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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.