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April 24, 2025  (Episode # 1,162)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Lara Elborno on "Genocide and International Law: Obligations and Accountability"
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,162), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) The Palestinian Return Centre organized and held an international conference titled "Naming Genocide: The Global Responsibility for Gaza" on February 22, 2025, in London. Several legal experts, advocates, voices from Gaza, and others, participated in the conference to discuss the ongoing crisis and the urgent need for international accountability. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks of Lara Elborno, a Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist based in Paris, delivered during her participation in the panel "Genocide and International Law: Obligations and Accountability" at that conference.

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April 17, 2025  (Episode # 1,161)

1) "We Love Life" Palestinian Benefit Weekend; 2) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 3) Remarks of Lara Elborno & Dr. Nimer Sultany at "Naming Genocide: The Global Responsibility for Gaza"
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,161), we will have 3 segments:
 
1) Reminder about the "We Love Life" Palestine Benefit Weekend, organized by the Palestinian American Cultural Center that will be held April 19-20 at the Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park, in Houston. More information about it is at www.WeLoveLifeHouston.com.
 
2) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide & ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
3) The Palestinian Return Centre organized and held an international conference titled "Naming Genocide: The Global Responsibility for Gaza" on February 22, 2025, in London. Several legal experts, advocates, voices from Gaza, and others, participated in the conference to discuss the ongoing crisis and the urgent need for international accountability. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the opening remarks delivered at that conference by Lara Elborno, a Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist based in Paris, and the remarks of Professor Nimer Sultany, a Reader in Public Law at SOAS University of London, during his participation in the panel "Genocide and International Law: Obligations and Accountability".

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April 10, 2025  (Episode # 1,160)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Senator Bernie Sanders on the Catastrophe in Gaza & Blocking Arms Transfer to Israel; 3) Message from Mahmoud Khalil's Family at the National March on Washington
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,160), we will have 3 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide & ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Senator Bernie Sanders introduced recently Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the transfer of over 35,000 2,000lb bombs to Israel. Senator Sanders spoke on the Senate floor on April 3, 2025, about the catastrophic situation in Gaza, and the reasons he introduced the resolutions to block the arms transfer to Israel. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air most of the remarks he delivered on the Senate floor. Fourteen Senators joined Senator Bernie Sanders’s Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, but the resolutions of disapproval did not pass. Senator Sanders has also introduced nine other JRDs to block more weapon transfers to Israel.

3) On April 5, 2025, a historic National March on Washington was held, demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an immediate ceasefire, and also an end to the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students and activists. Nearly 300 organizations supported the historic March that was attended by thousands of people from across the US. Several prominent speakers delivered remarks at the March, and during this episode of Arab Voices, we will air a statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, read by Jasmine. Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian-American and a legal resident in the US, and a student graduate of Columbia University, remains in custody by the Trump administration, for speaking against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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April 3, 2025  (Episode # 1,159)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Interview with Francesca Albanese on Justice, Complicity, and International Law
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,159), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Interview with Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, on the topic of Justice, Complicity, and International Law. The discussion was conducted by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Editor-in-Chief at the Palestine Chronicle, and Romana Rubeo, its Managing Editor, during The Floodgate Podcast, a production of the Palestine Chronicle.
 
Has international law collapsed in Gaza? What does American complicity mean for Palestinians under Israeli siege? And is the United Nations powerless in the face of genocide? In this wide-ranging conversation, Albanese breaks down the role of international law and the failures of the global system.

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March 27, 2025   (Episode # 1,158)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) "Global 195" Initiative by Tayab Ali; 3) Testimonies on Israeli Sexual Abuse and Rape of Palestinians
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,158), we will have 3 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, and other developments in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) The new “Global 195” initiative launched by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), a worldwide legal coalition dedicated to holding accountable Israeli and dual national individuals alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The initiative establishes a global network of accountability, which will ensure that domestic and international legal mechanisms are utilized to pursue individuals suspected of war crimes, wherever they may be. The coalition will simultaneously work within multiple jurisdictions to apply for private arrest warrants and initiate legal proceedings against those implicated. The scope of Global 195 includes individuals who have fought in the Israel Defense Forces, as well as figures spanning the entire Israeli military and political chain of command, from senior policymakers to operational personnel, who are directly or indirectly responsible for violations of international law. We will hear more information on the “Global 195” initiative from ICJP Director Tayab Ali in the UK, announcing the initiative at the international press conference held on March 18, 2025.

3) We will also listen to testimonies delivered at the public hearing held on March 11, 2025, organized by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem & Israel. The Commission of Inquiry held its third round of Public Hearings to gather testimony from victims of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence committed by the Israeli forces and Israeli settlers. We will hear from Kifeya Khraim, International Advocacy Officer at Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and also from a Women Human Rights Defender Witness, about shocking, despicable, and horrifying treatment of Palestinians, especially women by the Israeli occupation soldiers, including sexual abuse, violence, rape, and more.

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March 20, 2025   (Episode # 1,157)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter; 3) Filing of Federal Lawsuit; 4) CAIR's 2025 Civil Rights Report "Unconstitutional Crackdowns"
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,157), we will have 4 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, covering the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, and other developments in occupied Palestine, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Mahmoud Khalil’s "Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana".

3) The filing of a federal lawsuit by the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), alongside the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), and the law firm of Dratel & Lewis on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil and 7 other Columbia University students against Columbia University and the House Committee on Education and Workforce regarding the Congressional request to disclose thousands of student records. We will hear from Lamya Agarwala, CAIR-NY Supervising Attorney, Amy Greer, Dratel & Lewis Associate, Gadeir Abbas, CAIR Senior Litigation Attorney, and Afaf Nasher, CAIR-NY Executive Director.

4) Remarks from Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Civil Rights Attorney and National Deputy Director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, Executive Director and co-founder of CAIR, and Farah Afifi, Research and Advocacy Coordinator at CAIR, about the newly released Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) 2025 Civil Rights Report "Unconstitutional Crackdowns," revealing that Islamophobia in the U.S. has reached record levels, with viewpoint discrimination against pro-Palestine advocates emerging as a major driver. The report reveals that speaking out against Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide came at a cost in 2024, with crackdowns replacing public debate.

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March 13, 2025   (Episode # 1,156)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (occupied Palestine); 2) Briefs from members of Mahmoud Khalil's Legal Team, and several Columbia & Barnard Faculty, Jewish Community Leaders, and Immigrant Rights Advocates Condemning ICE Detention of Khalil, and Demanding his Immediate Release
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,156), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) We will talk about Palestinian-American Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student from Columbia University who was arrested by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents on March 8, 2025, revoking his permanent residency (Green Card) at the order of the US Secretary of State, and is working on deporting him form the United States, for speaking against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, a clear violation to the first amendment and free speech. A federal Judge on March 11, 2025, temporarily blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, who is being held in a detention center in Louisiana, although he was living in and arrested in New York.

We will hear briefs & remarks delivered at two press conferences from members of his legal team (Ramzi Kassem, Co-Director & Founding Director of Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) Project, and a member of Mahmoud's Legal Team, Baher Azmy, Legal Director of the Center of Constitutional Rights, and a member of Mahmoud's Legal Team, and Shezza Abboushi Dallal, Staff Attorney with the CLEAR Project who will read a statement from Mahmoud's wife), and we will also hear from several Columbia & Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates (Michael Thaddeus, Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, Donna Lieberman, President & CEO of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Yinon Cohen, Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj, Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, & Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, Shaun Abreu, New York City Council Member, Nara Milanich, Chair of the Department of History at Barnard College, representing the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University, Jason Klein, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, and Jamie Beran, Bend the Arc CEO), condemning ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil, and demanding his immediate release.

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March 6, 2025   (Episode # 1,155)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza and West Bank); 2)  Soumaya Ghannoushi on Gaza & Trump's Plan; 3) Daniel Levy on Gaza; 4) Dr. Fady Joudah's "Dedication" Poem
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,155), we will have 4 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Commentary by Soumaya Ghannoushi, a British-Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics, explaining to Middle East Eye how Israel’s assault on Gaza is not just a war but a deliberate attempt to erase its history, culture, and identity, and how Gaza has survived for thousands of years and it cannot be erased by Trump and Israel.

3) The remarks delivered at the United Nations by Daniel Levy, former Israeli negotiator sharing his vision on what’s happening in Gaza and the future.

4) A special poem titled “Dedication” by Dr. Fady Joudah, Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator, who won numerous awards and recognitions over the years.

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February 27, 2025   (Episode # 1,154)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza and West Bank); 2) DAWN's Historic & Unprecedented Referral to the ICC to Investigate & Prosecute President Biden, Antony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,154), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) DAWN, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes democracy, the rule of law, and human rights for all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa, submitted a historic and unprecedented referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking an urgent investigation and prosecution of former President Biden, State Secretary Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting war crimes, forced displacement, and genocide in Gaza. DAWN’s 172-page submission to the ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, lays out the legal basis for investigating Biden, Blinken, and Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, forced displacement, and genocide in Gaza. The filing says U.S. officials were fully aware that Israel would use the weapons they approved for mass killings and targeted attacks on civilians, and argues these US officials must be held accountable for their roles in these crimes. Prepared with the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, the submission details a pattern of deliberate and purposeful decisions by these officials to provide military, political, and public support to facilitate Israeli crimes in Gaza; this support included at least $17.9 billion of weapons transfers, intelligence sharing, targeting assistance, diplomatic protection, and official endorsement of Israeli crimes, despite knowledge of how such support had and would substantially enable grave abuses.

On February 24, 2025, DAWN held a press conference to provide further details about their submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In this episode, we will air the remarks delivered at that press conference, and some of the questions and answers that followed. We will hear from Raed Jarrar, DAWN’s Advocacy Director, Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s Executive Director, Reed Brody, International Legal Expert and DAWN Board Member, and Shawan Jabarin, General Director of Al-Haq organization in occupied Palestine.

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February 20, 2025   (Episode # 1,153)

Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza and West Bank); and remarks delivered at the UK Rally for Palestine
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,153), we will have 2 segments:
  
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) We will air some of the remarks delivered at the Rally for Palestine and a response to Trump's ethnic cleansing plan held on February 15, 2025, in London in the UK and attended by more than 175,000 people, including the remarks of Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, Jenin, Palestinian activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement, organizer, and story teller, Daniel Wernberg from Jewish Bloc, Yara Eid, Palestinian journalist and Human Rights Advocate from Gaza, Hamza Stitan, a British-Palestinian from Gaza, Zarah Sultana, a British politician and a Member of Parliament, Jeremy Corbyn, a British politician and a Member of Parliament, who will also read a message from Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, and the remarks of Owen Jones, British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist.
 
The rally was organized by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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February 13, 2025   (Episode # 1,152)

Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza and West Bank; Omar Baddar on Trump's Gaza Plan; David Hearst on Trump's Gaza Plan & his SHOCKING Plan for Greater Israel
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,152), we will have 4 segments:
  
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Omar Baddar, Palestinian American political analyst and member of the National Policy Council of the Arab American Institute, discussing on Democracy Now! Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip from its Palestinian inhabitants and occupy it. Baddar says “There's no question that even though the entire region would reject it … the fundamental reality is that we are heading to the complete destruction of Palestinian society in Gaza as a matter of status quo.”
 
3) An opinion piece on Trump’s plans for Gaza titled “If Trump tries to take over Gaza, Palestinians will die where they stand” from David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye.
 
4) David Hearst exposing Trump’s SHOCKING Plan for Greater Israel at Double Down News.

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February 6, 2025   (Episode # 1,151)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Dr. Riyad Mansour & Francesca Albanese on Trump's Gaza announcement; 3) Hani Almadhoun on the situation in Gaza; 4) Ahmed Alnaouq's testimony; 5) Joint Statement on Palestine by The Hague Group
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,151), we will have 5 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Reactions to President Trump’s announcement about the US occupying Gaza and ethnically cleansing the Palestinians from it by Dr. Riyad Mansour, Ambassador of the State of Palestine at the United Nations, and Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

3) The remarks of Hani Almadhoun, Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA-USA, and Co-Founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen, delivered on February 5, 2025, on the situation in Gaza during the meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP).

4) The testimony of Ahmed Alnaouq, Journalist and Writer from Gaza, and Co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, on Israel's Genocide in Gaza delivered at The Hague Group on January 31, 2025.

5) The inaugural Joint Statement on Palestine issued on January 31, 2025, by The Hague Group, a group of nine nations from the global south (Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa), formed to protect and uphold the rulings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). The statement was read on behalf of The Hague Group by Zane Dangor, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa.

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January 30, 2025   (Episode # 1,150)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza, West Bank, and Lebanon); 2) Palestine Legal's Statement on Trump's Executive Order; 3) Interview with Abed Ayoub
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,150), we will have 3 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Lebanon, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) Palestine Legal's Statement on Trump's Executive Order aiming to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and promote Anti-Palestinian Discrimination.

3) Interview with Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), conducted by Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman with the Electronic Intifada about the US government’s escalating attack on those who speak up for Palestinian rights, and what can be done to protect ourselves individually and collectively.

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January 23, 2025   (Episode # 1,149)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Remarks of Francesca Albanese and Gabi Kaplan at European Palestinian Network Conference
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,149), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
2) The remarks of Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, speaking about “Justice and International Law: Where Palestine Stands”, followed by questions and answers, and the remarks of Gabi Kaplan, Coordinator of European Jews for Palestine (a new network of Jewish collectives in Europe in solidarity with Palestine), delivered at the European Palestinian Network Conference, held on January 11, 2025, in Denmark. During the previous episode of Arab Voices, we aired the remarks of Palestinian Journalist Wejdan Abu Shammala, who spoke at that conference.

