Main events on November 20th
- An Israeli air strike on a house in southern Gaza killed three people, including a baby girl, and wounded 15 others, according to Palestinian medics.
- Palestinian civil society groups said Israel has killed more than 19,000 children and wounded 28,000 others over the past two years of war.
- Israeli settlers wounded at least two people in the latest attacks against Palestinians and their property across the occupied West Bank.
- Hamas accused Israel of shifting the so-called “yellow line” truce demarcation in Gaza – forcing a new wave of displacement – with the group calling it a “flagrant breach” of the ceasefire agreement.
- The United Nations said Israel has carried out about 7,500 airspace violations and a further 2,500 ground incursions in Lebanon during its yearlong truce with Hezbollah.
- A Human Rights Watch report said the Israeli military’s displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- British authorities arrested 47 people during a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Justice Ministry in London as the crackdown on “terrorist” supporters continues.
Shocking truth about pro-Israel lobbying in UK politics exposed by leaked emails
The historic relationship between top Tories and the Israeli government has been laid bare in a remarkable cache of leaked emails seen by Declassified. Over several years, senior figures within the party exchanged strikingly friendly correspondence in private with Ron Prosor, the former Israeli ambassador to the UK.
In one email, a Conservative lord wrote simply: “If you don’t call me while you are here, I will cry.” Another Tory grandee told Prosor: “You still have friends close to number ten!!!”
The correspondence was discovered by Declassified after thousands of Prosor’s private emails were published by the file sharing website Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS).
Israel’s PR CRISIS—Ex-UN Official DETAINED After Nazi Comparison
95 year old legal scholar Richard Falk was detained by Canadian authorities for his views on Israel. Katie talked to him about the backlash he's received as a United Nations Special Rapporteur.
Richard Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 2004, he was listed as the author or coauthor of 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the United Nations.
In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Free Speech Under Attack: The Law Punishing Teachers for Talking About Palestine
Jenin Younes, National Legal Director at the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), joins the show to discuss the ADC’s lawsuit against California Governor Gavin Newsom over Assembly Bill 715 (AB 715), signed into law in October, which threatens to punish teachers for discussing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Younes will explain how the law undermines free speech in schools by censoring discussions in public school about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East, and why the ADC is asking the court to block it before it takes effect.
From 'Never Again' To 'Never Question Israel'
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