Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid Podcast

Qasim Rashid
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A deep dive into the human rights issues affecting you. As a human rights lawyer—I bring the receipts to disentangle fact from fiction and advance the fight for universal human rights. www.qasimrashid.com

  1. 5d ago

    Episode 242 — Former Congressman Jamaal Bowman on His New Book UNpolishED

    On Episode 242 of The Qasim Rashid Show: We have a brand new guest on the show and I’m truly embarrassed to say I’ve never had former Congressman Jamaal Bowman on until now. We’re talking about his new book, UNpolishED. It’s outstanding and it comes out on November 17th. Extraordinarily important read, especially in the wake of what’s happening in the world right now. Former Congressman Bowman is a brilliant thinker who’s got his finger on the pulse of what’s happening. Listen to the full episode here on Substack or watch our live interview on YouTube: Jamaal was given a choice in Congress: stay silent on genocide or lose his seat. He refused to stay silent. People are now starting to understand how destructive AIPAC has been and how bad his replacement has been. But Jamaal isn't backing down. He's still fighting, still organizing, and this book is part of his path forward. Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, host of the Qasim Rashid Show, as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  2. Sep 21

    Episode 241 — Pothole Politics, Mamdani on Affordability, & Macklemore the Price of Silence

    On Episode 241 of The Qasim Rashid Show: I interview Mayor Zohran Mamdani as his team filled New York City's 200,000th pothole, and sit down with COGE's Ann Cheng about five ballot measures headed to voters this November to cut red tape and save New Yorkers real money. Listen to the full episode here on Substack, or watch the complete live interviews below. I also break down why Ed Sheeran pulled Macklemore from his tour under pressure from billionaire Robert Kraft, over nothing more than Macklemore refusing to stop saying Free Palestine. There is no neutral position on genocide, and Sheeran proved it. I wrote more on this last week. Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, host of the Qasim Rashid Show, as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  3. Sep 14

    Episode 240 — Professor Rashid Khalidi on a Century of Lies About Palestine

    Some exciting news 🚨 The Qasim Rashid Show has been renewed for another season on SiriusXM! Thank you all for tuning in each week. This is because of you. On Episode 240 of The Qasim Rashid Show: This week, we welcome a new guest: Columbia University Professor Emeritus Rashid Khalidi, one of the premier scholars on Palestine in the world today. He’s the author of the essential The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine — if you haven’t read it, you need to — and he’s just released an abbreviated version for younger readers, Palestine: A Primer, tracing that same history for the next generation. We close the show with my reflections on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — mourning the Americans lost that day, but refusing the revisionist “unity” narrative that’s grown up around it. Listen to the full episode here on Substack, or watch the live interview with Rashid Khalidi below. The Qasim Rashid Show has surpassed 328,000 downloads. Thank you for your support! Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, host of the Qasim Rashid Show, as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  4. Sep 11

    Right-Wing Observes 9/11 By Launching False Attacks on Mayor Mamdani and Rep AOC

    Listen to my conversation with Wajahat Ali today, where we address and rebuke the now viral right wing attack on Mayor Mamdani and AOC, claiming they were “laughing” while the names of 9/11 victims were being read. There’s only one problem—it’s all a lie. Let’s Address This. Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Even Rudy Giuliani’s personal aide attested that no such thing happened, and the entire outrage is false. In fact, Mayor Mamdani stayed until the end of the ceremony, and was the only senior elected official to do so. Contrast Mayor Mamdani’s leadership with Donald Trump, who fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the Pentagon. Unsurprisingly, we see zero outrage from the right wing ecosystem. A reminder once more that every MAGA accusation is a confession. Meanwhile, here is what my inbox looks like today. [CONTENT WARNING] https://youtube.com/shorts/Pxaoou5yClM?is=AMNO8YBx-AErxwoU As always, welcome your support and partnership to join us as a subscriber. Thank you PJ Schuster, Skutt Hope, Stuart Cohen, Dominique, Jo Greenwood, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app. As an alternative to a monthly subscription, you can also make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  5. Sep 1

    Every Accusation Is a Confession - Live with Wajahat Ali on Media Bias and Apartheid

    I came back on THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali to call out a double standard—CBS ran a headline tying Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to 9/11, 25 years after the fact, for no reason other than his faith. All while cable news spent days demanding Democrats condemn streamer Hasan Piker, yet Neera Tanden can openly amplify Laura Loomer's Islamophobic attacks on Black and Muslim candidates and face zero consequences from her own party. This is the same anti-Shariah playbook we fought 15 years ago, now aimed at DEI, trans people, and any Democrat who won’t fall in line—including Dr. El-Sayed, who just won his primary after being outspent 11 to 1 by AIPAC-aligned money, and Angie Nixon, who won hers outspent almost 20 to 1. Democratic leadership still won’t fully back either of them. Wajahat also shares what he saw reporting from the occupied West Bank for his Atlantic documentary: a village whose well was deliberately poisoned and then filled with cement so residents now have to buy back their own water at six times the price. Watch our full live interview on YouTube: Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, President of Just Win Humanity, and host of Let’s Address This. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. Rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  6. Aug 31

