MiddleEastInFocus

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Tomorrow friend of the show, @kpYES to discuss his @inthesetimesmag essay w/ Azadeh Shahshahani on Trump’s Spectacular U.S. War Machine & @HenryGiroux
discussing his OpEd @truthout about the risk of American universities becoming militarized socialization agents @KPFK

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Jerry Seinfeld said Palestine doesn’t exist.

This was actually the subject of my PhD dissertation.

Turns out that Arab, Muslims & Christians have been calling Palestine Palestine continuously for more than a millennium.

Receipts: https://t.co/AkPWW0zyRy

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

@HenryGiroux writes @truthout Higher Education Must Not Become a Research Arm of Militarized Power https://t.co/S9QdzZKPJT @KPFK

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Tune in today at 1 PM PT to hear from 4 American heroes who survived Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 and the ongoing US government cover-up of what happened that day and since. @KPFK @usslibertyvets

[Le Monde diplomatique in English @LMdiplo]

Palestine was in no way a desert, nor were its people primitive nomads. While these illusions were propagated to make the Zionist project more palatable to Jews in Europe and beyond, Zionist thinkers were well aware that there was an indigenous population.
https://t.co/ehx2isqgmL

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Smotrich wasn’t the only genocide supporting Israeli official at the march

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Veteran Army Ranger Rory Fanning returns to the show tomorrow at 1pm PT as does @ShireenNajla both discussing their recent writings at @truthout @KPFKRadio @KPFK

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

"During the genocide, I was hearing the barbarians telling me about the merits of 'civilisation' and the tyrants teaching me about so-called 'democracy.' The world is upside down."

Read @AbubakerAbedW's profound, painful reflection on a year outside Gaza https://t.co/fw4AEXIyWw

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages.

This is not a battlefield target.

It is a critical water infrastructure.

This is an act of genocide.

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

Senator @ChrisVanHollen in @nytimes: "Anyone who visits the West Bank under Israeli occupation can see an apartheid system at work.. [Americans] don't want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing in the West Bank or what rights orgs & scholars have determined to be genocide in Gaza."

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Today we'll be in conversation with Omar Ricci, Spokesperson for the Islamic Center of SoCal and
Shakeel Syed, Executive Director of the South Asian Network about the growing weaponization of hate in the Islamaphobia Industry and anti-Free Speech Zionist McCarthyism @KPFK

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

If you can’t condemn the government policies that created this crisis, your condemnation of Ben Gvir is meaningless performance.

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

AIPAC swings elections & shapes policy, but works in the shadows. They claim to be independent, but new @dawnmenaorg data—drawn from LinkedIn pages of 3000+ current & ex AIPAC staff—reveal deep ties & revolving door w Israeli & US govts. Take a peek inside https://t.co/fBQdZHvhEI

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Excited to be joined today by writer/director & storyteller Rolla Selbak to discuss the silencing of Palestinian voices/narratives in Hollywood, blacklisting, decolonizing cinema and speaking out about the Israeli genocide in Gaza @KPFK @watermelon_pics

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Important:

UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has published a thread defending the recent New York Times report on sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention, compiling more than 20 reports and investigations published since October 2023 documenting sexualized torture, rape, sexual humiliation, and other abuses against Palestinian detainees, including children, medics, and journalists.

Albanese says the NYT article “barely scratches the surface” of a much older and systemic pattern of abuse. She argues Israel’s outrage stems not from the allegations themselves, but from fear that mainstream Western audiences may finally confront evidence long documented by Palestinian groups, Israeli human rights organizations, UN bodies, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other investigators.

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Tomorrow our guests are Hassan El-Hamalawy @3arabawy discussing his forthcoming book Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic from @VersoBooks & Mohammad Ataie discussing his article, How the War in Iran Revived the Axis of Resistance @MiddleEastEye 1pm PT @KPFK .org

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Palestinians high schoolers in Gaza striving to be journalists so Israel is more likely to kill them and put them out of their misery. One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever heard.

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@AssalRad @IReadVintage @penguinrandom Congratulations! Would love to have you back on to discuss it!!

[MiddleEastInFocus @MidEastInFocus]

Today a conversation with author, academic & journalist @RamzyBaroud about his new book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir- Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation and War in Palestine @KPFK @7StoriesPress @PalestineChron

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Tomorrow @KZiabari who wrote @truthout 'US-Israeli Strikes on Iran’s Universities Signal Higher Ed No Longer Off-Limits' & FOTS @marjoriecohn joins us to discuss ‘The Failure to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Has Allowed It to Expand Into Lebanon’
Both =Truth!! @KPFK