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January 16, 2025   (Episode # 1,148)

1) Gaza Ceasefire; 2) Gaza Journalists' Message by Abubaker Abed; 3) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 4) Wejdan Abu Shammala at European Palestinian Network Conference; 5) Dr. Rania Masri at Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,148), we will have several segments:
 
1) Gaza Ceasefire announcement between Hamas and Apartheid Israel, and the catastrophic situation in the occupied and destroyed Gaza Strip.

2) Palestinian Journalists’ message from Gaza by Abubaker Abed, Palestinian journalist and commentator in Gaza.

3) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
4) The remarks of Palestinian Journalist Wejdan Abu Shammala from Gaza, who lost over 200 members of her family during the current genocide, delivered at the European Palestinian Network Conference.
 
5) Dr. Rania Masri, a long-time activist and organizer, speaking at the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, which concluded its three-year investigation of the United States weapons makers, and charged them with conspiring to commit War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide, all in violation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

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January 9, 2025   (Episode # 1,147)

1) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza); 2) Remarks of Rik Peeperkorn, Tanya Haj Hassan, and Riyad Mansour at UNSC on the Health System in Gaza
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,147), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) We will air some of the speeches delivered at the United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting on Israel’s attacks on the healthcare system in Gaza, describing the horrific situation there, and the perspectives of healthcare workers in Gaza. We will air the remarks of Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for the West Bank and Gaza, Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, Medical Practitioner at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), and Dr. Riyad Mansour, Ambassador of the State of Palestine at the United Nations.

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January 2, 2025   (Episode # 1,146)

1) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Miko Peled & Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy on the Genocide in Gaza
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,146), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) The remarks of both Miko Peled, Israeli-American activist and author, and Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy, president of the Oxford Union debating society, delivered on November 28, 2024, at the historic Oxford Union debate titled “This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide”.
 
During the previous episode of Arab Voices, archived on our website ArabVoices.net, we aired the remarks of Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian writer, author, and human rights activist, delivered at the same debate.

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December 26, 2024   (Episode # 1,145)

1) Christmas Message from Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac & Dr. Husam Zomlot; 2) “Christ is still in the Rubble” by Rev. Munther Isaac; 3) Susan Abulhawa on the Genocide in Gaza; 4) Francesca Albanese on Israel’s Crimes in Gaza
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,145), we will have 4 segments:
 
1) Joint message from the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Christian Theologian in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, and Dr. Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to the people of the UK and all who celebrate Christmas.

2) Special Christmas Message by the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, titled “Christ is still in the Rubble”, delivered in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine on December 20, 2024.

3) The remarks of Susan Abulhawa, a prominent Palestinian writer, author, human rights activist, and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, delivered at the historic Oxford Union debate in the UK on November 28, 2024, about the Genocide in Gaza.

4) The remarks of Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, on the scale of Israel’s crimes committed in Gaza, in a message for Double Down News.

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December 19, 2024   (Episode # 1,144)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) New Federal Lawsuit against State Department for Violating Leahy Law to Provide Arms to Israel
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,144), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) On December 17, 2024, Palestinian families devastated by the Israeli human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenging the State Department's arbitrary and capricious failure to implement the Leahy Law prohibiting U.S. assistance to abusive Israeli security forces. The lawsuit documents how the State Department has created unique, insurmountable processes to evade the Leahy Law requirement to sanction abusive Israeli units, despite overwhelming evidence of their human rights violations. These violations include torture, prolonged detention without charge, forced disappearance, and flagrant denials of the right to life, liberty, and security, such as genocide, indiscriminate and deliberate killings, and deprivation of items essential to survival, including food, water, fuel, and medicine.

The lawsuit was supported by DAWN, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes democracy, the rule of law, and human rights for all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

On the same day the federal lawsuit was filed, DAWN held a press conference about the lawsuit, and we are going to air some of the remarks delivered at that press conference, including the remarks of Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN's Executive Director, Josh Paul, former State Department official and current DAWN Fellow, Bruce Fein, Attorney for the Plaintiffs, and we will also hear from the Palestinian Plaintiffs Ahmed Moor, Said Assali, Hadeel Assali, and Shawan Jabarin.

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December 12, 2024   (Episode # 1,143)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "What we know so far about the new offensive in Syria"
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,143), we will have 2 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) "What we know so far about the new offensive in Syria", a segment from last week’s Electronic Intifada livestream, in which Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer, and Asa Winstanley held a great discussion about the unfolding situation in Syria.

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December 5, 2024   (Episode # 1,142)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) Amnesty International on the Genocide in Gaza, 3) Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan's experience in Gaza, 4) Juliet Stevenson on Gaza
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,142), we will have 4 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) Amnesty International, the world’s oldest and largest grassroots human rights organization, released a new research report on December 4, 2024, titled “You Feel Like You Are Subhuman”: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza. In its research, Amnesty International cites that it has found sufficient basis to conclude that the government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air Amnesty International’s explanation of how it arrived at this conclusion and its call to world governments to stop the genocide.

3) We will air the speech of Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care doctor with Medical Aid for Palestinians, delivered on November 30, 2024, at the United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee meeting, sharing a harrowing account of her experiences working in Gaza, where she witnessed the devastating humanitarian crisis.

4) On November 30, 2024, several organizations in the United Kingdom, organized the annual National Demonstration for Palestine demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to stop arming Israel. More than 125,000 people attended the demonstration, and several speakers delivered remarks at the event. We will air today the speech of Juliet Stevenson, an award-winning renowned actor.

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November 28, 2024   (Episode # 1,141)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (Gaza & Lebanon); 2) Canadian Healthcare Workers Testimonies on Gaza; 3) Bisan Owda on the Catastrophe in Gaza; 4) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on the Dehumanization of Palestinians, and the Surge in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic Hate Crimes
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,141), we will have 4 segments:
 
1) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza and Lebanon summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) Bisan Owda, Palestinian journalist, activist, and filmmaker, in Gaza, who is well known world-wide for documenting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, speaking about the catastrophic situation there.
 
3) “EyeWitnessGaza”, a group of Canadian healthcare workers including doctors, nurses, and medical professionals, who volunteered on medical missions to Gaza over the past year, held a news conference on November 26, 2024, to share their eyewitness account and experience in Gaza, and call for an end to the ongoing genocide there. We will air the remarks delivered at that press conference, and they include Dr. Yipeng Ge, Dr. Yara Abou-Hamde, Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo, Dr. Sheikh Noor Ul Amin, Dr. Mohammad Rizwan Minhas, and Dr. Ben Thomson.

4) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on the constant dehumanization of Palestinians, and the recent surge in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic hate crimes in the United States.

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November 21, 2024   (Episode # 1,140)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast (Palestine & Lebanon); 2) Senator Bernie Sanders on Blocking Weapons Sales to Israel; 3) Ambassador Majed Bamya on the U.S. Veto against UNSC Resolution on Gaza
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,140), we will air the latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
We will also air the remarks of Senator Bernie Sanders making a case on the Senate floor on November 20, 2024, to block the sale of weapons to Israel, and describing the horrific situation in Gaza, and we will also air the speech of Ambassador Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations delivered on November 20, 2024, after the U.S. used its veto power against a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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November 14, 2024   (Episode # 1,139)

1) Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) “Trajectories of U.S. Middle East Policy Continuity and Change”
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,139), we will air the latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza and Lebanon summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

We will also air some of the remarks delivered on November 12, 2024, during an online panel hosted by Jadaliyya titled “Trajectories of U.S. Middle East Policy Continuity and Change”, which is part of a new project under the title "U.S. in the Middle East", a collaborative project presented by the Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown - Qatar, and Security in Context, co-sponsored by Gaza in Context Project.
  
The featured speakers are:
  
Mouin Rabbani, a researcher, analyst, and commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has 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.
 
Jamil Mouawad, Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy at the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut - AUB. He is a founding member of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies.
 
The moderators were Bassam Haddad, Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and Omar Dahi, co-editor at Jadaliyya, a Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs.
 
There were further discussions between the moderators and the guest speakers, and you can watch that online at www.jadaliyya.com.

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November 7, 2024   (Episode # 1,138)

US Elections, “Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli plan to conquer the Arab world”, and the Ongoing Crisis in Gaza & Lebanon
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,138), I will talk about the US elections, and the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East, created by Apartheid Israel, funded and supported by the United States. I will air several remarks including Palestinian author and journalist Ramzy Baroud’s take on what to do on the day after the US elections, Trump’s comments about “Tiny Israel” and was that a hint of what to come under his administration (more land grab and annexation by Apartheid Israel?), and on that comment, I will air a segment titled “Greater Israel Explained: The Israeli plan to conquer the Arab world” by Break Through News. We will also listen to Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the catastrophe in Gaza and Lebanon, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri on the Systemic Starvation and Destruction In Gaza, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory with her new report "Genocide as colonial erasure", and Ambassador Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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October 31, 2024   (Episode # 1,137)

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October 24, 2024   (Episode # 1,136)

1) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) "The Unending War on Palestinian Children" by Dr. Heidi Morrison, with opening remarks by Dr. Hanan Hammad, and short poems by Dr. Fady Joudah
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,136), we will air the latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza, and Lebanon from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

We will also air several remarks delivered on October 17, 2024, at “The Unending War on Palestinian Children” event organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. We will air the opening remarks of Dr. Hanan Hammad, Arab-American Educational Foundation (AAEF) Chair in Modern Arab History & Director of the AAEF Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston, and will also air a series of short poems read by Dr. Fady Joudah, Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator, who won numerous awards and recognitions over the years. In addition, we will air part 1 of the main speaker’s remarks, Dr. Heidi Morrison, Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin La Cross, who specializes in modern Middle East and the global history of childhood. We plan on airing part 2 of Professor Morrison’s talk during the next episode of Arab Voices.

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October 17, 2024   (Episode # 1,135)

1) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast; 2) EI Interview with Abubaker Abed in Gaza; 3) Dr. Ramzy Baroud at Gaza War March
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,135), we will bring you the latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman, followed by an interview you don’t want to miss with Abubaker Abed, Palestinian journalist and commentator in the occupied Gaza Strip, conducted by Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman with the Electronic Intifada.
 
We will also air the remarks of Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Palestinian author and journalist, delivered at the Gaza War March in Seattle. It was a passionate call for justice, freedom, and accountability and to join the popular resistance.

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October 10, 2024   (Episode # 1,134)

1) 76+ Years of Ethnic Cleansing & Atrocities, 12+ Months of Intensified Genocide & War Crimes Against the Palestinians, 2) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast; 3) Remarks by Vivian Khalaf and Dr. Nada Flaifl on the Genocide in Gaza & PCRF's Work
  
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,134):

1) We will talk about the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and slaughter of Palestinians in occupied Palestine by Apartheid Israel

2) The latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a summary of the latest developments in the occupied Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, and Lebanon from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.
 
3) We will air some of the remarks delivered at the 2^nd Annual Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) benefit dinner held in Houston, Texas. We will air the remarks of Vivian Khalaf, PCRF’s Chairwoman of the Board, talking about the genocide in Gaza and PCRF’s work, and also air the remarks of Dr. Nada Flaifl, a Palestinian health professional and humanitarian aid worker from Gaza, who volunteers with PCRF as an Emergency Medical Response Coordinator in Gaza.

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October 3, 2024   (Episode # 1,133)

Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast; and “Gaza Through My Lens” speaking tour with Motaz Azaiza
  
The Israeli genocide and war crimes against the Palestinians continue in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank non-stop, and as if these war crimes, atrocities, and the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians are not enough for Apartheid Israel, it has expanded its attacks and war crimes to other countries, by bombing Lebanon, causing death and destruction in multiple cities, including the Capitol Beirut, and has also been bombing Syria, and that is not the first time. Apartheid Israel has also carried out multiple assassinations in different countries including Iran, Lebanon, and Syria over the past few months. As long as Israel continues to receive almost endless supplies of arms and enjoys full impunity for all its war crimes and atrocities in multiple countries, supported and funded mainly by the United States, it does not look like the ongoing catastrophe will end any time soon, and the Israeli actions will continue to endanger the entire region and cause even more death and destruction!

During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,133):

1) A recap of the latest news from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman (Electronic Intifada Newscast).

2) UNRWA USA, an independent nonprofit organization that supports the work of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, organized and hosted a multi-city “Gaza Through My Lens” speaking tour with Motaz Azaiza, the Palestinian photojournalist who risked his life to bring Gaza's truth to the rest of the world. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air some of the remarks delivered at the Houston event on September 29, 2024. We will air the remarks of Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA, Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist, Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University, and also air the poem “Dedication” read by Dr. Fady Joudah, Houston-based Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator, who won numerous awards and recognitions over the years. That poem is from his collection […].

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September 26, 2024   (Episode # 1,132)

The Ongoing Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians, the Israeli Attacks/Atrocities against Lebanon, and the Introduction of Legislation by Senator Bernie Sanders to Block Arms Sales to Israel
  
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,132):

1) Latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a recap of Palestinian & Lebanese news from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman.

