.* Al-Mayadeen also reports “in a rare show of dissent, US federal employees from nearly 22 agencies are planning a walkout to protest the Biden administration's handling of the war on Gaza.” This report attributes organization of this walkout to a group called “Feds United for Peace” and the walkout is “expected to draw participants from key agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, and the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs…[along with the] Food and Drug Administration…the National Park Service, the Federal Aviation Administration…and the Environmental Protection Agency.” Axios reports that Congressional Republicans are planning to retaliate against these workers exercising their free speech rights, with Speaker Johnson, saying “Any government worker who walks off the job to protest U.S. support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers…They deserve to be fired."* The Intercept published an interview with teenage Israelis who are refusing conscription into the IDF. These young “refuseniks,” almost all part of the group Mesarvot – Hebrew for “we refuse” –  have been resisting conscription since the large-scale protests against the Netanyahu government last year, when over 230 of them signed a letter stating “The dictatorship that has existed for decades in the territories is now seeping into Israel and against us…This trend did not start now — it is inherent to the regime of occupation and Jewish supremacy. The masks are simply coming off.” However, these courageous young people are facing an increasingly hostile environment in Israel due to their refusal to serve. We offer them our solidarity.* In a massive blow to journalism, the Baltimore Sun has been sold to David Smith, the Baltimore Banner reports. Smith serves as executive chairman of Sinclair Inc., which owns more than 200 television stations nationwide and has been criticized for pushing uniform, Right-wing narratives through these channels. In addition to the Sun, Smith purchased its affiliated papers, including “The Capital and Maryland Gazette newspapers in Annapolis, the Carroll County Times, the Howard County Times and the Towson Times.”* The Lever has dropped a stunning report on “How Boeing Bought Washington,” which lays out the influence network the embattled airline has cultivated in the Beltway. The top-line numbers alone are eye-popping, with Boeing & Spirit AeroSystems spending over $65 million on lobbying and campaign donations over just four years. More insidious however is what they got for this money, namely safety waivers enabling them to keep unsafe planes in the sky. This report also touches on the case of Republican Congressman Ron Estes of Kansas, a top recipient of this campaign cash, who pressured the FAA to reinstate the 737 MAX – and Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, who received nearly $200,000 from the company and then dutifully “pushed through legislation to exempt Boeing's 737 MAX…from a looming safety deadline that would have required changes in their alerting systems…despite concerns from the families of the passengers who died in the 2018 and 2019 crashes.”* Josh Eidelson, Labor reporter at Bloomberg, is out with two major updates on the United Auto Workers new campaigns. One, Bloomberg reports the union has “signed up more than 30% of workers at a Mercedes plant in Alabama, after hitting the same milestone last month at Volkswagen in Tennessee,” illustrating the durability and success of their union drives at foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S. And two, Bloomberg reports that “Tesla is boosting pay for all US production associates, the latest bump by a non-union automaker following the UAW's big Detroit wins.” Taken together, one gets the impression that Auto Workers are organized, on the march, and have momentum behind them.* In Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo of the Semilla Party has finally been sworn in as the president of that country, beating back multiple attempts by the corrupt ruling elites to undermine his ascension down to the moment of his inauguration. Reuters reports “Arevalo's inauguration was thrown into disarray after the Supreme Court allowed opposition lawmakers to maintain their leadership of Congress, and forced members of the president's Semilla party to stand as independents… [sparking] wrangling in Congress…[with] supporters of Arevalo threaten[ing] to storm the building as police in riot gear amassed in the streets.” Arevalo managed to weather the storm however, in part because he was aided by other countries' leadership. USAID Administrator Samantha Power, opposing the power grab, tweeted “There is no question that Bernardo Arevalo is the President of Guatemala. We call on all sides to remain calm — and for the Guatemalan Congress to uphold the will of the people. The world is watching.” Meanwhile, the presidents and foreign ministers present at the inauguration released a statement forcefully avowing “The will of the Guatemalan people must be respected,” Progressive International's David Adler reports. Renowned investigative journalist Allan Nairn added, “What is clear…is that even if Arévalo succeeds in taking power as president he will be governing under siege”.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

