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Understanding Israel Palestine
This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, discusses the aims of the BDS movement, U.S. support for Israeli apartheid and the double standard evident in the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s violations of international law. While Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine merits boycotts, divestment and sanctions just as Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land does, Barghouti says the provocative actions taken by the West before the Russian invasion and the indiscriminate sanctions that have been put in place following it highlight Western hypocrisy, racism and cruelty. This program is a repeat of the program aired April 1, 2022.