2) The speech of Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered on September 20, 2024, at the United Nations Security Council during an emergency session on Lebanon after the explosions of hundreds of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon. In his speech, Volker said, “International humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects”.

3) Lebanon’s remarks delivered by Mohammad Najib Mikati, President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon, on September 25, 2024, at the general debate of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly of the UN on the Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

4) The speech of Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, delivered on September 24, 2024, at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

5) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s remarks on the House floor delivered on September 19, 2024, about the genocide in Gaza.

6) The speech of Senator Bernie Sanders, delivered on September 18, 2024, on the Senate floor about the horrific situation in Gaza and the West Bank, and why he is introducing legislation to block the sale of over 20 billion dollars of offensive arms to Israel, which he did on September 25, 2024.

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September 19, 2024   (Episode # 1,131)

Israeli Attack on Lebanon; EI Newscast; ArabCon 2024 Remarks by Dr. Adam Fahs, Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison, and a Poem by Dr. Fady Joudah; Dr. Riyad Mansour at UNGA
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,131):
 
1) “Israel Is Trying to Provoke a War With Lebanon” by Kei Pritsker, a New York-based journalist and activist with BreakThrough News
 
2) A recap of Palestinian news from over the past few days summarized by Nora Barrows-Friedman (Electronic Intifada Newscast)

3) Eyewitness account of Dr. Adam Fahs, an orthopedic surgeon based in Detroit, Michigan, who in December 2023 embarked on a critical medical mission to Gaza with Rahma Worldwide. He delivered his account of what he witnessed in Gaza during the Bearing Witness: Medical Professionals on the Gaza Genocide panel discussion at the ArabCon 2024, the National Arab American Convention of ADC.

4) Remarks by Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison, Director of Development and Expansion at ADC, delivered at the “Palestine Will Be Free! Rally” during ArabCon 2024, the National Arab American Convention of ADC.

5) Dr. Fady Joudah, an award-winning Palestinian American Poet and Physician, based in Houston, Texas, reading one of his poems, “Habibi Yamma” at the “Palestine Will Be Free! Rally” during ArabCon 2024, the National Arab American Convention of ADC.

6) The speech of Dr. Riyad Mansour, Ambassador of the State of Palestine at the United Nations, delivered at the historic 10th Emergency Special Session at the UN, at which the State of Palestine presented its first resolution as a follow-up on the International Court of Justice advisory opinion, declaring Israel’s presence unlawful. One day after his speech, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on September 18, 2024, demanding that Israel bring to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and do so within 12 months. The resolution also identifies the obligations of Israel, all States, and the United Nations and spells out concrete measures to advance accountability and achieve compliance.

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September 12, 2024   (Episode # 1,130)

Electronic Intifada Newscast, Medea Benjamin on Aysenur Ezgi Eygi's murder, Sarah Friedland on Gaza Genocide, Yuli Novak at UNSC, and National March for Palestine's remarks in the UK
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,130), we will continue to talk about the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine by Apartheid Israel. We will air the latest Electronic Intifada Newscast, a recap of Palestinian news over the past few days, Medea Benjamin’s remarks on the murder of American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Sarah Friedland’s acceptance speech at the Venice International Film Festival that brought attention to the genocide in Gaza (Friedland, a Jewish-American filmmaker, won awards for Best Director, Best First Film, and Best Actress for her film “Familiar Touch”), and the speech of Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, delivered at the United Nations Security Council. We will also air some of the remarks delivered at the National March for Palestine held recently in the UK and attended by more than 125,000 people. We will air the remarks of Fran Heathcote, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union in the UK, Ismail Patel, Chair of Friends of Al Aqsa, Iqbal Mohamed, Independent MP for Dewsbury and Batley, Raghad Altikriti, Chair of Muslim Association of Britain, Myriam François, Journalist & Filmmaker, and a statement from Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North in the UK.

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September 5, 2024   (Episode # 1,129)

Muslim Resignees Speak: How Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian Racism Fuel Biden Administration’s Gaza Policy
 
It has been nearly 11 months since Apartheid Israel started escalating at unprecedented levels its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the destroyed and occupied Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, which started over 76 years ago, and not on October 7, 2023. What we have been witnessing 24/7 since October 7, is the mother of terrorism, the mother of war crimes, the mother of genocide, the mother of atrocities, committed by the mother of apartheid, Israel, funded and supported by a few Western countries, but mainly the United States. None of these war crimes and atrocities will stop as long as Apartheid Israel continues to receive arms, money, support, impunity, and protection from the United States.

During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,129), we will air a recording of an event the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, held on August 28, 2024, titled “Muslim Resignees Speak: How Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian Racism Fuel Biden Administration’s Gaza Policy”. During the event, former US Interior Department official Maryam Hassanein and former State Department diplomat Hala Rharrit spoke with CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Robert McCaw, Director of Government Affairs at CAIR, about their perspectives on the role of Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian, and anti-Arab racism in shaping U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. Both resigned from the government earlier this year in opposition to the U.S. support for the Gaza genocide.

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August 29, 2024   (Episode # 1,128)

State Rep. Ruwa Romman's Speech, and “Chicago DNC Protesters Stand with Palestine and Demand the End of US Arms Shipments to Israel”
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,128), we will air the speech of Ruwa Romman, Georgia State Representative, who was one of the speakers on a list submitted by the Uncommitted National Movement to the Harris campaign to speak about Palestine, but the DNC rejected anyone from the uncommitted list to speak.
 
We will also air a segment from Capitalism, Race, & Democracy program created by Pacifica radio. The segment is titled “Chicago DNC Protesters Stand with Palestine and Demand the End of US Arms Shipments to Israel”. It includes reporting on that topic from Pacifica's Steve Zeltzer and Ann Garrison, an interview with Dan Kovalik, author of "The Case for Palestine, Why It Matters and Why You Should Care," about the sidelines of the Union Park rally on the first day of the convention, and the segment also includes an interview with independent journalist Jack Poulson, who along with Lee Fang, broke the story of leaked documents that show a former general counsel of the Democratic National Committee secretly advised the Israeli government on how to avoid registering its PR commando unit under the US Foreign Agents Registration Law.

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August 22, 2024   (Episode # 1,127)

Hani Almadhoun, Zaha Hassan, Dr. Nabeel Rana, and Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan remarks at different events while the DNC was taking place
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,127), we will air some of the remarks delivered at different events held while the Democratic National Convention was taking place, the support of the US to the genocide in Gaza, the catastrophic situation there, and eyewitness accounts from doctors who volunteered in Gaza over the past few months.
 
The Arab American Institute (AAI), organized special events throughout the week in Chicago, to make sure that those in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) know that Americans want the killing in Gaza to stop. Several panels were held, and we are going to share some of the remarks delivered at some of the panels, including the remarks of Hani Almadhoun, Senior Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA-USA, and cofounder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, talk about UNRWA-USA, the murder in Gaza of his brother and his family by American-supplied weapons to Israel, and the catastrophic situation in Gaza.

We will also air the remarks of Zaha Hassan, writer, an analyst on Palestinian affairs, human rights attorney, and fellow at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaking at another AAI panel during the DNC about why we don't hear about the legal rules that are applicable to Israel's occupation of Palestine from US policymakers, and the law and Israel-Palestine conflict resolution.

Uncommitted Voters' Delegates held a press briefing on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, at which several doctors shared what they witnessed while volunteering in Gaza during that press briefing, and we will air during this episode the remarks of Dr. Nabeel Rana, a vascular surgeon from North Carolina.

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a physician who volunteered in Gaza, delivered at the first-ever panel on Palestinian rights at the Democratic National Convention a testimony of what she witnessed in Gaza (recorded by Democracy Now!), and we plan on airing her remarks.

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August 15, 2024   (Episode # 1,126)

1) Robert Inlakesh on Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners &  why the US continues to see Israel as the victim; 2) Shahd Hammouri on Genocide and the Law, and Rima Kapitan on Suppression of Speech on US Campuses
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,126), we will talk about the torture and rape of Palestinians kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces and held in the Israeli Sde Teiman Concentration Camp. We will listen to Robert Inlakesh with the Palestine Chronicle explain the real reasons behind Israel's decision to arrest ten Israeli occupation soldiers accused of participating in the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner, and he will also discuss the state of Israeli society. Inlakesh will also discuss Washington's position in the face of increased tensions in the region, and why the US continues to see Israel as the victim, despite the ongoing war crimes, atrocities, and genocide it is committing, and calls Israeli actions “self-defense”.

During the second segment, we will also air the remarks of Professor Shahd Hammouri on Genocide and the Law, and Rima Kapitan on Suppression of Speech on US Campuses. These remarks were delivered at the “World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza”, held at the University of Houston in April 2024, organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine.

Shahd Hammouri is a lecturer in Law at Kent Law School in the UK. Her current research takes on a critical approach to assess the discourse of business and human rights, particularly in the context of war. She also writes about the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa Region, as well as critical theory. Her work has been featured on a wide range of platforms including Rehla, Al Jummhuryia, 7iber, Jadaliyya, Critical Legal Thinking, TWAILR Reflections, and EJIL Talk!
 
Rima Kapitan is a lawyer with Kapitan Gomaa Law in Chicago. She specializes in employment litigation, consulting, and advocacy, and represents professors in appeals of tenure denials, litigating civil rights cases in the university setting, and providing consulting for faculty governance bodies. She has spoken on the topic of academic freedom at scholarly conferences and panels. She also previously served as Managing Partner of a seven-attorney law firm.

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August 8, 2024   (Episode # 1,125)

“The Algebra of Genocide” by Chris Hedges, and Feda Abdelhady-Nasser on the Crisis in Palestine
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,125), we will air the remarks of Feda Abdelhady-Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, delivered on July 31, 2024, at the United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

We will also air the keynote speech titled “The Algebra of Genocide” by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist, best-selling author, and activist, delivered in April 2024 at a special event on establishing a Palestine Center for Public Policy in the United States, which conducts policy studies focused on measurable and transparent data-driven changes in public policy, media, and opinions on Palestine in the United States.

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August 1, 2024   (Episode # 1,124)

Interview with Ilan Pappé on regional developments, assassinations, torture, Zionism & Imperialism, Israel lobbies in the US & UK, and more, by the Electronic Intifada
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,124), we will air portion of an interview the Electronic Intifada conducted on July 31, 2024, on day 299 of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, with world-renowned historian and author Ilan Pappé, on the latest regional developments and his new book, "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic". In that interview, Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman with the Electronic Intifada discuss with Pappé the recent assassinations conducted by Israel, the torture of Palestinians, Zionism and Imperialism, Israel lobbies in the US & UK, and more.

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July 25, 2024    (Episode # 1,123)

ICJ's Advisory Opinion, and Protest in Washington, D.C. 
 
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the Advisory Opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on July 19, 2024, on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, delivered by Nawaf Salam, President of the International Court of Justice.

We will also air some of the remarks delivered at the rally held in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2029, to protest Apartheid Israel’s War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and talk at the U.S. Congress. We will air the remarks of Ayah Ziyadeh with American Muslims for Palestine, Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Reverend Adriene Thorne, Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York, Rabbi David Feldman, Nihad Awad, Executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Mohammed Abdelsalam, President of the Palestinian American Organization Network, Ahmad Abuznaid, Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), Krys Cerisier with CODEPINK, Claudia De la Cruz, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Rabbi Esther Azar, with Jewish Voice for Peace, and Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, activist, medical doctor, and environmental health advocate.

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July 18, 2024    (Episode # 1,122)

Israel's Campaign of Starvation, Genocide, and Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
 
A panel of United Nations independent experts, including Dr. Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food and University of Oregon Professor of Law, declared recently that famine has spread throughout the Gaza Strip, and accused Israel of engaging in a campaign of starvation and genocide in Gaza.

During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,122), we will air a talk by Dr. Michael Fakhri about why Starvation in Gaza is Genocide, delivered at the University of Oregon on June 14, 2024, at an event organized by the University of Oregon Palestine Coalition.

We will also air an interview Democracy Now! conducted on July 10, 2024, with Palestinian physician and activist Dr. Mustafa Barghouti in which he says “what we see today is a purposeful act of starvation” and that the real intention of the Israeli government has never changed, and that is the “total ethnic cleansing of all of Gaza”.

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July 11, 2024    (Episode # 1,121)

Debunking Israeli Propaganda in Rafah - Interview with Ramzy Baroud (PC Podcast)
 
As we enter the 10th month of non-stop Israeli genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, inflected on the besieged and now destroyed Gaza Strip where 2.3 million Palestinians live, the world continues to be silent with the only action is that of support to Apartheid Israel, especially from the United States that continues to provide money and arms to fund the ongoing Israeli atrocities and the Israeli settler colonial project in occupied Palestine.

The war crimes happening in the Gaza Strip are beyond description. Even Israeli Occupation Soldiers are confessing they are told to shoot and kill everyone, including civilians, children, babies, and the elderly.

During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,121), we will air a podcast from the Palestine Chronicle titled "Debunking Israeli Propaganda in Rafah - Interview with Ramzy Baroud". In this podcast, Robert Inlakesh discusses Israel's invasion of the southern Gaza City of Rafah and the reality of the Palestinian Resistance on the ground with Palestinian author and journalist Ramzy Baroud, in an attempt to debunk Israeli propaganda.

