Episode 044 - Honey I Shot the Kids

This week Lara and Michael discuss how several Palestinian youth were murdered, execution-style, by the Apartheid State’s Yamam Brigade responsible for dressing up as and infiltrating Palestinian circles. Michael reminds us that zionists do not just murder people for armed resistance, but they also assassinate thinkers, people who can sway public opinion, foreign generals, and most recently scientists. Michael also throws back to the very first anti-zionist Jew murdered by the Haganah in 1924, Jacob De Haan. Lara provides a BDS update that includes Texas lawsuits, Harvard students boycotting Sabra, and Death on the Nile. Michael covers how Lebanon broke up an Israeli spy ring and the Palestine Pod discusses the latest in US and Israeli reactions to Amnesty International’s report finding Israel guilty of running an Apartheid regime.

Articles

• PLO tweet “This is what the aftermath of an extrajudicial killing by Israeli occupation forces looks like” (Twitter)

• Funerals for three suspected Palestinian militants killed in West Bank by Israeli forces attract large crowds (CNN)

• Israeli soldier’s death raises toll from Gaza conflict (CNN)

• The life and death of Shaikh Yasin (Al Jazeera)

• This Day in Jewish History / Zionism's First Political Assassination (Haaretz). The assassination of anti-Zionist Jaacob de Hahn.

• Photo of Israeli tourists flocking to Yemeni island of Socotra using UAE-issued visas causes uproar (PressTV)

• UAE operating illegal tourist trips to Yemen's Socotra (Middle East Monitor)

• Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Iran scientist 'killed by remote-controlled weapon' (BBC)

• Elderly Palestinian American man found dead after being detained by Israeli troops (NPR)

• Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice. Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.

• Fifty Years Later, NSA Keeps Details of Israel's U.S.S. Liberty Attack Secret (The Intercept)

• Israel’s Mossad suspected of high-level Iran penetration (BBC)

• Ex-Israeli Intel Chief Admits Role in Assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani (Haaretz)

• The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine (New York Times)

• Targeted Killing in International Law (Oxford University Press)

• Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Protests Sabra Hummus in Harvard Yard (The Crimson)

• Texas anti-BDS measure ruled unconstitutional — again (The Electronic Intifada)

• Gal Gadot Movie ‘Death On The Nile’ Banned In Lebanon & Kuwait (Deadline)

• “Death On The Nile” Banned In Lebanon, Kuwait Over Israeli Star Gal Gadot (Forbes)

• Israeli Navy officer to be permanently stationed in Bahrain - report (Jerusalem Post)

• What do ordinary Arabs think about normalizing relations with Israel? (The Washington Post)

• Lebanon dismantles “largest” Israeli spy network operating in the country (The New Arab)

• Senators claim CIA has secret program that collects American data (CNBC)

• “Absurd”: US rejects Amnesty accusation of Israeli apartheid against Palestinians (Times of Israel)

• Ra’am head Abbas rejects Amnesty’s apartheid label for Israel (Times of Israel)

• Former AG of Israel: With great sadness I conclude that my country is now an apartheid regime (The Journal)

• You Want an Israeli Passport? Then Prove You’re Staying for Good (Haaretz)

• Over half of Israel’s Holocaust survivors require food handouts — survey (Times of Israel)

• “Started from the bottom now we here” (@Israel Twitter Account tweet)

• “Dreams are dreams until you actualize them.” (@Israel Twitter Account tweet)

• Zionist Quotes: Theodor Herzl (Palestine Remembered)