Dr. Stavit Sinai talks about why she’ll refuse to pay a fine to a German court for disrupting a speech by a former Israeli Knesset member.
Jess & Jamal discuss the protests in Jordan due to the tragic death of COVID-19 patients in a hospital. They also talk about the rise of racist verbal and physical attacks on Asian Americans.
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Jess and Jamal discuss the rising threat of white supremacy in the US. They analyze the events that led to the storming of the US Capitol and the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Israeli Filmmaker Ram Loevy talks about his recent film, The Dead of Jaffa. The film is about a Palestinian Israeli couple who are torn between their emerging parental responsibility and a very real fear of police retribution. The film is streamed for free on LinkTV.org.
“The Dead of Jaffa” is available to stream for free in the US for a limited time at this link.
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Palestinian-American attorney and human rights activist Huwaida Arraf discusses why the 2020 Democratic platform betrays Palestinians and again gives Israel a pass.
Jess and Jamal talk about the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They also discuss the Democratic and Republican conventions.
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Our guest, Rev. Michael Yoshii, talks about race relations and solidarity between Japanese Americans and Palestinians.
Jess and Jamal discuss the book by former National Security Advisor John Bolton that President Trump is trying to stop from being published.
Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal · Is Finland In Russia? – 18 Jun 2020
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Arab Talk guest Dr. Hatem Bazian talks about racism and Islamophobia in the United States and Europe.
Jess and Jamal discuss the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights saying that France violated the freedom of expression of pro-Palestinian activists who were convicted for campaigning to boycott Israeli goods. They also discuss the US and Israel’s efforts to intimidate the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
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Jess and Jamal discuss the recent developments in the murder cases of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. They also talk about how US law enforcement agencies have been receiving training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance by Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services.
Amnesty International has condemned these practices:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/
Jamal interviews Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, who has recently won the prestigious Georgina M. Smith Award from the American Association of University Professors. She discusses the significance of the award and the systematic attacks on her by hate groups.
Jess & Jamal discuss the brutal murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, who was pinned down to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer, who had his knee on Floyd’s neck for about eight minutes. This murder was captured on video as Floyd pled with the officer, ”Please, please, please, I can’t breathe.”
Arab Talk with Jess & Jamal · I Can’t Breathe – 28 May 2020
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Jess and Jamal discuss the latest updates on the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. They also discuss Israel’s plans to annex large parts of the West Bank. Israeli veteran Journalist David Michaelis provides his expert analysis on the direction Israel is heading in and the future coalition government.
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Jess and Jamal discuss the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the inadequacies of citizen’s arrest laws in the United States. (Since the recording of this program, the two suspects were arrested after a major public outcry.) They also discuss Israel’s plan to annex large areas of the West Bank. The settlements are deemed illegal by most world powers and condemned by the Palestinians, who see all the West Bank, which Israel captured in a 1967 war, as theirs for a future state.
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Jess & Jamal discuss the recent terror attacks by white supremacists in the US, and how pundits and journalists have unethically covered it. The most egregious examples are FOX News’ Tucker Carlson who told his viewers that the country’s white supremacy problem ‘is a hoax’ and CNN’s Jake Tapper who went on a rant likening the Palestinian liberation movement to white supremacy.
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