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July 4, 2024    (Episode # 1,120)

1st Segment: Zionism, Christian Zionism, and a Call to Lament and Repentance of Christian Zionism
 
A talk by the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, Palestinian Christian Theologian, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, and the Academic Dean of Beth Bible College, delivered on June 11, 2024, at the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC, about Zionism, describing it as an ideology that leads to Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, Apartheid, and Genocide, and also talks about Christian Zionism. During his talk, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac calls for repentance from Racism, Christian Zionism, and Apathy & Lack of Compassion.
 

2nd Segment: Gaza Genocide, Palestinian Struggle for Independence & Freedom, and a Message of Defiance & Hope
 
A talk by Dr. Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, delivered on June 21, 2024, at the UK public service trade union, UNISON, during the UNISON 2024 Conference, speaking about the genocide in Gaza, the catastrophic situation in occupied Palestine, and delivering a message of defiance and hope. He also talks about the relations with the UK, and the historic Palestine-UK trade union ties.

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June 27, 2024    (Episode # 1,119)

Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West, by Thomas Suárez
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,119), we will air a talk by Thomas Suárez titled “Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West”. The recording was made possible by Media Education Foundation.
 
Acclaimed author and researcher Thomas Suárez, a former West Bank resident and faculty member of Palestine’s National Conservatory of Music, appeared at UMass-Amherst on April 16, 2024, to talk about the historical roots of Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the complicity of Western governments in manufacturing consent to the continuing horrors unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, and what it will take to fundamentally transform Israel’s current apartheid policies and liberate the Palestinian people.
 
Suárez, who is also a professional concert violinist and world-renowned cartographer, is the author of four books based on exhaustive archival research into the history of Zionism, Zionist terror, and Israel’s formation.
 
Thomas Suárez's most recent book is Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea, which Noam Chomsky called "a damning story, heavily documented ... far too revealing to be tolerated." His previous book, State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, was praised by the eminent Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as “a tour de force that looks boldly at the impact of Zionism on Palestine and its people in the first part of the 20th century,” and “the first comprehensive and structured analysis of the violence and terror employed by the Zionist movement, and later the state of Israel, against the people of Palestine.”

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June 20, 2024    (Episode # 1,118)

Debunking "Screams Before Silence," Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 October "mass rapes" film, with Ali Abunimah
 
The ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children), and injured more than 86,000 others since October 7, 2023, has been sold to the world partially based on Israeli lies that Hamas fighters committed sexual acts during their attack on October 7, 2023. Israel used that lie to slaughter Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and destroy it.

Billionaire former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg released a film purporting to document the mass rapes Israel claims were carried out by Hamas fighters on October 7. This film, called “Screams Before Silence”, is being heavily promoted by several US politicians, the Israeli government, and countless lobby groups and media figures.

During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,118), we will air a podcast from the Electronic Intifada titled Debunking "Screams Before Silence," Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 October "mass rapes" film. In that podcast, Ali Abunimah, Director of the Electronic Intifada, breaks down Sandberg’s film and shows how it is full of fabrications, distortions, and lies, and does not present any credible evidence to support Israel’s atrocity propaganda.

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June 13, 2024    (Episode # 1,117)

Gaza Genocide in Context by Ussama Makdisi, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, and Avi Shlaim
 
Apartheid Israel’s genocide continues non-stop throughout the occupied and destroyed Gaza Strip killing over 48,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023 (mostly women and children), including at least 11,000 unaccounted for, presumed killed under the rubble of their homes throughout the Gaza Strip. Over 85,000 Palestinians have been injured by the ongoing Israeli war crimes. In the occupied West Bank, the situation is getting worse by the second with ongoing Israeli atrocities, incursions, destruction, land theft, home demolitions, and murder of Palestinians, performed by the Israeli occupation army and Israeli colonizers. It is Israeli state terrorism in its highest form, funded, supported, and protected by the United States, that grants Apartheid Israel full impunity for whatever war crimes it commits!
 
During the previous episode of Arab Voices, we aired some of the remarks delivered at the “World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza”, held at the University of Houston in April 2024, organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks delivered at the “Gaza Genocide in Context” panel at that forum by Professors Ussama Makdisi, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, and Avi Shlaim.
 

Dr. Ussama Makdisi is professor of History and Chancellor's Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously professor of History and the first holder of the Arab­American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. He has published award-winning books and highly cited articles on Ottoman and Arab history as well as on US-Arab relations and US missionary work in the Middle East. His most recent book is Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2019).
 

Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is associate professor of History and Arab­American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University. He is a historian of Palestinian and Arab anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual currents, and political movements. Along with many contributions to major scholarly journals and edited collections, he is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (2013). He is co­author (with Karma Nabulsi) of the digital humanities project The Palestinian Revolution (2016).
 

Professor Avi Shlaim is Emeritus fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, emeritus professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. One of the world’s leading Middle East historians, and one of the founders of the new Israeli history, he is an award-winning author of multiple books, including a recently published autobiography Three Worlds: Memoirs of An Arab Jew (2023).

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June 6, 2024    (Episode # 1,116)

Majed Bamya at the UNSC on the Genocide in Gaza; and Jehad Abusalim & Taher Herzallah at the "People's Conference for Palestine"
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,116), we will air the remarks of Ambassador Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations delivered at the United Nations Security Council on May 29, 2024, on the Genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
 
We will also air the remarks of Jehad Abusalim, Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, and the remarks of Taher Herzallah, Associate Director of Outreach & Grassroots Organizing for American Muslims for Palestine, delivered on May 24, 2024, at the People’s Conference for Palestine held in Detroit, Michigan.

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May 30, 2024    (Episode # 1,115)

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Mnar Adley, and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti at the "People's Conference for Palestine"
 
Despite the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice calling on Israel to halt its attack on Rafah, Apartheid Israel continued to escalate its attacks on Palestinian civilians staying in tents after being forced out of other areas in the Gaza Strip to Rafah (declared by Apartheid Israel as a “safe zone”, which was a lie). There is simply no “safe zone” in the occupied Gaza Strip, but only a Genocide zone. Since October 7, 2023, Apartheid Israel has committed numerous massacres in the Gaza Strip killing more than 47,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children), including more than 11,000 missing under the rubble, and injuring more than 81,000 Palestinians, while it is also increasing its attacks and atrocities throughout the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,115), we will air some of the remarks delivered at the historic “People’s Conference for Palestine”, held in Detroit, Michigan May 24-26, 2024, endorsed by numerous organizations, and included many speakers, panels, and discussions on Palestine. We will air the remarks of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Mnar Adley, an award-winning journalist, and founder and director of MintPress News, and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, secretary general and co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.

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May 23, 2024    (Episode # 1,114)

Apartheid Israel's Genocidal Intent and Genocidal Conduct in the Gaza Strip by Adila Hassim and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
 
Apartheid Israel’s unprecedented and horrific attack on the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing 24/7 since October 7, 2023, destroying the Gaza Strip, and murdering more than 46,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children (including at least 11,000 presumed murdered that are still under the rubble), and injured more than 78,000. What we are witnessing 24/7 live is genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, planned and committed by Zionist Israeli war criminals.
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,114), we will air special remarks delivered at the hearing held at the International Court of Justice on May 16, 2024, after South Africa filed a new and urgent request over the Israeli attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. We will air the powerful remarks of Advocate Adila Hassim, a prominent lawyer and one of the advocates representing South Africa, speaking on the genocidal conduct of Israel, and the remarks of South African lawyer and legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, speaking on the genocidal intent of Israel.

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May 16, 2024    (Episode # 1,113)

The ONGOING Palestinian Nakba, and an interview with Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb about "1948: Creation and Catastrophe"
 
As Apartheid Israel continues its genocide and war crimes in the Gaza Strip non-stop 24/7 since October 7, 2023, killing over 35,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, and injuring more than 78,000, with more than 11,000 still missing under the rubble throughout the Gaza Strip and are presumed killed, western media and some politicians keep repeating that the crisis started on October 7, 2023, ignoring the catastrophic situation Palestinians have been in since 1948 throughout occupied Palestine, and not just in the Gaza Strip. In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,113), we will talk about the ongoing Palestinian Nakba (Arabic word for Catastrophe), that started over 76 years ago, as this month marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba.
 
On May 15, 2024, on the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba and resistance to Israeli Apartheid, Radio Free Palestine launched on several stations across North America, 24 hours of programming from radio stations and producers across 5 continents, and during this episode of Arab voices, we will air a special edition of the weekly program Middle East in Focus that airs on our sister station KPFK in Los Angeles, California, in which program co-host Estee Chandler interviews Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb about her documentary film, 1948: Creation and Catastrophe, which tells the story of the establishment of the state of Israel through the eyes of the people who lived it and were affected by it.
 
Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb is a professor of media studies and the graduate coordinator of the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). She is the recipient of the 2020 CSUSB Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Award and the 2019-20 Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Faculty Mentor Awardees. She also won the 2019 Rebuilding Alliance “Story Teller” Award. Her research interests include digital communication, digital resistance & decolonization, social justice, and diasporic communities. Her research has appeared in national and international publications, such as the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Arab Studies Quarterly, and has been presented at national and international conferences. Her documentary 1948: Creation & Catastrophe was screened at over 20 film festivals and at universities and community organizations throughout the world. The film, co-produced and co-directed with Andy Trimlett, focuses on the year 1948 and its catastrophic consequences for the Palestinian nation which has originated from her field work in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. The film won the Jerusalem International Film Festival’s 2019 Special Jury Award in the Feature Documentary category. She is working currently on a study of Palestinian digital resistance and decolonizing digital spaces. She was the producer and lead researcher of the documentary 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime which centered the three young Muslims murdered in Chapel Hill in 2015 in its discussion of the state of hate crimes, Islamophobia and racism in the United States. The film had its global premier at the Doc NYC Film Festival in November of 2023 and won the Subject Matter Grant for Audience Outreach and Impact Efforts.

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May 9, 2024    (Episode # 1,112)

Ongoing Genocide against the Palestinians by Apartheid Israel, and Drs. Nimer Sultany & Noura Erakat on "Law and the Genocide"
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,112), we will continue to talk about the ongoing horrific genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing committed by Apartheid Israel against the Palestinians, armed, supported, and funded by the United States government using US tax payers’ money. A genocide that since October 7, 2023, has killed over 35,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children), injured more than 78,000, and left most of the Gaza Strip destroyed! Over 11,000 Palestinians are missing and presumed killed under the rubble.
 
We will also air the remarks of Dr. Nimer Sultany, and Dr. Noura Erakat, delivered a panel titled "War and the Genocide" during the "World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza", a transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and urgently needed academic responses from across the globe, was held at the University of Houston on April 6-7, 2024. The forum was organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine, a transnational coalition that brings together faculty, researchers, and graduate students to end the century-long colonial war on Palestine. The forum featured panels on law, medicine, history, theology, gender, education, and international politics, with nearly 50 expert speakers participating in person and online.
    
Dr. Nimer Sultany is a reader in Public Law at SOAS, University of London Law School. His research areas are public law, legal and political theory, comparative constitutionalism, public international law, and human rights law. He has authored numerous articles in leading legal journals and his book, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (2017) was awarded the inaugural ICON-S book prize.
 
Dr. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory. She is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (2019).

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May 2 2024    (Episode # 1,111)

1st Segment: Protests at Universities across the US to end Israel’s Genocide in Gaza & to Divest from Israel
 
We will talk about the protests by thousands of students and faculty (Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others) at dozens of universities and colleges across the United States calling for an end to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, an immediate ceasefire, and calling on universities to divest from Israel. Many of the universities called local and state police to disperse the peaceful protests. Hundreds of students, and some faculty, were arrested at various colleges. In this episode of Arab Voices, we will listen to:
 

Ammer Qaddumi, a Palestinian-American student at UT Austin, and a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, who was arrested by Texas State Troopers at UT Austin, explaining what happened, the reason they are protesting, and the protestors’ demands. Several Jewish Students from Columbia University who were arrested while peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at Columbia University. Senator Bernie Sanders on the accusation of Benjamin Netanyahu that protestors at US colleges are anti-Semitic. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on sending militarized police and snipers to stop students from exercising their first amendment rights, and questioning why there is more outrage over the anti-war protests than the genocide in Gaza and the killing of over 35,000 Palestinians. Congressman Jamaal Bowman on the arrest and removal of protestors from the campus of Columbia University. David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, an independent online news organization, on the parallels between the anti-Vietnam war protests in 1968 and the ongoing global demonstrations against the Gaza war.

2nd Segment: Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s remarks at the "World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza"

Palestinian feminist activist, and Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University of London, Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, whose research focuses on law, society, and crimes of abuse of power, spoke during the “Theology of Empire” panel at the "World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza", a transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, held at the University of Houston on April 6-7, 2024, organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine. During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air her remarks. Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Apartheid Israel on April 18, 2024, in occupied Jerusalem, and was released the next day.
 

3rd Segment: Farah Afify on "Fatal: The Resurgence of Anti-Muslim Hate"
 
We will listen to Farah Afify, Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and co-author of the new report “Fatal: The Resurgence of Anti-Muslim Hate“, revealing at a press conference held in April 2024 the findings and recommendations from the newly released report, documenting 8,061 complaints received by CAIR nationwide in 2023, showing even higher spike than after Trump’s Muslim Ban. According to the report, nearly half of all complaints received in 2023 were reported in the final three months of the year. The report notes that the 2023 wave of anti-Muslim incidents was a 56 percent jump over the previous year and surpassed even the period following the implementation of President Trump’s Muslim Ban, which saw a 32 percent jump over the previous year.

