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Arab Talk with Jess and Jamal brings news and analysis of the Arab World and Middle East, as well as issues affecting the Arab American community. Arab Talk broadcasts live every Thursday from 2-3 PM/PT on KPOO, 89.5FM San Francisco. Follow us on Twitter @ArabTalk Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arab-talk-with-jess-jamal/id1244474570?mt=2
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Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, discusses Israel's ongoing Genocide in Gaza and the growing global anti-Israel movement led by students demanding an immediate ceasefire. In the United States, students have initiated several demonstrations and sit-ins on college campuses that …
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Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division, discusses HRW's recently released report entitled "Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation Deadly for Children." The report gives a grim assessment of an ongoing famine in Gaza. Since January, humanitarian organizations have been w…
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Jess & Jamal discuss Israel's military killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in Gaza. WCK has called for an independent investigation, saying that the Israeli military “cannot credibly investigate its own failure”. Several aid agencies described the attack as emblematic of the Israeli military’s systematic disregard for the safet…
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Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), discusses why some Arab and Muslim-American organizations and individuals living in the San Francisco Bay Area boycotted the San Francisco City Hall Iftar, stating that Mayor London Breed and several city officials have made racist, harmful, and dangerous comments abo…
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Why does the Israel lobby wield such power on American politics? Author Walter Hixson deconstructs AIPAC’s influence on U.S. politics. His book entitled "Architects of Repression: How Israel and its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East Policy" is a comprehensive history of the crucial role of the Israel lobby.…
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Francesca Albanese is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. She talks about the continuing aggression and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Israel’s imposed famine on Gaza, and the imperative of the signers of the Genocide Convention to act. She has stated that "Arms embarg…
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Dr. Rola El-Farra, a medical doctor from Houston, Texas, whose family originates from Gaza, has had more than 150 members of her extended family murdered during Israel’s ongoing onslaught and withholding of food and medical care. Dr. El-Farra speaks to the victims’ humanity with poignant accounts and pictures. She demands an immediate, permanent ce…
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Three U.S. C-130 cargo planes dropped 38,000 Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) — in locations near the seashore in Gaza. President Biden announced the U.S. would begin air dropping food to starving Gazans after at least 115 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded, when Israeli tanks and soldiers opened fire on them, as they lined up to receive f…
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In his recent article in +972 Magazine "Rugs, Cosmetics, Motorbikes: Israeli soldiers Are Looting Gaza Homes En Masse," Israeli journalist Oren Ziv reports that soldiers say not only is the practice ubiquitous but that senior commanders are pillaging as well.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Jess & Jamal warn of a major slaughter of civilians if Benjamin Netanyahu implements his plan to invade Rafah."Whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah, is telling us to lose the war." Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to invade, despite warnings from several countries that such a move would have a devastating impact on displaced Pale…
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Democratic and Republican parties offer Arab and Muslim Americans no viable choice in the 2024 Presidential election. The majority of them voted for Biden in 2020 as a protest against Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric.Green Party Presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, explains how her party serves the interests of the majority of Americans and how you…
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Biden's former field organizer in 2020 Adam Abusalah discusses why Arab & Muslim Americans in Dearborn, Michigan will not be voting for Biden in 2024. With Biden's approval rating at almost the lowest of his presidency, a win in swing states is more critical than ever in the 2024 presidential election. Michigan is a crucial swing state that the Pre…
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Jess & Jamal discuss Nancy Pelosi's attack on ceasefire supporters, by smearing them as connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I think some financing should be investigated. And I want to ask the FBI to investigate that,” Pelosi added without providing any evidence.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Human rights attorney and activist Stanley Cohen discusses South Africa's Genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He adds that the significance of the fact that the country bringing the case is South Africa – an icon of the ravages of colonialism, settlement and apartheid – cannot be lost on anyone.…
