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Professor Daniel Drennan El-Awar speaks with AIA host Ian Anderson on his time in Lebanon during the 2006 war, culture and love.
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2006 war diary
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WKCR student reporting on NYPD action taken at Columbia University on April 30, 2024. Recordings are time stamped 9:17pm-10:17pm, 11:30pm-12:30am, waiting for journalists to get back to the radio station, then a final sign off afterwards an hour later as everyone is recovered.
Anonymous interview discussing the occupation follows, and is recorded at 10am on May 2, 2024. Covers the occupation, and the April 30 NYPD police raid. 
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Canada has punched below its weight on the international stage, voting with Panama and the Marshall Islands to block Palestinian statehood.

Noted commentator and writer of the recent book, "The Globalization of NATO", Mahdi Nazemroya, discusses his latest article, "Not Black and White: The Chess Game Behind the recent Gaza-Israel War", including Qatar's sudden interest in Gaza: an attempt to lure Hamas into the fold.

He also describes the contours of the NATO strategy in the Middle East: covert ops aimed at fostering sectarian bloodletting.
The Geopolitical Chess Game behind the Israeli Attack on Gaza
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Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd talks to CNN (2021)
Appearance at the UN - The Palestinian Nakba — or catastrophe — happened decades ago, but the people of Palestine continue to suffer under Israeli colonialism, asserts writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd. Following the air strikes of May 2021, the people of Gaza City have had their homes destroyed or occupied, facing homelessness and heartbreak. But change is still possible, says El-Kurd, as people protest and pressure their leaders to act. In a moving speech at the UN's event for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, he called for justice, liberation and a free Palestine in his lifetime.
Democracy Now - October 10 2023 - Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd says Western reaction to Israel’s assault on Gaza has once again highlighted the double standard when it comes to how Israeli and Palestinian lives are valued. Israel is bombarding the densely populated coastal territory in retaliation for Saturday’s Hamas attack on southern Israel, as well as tightening the existing siege even further. Israeli officials have vowed to wipe out Hamas despite warnings of massive civilian casualties inside Gaza. “One wonders how much bloodshed, how much Palestinian death is necessary for people to realize that violence begets violence and that the occupation and the colonization of Palestine, the blockade of the Gaza Strip needs to end for all of this violence to end.” El-Kurd also accuses Israeli officials and Western media outlets of using Islamophobic tropes by spreading as-yet-unverified claims of sexual violence and beheadings by Hamas fighters, while downplaying the documented death and devastation being inflicted on Gaza residents.
On November 1st 2023 the Palestine Festival of Literature staged a free, public event in New York titled: But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience. Palestinian poet, activist and journalist, Mohammed El-Kurd opened the evening.
“When we try to dictate who is and who isn’t ‘mournable’, when we emphasise the death of women and children as though the death of our men isn’t heart-breaking we are shrinking the scope of humanity for everybody else” Palestinian writer, poet and journalist Mohmmed El-Kurd spoke at an event in London where he mourned the death of Palestinian academic Refaat ElAreer who was killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza. (Dec 13, 2023)
Mohammed el-Kurd spoke about the current situation in Palestine at UMass-Amherst on November 13, 2023.
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Palestianian activists inspired by the civil rights movement in the 1960s have been arrested after catching an Israeli-operated bus in the West Bank.
Fadi Quran, a nonviolent activist from Palestine, spoke to students about his participation in the 2011 Palestinian freedom rides as part of a talk held by Students For Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER) at Stanford University on April 16, 2012. Joining Fadi to speak about the role of nonviolent activism in finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were Clarence Jones, US Civil Rights movement lawyer and speech writer for Martin Luther King, Jr., and Allen Weiner, co-director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. See more of Fadi Quran in the documentary "Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine" http://www.clarityfilms.org/mlk/
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On February 7 2017, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, noted expert on Zionist ideology and history, conducted a lecture at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C., for members of the International Council for Middle East Studies, a think tank dedicated to issues pertaining to the middle east (ICMES.NET), titled "Has Zionism Hijacked Judaism?". The audience included a broad array of academics, scholars, and experts in middle eastern history,political science, international law and other related fields. 
Key takeaways: The purpose of Zionism was to "normalize" the Jews against the effects of Judaism, essentially to change a nation of scholars and priests with religious aspirations, to a nation of warriors with nationalist aspirations. Judaism was the disease; Zionism was the cure. The Zionist character is the diametrical opposite of, and overcompensation for, the Jewish character. Jewish are neither nationality, nor a race, ethnicity, tribe, or blood family. Their only common characteristic is their religion. The Zionists however, falsely presented themselves - and still do - as the representatives of the Jewish people. Thus: Zionism was not the national liberation movement of the Jewish people but the national liberation movement of the Zionists; Israel is not the nation state of the Jewish people as it claims to be but rather the state of its own citizens. Zionist nationalism is unique in that it claims to represent and demands loyalty of people outside of its national borders and citizenship, by virtue of their being born Jewish. The intellectual origins of Zionism was mostly organic nationalism and Christian Restorationism. Different Zionists also adopted Russian workers' movements, and German Romanticism, and other philosophies popular at the time. A veneer of Judaism was assumed in order to attract Jews to the movement and to present themselves to the Christian restorations as representative of the Jewish people. Zionists elevated to holocaust to the defining moment of Jewish history, and even a defining characteristic of Jewish identity. This instills within receptive Jewish people a binary world view where the choices for the Jewish people are either a Jewish state or annihilation. The Zionists to this day are consumed with the desire to "never again" be like the traditional Torah Jew. This drives much of their seemingly incomprehensible behavior. The most efficient and effective way to negate Zionism is to deny and refute Israel's claim to represent world Jewry and to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. Israel is the nation-state of its citizens and represents them as any other country does. There is no organic connection between world Jewry and the state of Israel, Israel's connection to world Jewry is only a claim it makes. Once that claim is opposed, Zionism is defeated without a single casualty.
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