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April 25 2024    (Episode # 1,110)

Congressman Al Green on the protests unfolding at college campuses, standing with Palestine, why he voted NO on "The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024", recognizing Palestine as a State without the need to get Israel’s permission, and more.
 
The United States government approved sending over 26 billion US taxpayers' dollars to Apartheid Israel as it continues its genocide in the Gaza Strip, despite the not-so-good economic situation in the United States, where that money is needed more than ever. Israel, of course, is happy to get that so it can continue to slaughter Palestinians and destroy the Gaza Strip in its entirety, in addition to expanding Israeli colonies in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem. Those Israeli actions have been protested worldwide by various governments and countless organizations and individuals, including many Jews in the US and abroad.

Students on college campuses in the US and other countries have been peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip and have been calling for an immediate ceasefire. Several universities have called state and local police to disperse the peaceful protestors, and many were arrested including students at Columbia University, and UT Austin.

Congressman Al Green, serving the 9th Congressional District of Texas, spoke at an event at the Arab-American Cultural & Community Center in Houston, Texas, on April 24, 2024, where he talked about the protests on college campuses, standing with Palestine, supporting peaceful non-violent protests, and media coverage of the protests. He also talked about why he voted NO on "The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024", and the fact that there is no money specified for Palestinians in that bill. He also called for a two-state solution and called on the US to recognize Palestine as a State, without the need to get Israel’s permission.

Dr. Hashem El-Serag, a Palestinian-American physician from Gaza based in Houston, Texas, spoke at that event about Gaza, and Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, associate professor of History and Arab American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University, delivered the closing remarks.

During this episode of Arab Voices (#1,110), we will air those remarks.

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April 18 2024    (Episode # 1,109)

Remarks of Drs. Nabulsi, Abu-Sittah, and Desai at the “World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza”
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,109), we will air the remarks of Dr. Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford), Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah (Imperial College London & King’s College London), and Dr. Chandni Desai (University of Toronto), delivered at the "World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza", a transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and urgently needed academic responses from across the globe, that was held at the University of Houston on April 6-7, 2024. It was organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine, a transnational coalition that brings together faculty, researchers, and graduate students to end the century-long colonial war on Palestine. The forum featured panels on law, medicine, history, theology, gender, education, and international politics, with nearly 50 expert speakers participating in person and online. The panels included “Gaza Family Testimonies, Scholasticide and Palestinian Academic Experiences in Gaza, Medical Testimonies from Gaza, The Gaza Genocide in Context, The World is with Palestine: Reflections from Sister Struggles, Theology of Empire, Law and the Genocide, Regional Context: Imperialism and Resistance in the Arab World, Reflections on Transnational Organizing, and Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-colonial struggle.
    
Dr. Karma Nabulsi is the Jarvis Doctorow Fellow and Tutor in Politics at St Edmund Hall, and the Library Fellow at Oxford University. Her research is on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees and representation. She is widely published in scholarly and popular journals. She recently completed a digital humanities programme sponsored by the British Academy that was developed with scholars, museums, research institutes, and universities across the global south, providing a bilingual open-access research and teaching resource. The online course and research materials cover the Palestinian liberation movement, during the anti-colonial era of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
 
Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a world-renowned surgeon with academic posts at Imperial College London University. A British Palestinian, he has worked as a war surgeon in numerous conflict zones including Syria, Yemen, Iraq, South Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip. He is Clinical Lead for the Operational Trauma Initiative at the World Health Organization’s EMRO Office and serves on the board of directors of INARA, a charity dedicated to providing reconstructive surgery to war-injured children in the Middle East, and on the Board of Trustees of the UK-based Medical Aid for Palestinians.
 
Dr. Chandni Desai is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. She is working on her first book tentatively titled Revolutionary Circuits of Liberation: The Radical Tradition of Palestinian Resistance Culture and Internationalism. Desai has published in the Journal of Palestine Studies; Race and Class; Curriculum Inquiry; Decolonization; Indigeneity, Education and Society and several anthologies. Desai is the host of the Liberation Pedagogy Podcast.

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April 11 2024    (Episode # 1,108)

“World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza”: Drs. Takriti, Joudah, Ageel, and Loubani
 
The “World Academic Forum for Palestine: Genocide in Gaza”, a transnational forum on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and urgently needed academic responses from across the globe, was held at the University of Houston on April 6-7, 2024. It was organized by Scholars Against the War on Palestine, a transnational coalition that brings together faculty, researchers, and graduate students to end the century-long colonial war on Palestine. The forum featured panels on law, medicine, history, theology, gender, education, and international politics, with nearly 50 expert speakers participating in person and online. The panels included “Gaza Family Testimonies, Scholasticide and Palestinian Academic Experiences in Gaza, Medical Testimonies from Gaza, The Gaza Genocide in Context, The World is with Palestine: Reflections from Sister Struggles, Theology of Empire, Law and the Genocide, Regional Context: Imperialism and Resistance in the Arab World, Reflections on Transnational Organizing, and Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-colonial struggle.
 
During this and future episodes of Arab Voices, we plan to air most of the remarks delivered at that important and historic forum.
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,108), we will air the opening remarks by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, associate professor of History and Arab American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University, and one of the main organizers for the forum, a poem read by Dr. Fady Joudah, an award-winning Palestinian American physician and poet based in Houston, Texas, the testimony of Dr. Ghada Ageel, a visiting professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, who lost over 280 members of her extended family in Gaza, and the testimony of Dr. Tarek Loubani, a physician and associate professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, who made several trips to Gaza to provide medical care, where he has been arrested and shot by the Israeli occupation army.

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April 4, 2024    (Episode # 1,107)

The Ongoing Genocide by Apartheid Israel in the Gaza Strip
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,107):
 
An update on the ongoing Israeli Genocide, War Crimes, Slaughter, Ethnic Cleansing, and intentional starvation in the Gaza Strip.
 
The hypocrisy of Western governments and their rush to criticize Apartheid Israel for murdering foreign aid workers in Gaza with World Central Kitchen, but have been silent on Israeli genocide against Palestinians for the past 180+ days that killed more than 33,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children), and injured more than 76,000!
 
Israel’s ongoing atrocities in several other countries including Syria and Lebanon (is Israel trying to provoke a wider war in the Middle East, while getting more bombs from the Biden administration?)
 
Human Rights Watch new investigation revealing Apartheid Israel targeted and murdered 106 Palestinian civilians including 54 children in one building in Gaza.
 
Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician specializing in emergency medicine, who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over 40 years, including at Al-Shifa Hospital, making remarks on the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital.
 
The remarks of Sarah Abushaar, an Arab-American, and a graduate of Harvard University, on the Genocide in Gaza.
 
The remarks of Dr. Luigi Daniele, who teaches and researches international criminal law and international humanitarian law at Nottingham Law School, delivered at the side event held in parallel to the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, organized by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, titled “Understanding Genocide: The Case of Gaza”.
 
“Easter Vigil for Gaza” Sermon by Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, Palestinian Christian Theologian, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, and the Academic Dean of Beth Bible College, delivered on March 30, 2024.

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March 28, 2024    (Episode # 1,106)

Ongoing Genocide in Gaza: Remarks by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Yumna Patel, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Francesca Albanese, Dr. Nicola Perugini, and Hamdi Shaqoura
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1106), we will continue to talk about the catastrophic situation in the occupied and destroyed Gaza Strip, and the famine threatening thousands of Palestinians as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide and blockade of food, medicine, clean drinking water, and other life essentials from reaching the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. We will air recent remarks for:

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the unfolding genocide and famine in Gaza

Yumna Patel, Palestine News Director at Mondoweiss, on the famine in Gaza

Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, on Security Council resolution 2728 calling for an immediate ceasefire

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, presenting her report "Anatomy of a Genocide" during the 55th session of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council

Dr. Nicola Perugini, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and Hamdi Shaqoura, Deputy Director for Program Affairs at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, on “Understanding Genocide: The Case of Gaza”, delivered at a side event held in parallel to the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, organized by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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March 21, 2024    (Episode # 1,105)

Professor Noura Erakat on Israel's legal manipulation to erase Palestinians
 
Apartheid Israel continues its genocide, war crimes, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip at an unprecedented rate killing more than 32,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children), injuring more than 75,000, and destroying most of the Gaza Strip, in just over the past 5 months, making the Gaza Strip uninhabitable. Israel has been attempting very hard and for many years, not just after October 7, 2023, to erase Palestinians.
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,105), we will air a couple of segments from The Chris Hedges Report, in which journalist, author, and commentator Chris Hedges interviews Professor Noura Erakat on Israel's legal manipulation to erase Palestinians.
 
From The Chris Hedges Report:
 
Time and time again, the human rights attorney Noura Erakat writes, we see evidence of the laws assumed insignificance in the dispossession of Palestinians. Great Britain remained committed to establishing a Jewish national homeland in Palestine despite its legal duties as the Mandatory Power to shepherd local Arab peoples to independence. The Permanent Mandates Commission remained committed to the incorporation of the Balfour Declaration into the Mandate for Palestine, in contravention of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which, in discussing the disposition of the communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire stated that the wishes of these communities must be a primary consideration. The United Nations proposed partition of Palestine without legal consultation and in disregard of the existing populations well-being and development, which the same Covenant had declared to be a sacred trust of civilization. Zionist militias established Israel by force, without regard to the Partition Plans stipulated borders. The United Nations accepted Israel as a member despite the states violation of the nondiscrimination clauses of the Partition Plan and of the UN's own condition that Israel permit the return of forcibly displaced Palestinian refugees.
 
The very origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Erakat continues, suggest that it is characterized by outright lawlessness, and yet conflicts have been as defined by astute attention to law and legal controversy as this one. Do Jews have a right to self-determination in a territory in which they did not reside but settled? Are Palestinians a nation with the right to self-determination, or are they merely a heterogeneous polity of Arabs eligible for minority rights? Did the United Nations have the authority to propose partition in contravention of he will of the local population? Are the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip occupied, as a matter of law, that is, are they recognized as such by law? Does Israel have the right, in law, to self-defense against Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories? Do Palestinians have the right to use armed force against Israel? Is the route of Israel's Separation barrier, built predominantly in the West Bank, illegal? Is Israel and apartheid regime?
 
Joining Chris Hedges to discuss these issues, examined in her book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, is the human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University Noura Erakat.

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March 14, 2024    (Episode # 1,104)

"War on Gaza: impact on Palestinian women and children" by Dr. Rola ElFarra, Feda Abdelhady Nasser, Laila Baker, and Alexandra Saieh
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,104), we will air some of the remarks delivered at the special event titled “War on Gaza: impact on Palestinian women and children”, held on March 13, 2024, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, a committee mandated by the United Nations General Assembly. We will air the remarks of Feda Abdelhady Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Laila Baker, Regional Director for the Arab States at the United Nations Population Fund, and Alexandra Saieh, Head of Humanitarian Policy & Advocacy at Save the Children International. We will also air a personal perspective presentation by Dr. Rola ElFarra, a Palestinian-American physician from Houston, Texas. She is the Director of the Center for Health & Biosciences at Rice University's Institute of Public Policy, and an Associate Professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Rola ElFarra has family in the Gaza Strip (150 of her relatives have been killed including 90 women and children during the current Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip).

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March 7, 2024    (Episode # 1,103)

Dr. Riyad Mansour's UNGA's Remarks on Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and what Susan Abulhawa witnessed recently in Gaza
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,103), we will listen to portions of the remarks delivered on March 5, 2024, at the United Nations General Assembly by Dr. Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, about the U.S. use of veto power repeatedly to block ceasefire resolutions for Gaza, Israel’s atrocities, and his call for an immediate action to halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
 
We will also air an interview Democracy Now! conducted with Susan Abulhawa, who just left the Gaza Strip after spending two weeks there. In that interview, Abulhawa describes the situation, what she witnessed in Gaza, and more. Abulhawa is Palestine Writes Executive Director, festival organizer, novelist, poet, activist, and scientist, who's first novel, Mornings in Jenin, is considered a classic in Palestinian literature, and became an international bestseller, translated into 32 languages, and made Abulhawa one of the most widely read Arab authors in the world.

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February 29, 2024    (Episode # 1,102)

Israel's ongoing Genocide against the Palestinians, Aaron Bushnell, Alan Shebaro, Christopher Lockyear, and Ralph Wilde's ICJ Remarks
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,102), we will talk about the catastrophic and ongoing Israeli genocide and war crimes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We will talk about Aaron Bushnell, a member of the U.S. Air Force, who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and protest U.S. support for it, the remarks of Alan Shebaro, a United States Special Forces combat veteran speaking at the City Council meeting in McKinney, Texas, condemning Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza and United States support for the slaughter. We will also talk about the message sent to President Biden with the recent Michigan Democratic primary, where over 100,000 voted "Uncommitted" because of Biden’s stance on the genocide in Gaza.
 
In addition, we will also air the urgent update delivered at the United Nations Security Council by Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General at Doctors Without Borders, on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the powerful presentation by Dr. Ralph Wilde, Associate Professor of international law at UCL in the UK, delivered at the International Court of Justice on behalf of the League of Arab States highlighting the illegality of the Israeli occupation and effectively countering arguments from the US and UK aimed at perpetuating it.