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South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the InternationalCourt of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 22,000 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged enclave. The application describes Israel’s actions i…
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Dr. Hatem Bazian talks about the Israeli Foreign Ministry's four-point plan, coordinating with the ADL and AIPAC, to muzzle and dismantle pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses in the United States. Major targets are Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapters across the US.…
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Award-winning journalist Daoud Kuttab discusses Israel's intent on purging independent eyewitnesses of the ongoing Genocide and atrocities it is perpetrating in Gaza. Close to 70 days into Israel's assault on Gaza, more than 63 journalists have been killed due to Israeli bombardment and targeted killings. Several journalists had their entire famili…
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Yara Jamal worked as a production assistant and web writer before she was terminated with “no warning” by the Canada TV Atlantic bureau in Halifax. She is one of the latest victims of a new international McCarthyism against criticism of Israel.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Montréal-based activist and author Yves Engler discusses how HESEG Foundation For Lone Soldiers, a registered Canadian Charity, supports and encourages Canadians and non-Israelis to join Israel's military. Yves Engler notes that HESEG may violate Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Dr. Anis Germany discusses the devastating effect of Israel's genocidal bombing of Gaza on healthcare and infrastructure. He adds that the aftereffects will result in massive Palestinian fatalities due to the spread of infectious diseases, polluted water, and toxic agricultural land.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Dr. As'ad Abukhalil discusses the ongoing genocide in Gaza, with more than 8,000 civilians, including more than 3,000 children, slaughtered by Israel since October 7. Dr. Abukhalil explains the history of both the bias of Western media and governments towards Palestinians, and how it contradicts the global masses' sentiments.…
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Dr. Hatem Bazian discusses the roots behind the bias exhibited by US media outlets covering Gaza, and the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by US politicians, in order to protect and whitewash Israel's long-term Occupation and its human rights abuses of Palestinians.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Adam Shapiro, advocacy director at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) discusses the federal lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bythe American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) regarding admitting Israel to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, stating that it is not following the law in applying the definition of re…
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Arabic violin virtuoso Georges Lammam discusses his upcoming performance, "Dreaming the Diaspora: An Arab Immigrant’s Journey from Beirut to San Francisco." Georges talks about his story as a Palestinian refugee born in Lebanon, after his family was forced to leave their ancestral home in Haifa, Palestine during the Nakba in 1948. Georges’ journey …
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Investigative journalist Asa Winstanley discusses his recent book, "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn."Winstanely explains how the most aggressive onslaughts on Corbyn were made by Israel proxies presenting as local British political and community organizations, and were coordinated with either the Israeli E…
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Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi discusses her recent article in Mondoweiss (co-authored with Dr. Heike Schotten) “Why we created the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism”, and explains why such an institute is long overdue to provide counter narratives to propaganda used by the Israel lobby. The institute will also distinguish between Judaism and Zionis…
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Professor David Miller discusses his recent sacking by the University of Bristol and how Israel advocacy and lobby groups are increasingly weaponizing “anti-semitism” to silence all criticism of Israel in academia. Miller has brought an employment claim against Bristol for unfair termination.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Journalist Amira Hass explains why for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, self-defense against Jewish violence is a criminal offence subject to arrest, trial, imprisonment and heavy fines, while more prominent Israelis label Israel an Apartheid regime.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Professor Avi Shlaim discusses his recent book, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, as he revisits his family’s idyllic days in Iraq before they were unwittingly swept into the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews into newly-created Israel. The family’s cultural shock was traumatic, and their fortunes were reversed forever.…
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Co-directors Eric Axelman and Sam Eilertsen talk about their newly-released documentary "Israelism", which follows the evolution of the beliefs of two young American Jews. Their unquestioning support of Israel gradually erodes as they become increasingly aware that the Zionist State is based on the past and ongoing occupation and oppression of the …