The overwhelming majority of the American public has been largely shielded from the harsh realities of Israel's military actions in Gaza, aimed at the Palestinian population. It is observed that mainstream media outlets, including news networks, newspapers, magazines, and websites, are not providing accurate coverage of the events in Gaza. Instead, there appears to be a dominant narrative favoring Israeli perspectives, overshadowing alternative voices such as TruNews, which seeks to highlight the impact on Palestinian children and civilians.Regarding the situation involving Harvard University, it has come to light that the Israeli military was behind the anti-Harvard propaganda campaign. This information was not widely discussed until recently.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 01/04/2024Watch this FULL show exclusively on Faith & Valueshttps://members.faithandvalues.com/posts/jan-04-2024-canary-mission-idf-censorship-team-targets-american-critics-of-israelJoin the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.Now is the time to protect your assets with physical gold & silver. Contact Genesis Gold Today! https://www.TruNewsGold.comGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt's the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

On a drizzly day in late October, a strange looking truck pulled over on a dirt road in Hinesburg. The truck had electronic billboards attached to three sides that displayed the smiling face of a young woman. The neighbors knew the face well — it was Eva Frazier, whose family lived on the road. Eva was a top student at nearby Champlain Valley Union High School, from which she graduated in 2022. Eva has long been passionate about social justice issues and was involved in CVU's chapter of Amnesty International. She is also a competitive swimmer. Eva is now a sophomore at Harvard.The truck with the illuminated billboards had a different description of Eva, who is 19. It showed her face under the banner, “Harvard's Leading Antisemite.” The truck, which was paid for by the right-wing group Accuracy in Media, had traveled from Cambridge, Ma., where it had spent several weeks circling Harvard Yard displaying the faces of numerous Harvard students beneath the same banner. This was an effort to dox students and faculty who were allegedly sympathetic to Palestinians or who had expressed any opposition to Israel's war in Gaza. "Doxxing" is publicizing personal information about someone without their permission. This doxxing effort is part of a national campaign to suppress pro-Palestinian speech that is led by Canary Mission, a shadowy group linked to Israel. Canary Mission now lists Frazier on a website of people that it claims “promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews.” This campaign against students and faculty has received national media attention but its work in Vermont has not been documented until now.The pressure campaign against universities may have claimed its biggest prize with the resignation on Jan. 2 of Harvard President Claudine Gay. She stepped down after a monthlong backlash following her testimony in Congress about antisemitism on campus, and allegations advanced by right-wing activists that some of her scholarly work had been plagiarized, which Harvard's governing body refuted.Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik celebrated Gay's resignation, calling the former Harvard president “morally bankrupt” and vowing “this is just the beginning.”Gay's defenders included Boston University professor and bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote on X that Gay was a target of “racist mobs.” Harvard Professor Albert Guzetti said of the campaign against Gay, “This recalls the worst days of McCarthyism.”Eva Frazier refuses to be silenced. On this Vermont Conversation, Eva talked about her experience getting doxxed and speaking out for Palestinian rights.Frazier said that the doxxing campaign's “larger goal is to silence all students, and especially people who are thinking about being vocal or visible about support for Palestine.” The attacks on her and her friends have had the opposite effect. “It is even more important to continue to advocate for justice in Palestine especially as genocide in Gaza continues,” she told The Vermont Conversation.James Bamford, an award winning investigative journalist, recently wrote an expose for The Nation, “Who is Funding Canary Mission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and Professors.” He explained that Canary Mission “is a very well organized, well financed operation run by a foreign country to intimidate Americans.”Frazier believes that Gay was forced to resign by “far-right activists and leaders… [who want] to suppress free speech, hurt higher ed and really wage a war against DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and affirmative action.”Frazier said that the attacks on free speech serve a larger purpose. They are “a distraction from the tens of thousands of civilian lives that have been lost in Gaza.”

On this edition of Parallax Views, journalist Aaron Lake Smith joins Parallax Views to discuss his 2018 Harper's Magazine article detailing his trip to the Russian separatist breakaway republics in the Donbass entitled "Light in the Donbass Window". We discuss the pro-Russian Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic seeking to break away from Ukraine and the strange mix of supporters and foreign volunteers this has brought to Donbass including tankies (leftist who oppose American imperialism and NATO to the point of supporting China's Xi, Russia's Putin, Chechnya's Kadyrov, etc.), Nazbols (National Bolsheviks, a performance art prank created by Eduard Liminov that has since turned into an ideology/movement), Duginists (adherents to the Eurasianist philosophy of Aleksander Dugin), and others. Reporting on the "International Fascist Conference" in the Donbass, Aaron met a wide variety of individuals who supported the People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. But he quickly began to consider that these various individuals were caught in the cross-hairs of a spy-vs-spy style hall-of-mirrors world. In other words, a seeming proxy war between Russian and NATO. Aaron also details the rotating cast of characters in the two People's Republics' leadership positions as well as the deaths and mysterious disappearances of many in the middle of this strange saga. It's a story of information warfare, cloak-and-dagger intrigues, and tankies. In the second segment of the show, Mickey Huff of the long-running media watchdog non-profit Project Censored joined me to discuss Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2022 (edited by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth). We discuss the problems facing news media today including junk food news, "humilitainment", the problems of corporate media, state-run media, censorship, how the stories for State of the Free Press are collated each year, Palestinian activists and the Canary Mission, free speech, and much, much more!