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February 22, 2024    (Episode # 1,101)

The Ongoing Genocide against the Palestinians by Apartheid Israel, and Paul Reichler's ICJ Remarks
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,101), we will talk about the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians by Apartheid Israel, and air the remarks of Paul Reichler, one of the lawyers and legal experts representing the Palestinians, delivered at the historic public hearings held on February 19, 2024, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the advisory proceedings on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. Paul Reichler spoke on the illegality of Israel's prolonged occupation.
 
During the public hearings, which lasted several days, dozens of other speakers (representing different countries) delivered remarks on the occupation of Palestine.

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February 15, 2024    (Episode # 1,100)

Israeli Genocide, the Catastrophe in Gaza & Reactions to it, and Mnar Adley on “How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes- A Personal Narrative”
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,100), we will talk about the horrendous catastrophe in occupied Palestine as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and destruction of the Gaza Strip, and the daily atrocities against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
 
We will air a few remarks on the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Josep Borrell, European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Senator Bernie Sanders.
 
During the second segment, we will air the keynote speech “How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes- A Personal Narrative” by Mnar Adley, delivered at a conference held in Chicago in January 2014. Mnar is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Mnar also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the video series Behind The Headlines. The speech was about Israel's ongoing attack against Palestinian journalists, how Western corporate media whitewash Israeli crimes, along with sharing her personal journey of surviving Israeli occupation.

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February 8, 2024    (Episode # 1,099)

Miko Peled's Comments on Palestine, and Jeremy Scahill on Israel's Lies to Justify & Slaughter Palestinians
 
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will talk about the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.
 
We will air the recent comments of Miko Peled, Jewish activist, author, and human rights advocate, delivered on January 31, 2024, at a European Parliament Roundtable organized by The Left group in Brussels. Peled spoke on the hypocrisy and willful ignorance surrounding the Palestinian genocide, one that did not begin after October 7, 2023, but has been ongoing for 75 years.

We will also air a recent interview Democracy Now! conducted with Jeremy Scahill, a senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept about his recent article headlined “Netanyahu’s War on Truth: Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians”. In that interview, Scahill talks about the Israeli lies about Hamas beheading babies and raping Israeli women on October 7, 2023, to justify and slaughter Palestinians.

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February 1, 2024    (Episode # 1,098)

1st Segment: International Court of Justice Ruling on Gaza by ICJ President/Judge Joan Donoghue
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,098), we will continue to talk about the ongoing Israeli genocide, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, the destruction of the Gaza Strip, and the catastrophic situation there. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces killed more than 27,000 Palestinians (mostly children & women), and injured more than 66,000. Thousand more remain under the rubble.
 
In the previous episodes of Arab Voices, we aired some of the remarks delivered at the historic hearing held in January 2024 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in the case filed by South Africa against Israel for its genocidal acts against the Palestinians. On January 26, 2024, the ICJ announced its ruling on the emergency measures in this case, in which it rejected Israel’s claim that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear South Africa’s case against it, and issued Israel with six orders about its bombardment of Gaza.

During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air some segments of what ICJ President and Judge Joan Donoghue said at that ruling.
 

2nd Segment: "Emergency Conference of Global Intellectuals of Conscience to Stop Genocide in Gaza" Remarks by Professor Avi Shlaim & Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
 
On January 27, 2024, an Emergency Conference of Global Intellectuals of Conscience to Stop Genocide in Gaza was held in London, at which several prominent speakers delivered remarks on the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

During this episode, we will air the remarks of Professor Avi Shlaim, Israeli-British historian and author, who spoke about Zionist settler colonialism and Western imperialism, Gaza as an open-air graveyard, and the war between Israel and America against the Palestinians and their national movement. During his talk, Professor Shlaim described the war on Gaza as the most destructive, bloodiest, and most lethal war so far, and talked about America as the enabler of Israel's war crimes.

We will also air the remarks of Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, human rights activist, and politician, who spoke on the devastating impact of Israel's attacks on Gaza, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, genocide, the outbreak of severe epidemics in the Gaza Strip, the importance of the ICJ resolution, the reason the US administration is angry with Israel (no, not because it is killing Palestinians), the double standards of Western countries, and the suspension of aid by some countries to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). Dr. Barghouti also shared eight points he is calling for to be implemented after the ICJ resolution.

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January 25, 2024    (Episode # 1,097)

The "March On Washington for Gaza" Remarks (largest march ever in the USA for Palestine)
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,097), we will air some of the remarks delivered at the largest march held in the United States for Palestine, ever. The March On Washington for Gaza was held on January 13, 2024, hosted by the American Muslim Task Force for Palestine, in partnership with the ANSWER Coalition, endorsed by over 350 organizations, and attended by more than 400,000 people. Participants demanded the Biden administration and Congress to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, and an end to the U.S. military funding to Israel.
 
There were over 25 speakers at the march, and during this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks of Laila El-Haddad, Palestinian-American journalist and activist from Gaza, Congressman André Carson, Arshia Ali-Khan, CEO of the Muslim Legal Fund of America, Dr. Yasir Qadhi, Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America, Alana Hadid, influential activist and advocate for social change, and Imam Omar Suleiman, American Muslim scholar, civil rights activist, public speaker, author, and founder of Yaqeen Institute. We will also air special spoken words titled "Breaking News" by Noor Daoud.
 
Several Palestinian families from Gaza whose family members have been killed, injured, displaced, or abducted by the Israeli occupation forces during the current Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinians shared their stories at the march, and we will air a couple of them by Randa Muhtaseb and Yasmeen Elagha.
 
Josh Paul, a former State Department official, who resigned from his position in protest of the United States arms sales to Israel during its current bombardment of Gaza, spoke at the Washington march, delivered a message to Arab and Muslim Americans, and read a statement from U.S. Government Employees, which we will also air during this episode.

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January 18, 2024    (Episode # 1,096)

South Africa's Case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (part 2): Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh & Vaughan Lowe
 
During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,096), we will talk about the ongoing Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians, the catastrophic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the daily Israeli atrocities in the occupied West Bank.
 
We will also air some of the remarks delivered at the historic hearing held at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in the case filed by South Africa on December 29, 2023, against Israel for its genocidal acts against the Palestinians. During the hearing held on January 11, 2024, several prominent expert advocates, lawyers, and others spoke on behalf of South Africa making the case against Israel. We will air during this episode the remarks of Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, an Irish lawyer who is advising South Africa’s legal team, presenting the case for why Israel’s actions in Gaza signify a real danger, and the risk of further genocidal acts, and the remarks of Professor Vaughan Lowe, a British counsel, and advocate on South Africa’s Team, describing the provisional measures sought by South Africa on behalf of the Palestinian People.
 
During the previous episode of Arab Voices, we aired more remarks delivered at that hearing, and that episode is archived on our website ArabVoices.net.

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January 11, 2024    (Episode # 1,095)

South Africa's Case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (part 1): Ronald Lamola, Adila Hassim, & Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,095), we will air some of the remarks delivered at the historic hearing held on January 11, 2024, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands, a case filed by South Africa against Israel for its genocidal acts against the Palestinians. South Africa filed the case on December 29, 2023, with ICJ in an 84-page filing, accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, laying out its case with extensive details of the Israeli deadly actions since October 2023. During the hearing, several prominent expert advocates, lawyers, and others spoke on behalf of South Africa making the case against Israel.
 
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks delivered by Ronald Lamola, South Africa's Minister of Justice, asserting that the violence and destruction in Gaza did not originate on October 7, 2023, the remarks of Advocate Adila Hassim, a prominent lawyer and one of the advocates representing South Africa, on the genocidal conduct of Israel, and the remarks of Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a South African lawyer and legal scholar, on Israel’s genocidal intent towards the Palestinians in Gaza.

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January 4, 2024    (Episode # 1,094)

"The War on Palestine and the Politics of History" by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti (part 2)
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,094), we will air part 2 of “The War on Palestine and the Politics of History” lecture delivered by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti on December 1, 2023, during the farewell event organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston.
 
We aired part 1 of that lecture during the previous episode of Arab Voices, and that is archived on our website, www.ArabVoices.net.
 
Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, Associate Professor at the Department of History, and founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston, has a new position at Rice University in Houston, as Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies.

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December 28, 2023    (Episode # 1,093)

A Catastrophic Year for the Palestinians; Christmas Message by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac; Scholars' Call for Ceasefire; and "The War on Palestine and the Politics of History" by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti (part 1)
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,093), we will talk about the disastrous and catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes against the Palestinians, as the year 2023 is being recorded as one of the worst ever in Palestinian history.
 

We will air Scholars Against the War in Palestine's call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire via a circulated petition that has been signed by thousands of scholars from across the world. The petition is titled “All I Want for the Holidays is a Ceasefire”.
 

We will air a special Christmas Message by the Reverend Dr. Munther Isaac, Palestinian Christian Theologian, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor in Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, and the Academic Dean of Beth Bible College. He delivered that message at the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem on December 23, 2023, during a ceremony titled “Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament”, in which he criticized those who are complicit in Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza, and provided words of encouragement to the Palestinians.
 

We will also air part 1 of “The War on Palestine and the Politics of History” lecture delivered by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti on December 1, 2023, during the farewell event organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. We will also air the introductory remarks delivered by Dr. David McNally, Distinguished Professor and NEH-Cullen Chair in History and Business at the University of Houston. Arab Voices will air part 2 of the lecture during the next episode of Arab Voices.
 
Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, Associate Professor at the Department of History, and founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston, has a new position at Rice University in Houston, as Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies.

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December 21, 2023    (Episode # 1,092)

The ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza, & Remarks from Pope Francis, Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Majed Bamya, Lara Elborno, & Dr. Noura Erakat
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,092), we will talk about the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, and the catastrophe in the Gaza Strip where Israel has killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children) and injured more than 52,500 others since October 7, 2023.
 
We will also air the following remarks and speeches:
 
Pope Francis’ reaction to the Israeli atrocities in Gaza, calling them a war and terrorism.
 
Reverend Dr. Mitri Raheb, Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine, delivering a message about the cancellation of Christmas festivities in Palestine because of the war on Gaza, and the Christmas story in the context of Gaza!
 
Majed Bamya, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations speaking about the crisis in Gaza at a side event organized by the Palestinian civil society organizations on the margins of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court at the United Nations.
 
Lara Elborno, Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist based in Paris though her family originally hails from Gaza and Yaffa, speaking at the Stop the War Rally held in London on December 2, 2023, about the realities of the Palestinians who have more than 4,000-year history in the occupied territories.
 
Dr. Noura Erakat, human rights attorney, author, and associate professor at Rutgers University, speaking at the Palestine Festival of Literature held November 1, 2023, at the Union Theological Seminary in New York titled “But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience”.

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December 14, 2023    (Episode # 1,091)

1st Segment: Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide by Apartheid Israel against the Palestinians continue...
 
The latest Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinians entered its 3rd month with a continuation of its ongoing and escalated bombardment of the Gaza Strip, racing the clock to destroy everything there. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel has killed more than 18,600 Palestinians (70% are women and children) and injured more than 50,000 since October 7, 2023. Thousands of Palestinians are still under the rubble of destroyed buildings across the Gaza Strip and are presumed dead, as no one can reach them. 60% of the residential buildings in the entire Gaza Strip where 2.3 million Palestinians live have been destroyed! Apartheid Israel has been working hard on making the Gaza Strip unlivable for whoever is left alive from the slaughter it is inflicting on the 2.3 million Palestinians there, and it seems that Israel wants to force whoever is left alive to leave Gaza to Egypt, as part of its ethnic cleansing plans.
 
The health care system in the Gaza Strip has been targeted heavily by Apartheid Israel and has collapsed from the ongoing Israeli genocidal war, as part of its plan to make the Gaza Strip unlivable. During this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,091), we will air the remarks of Dr. Ben Thomson with "North America Medical Doctors" about the health crisis in the Gaza Strip, the remarks of Dr. Sukkar with "Doctors for Ceasefire", whose 41 members of her husband's family in Gaza were killed by Israel, speaking about the catastrophic health situation in the Gaza Strip, and the remarks of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on the same topic.
  

2nd Segment: Israel's Assassination of Dr. Refaat Alareer and his Interview with Arab Voices
 
On December 7, 2023, Dr. Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian professor, author, co-editor of the book Gaza Unsilenced and the editor of (and a contributor to) Gaza Writes Back, a collection of short stories, was assassinated by Apartheid Israel in Gaza. Dr. Alareer was one of the most prominent and important English language teachers in the Gaza Strip, an influential academic, translator, poet, and activist. Dr. Alareer has a Ph.D. in English Literature, and was teaching world literature, comparative literature, and both fiction and non-fiction creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza since 2007.
 
Arab Voices had interviewed Dr. Refaat Alareer in October 2023 and in May 2021.
 
During this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the interview we conducted with Dr. Refaat Alareer on October 12, 2023, while he was in Gaza, 5 days after the latest Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinians started. We will also listen to the last poem Dr. Alareer published on November 1, 2023, titled “If I must die, let it be a tale”, read by Scottish actor Brian Cox.

