Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC

Radio's home for the Jewish Left. @WBAI’s Jewish politics & culture show hosted by @RafaelShimunov and @ShoB. Every Friday 9AM 99.5FM and streaming on

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

Someone on a Knicks jersey just hijacked the USS Intrepid.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

@KalmanYeger Do you have a response for this? And the fact that people who are organizing the boycott campaign also includes Jews?

https://t.co/pjwIu1KdDZ

[Chi Ossé @OsseChi]

Remember when you referred to a group of Black people as cockroaches?

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

As the authority on beyond the pale, nyet.

[Rabbi Avi Weiss @RabbiAviWeiss]

Mayor @ZohranKMamdani : Slick, phony, ignorant - and a real antisemite. His latest message regarding the Nakba is beyond the pale. All Jewish organizations - ADL, AJCommittee, the NY Board of Rabbis, UJA, and others - should boycott him, refuse to meet with him, and decline to invite him to communal functions.

Hopefully, non-Jewish organizations will do the same. New York’s Jewish community has no shortage of avenues to address its needs: city council members, law enforcement, the judiciary, and countless other city officials remain accessible and willing partners.

New York business should only be conducted with government officials who are not antisemites. We’ve overcome antisemites in the past, and we will do so again.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

We speak with @NoahHurowitz of @theintercept who was undercover at an Israel land sale at a synagogue and Lexi Sasanow of @JFREJNYC who is organizing to sustain @NYCMayor’s veto of a buffer bill.

Listen to this morning’s @BeyondThePaleFM on Apple and Spotify.

[Etan Mabourakh @etanmab]

My great parents & my entire lineage on one side is buried in Hamadan, Iran - where Esther & Mordechai's tombs lie.

My family fled Iran in the 1970s to find refuge in the United States and Israel.

Today, my tax dollars are being used to wage an illegal war of choice—destroying Iranian cultural heritage sites, hospitals, and schools, and killing thousands of innocent people.

U.S. and Israeli forces recently targeted Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which had already been bombed in the June war. In the same assault, a missile struck near the Bushehr nuclear site. In retaliation, Iran launched missiles toward southern Israel, including near Dimona—close to Israel’s nuclear facilities—injuring civilians, including children.

This vicious cycle of escalation is not defense—it’s a disaster of our own making. The American people were never asked to approve this war, and Congress never authorized it.

We must demand an immediate ceasefire, a full investigation into apparent war crimes, and an end to the $200 billion being siphoned from our people to fuel this madness. Our tax dollars should build schools, not bomb them.

This is not for us. This is not for democracy. No more war in our name.

[NIAC @NIACouncil]

Hear NIAC’s own @etanmab in conversation with WBAI’s @BeyondThePaleFM radio’s home for the Jewish Left, on what real solidarity with everyday Iranians looks like in this political moment.

As Iranian American voices are smeared and silenced, we’re still organizing, building power, and telling our own stories.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Here’s @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani’s new Chief Immigration Officer Faiza Ali in 2019 when she helped form a circle in the pouring rain around a Chabad Hanukah event after antisemitic attacks.

Another Zohran appointee who actually cares about ALL New Yorkers.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

The #BreaktheBonds episode is also available on Spotify

https://t.co/IRTkJWEVwg

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

Cara Levine or Mark Levine?

We spoke with the Levine helping @jvpliveNY organize against @NYCComptroller @MarkLevineNYC’s plan to reintroduce Israel bonds to NYC investments, forcing New Yorkers to fund apartheid and genocide we don’t support.

https://t.co/ilveA2Jj4w

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

@DianaforQueens @JFREJNYC @rafaelshimunov @ShoB @WBAI @MDCNY @nycDSA @NydiaVelazquez @RashidaTlaib @NYWFP @ZohranKMamdani Listen now on

Apple Podcasts https://t.co/gr6NXxDRcV

Spotify https://t.co/0uetMk5Vja

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

They're vying for Zohran Mamdani's last job to protect Queens residents and all New Yorkers from ICE.

This morning we spoke with @DianaforQueens
and Rana Abdelhamid, running for State Assembly in

Astoria's and Long Island City's District 36.

Now on Apple and Spotify.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

@DianaMorena @JFREJNYC @rafaelshimunov @WBAI @ShoB Listen on Apple Podcasts https://t.co/gr6NXxDRcV

And Spotify
https://t.co/KPZuTmrP4Q

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

New York, tune in 99.5 FM 9AM right after Democracy Now for our interview with @ZohranKMamdani live from the @JFREJNYC Mazals.

Everyone else, you can livestream the radio show from https://t.co/gidrmtIiM3

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Out here with @ZohranKMamdani and @bradlander at the @JFREJNYC Mazal Awards ✨

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

New Yorker on the tight pleads with New Yorkers on the left to blow their shofar on the subway. Then goes on to give them inside tips on his workout routine.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

Why's so much of the pro-Israel and MAGA crowd coping so hard with Superman?

We're talking about the politics of James Gunn's Superman with @Elana_Brooklyn of @GraphicPolicy Friday 9AM on 99.5 FM in NY and live streaming on https://t.co/mxAt7FIoRH

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Since Francesca Albanese is trending, here she is on our @BeyondThePaleFM show talking with us Jews about Gaza and Palestinians.

People are accusing her of a lot of BS because she is a threat to the genocidal and starvation status quo.

https://t.co/BQIBYSz9Fs

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Our show about Awdah Hathaleen, the 31 year old Palestinian teacher murdered by an Israeli settler on Monday is on Spotify now.

We were joined by his friend Israeli American peace activist @mbernerkaccount

https://t.co/QuSqcLnwfI

[JVP Chicago @JVPChicago]

HAPPENING NOW: JVP Chicago hunger strikers on their 18th day without food are outside Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Chicago Office, calling for an end to U.S. weapons to Israel.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

Listen now on Spotify

https://t.co/udcjX1KLL3

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

We spoke with Jews for Zohran organizers @beth_avedon of @JvpAction and @AliciaThilani of @JFREJNYC’s @TheJewishVote on their historic work reaching Jewish voters for @ZohranKMamdani.

[Beyond The Pale / 99.5 FM NYC @BeyondThePaleFM]

Listen now on Apple Podcasts

https://t.co/M818exC12j