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Tune in tonight at 7pm to see part two of my interview with Gabor Maté on his evolution from zionist to antizionist.
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Tonight! John Mearsheimer. Got questions?
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Tune in tonight at 7pm to see the amazing Dr. Rashid Khalidi, author of, among other books "The Hundred Years War on Palestine" and photo journalist Jon Farina, who has documneted
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Tune in tonight at 7PM to hear from four doctors who went to Gaza and from Brace Belden, co-host of TrueAnon
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Tune in tonight for a great show!!!!
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See Katie do standup live or on zoom and support Palestine, Doctors without Borders and The Red Crescent. If you're not in the NY area you can still watch the show on zoom Friday, 3/8 at 7:30pm EST. www.eventbrite.com/e/laughs-for-good-tickets-79316… If you're in the NY area, come on out to Saint John's Episcopal 100 Underhill St Yonkers, NY 10710.
Laughs for Good is a comedy fundraiser benefiting Doctors Without Borders & The Egyptian Red Crescent delivering relief to Gaza. Each in-person ticket includes delicious Palestinian food from Ayat & beverages, & stand up comedy from 5 prominent comedians. Zoom tickets are available as well.
Featured Comedians:
Adam Mamawala: Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Amazon Prime and SiriusXM, and both of his albums, Statistically More Relatable (2022) and One of the Good Ones (2017) debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Most recently, Adam starred in the 6 episode comedy series Under Cover Comic (2023), now streaming on Amazon Prime. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards and currently co-hosts podcasts Away Games and HORSE, as recently featured in the New York Times!
Maysoon Zayid: "If there were an ‘Oppression Olympics’, I would win gold: I’m Arab, I’m Muslim, I’m a woman of color, I’m divorced, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey!"
Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate. Co-founder of New York Arab American Comedy Festival. Contributor to Keith Olbermann, The Daily Beast, appearances on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC News, and Oprah Winfrey Networks. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014. Maysoon is an author of a children's graphic novel, Shiny Misfits!
Atheer Yacoub: NYC-based comic/podcaster featured on Comedy Central Arabia, Gotham Comedy Live, SF Sketchfest, Boston Comedy Festival and many more. Yacoub wrote for The Breakdown and Passport Control on Brooklyn’s Emmy award-winning network BRIC TV. Atheer recently released her first comedy album Denied Entry with Comedy Records. The album features material written and honed by the New York comedian over 10 years while frequently headlining sold-out shows all over North America.
Cansu Karabiyik: UK turned NYC comic, she was a regular on the London circuit and performed in more than 15 cities across the UK. She is the founder of the non-profit Laugh 4 Change, an organization that produced more than 50 shows in 10 different cities across the UK to raise relief aid for refugees in Greece. Cansu will be our MC!
Michael Schirtzer: CA-based Comedian/Podcaster @thepalestinepod/Slam Poet.
Katie Halper: Katie Halper is a writer, filmmaker, comedian and host of the Katie Halper show, a weekly radio show and podcast. The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture. Katie writes for The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Guardian, and has appeared on MSNBC, HuffPost Live, RT, Sirius Radio. She is also the co-host of Useful Idiots podcast.
Event will be March 8th 7:30pm
Saint John's Episcopal
100 Underhill St
Yonkers, NY 10710
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Tune in at 7pm to see Cornel West, political comedians Matt Lieb and Blakeley!
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Tune in tonight for our show on Aaron Bushnell, the ongoing genocide that moved him to set himself on fire, and the media bias against Palestinians and their supporters. Retired Colonel Ann Wright reacts to the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell and discusses why people kill themselves to try to stop a war. Journalist Talia Jane, who broke the story, joins us live from a vigil at the Armed Forces Recruitment Center. And Assal Rad discusses the media's biased treatment of Bushnell as well as Palestinians.
Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." Read her article "Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?" covertactionmagazine.com/2024...
Talia Jane is an independent reporter and videojournalist who reports via Twitter @taliaotg, covering social movements and protests as well as researching far-right propaganda and extremism. Jane’s work has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, WNYC/Gothamist, and a slew of other outlets, with writing published in Vice, Teen Vogue, Hell Gate, It’s Going Down, and more. Support: patreon.com/taliajane
Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad (twitter.com/AssalRad)
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Write your questions for tonight's guest and I will try to get to some of them. Zachary Foster is a Jewish American historian of Palestine who was a zionist until he started studying Palestine. Zachary talks about how he saw through the propaganda, the dehumanization of Palestinians, how Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war, the history of Hamas and zionism's antisemitism. Zachary explains why Israel doesn't just harm Palestinians but Jews.
Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox.
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