This week Lara and Michael discuss Instagram censoring our profile by announcing that as of October 25, 2021 we would no longer have access to the link button on @thepalestinepod account for purported violations of community guidelines. Lara queries what threshold Instagram is applying to make this decision to deprive users of critical features since @thepalestinepod account has only ever had one post removed from its account (which in any event did not violate Community Guidelines). Several other Palestinian content creators have received the alert that they too would lose access to the link button with the application providing no recourse to challenge this decision. This unfortunate move appears to be a coordinated effort to continue to crackdown on free speech on the platform especially as it concerns Palestinian human rights. This is all the more so since Instagram's decision to deprive certain users of the link feature comes only a week after a Human Rights Watch report detailing censorship of posts and accounts by Instagram including with specific reference to posts unjustly removed from Lara's account @gazangirl. Instead of heeding the call by Human Rights Watch to carry out an independent investigation into the censorship of Palestinian content, Instagram has doubled down by unjustly depriving Palestinian content creators of their right to link to further sources through their profiles. Lara and Michael also cover the recent meeting of the UN Security Council where the US envoy to the UN made some ludicrous statements condemning Hamas for allegedly holding two Israelis prisoners while nearly five thousand Palestinian men, women, and children languish inside Israeli political prisons. Lara provides an update on the Burnat brothers, and sadly Muhammad Burnat, the younger brother remains imprisoned by the Apartheid State without charge with a so-called court date that continues to be postponed. The Palestine Pod also discusses the pivotal role Colin Powell played in getting the United States on the course to invade Iraq, something the Israeli lobby took credit for. Michael covers an article in Jewish Currents that exposes American Jewish businessmen who are funding the Palestinian activist blacklist, Canary Mission.

Suppressing Dissent                              This is not an easy topic.  It was a lecture delivered to my class on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in November, 2020. It focuses upon how difficult it is to engage in serious discussion of the conflict and of how there are organized efforts to disrupt or silence debate.  One issue is that there are groups trying to define the word anti-Semitism in a way to weaponize it for use in political struggles.  That will require a different podcast. However, if you are interested in the article by Nathan Thrall, it is in the New York Times, March 28, 2019, “How the Battle over Israel and anti-Semitism is Fracturing American Politics.” I wrote three articles in Middle East Policy on the three Presbyterian debates on whether or not to sell their shares in five companies that cooperated with the Israeli occupation.  Those can be found in the University of Michigan virtual archive called Deep Blue.  There is a separate (short) podcast on how to find that, if you need some help. I mentioned that I headed a Task Force that wrote a policy on faculty being required to write letters under circumstances that raised moral issues.  Here is that policy:  Point I.   Faculty Obligation to Support Students: Faculty should endeavor to support their students in the pursuit of their aspirations.  This includes writing letters of recommendation whenever possible.  Point II.   The Case of a Faculty Member Declining to Write a Letter of Support.  Given the right to acts of conscience as a part of academic freedom, faculty members are not obligated to write letters of recommendation for participation in programs if they judge that doing so would compromise their moral principles.  Point III.  Working with the Student:  In the event that a faculty member declines to write a letter covered by this policy, the faculty member should consider meeting with the student to discuss the reasons for that decision.  Such a discussion can be beneficial and educational for those students who may not understand the issues involved.  Point IV.   Due Process in the Event of a Formal Complaint: If there is a complaint under this policy against a faculty member, that matter should be referred to the department grievance committee.  In such an event, there should be an initial assumption that the faculty member behaved appropriately.  There should be strict adherence to due process for the faculty member, including a right to appeal an adverse finding.  In the event of an adverse finding, the matter should be referred to the appropriate  promotion and tenure or other review committee for consideration during their assessment of the individual's performance of duties.   There should be no sanction beyond whatever comment the committee chooses to include in their review letter. Point V.  Letters for Undeserving Students: This policy affirms the established right of faculty to refuse a letter for an individual  student who is academically or otherwise undeserving.  Note that I was Faculty Ombudsman for 17 years so faculty rights are a big deal for me.  There is another podcast called Thoughts of a Former Terrorist that might be of interest.  Some terms:  Canary Mission, existential threat, BDS, PAC, megadonor, Anti-Semitism. Human Rights Watch.  Standard Practices Guide (SPG), Ombudsman. Apartheid, double standard. Names:  John Cheney-Leopold, Lucy Pederson, President Schlissel, President Duderstadt, Norman Finkelstein, Alan Dershowitz, Steve Salaita, Juan Cole, Nathan Thrall, Ihlan Omar, Benjamin Ne

