#1419 Losing support for the indefensible (Israel and Palestine)
Air Date: 5–25-2021
Today we take a look through a wide-angle lens at the current flareup of the conflict in Israel and Palestine including a discussion of disparate power dynamics, lived experience in Palestine, the creation story of Hamas, understanding the definition of apartheid and recognizing how the reactions in American politics and media are shifting.
Read more#1397 Vaccine Rollout Once Again Exposes the Divide in Our Global Medical Apartheid
Air Date: 2–10-2021
Today we take a look at the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the US and around the world. Between White and Black in the US, Israeli and Palestinian in Israel and the Global North and Global South broadly, the legacies of colonialism and racism predictably play themselves out.
Read more#1337 The Indicted and the Impeached Make Peace with Continued Oppression (Israel)
Air Date: 2–19-2020
Today we take a look at the, ahem, "Peace Plan" devised by the US and Israel with absolutely no input from Palestinians. Plus, some additional discussion of how things are going in Israel/Palestine (not well) and how opinion has begun to shift dramatically within the Democratic Party.
Read more#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows
#1249 Understanding Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS)
Air Date: 2–12-2019
Today we take a look at both the BDS movement and the backlash response to it resulting in firings and legislation in many states (and pending federally) to restrict employment and business opportunities from those who fail to pledge in writing to not support of the boycott of Israel
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