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Israeli American author and activist Miko Peled discusses the recent attacks by Israeli settlers who rampaged through Palestinian villages in a pogrom, torching homes, cars, olive groves and firing on villagers, killing one and injuring scores of others.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Award-winning journalist Daoud Kuttab discusses his recent article in Aljazeera , "Waiving US visas for Israelis would be a mistake." Kuttab explains that based on Israel's egregious record discriminating against Americans 'that the US should not give up protecting its own citizens just to present another political gift to the Israeli government.'h…
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The remains of the Palestinian village of Tantura now lie under Dor Beach, an Israeli seaside resort about 20 miles south of Haifa. 75 years ago, on May 22, 1948, Zionist militia occupied this village as part of a year-long campaign of ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians and the destruction of over 500 villages. Forensic Architecture’s Lead…
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Israeli journalist Oren Ziv discusses his recent article in+972 Magazine, “After backlash, conference drops Israeli archeologist for settlement university ties.” Ziv describes Israel’s increasing violation of international law in supporting excavations on the Palestinian land it occupies.Jess and Jamal explore the controversy involving Roger Waters…
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Jess & Jamal discuss al-Nakba or "catastrophe," when 75 years ago roughly 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their ancestral homes and land by Zionist gangs in 1948. Three-quarters of a century later, the number of Palestinian refugees now stands at over 8 million, including those displaced in 1948 and 1967, making them the largest and oldest …
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Dr. Steven Feldman, Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, discusses his experience with the State of Arkansas, which denied his honorarium when he refused to sign the pledge to not support BDS after he gave a Zoom lecture to medical students at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Feldman actively supports boycott…
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Civil rights attorney Huwaida Arraf talks about the smear campaign that was launched against her by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Jewish Committee decrying her “anti-Israel rhetoric,” after participating on a panel at Detroit’s Bloomfield Hills High School’s day-long event on equity and diversity, she spoke to her experien…
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Investigative journalist and best-selling author James Bamford discusses his recent article in The Nation, “The Candidate and the Spy”, which details negotiations and meetings between Roger Stone and Netanyahu’s secret intelligence agent from May 2016 up through the elections in November.His most recently released book is "Spyfail: Foreign Spies, M…
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Jewish Israeli activist and co-founder of Boycott from Within Ronnie Barkan explains the motives driving Israel's new fascist government and its association with followers of the late American-born Meir Kahane and Jewish extremist groups who assert that a temple must be built in al-Aqsa's place.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Dr. Sai Englert explains why democracy has never existed in Israel and what the current uproar really involves. He recently published an article in The Middle East Eye “Israeli crisis: This is not about democracy, it's about liberal Zionist supremacy.” https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-crisis-not-about-democracy-liberal-zionist-supremacy…
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Dr. Hatem Bazian, author of the book "Palestine….it is something colonial," discusses his recent article “Can Ramadan be a Decolonization Moment?” He also talks about the conditions in Jerusalem, under an Israeli government determined to erase its Muslim history and character.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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James North, Editor at Mondoweiss, discusses his recent article, “Awful ‘NYTimes’ article glorifies an Israeli Mossad agent who helped murder an innocent man. Why?”He also highlights the Times' current shameful tactics to deliver“feel-good” articles on Israel at all costs.https://mondoweiss.net/2023/03/awful-nytimes-article-glorifies-an-israeli-mos…
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Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum US, discusses the recent successful exhibits featuring Palestinian artists at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and the groundbreaking Collateral Event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia. In 2023, Palestine will be in Venice again in an architectural event hosted by the European Cultural Cent…
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Orly Noy, Chair of the executive board of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, discusses the recent pogroms committed by Colonial Settlers in the Palestinian town of Huwara, the incitement that ensued by members of the Knesset, and collaboration by the Israeli Defense Forces.Kirjoittanut News You Can Use with Jamal Dajani & Jess Ghannam
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Legal scholar Diana Buttu discusses Israel's "revocation" law that would strip "disloyal" Israeli Palestinians of their citizenship. She also talks about the Palestinian Authority's failure to hold Israel accountable by dropping a resolution to call a vote in the UN Security Council regarding the illegality of Israel's settlement expansion; agreein…
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