On university and college campuses across the United States and Canada, student activists are organizing for Palestinian liberation under the banner of Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP. As the student-led movement has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, so has anti-Palestinian pushback from Zionist groups and their allies. Organizations like Canary Mission, StopAntiSemitism.org, and other similar rightwing groups have focused a lot of their attention on the student activists of SJP. Despite this, the movement on campuses is strong and shows little signs of slowing down. Earlier this year, the National Students for Justice in Palestine organization held its 10th annual conference. In today's episode Michael Arria speaks with three SJP activists about how the movement has grown over the last 10 years, and where it is headed in the future. Support independent media covering events in Palestine! Donate today at https://mondoweiss.net/donate Connect with us online Website: https://mondoweiss.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/mondoweiss YouTube: https://youtube.com/MondoweissVideos Instagram: https://instagram.com/mondoweiss Twitter: https://twitter.com/mondoweiss

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In his first episode of 2019, Dr. Jasser looks at New Years’ Resolutions and why the threat of Islamism should matter to every American. Two American Muslim women were sworn into Congress this week as the media fawns over them ignoring their radical ideologies. Dr. Jasser shares why the whole drama is a disservice to America and to Muslims. Zuhdi also asks how the hate speech log a successful American Muslim physician, Lara Kollab, flew under the radar for so long until finally being exposed by Canary Mission as the radical anti-Semitic bigot she always was. Last why it matters that President Trump referred to Syria as just “sand and death”. Bonus: What you should learn from the emergence of Islamist political parties. in the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/otg-oct19-2018-DIST-SMALL.mp3 Student Activists for Justice in Palestine Speak Out On Being Targeted by the "Canary Mission" Surveillance Website ...The F-Word: Abba Solomon on Israel as a Neofascist State... Plus Headlines: -Indigenous women from across the United States rallied in Northwest DC this week and met with 94 banks, demanding that the banks obey their own rules and stop funding fossil fuel projects that violate native land and that are fueling runaway climate change. -Women are also taking the lead Sunday October 21st for the Women’s March on the Pentagon. -The DC Council moved this week one step closer to making fare evasion a civil rather than criminal offense. -Also this week, the DC council intervened in the announced closure of Providence Hospital. -DC-based, minority-owned businesses that were illegally locked out of their worksites filed a lawsuit against the developer, 1100 Eastern LLC, a subsidiary of the Neighborhood Development Company (NDC). Post Photo by Abdallah Aljamal/Palestine Chronicle

