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Episode 098 - Pogroms on “Birthright”

Lara shares personal stories from her extended Palestinian family reunion. Her family members have been in exile from Palestine for multiple generations, yet many still have the land deeds to their plots in Gaza dating back hundreds of years. She speaks to the generations of resistance by Palestinians, going all the way back to Alexander the Great. She also shares her experience being rejected from entering Gaza at the border. Michael shares updates from the resistance in Jenin, and he and Lara reflect, once again, on the lack of western media coverage after a Palestinian man was murdered by a Zionist pogrom. Many of the battles happening in occupied Palestine are between American Israeli’s and American Palestinians. Lara shares that 40% of all West Bank settlers in 2021 are from the US, and how Israel’s nuclear and military power against Palestine resembles that of the US. Michael speaks to the history of zionist militias attempting to recruit nazis, zionist literature calling for a ‘unifying race’ in Israeli, and the Haavara negotiations of 1933 between nazi Germany and zionist German Jews.

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Episode 061 - Top 5 Dead or Alive

Lara dives into this week’s episode by breaking down a recent US court case which rules that boycotts are not a protected form of speech. In over 30 states, employees are protesting a law required of them by employers stating that they will not boycott Israel, and this often has no bearing on the job responsibilities. In better news, the European Union recently lifted funding restrictions on Palestinian organizations citing no ties to terrorism, as no evidence has surfaced. Michael shares a story of a young Israeli boy who was sexually assaulted and then arrested by the Israeli government when he tried to report it, and Lara investigates why most articles reporting on Palestinian on Israeli violence use the phrase ’lightly wounded’ when speaking about Israeli soldiers. Michael points out how the tactics used by the occupation are the same as those used by the Nazis. Lara discusses The Youth Law and how child labor/jailing is forbidden everywhere else in the world except for in Israel. The duo also look into the ‘shoot to wound’ policy carried out by Israeli forces and the ensuing amputee crisis in Gaza.

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