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December 7, 2023    (Episode # 1,090)

Israel's Genocidal War on the Palestinians; Dr. Adela Cedillo's & Dr. Hosam Aboul-Ela's Palestine Teach-In Remarks; & Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's UN Talk
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,090), we will have an update on the ongoing genocidal war on the Palestinians by Apartheid Israel, listen to Palestinian Journalist Noor Harazeen in Gaza on the situation there after the ceasefire was broken, the catastrophic health situation in the Gaza Strip, a message from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician specializing in emergency medicine who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over 40 years, to Western leaders, Palestinian-Canadian Hala Alshaer with a message to those who advocate for ethnic cleansing and believe evacuating and removing Palestinians from their homeland is the answer, and Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General on the invoking of Article 99 by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

In addition, we will air the remarks of both Professor Adela Cedillo, Assistant Professor of Mexican History at the University of Houston, and Professor Hosam Aboul-Ela, Professor of English and the Arab-American Educational Foundation Dr. Burhan and Mrs. Misako Ajouz Chair in Arab Studies at the University of Houston, speaking at the Emergency Palestine Teach-In held in October 2023 at the University of Houston organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies.

We will also air the remarks of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, an academic, author, activist, and television personality, delivered at the United Nations 5 years ago at a special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in which he called for equal rights for all in historic Palestine. Dr. Hill was fired from his position as a commentator for CNN at that time, one day after he spoke at the United Nations!

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November 30, 2023    (Episode # 1,089)

Gaza: ICJP's Investigation, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta's Testimony, and Dr. Tshepo Chéry on Solidarity with the Palestinians
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,089), we will air the remarks of Tayab Ali, Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), outlining the criminal allegations under investigation and what the evidence ICJP is collecting regarding the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. Tayab Ali spoke about that during a press conference ICJP held on November 27, 2023, in the UK.
 
We will also air the testimony/eyewitness account of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a world-renowned Palestinian-British surgeon who spent 43 days in Gaza treating the injured while Israel was attacking the Gaza Strip. Dr. Abu-Sitta, who participated in the same ICJP press conference, explains the situation he witnessed in the Gaza Strip and describes the Israeli aggression through the types of injuries received at Gaza hospitals.

November 29^th of every year is observed as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, and in support of that, we will air the remarks of Professor Tshepo Chéry, Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Houston, delivered at the Emergency Palestine Teach-In held in October 2023 at UH, organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at UH.

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November 23, 2023    (Episode # 1,088)

Israel's Ongoing Genocide against the Palestinian People
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,088), we will continue to talk about the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people by Apartheid Israel and the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip.
 
It has been over 47 days of non-stop 24 hours a day 7 days a week bombardment of the Gaza Strip, targeting everything and anything inside the Gaza Strip where 2.3 million Palestinians live, half of them are children. Israel has been bombing hospitals, urgent care centers, ambulances, rescue teams, civil defense staff, schools and universities, shopping malls, supermarkets, bakeries, grocery stores, United Nations staff and centers, electricity plants, and water plants. Israel has also been targeting and destroying the infrastructure of the entire Gaza Strip. It has cut off water, electricity, and food to the entire Gaza Strip, and has been preventing medical aid and critically needed supplies from reaching the Gaza Strip. Since October 7, 2023, Israel killed more than 14,854 Palestinians, including 6,150 children, 4,000 women, 690 senior citizens, 205 medical staff, 36 civil defense staff, and 62 journalists. What the entire world has been witnessing is genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, atrocities, and terrorism committed by Apartheid Israel against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and also in the occupied West Bank.
 
In this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the final words of Palestinian journalist Ayat Al Khadour moments before she was killed by the Israeli bombardment on November 20, 2023, in Beit Lahya in the Gaza Strip. We will also air the remarks of Nada Abu Tarbush, Palestine's representative to the United Nations, delivered at the 5th Meeting of the High Contracting Parties in Geneva, in which she condemns Israel's actions in Gaza, and confronted the dismissal of Palestinian identity, emphasizing the dire consequences of such actions. We will also air a new message by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author, and activist, on the crisis in Gaza and a letter by Chris to the Children of Gaza, and will air portions of a speech he delivered during the 2014 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. In addition, we will air the remarks of Professor Sue Ferguson, Associate Professor Emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University, delivered at the Emergency Palestine Teach-In held at the University of Houston and organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies.

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November 16, 2023    (Episode # 1,087)

Israel's Ongoing Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian People
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,087), the topic will be the ongoing Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s targeting of the health care system and medical workers in the Gaza Strip.
 
We will air one of the final interviews Democracy Now! conducted with Dr. Hammam Alloh, one of the Palestinian doctors who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip, who was killed on November 11, 2023, when Israel bombed his house. He was killed along with his father, brother-in-law, and father-in-law.
 
We will also air Ali Abunimah's opening remarks from the November 15, 2023, Electronic Intifada podcast on Israel's history of lies about Gaza's al-Shifa hospital. Abunimah is author and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada.
 
We will air some of the remarks delivered on November 12, 2023, in Houston, Texas, by Congressman Al Green (Texas 9th Congressional District) at the “Unfiltered Town Hall” he organized on the topic “the injustice innocent civilian Palestinian men, women, and especially children are suffering in the name of justice”, at which he also called for a ceasefire, and said “Israel's bombardment of Palestine has created a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions”. The event also closed with a peaceful “Justice for Palestinians Candlelight Vigil.”
 
We will also air the remarks of Dr. David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History & Business at the University of Houston delivered at the Emergency Teach-In event on Palestine, held at the University of Houston on October 13, 2023, organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston.

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November 9, 2023    (Episode # 1,086)

Israel's Genocidal War on the Palestinians and the Catastrophe in Gaza
 
In this episode of Arab Voices, episode # 1086, I will continue to talk about the ongoing slaughter and genocide of the Palestinian people by apartheid Israel, approved, funded, armed, and encouraged by the United States government.
 
Since October 7, 2023, we have been witnessing unprecedented massive extermination of a population in front of our own eyes 24/7. We are literally witnessing war crimes, genocide, extermination, starvation, and population transfer, committed by Apartheid Israel against millions of Palestinians.

A horrific and catastrophic situation is unfolding in the Gaza Strip where 2.3 million Palestinians are being bombed from the air, land and sea, 24/7 by apartheid Israel. Entire residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip and countless blocks were wiped out, and hundreds of families were massacred. 2.3 million Palestinians have no water, no electricity, and no food, not because of a natural disaster like an earthquake, but because apartheid Israel decided to do so, supported and funded by the United States government!

Since October 7, 2023, and the time I am producing this episode of Arab Voices, 10,569 Palestinians have been killed by apartheid Israel, including 4,324 children, 2,823 women, and 649 senior citizens. Nearly 50% of the Palestinians killed are children, as young as 1 day old!

During this episode of Arab Voices, I will air a message from Palestinian children in Gaza to the world, an update from Palestinian journalist Noor Harazeen in Gaza, an update from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician specializing in emergency medicine who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over 40 years, and an update from Issa Amro, a human rights defender based in Hebron on the recent surge in Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli occupation forces killed more than 170 Palestinians and injured more than 2,300 since October 7. I will also air portions of an interview conducted by Amy Goodman with Josh Paul who recently resigned from the US State Department to protest continued arms sales to Israel, and I will also air the remarks of Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib delivered at the US House of Representatives at a hearing to censure her.
 
In addition, I will air some of the remarks delivered at the largest pro-Palestinian rally in US history held in Washington, D.C. on November 4, 2023, and attended by more than 300,000. I will air the remarks of Dr. Hatem Bazian with UC Berkley, Dr. Noura Erakat, human rights attorney, author, and associate professor at Rutgers University, and Mohammed El-Kurd, writer and author from occupied Jerusalem, Palestine correspondent at The Nation, and culture editor at Mondoweiss.

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November 2, 2023    (Episode # 1,085)

Israel's Ongoing, Horrific, Catastrophic, and Genocidal War on the Palestinians
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,085), the topic will be the ongoing horrific, catastrophic, and genocidal war on the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip by Apartheid Israel. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has launched a massive destructive assault on the Gaza Strip by dropping thousands of bombs on the 2.3 million Palestinians living there, causing massive death and destruction. Entire residential neighborhoods were wiped out, hundreds of families massacred, and completely wiped off the civil registry. The Israeli actions are clearly intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible, and/or force whoever is left to leave the Gaza Strip (Ethnic Cleansing). Since October 7, 2023, Israel killed 9,061 Palestinians, including 3,760 children, 2,326 women, and 135 medical staff. At least 22,000 Palestinians have been injured, while more than 2,000 remain missing under the rubble.
 
We will hear reactions and statements about the ongoing catastrophe from James Elder, spokesperson for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on killing Palestinian children, Noor Harazeen, a Palestinian Journalist in Gaza on the situation there, the Reverend Dr. Mitri Raheb with a special message from heads of churches on behalf of Christian Palestinians in Gaza, Mary Lou McDonald, an Irish politician, UN Chief António Gutteres on the dire situation in Gaza, John Kirby and the double-standards and hypocrisy of the US administration, Diana Buttu on the leaked document from the Israeli Intelligence Ministry advocating for the Ethnic Cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and force them to go to Egypt, Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib calling for a ceasefire, Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and we will also air spoken words titled "Time is Ticking By" by Amal Albaz, Writer, Poet, and Speaker.

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October 26, 2023    (Episode # 1,084)

1) Israel's War on the Palestinians; 2) Voices from Palestine; 3) Ceasefire Rally; 4) Teach-In on Palestine
 
Israel's War on the Palestinians
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,084), we will continue to talk about the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians by Apartheid Israel, Israel’s attempts at exterminating and/or displacing Palestinians with its round-the-clock bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the catastrophic situation inside the Gaza Strip, and Apartheid Israel's escalation of its attacks against Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem. We will also share some of the most outrageous, shocking, dehumanizing, and violent remarks by several Israeli and US politicians!
 
Since October 7, 2023, Apartheid Israel killed 7,028 Palestinians (including 2,913 children, 1,709 women, 397 elderly, 24 journalists, and 73 medical staff), injured 18,484 Palestinians, and destroyed more than 100,000 civilian homes. Israel has targeted and bombed hospitals, ambulances, medical facilities, mosques, churches, businesses, supermarkets, malls, residential buildings, governmental offices, police stations, bakeries that make bread, schools, and universities, under the full support and impunity for its war crimes by the United States and others. Israel also cut off water, electricity, food deliveries, and fuel to the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip while bombing them 24/7! Israel's ongoing bombardment and siege have led to severe shortages, devastating Gaza's healthcare system, and on October 24, 2023, the Palestinian Ministry of Health declared the complete collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip!
  
Voices from Palestine
We will air voices from the occupied West Bank on the current situation from Mariam Barghouti, a Palestinian writer, and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Member of the Palestinian parliament, co-founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, a leading figure in Palestinian civil society, and a longtime advocate for the non-violent Palestinian protest movement.
 
Ceasefire Rally
We will also air some of the remarks delivered at the Ceasefire Now rally held in Washington, D.C. on October 20, 2023, and attended by thousands. We will air the remarks of Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg with Jewish Voice for Peace, Rabbi Alissa Wise, with Jewish Voice for Peace, and Laila El-Haddad, an award-winning Palestinian author, social activist, policy analyst, and journalist from Gaza.
 
Teach-In on Palestine
On October 13, 2023, an emergency Teach-In event on Palestine was held at the University of Houston organized by the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. This emergency teach-in featured contributions from distinguished scholars of Palestine and global settler-colonialism, and during this episode of Arab Voices, we will air the remarks of Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley, who was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston, and also air some of the remarks of Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Associate Professor & Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, and Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston.

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October 19, 2023    (Episode # 1,083)

Israel's Genocide, War Crimes & Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (# 1,083), we will continue to talk about the catastrophic and ongoing Israeli Genocide, Terrorism, Atrocities, War Crimes, and Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip and all of Palestine. We will share with you several remarks and reactions to what is happening by different people, including:

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian parliament, co-founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, a leading figure in Palestinian civil society, and a longtime advocate for the non-violent Palestinian protest movement. We will listen to his remarks delivered at a press conference Arab Voices attended and recorded.
 
Dr. Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, speaking at the UN and also addressing a reporter's question about the Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

Loureen Sayej, diplomat and legal advisor at the Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, and Chairperson of The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy - MIFTAH, delivering a message to the world.
 
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, Palestinian-British surgeon who was at Al-Ahli Baptist hospital when it was attacked by Israel.
 
Dr. Thaer Abubaker, Palestinian diplomat and ambassador with a message for US Secretary of State Blinken.
 
Mohammed El-Kurd, writer from occupied Jerusalem, Palestine correspondent at The Nation, culture editor at Mondoweiss, and author of RIFQA.
 
We will also talk about the increase in hate incidents against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in the US since October 7.

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October 12, 2023    (Episode # 1,082)

Israeli Genocide and War Crimes Continue...
 
The Gaza Strip (365 km²) where over 2.3 million Palestinians live, one of the most densely populated areas on this planet, which has been under blockade and strangulation for over 16 years by Apartheid Israel, is being destroyed by constant non-stop bombardment by Apartheid Israel since October 7, 2023. We are witnessing genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing committed against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, targeting commercial buildings, residential homes, apartment buildings, hospitals, ambulances, mosques, a church, schools, and universities. Israeli fighter jets are targeting and destroying roads, infrastructure, and the Gaza-Egypt crossing. As of 10/12/23 afternoon, and according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 1,417 Palestinians have been killed (including 447 children and 248 women) and at least 6,268 others were wounded (including 1531 children and 932 women), and many are still missing under the rubbles. 44 families were massacred, 10 medical staff were targeted and killed, 14 health facilities were attacked, and several journalists were killed.
 
