Witnessing Palestine with me, Frank Barat is a new program from Mondoweiss inviting influential activists from around the world to discuss current developments in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
As we recorded this program, Gaza had been under Israeli bombardment from the air, land, and sea for 70 days. Over 18,000 Palestinians in Gaza are known to have been killed by the Israeli military; however, the true number is likely much higher because many people remain buried under the rubble of buildings as rescuers and aid workers cannot reach them. At the same time, more than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been wounded. The Israeli military is continuing to ramp up its actions in the West Bank. A large invasion of Jenin in the northern West Bank has been ongoing for several days. The Israeli military has killed, injured, and arrested numerous Palestinians there.
Joining me to discuss the current situation in Palestine and where the global movement for Palestinian freedom goes from here is Noura Erakat. Noura is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. She is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya.
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Frank Barat
Frank Barat is a journalist, author, and organizer. He has worked on books with Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Marc Lamont-Hill, Vijay Prashad, and Ken Loach. He works for the Palestine Institute of Diplomacy. Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel and follow him on Instagram.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023: Will be going on over to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s to beg her to have Noura Erakat on. Over the two months since the Hamas attack that brutally killed 1200 Israeli’s etc and the ongoing slaughter of now 20,000 caged, suffering Palestinians by Israel, Andrea has had one Israeli official after the next on. Day after day. Today she had war crimes criminal Mark Regev on again blathering his blood lusting propaganda on her program. She pushed back a little but not much, always allowing him to flip his murderous script, always blaming Hamas for Israel’s past and ongoing war crimes spree.
Will go over and ask her to open up her spectrum and give a tiny break to promoting Israel’s murderous agenda.