This week, Roqayah and Kumars speak with Liz Jackson, a founding staff attorney for Palestine Legal and Cooperating Counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights. We talk to Liz about the surveillance and harassment of Palestine solidarity activists on US college campuses by the far-right and governments. We learn more about the pernicious Canary Mission website which smears activists as anti-Semites and supporters of terrorism, and other efforts to suppress boycott, divestment, and sanction efforts targeting Israel. Liz also describes efforts by Trump's Department of Education to expand the definition of anti-Semitism to include criticism of Israel and Israeli policy toward Palestinians. We also discuss several pieces of anti-BDS legislation at the state and national levels, and the ways in which Palestine Legal is working to safeguard the right to protest Israeli apartheid. Liz explains that the best way to combat the avalanche of repression is to bring BDS more and more into the mainstream. Finally, we examine the campus free speech frenzy from the perspective of Palestine activism, and discuss whether free speech absolutism is actually the best foundation upon which to build a movement for justice in Palestine. You can follow Palestine Legal on Twitter at @pal_legal and visit Palestine Legal online to learn about ways you can support their work. A transcript for this episode will be provided upon request. Please send an email to deleteuracct @ gmail to get a copy sent to you when it is completed. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Jess and Jamal discuss with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi the recent exposé about Canary Mission. A shadowy online entity which publishes negative, often defamatory, portraits of activists, students and academics who are supportive of Palestinians, back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, or are critical of Israeli state policy in relationship to the Occupation of Palestine. Canary Mission has received $100,000 in funds from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a “supporting foundation” of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a journalist, a bestselling author whose latest book is “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,” the senior editor of Grayzone Project, and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels.”Facebook is being accused of creating an entirely new level of censorship, deleting posts and whole pages, blocking content, and restricting access to news. The mainstream media has decried Facebook’s censorship of conservative sites like Prager University and InfoWars. But Facebook also has deleted pages associated with Bernie Sanders followers and Black Lives Matter. What the media aren’t talking about, however, is Facebook’s censorship of pages and news advocating for the Palestinian cause or for peace in the Middle East. Friday is Loud & Clear’s regular segment on the midterms, taking a look at political races around the country in the runup to midterm elections in November. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook and Sputnik News analyst Walter Smolarek, joins the show. A new tranche of US sanctions against Russia will take effect on Monday, including prohibitions on loans, weapons, and dual-use items. The sanctions will remain in place for at least one year. Brian and John speak with international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has given Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg immunity as part of the investigation into Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen. And Weisselberg isn’t the only person granted immunity. National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has also received a guarantee of immunity. The noose appears to be tightening around the White House. But what is the thrust of the investigation now that it has nothing to do with Russia? Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books—“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War,” joins the show. It has been nearly a month since a federal court ordered the Trump Administration to reunite separated immigrant families, but hundreds of children are still waiting for reunification. In fact, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, some 565 children are still being held in detention away from their parents. Juan Carlos Ruiz, cofounder of New Sanctuary Coalition, joins Brian and John. Houthi rebels reported that Saudi warplanes attacked a village outside of Hudaidah in Yemen yesterday, killing at least 30 people, including 22 children. The dead had fled an earlier Saudi bombing that had killed 44 civilians. Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, joins the show.It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producer Nicole Roussell.

08: Anti-imperialism, Internationalism, and Palestine with Sumaya Awad In this week’s episode, we speak with Sumaya Awad, a Palestinian activist who has been active in Students for Justice and Palestine and co-founded a project to counter the Canary Mission, an odious blacklist of campus Palestine solidarity activists. Sumaya talked to us about the incredible bravery currently taking place at the Gaza-Israel border, where thousands are enduring violent and often sadistic Israeli repression in a nonviolent protest to assert their right to return to their historic homes. She put the current protests in the historic context of the first and second intifadas, and the endless “peace process” that has been cynically used to defuse Palestinian resistance without ever touching the fundamental questions that the marches to the border have put back on the agenda. And we discussed the importance of the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) solidarity movement, and her work in helping to start Against Canary Mission to defend BDS activists. In opening discussion, Jen, Danny and Eric discuss the meaning of anti-imperialism, an important concept in the socialist tradition that some have distorted to mean supporting any regime (no matter how repressive or reactionary) that opposes the U.S. government. We talk about what it means for leftists to recognize that “the main enemy is at home”—especially when their home is the world’s biggest imperial power—while also being internationalists who instinctively support struggles for justice by people anywhere in the world regardless of whether their governments are allied or opposed to Washington. Here are some links if you want to pursue any of these topics further: You can read Sumaya’s writings in Socialist Worker about the Great Return March in Gaza [https://socialistworker.org/2018/04/04/israel-responds-to-land-protests-with-a-massacre] and her solidarity visit to Standing Rock [https://socialistworker.org/2016/12/05/how-the-standing-rock-protectors-won], and visit Against Canary Mission [http://againstcanarymission.org/] to learn more about this important effort to defend the free speech rights of Palestine solidarity activists. For further reading about the state of Israel and the Palestinian struggle, there are many useful pieces in the International Socialist Review, including Phil Gasper’s Israel: Colonial Settler State [http://www.isreview.org/issues/15/israel_colonial.shtml] in the International Socialist Review, Naseer Aruri’s 2001 interview about Israel’s cynical abuse of the peace process [http://www.isreview.org/issues/15/Aruri_interview.shtml], and Sherry Wolf’s piece on the rise of the BDS movement [https://isreview.org/issue/93/whats-behind-rise-bds]. In addition, Haymarket Books is having a 70% sale [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/71-70-off-haymarket-books-on-palestine] this month on all of its books about Palestine. For further reading about our discussion of anti-imperialism, check out Anti-Imperialism and the Syrian Revolution [https://socialistworker.org/2016/08/25/anti-imperialism-and-the-syrian-revolution] by Ashley Smith and the solidarity statement with the protests in Iran that Jen referred to from the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists [https://www.allianceofmesocialists.org/solidarity-popular-protests-iran-statement-alliance-middle-eastern-socialists/]. Music and audio from this episode The Boy Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix)