January 25
GUEST: Raz, Jordanian/ Palestinian researcher and artist, talks about being part of the diaspora, and how views about the US and its commitment to human rights are changing in light of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Raz and her family escaped the very worst periods of Israeli apartheid. But the oppression lives with her, especially when she considers the role of her new country in supporting Israel's human rights abuses. How can a country that talks endlessly about human rights be a willing participant in the Gaza genocide? Does the United States have a split personality? One side extols freedom and the other widespread butchery?
Perhaps the rulers of our supposedly democratic state are just liars. Their lives revolve around corporate profits and the expansion of the American Empire. Palestinians are just another people to be sacrificed to their gods of greed and war. For the empire leaves nothing but charnel grounds in its wake.
