Remembering the Nakba

Jess & Jamal discuss al-Nakba or “catastrophe”, when 75 years ago roughly 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their ancestral homes and land by Zionist gangs in 1948. Three-quarters of a century later, the number of Palestinian refugees now stands at over 8 million, including those displaced in 1948 and 1967, making them the largest and oldest unsettled refugee population in the world. 
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Arkansas Stiffs Jewish-American Doctor

Dr. Steven Feldman, Professor at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, discusses his experience with the State of Arkansas which denied his honorarium when he refused to sign the pledge to not support BDS after he gave a Zoom lecture to medical students at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Feldman actively supports boycotts and believes it is his constitutional right to do so.
***The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism to Silence Israel’s Critics

Civil rights attorney Huwaida Arraf talks about the smear campaign that was launched against her by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Jewish Committee decrying her “anti-Israel rhetoric,”after participating on a panel at Detroit’s Bloomfield Hills High School’s day-long event on equity and diversity, she spoke to her experience growing up as a Palestinian-American.

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