    Episode 238—Emmett Till, Memphis, & Why SCOTUS Is Arguably America’s Biggest Obstacle to Justice

    On Episode 238 of The Qasim Rashid Show: I just wrapped our 1,000 Miles to Memphis March at the National Civil Rights Museum, on the same ground where Dr. King took his last breath. Last Saturday also marked 71 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, lynched, and murdered in Mississippi over a lie. The woman who told that lie lived free for the rest of her life. Her arrest warrant was never executed. She only died three years ago. Meanwhile, as the Supreme Court continues to gut voting rights, I realized too few know the true history of the US Supreme Court. So, I get into the receipts. I walk through 200 years of the Court’s actual record to show you why the Supreme Court is arguably the biggest obstacle to justice in America today. The Qasim Rashid Show has now surpassed 328,000 downloads. Thank you for tuning in each week. Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, host of the Qasim Rashid Show, as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  7. Aug 24

    Episode 237—David Morales's Fight to Cap Rent Hikes

    On Episode 237 of The Qasim Rashid Show: I sat down with David Morales, Rhode Island state rep and candidate for mayor of Providence, about his plan to cap rent hikes at 4%—the same measure the current mayor vetoed after taking corporate real estate money. We also talked about the surge of ICE activity across Providence, and David laid out his plan to take legal action against these ICE fascists, pointing to Philadelphia's DA as proof the approach actually works. And I break down the math nobody in corporate media wants to talk about: as Luigi Mangione pled guilty to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new Yale study finds universal healthcare would save 100,000+ American lives a year—meaning roughly 171,000 people have died preventable deaths in the 624 days since Thompson's killing. As I said on air, a single murder by gun is illegal, but mass murder by pen is just increasing shareholder value. The Qasim Rashid Show has now surpassed 325,000 downloads. Thank you for tuning in each week. Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney, host of the Qasim Rashid Show, as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

  8. Aug 17

    Episode 236—Vote Tomorrow: 4 Florida Candidates Refusing to Be Written Off

    On Episode 236 of The Qasim Rashid Show: Sara Wiles and Amanda Informed held down the mic for me and put together an all-Florida lineup. With Florida's primary election tomorrow, August 18, they sat down with four Floridians running for federal office—Oliver Larkin, Bernard Taylor, Elijah Manley, and State Representative Angie Nixon—to talk about why they're running, what they love about a state that keeps getting written off, and what the rest of the country still misunderstands about the people who actually live in Florida. Tune into the full episode above. First up Oliver Larkin, running for Congress in Florida’s 25th District, returns once again to the show. After a decade in the progressive movement as an organizer and strategist, he’s challenging Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s record—rated Florida’s least effective member of Congress and the first Democrat to join DOGE—with a vision for South Florida free of corporate PAC money and congressional stock trading. Then, Amanda and Sara interview Bernard Taylor, a fourth-generation Floridian, longtime EMT and paramedic, now running for Congress in Florida’s 21st District. He explains how years of reacting to preventable crises—seniors discharged after Medicaid and Medicare cuts, families rationing medication—convinced him it’s time to legislate instead of just responding to the fallout. You can watch those two interviews on our YouTube channel: On the Qasim Rashid Show podcast, Sara and Amanda also sit down with Elijah Manley, an educator and organizer running for Congress in Florida’s 20th District, builds his platform on his own childhood experience with poverty, homelessness, and Medicaid. He argues that lived experience—knowing exactly what a Medicaid or SNAP cut means for a family like his—is what separates his advocacy from every other candidate in the race. And last up, State Representative Angie Nixon is running for U.S. Senate to unseat Ashley Moody. Drawing on her own years as a single mom relying on government assistance, Rep. Angie Nixon is calling for bold, unapologetic leadership in Washington that answers to working people instead of billionaires. The Qasim Rashid Show has now surpassed 323,000 downloads. Thank you for tuning in each week. Qasim Rashid is a human rights attorney and host of the Qasim Rashid Show as well as Let’s Address This—a platform dedicated to human rights and the accountability that corporate media refuses to provide. Subscribe, share, and let’s remain relentless in our mission for a more perfect Union. By popular demand, rather than a monthly subscription, you can now make a one-time contribution to support our human rights platform at any amount that fits your budget. Get full access to Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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