On October 9, 2023, Israeli War Minister Gallant said “We are putting a complete siege on Gaza … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed”, and yes, Israel cut off food, water, and electricity for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip, a clear war crime. Israel even warned Egypt that if it sent food and other aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians, Israeli jets would bomb them!
 
In this episode of Arab Voices (#1,082), we will talk about this catastrophe and will interview Refaat Alareer (in Gaza), and also air portions of a previous interview we conducted with Nurit Peled-Elhanan.
 

Interview with Refaat Alareer (in Gaza)
 
We will speak with Refaat Alareer (in Gaza) about the ongoing massive, deadly, and catastrophic attack on the besieged Gaza Strip, and the ongoing Israeli Genocide, Terrorism, Atrocities, War Crimes, Murder, Bombings, and Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian people.
 
Refaat Alareer is a Palestinian professor, activist, author, co-editor of the book Gaza Unsilenced and the editor of (and a contributor to) Gaza Writes Back, a collection of short stories. Refaat has a Ph.D. in English Literature, and has been teaching world literature, comparative literature, and both fiction and non-fiction creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza since 2007. Refaat Alareer is a native of Gaza City’s Shijaieh neighborhood.
 

Nurit Peled-Elhanan
 
We will also air portions of an interview Arab Voices conducted previously with Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, in which she details how Israelis (including young children) are taught to hate Arabs and Palestinians, that Arabs and Palestinians are enemies, invaders and intruders, and Israelis should get rid of them one way or another, and how Israel justifies mass murder and massacres of Palestinians!
 
Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli Lecturer in Language Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an award-winning Israeli peace activist, poet, and author, and one of the founders of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. She is the daughter of Israeli General Matti Peled. In 2001, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.

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October 5, 2023    (Episode # 1,081)

Interview with Ahmad Abuznaid about USCPR National Conference, 30 Years of Oslo, Taxpayers' Money Funding Israeli Atrocities, US Foreign Policy, & US Visa Waiver Program
 
Ahmad Abuznaid is the Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). Before joining USCPR, he co-founded the Florida-based Dream Defenders after the killing of Trayvon Martin, serving as Legal & Policy Director and Chief Operating Officer during his time there. Ahmad went on to lead the National Network for Arab American Communities as the Executive Director from 2017 to 2019.
 
We will speak with Ahmad about the upcoming "Seize the Moment" USCPR National Conference that will be held in Houston, Texas, October 27-29, 2023. Hundreds of activists will be attending from different cities, in what is expected to be the largest movement-wide gathering for Palestinian rights in the USA. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib will be delivering the keynote address at the conference, which will include 4 Main Plenary Sessions, 45 Workshops and Gatherings, and a Cultural Night. Dozens of speakers and activists will be participating including Huwaida Arraf, Omar Barghouti, Phyllis Bennis, Marc Lamont Hill, Darryl Li, Dylan Saba, Diala Shamas, Jehad Abusalim, Ash-Lee Woodard, Cindy Stella Wiesner, Melanie Yazzie, Lara Kiswani, Sumaya Awad, and Mariam Barghouti.
  
We will also speak with Ahmad about the ongoing Israeli atrocities in occupied Palestine 30+ years after the Oslo Accord was signed, the use of US taxpayers’ money to fund Israeli occupation, the admission of Israel into the US Visa Waiver Program, grassroots efforts in the US for Palestinian rights, the hypocrisy of the US foreign policy and media outlets, and more.

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September 28, 2023    (Episode # 1,080)

1st Segment: Israel's Admission into the US Visa Waiver Program, the Strong Opposition to it, and the Lawsuit Filed to Halt it
 
We will talk about the designation by the United States government of allowing Israel into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) by November 30, 2023, despite the failure of Apartheid Israel to meet all of the legal requirements for admission into that program, the strong opposition to this decision by numerous organizations and legal experts, and the federal lawsuit filed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) against the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State in defense of civil rights for Arab and Palestinian Americans, asking the court to halt further actions to admit Israel into the Visa Waiver Program. The opposition is launched because Israel has been discriminating against U.S. Citizens, particularly Palestinian-Americans, when they try to enter Israel.  We will talk about that lawsuit, the statement issued by the opposing organizations, and share some of the reactions to the US decision by representatives from various national organizations.
 

2nd Segment: Palestine Writes Literature Festival
 
Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists, held its 2023 festival on September 22-24 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and was a historic and successful festival with more than 1,500 registered attendees, despite the efforts of Zionists and their supporters to cancel the festival.
 
During this segment of Arab Voices, we will air some of the remarks delivered at the festival, including the remarks of Amer Zahr, Palestinian American Comedian, Activist and Author, who was the festival MC, Susan Abulhawa, Palestine Writes Executive Director, festival organizer, novelist, poet, activist, and scientist, who's first novel, Mornings in Jenin, is considered a classic in Palestinian literature, and became an international bestseller, translated into 32 languages, and made Abulhawa one of the most widely read Arab authors in the world, Huda Fakhreddine, author, translator, and associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Director of Publishing, an award-winning writer of books for adults and children who won an American Book Award for her novel-in-stories, A Curious Land, won two Arab American Book Awards, and a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artists Award, and Jenan Abushtaya, an SJD student at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
 
Arab Voices is planning to air more remarks and spoken words delivered at that festival during future episodes of Arab Voices.

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September 21, 2023    (Episode # 1,079)

1st Segment: Interview with Rania Succar, Outstanding Arab American Philanthropist of the Year
 
The Center for Arab American Philanthropy has chosen Rania Succar to be the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Arab American Philanthropist of the Year Award.

Rania Succar is a Syrian-American life-long social entrepreneur and an accomplished business leader. She is the CEO of Intuit Mailchimp. Before that, she was Google's Director of Brand Solutions for North America and worked for McKinsey in the US and Dubai before joining Google. Rania co-founded the Harvard Arab Alumni Association in 2001 and was president until 2008. She has a Harvard MBA, a Harvard MPA in International Development, and a Harvard BA in economics. Rania is passionate about closing the opportunity gap that exists for children and youth in the Arab world. In 2011 she Co-Founded Jusoor, an Arabic word meaning Bridges, a global non-profit that has provided education opportunities to over 10,000 Syrian children and youth and has impacted the lives of thousands more.
 
We will speak with Rania Succar about the prestigious award she is receiving, her organization Jusoor, and her work with Syrian youth and refugees.
 

2nd Segment: Professor Edward Said's Speech on Dignity and Solidarity
 
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of Professor Edward Said, and in memory and honor of Dr. Said, we are going to air a portion of a speech he delivered on Dignity and Solidarity at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s annual convention held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 (three months before he died).
 
Professor Edward Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 to a Christian Arab family. His father immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century. Said was raised in Jerusalem and Cairo. In 1951, he went to the United States to attend Princeton and Harvard universities. He specialized in English literature, comparative literature and musicology. He was appointed professor at Columbia University in New York City, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He died on September 25, 2003, in New York. For more than a decade, Said battled leukemia, but never stopped writing a great deal on the Palestinian Israeli subject - choosing to participate in conferences and speak out with the vehemence that characterized him. Professor Said is an internationally renowned writer, author, and scholar. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship with the West have gone far to open new roads in academia and to influence public opinion. During the course of his life, Professor Said articulated a vision of Palestine and the Arab world that not only recalled the significant contributions of the region’s people, but also offered hope for the future.

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September 14, 2023    (Episode # 1,078)

1st Segment: Catastrophic Earthquake in Morocco & Deadly Flooding in Libya, and how you can help
 
During the first segment, we will talk about the catastrophic earthquake in Morocco and the unprecedented deadly flooding in Libya, two Arab countries in northern Africa, and how you can help.
 
On September 8, 2023, a major earthquake that registered a magnitude of 6.8 hit Morocco, the deadliest earthquake in over 60 years. According to the Moroccan Ministry of Interior, nearly 3,000 people were killed and nearly 6,000 were injured. The numbers are expected to go higher. Several villages were wiped off the map by this catastrophic earthquake, and rescue teams are facing challenges reaching many areas as the search for the thousands of missing people and survivors trapped in the rubble of flattened villages continues. It has been a challenge for rescuers to reach remote mountain villages where victims are still being trapped.
 
On September 10, storm Daniel hit several Libyan cities very hard with massive rain that caused catastrophic flooding, especially after two dams collapsed. The flooding was unprecedented and destroyed cities and villages. More than 6,000 people were killed and the number is expected to be much higher as recovery efforts are still underway with more than 10,000 still missing or unaccounted for. More than 30,000 people were displaced. Storm Daniel hit the cities of Bayda, Benghazi, al-Marj, Susa, and the port city of Derna, which suffered the most after two dams collapsed, causing catastrophic flooding in the city. Thousands of families are left homeless without shelter, food, and access to clean water.
 
Our hearts go out to the people of Morocco and the people of Libya!
  

2nd Segment: Grand Opening of the Senan Shaibani Marsh Arabs Project & The Mudhif
 
Iraq, the cradle of civilization, with a very rich culture, heritage, great contributions to the world, and a rich ancient civilization, is also home to the Marsh Arabs, mainly in Southern Iraq, near where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers join. A Mudhif, an Arabic word for a guest house, a 5000-year-old structure, a traditional reed house, used to be one of the popular and unique builds of the Marsh Arabs in the swamps of southern Iraq. It serves as a cultural center, court, site for religious ceremonies, and place for welcoming visitors.
 
A huge project named the Senan Shaibani Marsh Arabs Project, which included the building of a Mudhif structure on the lawn of Rice University in Houston, Texas, was launched in Houston, Texas, about two years ago. The Project is a collaboration between Archeology Now and the Arab-American Educational Foundation, and it provides one of the first opportunities for Americans to see and experience an authentic representation of an ancient culture with immense historical significance.

One of the Senan Shaibani Marsh Arabs Project milestones was revealed at the grand opening ceremony held on September 9, 2023, at Rice University, and that is the Mudhif, created as a place to celebrate the story of the Iraqi Marsh Dwellers and to preserve 5,000 years of history. It is the first of its kind ever built outside of Iraq from materials shipped from Iraq. It was constructed in June and July 2023 by over 100 volunteers from across Houston, including many members of the multi-cultural and multi-faith Iraqi community, who found purpose in the project.
  
During the second segment, we will air remarks from some of the organizers, volunteers, and attendees at the grand opening ceremony, including the remarks of Dr. Aziz Shaibani, President of the Arab-American Educational Foundation (AAEF), Azzam Alwash, Founder and CEO of Nature Iraq, Ali Daher, President of the Arab-American Cultural & Community Center, Dr. Hussain Alobaidi, Iraqi American Doctor, Dr. Sinan Antoon, Iraqi Poet, Writer & Academic, Amer Al-Nahhas, with the AAEF, Becky Lao, Executive Director of Archeology Now, Dr. Omar Aldabagh, President & Founder of the Iraqi American Community and Board Member with Archeology Now, Dr. Ghaidaa Makki, Iraqi American Doctor and Board Member with the Arab-American Cultural & Community Center, Ali, an Iraqi youth, Sarah Izzat, Ruth Ann Skaff, Board Member with the AAEF, Dalia Khalil, Iraqi American, and Noor, Iraqi Artist with Afaf Arts.

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September 7, 2023    (Episode # 1,077)

1st Segment: Grand Opening of the Senan Shaibani Marsh Arabs Project
 
We will talk about the grand opening of the Senan Shaibani Marsh Arabs Project, scheduled for Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rice University. In addition to a tour of the Mudhif, a replica of a 5000-year-old structure built of reed from the Iraqi Marshes and shipped to Houston, there are several activities planned including family fun and entertainment, music, traditional Iraqi food, and dance. We will also share a brief message from Dr. Aziz Shaibani, President of the Arab-American Educational Foundation, about the historic Mudhif structure and the grand opening event.
  
The project is a collaboration between Archeology Now and the Arab-American Educational Foundation, and provides one of the first opportunities for Americans to see and experience an authentic representation of an ancient culture with immense historical significance.
 
In addition to the grand opening on September 9, there are other activities planned including talks on Iraqi marsh culture and ecology, a documentary screening on life in the Iraqi marshes, and more. A list of those events is posted in our Community Calendar section.
 

2nd Segment: "Islamophobia and Imperialism: 20 years after the invasion of Iraq"
 
During the second segment, we will air a program from CovertAction Bulletin, the official podcast of CovertAction Magazine, titled "Islamophobia and Imperialism: 20 years after the invasion of Iraq". It is an interview with Dr. Nazia Kazi, author of Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey.
  
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Islamophobia became a sort of unofficial religion in the United States. Vigilante street attacks on Muslim people became common. The government surveilled mosques and community centers. Over two decades later, the situation doesn't seem much different. Resistance to bringing refugees from Syria into the US based entirely in racism and Islamophobia. As we mark the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq in March 2023, the New York Times major retrospective piece barely mentions the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who died, and says nothing about its own role in the war or the toll on Muslim people in the US.
 
But Islamophobia as a weapon of imperialism goes deeper: The US has a long history of funding right-wing political Islamist forces from Afghanistan to Syria and Indonesia. In this episode, we investigate the role that Islamophobia plays in US foreign and domestic policy. It's a tool used by those in power to justify its wars and surveillance operations in its quest for continued global hegemony.
 
We're joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, author of Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey.

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August 24, 2023    (Episode # 1,076)