The Katie Halper Show

Jordanian-Palestinian Journalist Sam Husseini talks about Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and confronting French foreign minister about his country's failure to properly implement the ICJ's orders in the genocide case against Israel. Writer Norman Solomon talks about the ignored threat of nuclear war, the presidential elections and media bias and his book War Made Invisible. Sam Husseini is an independent journalist currently writing at husseini.substack.com. Husseini has also written for a variety of publications, including CounterPunch, The Nation, The Washington Post, USA Today and Salon. He has written extensively about Palestine and international law. Last year he repeatedly wrote about the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Husseini regularly attends State Department briefings, asking tough questions. Husseini is founder of VotePact.org, which encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly. He is also a visual artist. Norman Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and national director of RootsAction.org. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book “a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.” The paperback edition of War Made Invisible was published this fall with a 30-page afterword about the Gaza war. Photo of Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei https://farsi.khamenei.ir/photo-album?id=54416 ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hear my live show with Rania Khalek & Abby Martin here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-podcast-112898819 Beirut-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali reports back on Lebanon where he was living until a few days ago. Journalist Prem Thakker suggests the U.S. is "picking a fight with Hezbollah," breaks down the smearing of Rashida Tlaib, and reacts to the State Department's hypocrisy on Israel. And Katie reads "The Perplexing Smiles of the Children of Palestine,” a poem by Marcellus Williams who was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday night, despite exonerating evidence and the pleas of the victim's family, the prosecutor and the jurors. Prem Thakker is a reporter at Zeteo News. He was previously a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World. Séamus Malekafzali is a journalist on the Middle East and Global South who writes for The Nation, The Baffler and at https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week’s Patreon: Jeremy Corbyn interview https://www.patreon.com/posts/jeremy-corbyn-112271741 Lebanese journalist Rania Khalek breaks down who is behind the pager explosion in Lebanon. Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber explains why Israel does NOT have the right to defend itself. Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream with Eugene Puryear. Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-isr... https://fpif.org/weog-the-uns-settler... **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Watch the full interview with Dave and Josh here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-111827621 International human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official Craig Mokhiber explains why Western media can (and should) be held legally accountable for its role in the Gaza genocide. Then Dave Anthony and Josh Olson, who took Bush's masterclass for their Audit podcast, explain why nobody should be celebrating a Cheney endorsement and why Dick Cheney and Bush are actually worse than Donald Trump. Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/wester... Dave Anthony is a comedian and co-host of the The Dollop. Josh Olson is an Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of the "Bronzeville" podcast, and host of "The Movies That Made Me." Dave and Josh co-hosted the podcasts "West Wing Thing" and "The Audit." **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Watch more exclusive interviews here: / thekatiehalpershow First Noura Erakat talks about what the media is NOT talking about when it comes to Palestine, the limits of International Law, and the double standards towards Palestinian and Israeli life. Then journalist Jordan Chariton talks about why Kamala Harris won't be pushed to the Left, how the Democrats are trying to rig the election, and what Jill Stein and Cornel West are doing about it. Plus Jordan discusses his new book, "We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans," the story behind how the government poisoned a major American city—and how they are still getting away with it. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. Jordan Chariton is an investigative reporter, the co-founder of Status Coup and the producer of the documentary Flint Fatigue. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-nadia-111047115 Ashish Prashar calls out the Democrats for their complicity in genocide and discusses his "no tax for genocide" which encourages British people to refuse to pay their taxes while their government funds a genocide. Then DNC delegate Nadia Ahmad talks about sneaking a "stop arming Israel" banner into the DNC and being assaulted with a "we love Joe" placard. And activist Lauren Steiner discusses organizing the action. Ashish Prashar is a formerly incarcerated political strategist, human rights activist, and writer. He was an advisor to the Middle East Peace Envoy and worked for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Middle East and West Africa. He was a press secretary for the Conservative Party and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Ashish also worked on Obama and Biden’s Presidential Campaigns. Ashish is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and sits on the Board of Just Leadership and the Responsible Business Initiative for Justice. Ashish has appeared as a regular commentator in media outlets, including CNN, The Guardian and USA Today. He's now calling out ALL politicians for their complicity in genocide. Nadia Ahmad is a DNC delegate from Florida, DNC Interfaith Council Co-Chair, DNC Women's Caucus Executive Committee member, part of Delegates Against Genocide and a law professor from Orlando. She's filed a complaint with Chicago police against the Democratic National Committee over the "Islamophobic Attack" she experienced at the Democratic National Convention. Lauren Steiner is an activist, organizer and independent journalist based in Asheville, NC. She has fought against fracking, the climate crisis, education privatization and the Trans Pacific Partnership and for net neutrality, clean energy, Medicare for All, racial, economic and environmental justice and Palestinian human rights. On her internet show The Robust Opposition, she interviews organizers, activists, authors and progressive elected officials and candidates. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dennis Kucinich talks about his congressional campaign, leaving the Democratic Party, and questioning Netanyahu. Then Palestinian-American Moataz Salim talks about disrupting the DNC. Dennis Kucinich served as mayor of Cleveland from 1977 to 1979. and as a U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2013, during which time he introduced Articles of Impeachment against both President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney for lying to take the US into war against Iraq. He ran for president in 2004 and 2008 and is now running as an independent for Ohio's 7th congressional district in 2024. Moataz Salim is a Palestinian-American graduate student in DC from Gaza advocating for an end to the genocide and the liberation of Palestine. He has been joining CODEPINK every day for 3 months to be a voice for his people. He has also been involved in activism at a university and within the local community, dedicating the past 10 months to fighting for Palestinian liberation. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - / thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Katie talks to Josh Paul, Former Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs of the State Depart, about why he and other government officials resigned. Then Katie talks to Jen Perelman a former zionist turned anti-Zionist running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). Perelman received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Josh Paul resigned from the State Department in October, 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. Josh grew up between London and New York, and holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage. Jen Perelman, a former zionist turned anti-Zionist, is running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). Perelman received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Jen talks to Katie about her campaign, going on the offensive against Zionism and AIPAC, why AIPAC isn’t registered as a foreign agent and more. https://www.jen2024.org/ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marione Ingram, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and Palestinian rights activist, passionately protests for peace outside the White House. She shares her harrowing experiences from WWII and connects them with the current conflict in Gaza, urging an end to violence against children. Marione critiques America's military spending and emphasizes the need for accountability in government policies. She also reflects on rising anti-Semitism and the importance of open dialogue across generations, showcasing her commitment to advocacy and resilience.

Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest who has been protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, which he describes as not only genocide but a holocaust. Stephen is a member of Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide. Stephen lost 15 members of his extended family in the Holocaust and his father was interned in Belsen & Theresienstadt. He settled in London but when he visited Israel was “shocked” by the racism exhibited by Israelis, including his relatives who had also survived the Holocaust. Stephen joined The Labour Party in 1997, becoming an activist and office-holder at various local levels. Stephen resigned from the Labour party, after penning a widely circulated letter, after the Labour party warned him they would “investigate” him if he spoke at a leftist organization on Holocaust Memorial Day. He is a member of Camden branch of PSC ( Palestine Solidarity Campsign ),Camden & Islington Momentum ( affiliate of the Labour Party) and lately of the small network ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against Genocide.’ ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalpsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy