3194 - Israel Escalates Atrocities In Gaza, Scalise Drops Out w/ Noah Kulwin
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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It's Casual Friday! Emma is joined by Noah Kulwin, co-host of the Blowback podcast, to round up a chaotic week in news. First, Emma runs through updates on Israel’s impossible order to Gazans, rising death numbers, and continuing war crimes, as well as the US reneging on Iran, Bob Menendez’s corruption, labor action, climate change, and more, before parsing through the explicitly genocidal rhetoric coming from the top of Israeli and US politics. Noah Kulwin then parses through Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza, including an impossible evacuation order, the complete lack of symmetry in the Israel-Palestine relationship, and the total control of Israel’s apartheid system. After touching on Israel’s knowledge of an impending attack, Noah and Emma discuss the severe (and unsurprising) failure of Israel’s attempt to beat Palestine into submission, before wrapping up with the dramatic double standards for pro-Palestine and pro-Israel stances in the media. Emma concludes the free half with a quick update on the rise and fall of the theoretical nomination of Steve Scalise to House Speakership, and the increasing bad blood within the GOP.
And in the Fun Half: Emma watches British journalist Owen Jones attempt to fend off a British MP’s relentless apartheid apologia, looks back on Noam Chomsky’s statements on the asymmetry of Israel-Palestine relations, and talks with Ulysses from Cincinnati about a new outsider candidate in the 2024 election. El from Toronto explores the role of conscription in Israel’s project of genocide, Karine Jean-Pierre calls anti-genocide rhetoric “repugnant” on behalf of Joe Biden, and Nathan from the South East discusses his perspective on the troubled teen industry. Matt Walsh finally has some thoughts on queer childhood, and Mike from Brooklyn discusses solidarity action with Palestine, plus, your calls and IMs!
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| 0:00.0 | The majority rapport with Sam Cedar, where every day's casual Friday, that means Monday is casual Monday, Tuesday, casual Tuesday, Wednesday, casual hump day, Thursday, casual Thursday, that's what we call it, and Friday, casual Shabbat, the majority rapport, |
| 0:28.0 | with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:36.0 | It is Friday, October 13, 2023. My name is Emma Bigland, in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:46.0 | We are broadcasting live, steps. |
| 0:49.0 | From the industrially ravaged Goanis Canal, in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:55.0 | On the program today, Noah Colwyn, co-host of the Blowback podcast and contributing editor at Jewish Currents, will be with us to break down this week in news. |
| 1:07.0 | Meanwhile, Israel tells 1.1 million Palestinians in occupied Gaza that they have 24 hours to leave, before bombs rain down. |
| 1:18.0 | Which the UN has called an impossible task. |
| 1:22.0 | The death toll on Israel has ticked up to 1,400 in Gaza and counting, hundreds of thousands displaced in Gaza, and fears of a ground invasion mount. |
| 1:36.0 | Human Rights Watch has verified reports of Israel using white phosphorus on civilians, a chemical that burns through human flesh. |
| 1:45.0 | Meanwhile, despite there being no verification of Iran's involvement in Hamas' attack, the U.S. is once again walking back a deal that we did with them. |
| 1:57.0 | The 6 billion in Iranian unfrozen assets that we exchange for prisoners now frozen again, so that's great for diplomacy. |
| 2:05.0 | Awesome. |
| 2:08.0 | Back in the U.S., that was quick. After narrowly winning the closed-door vote, Steve, David Duke, without the baggage, Scalice, is dropping out of the speaker race. |
| 2:19.0 | Come back when you have the baggage. |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah! |
| 2:23.0 | That was good. |
| 2:26.0 | Jim Jordan, who lost the vote by 14 reportedly, is next up. |
| 2:32.0 | But some purple district Republicans say they can't support him. |
| 2:37.0 | Internal voting is today. |
| 2:40.0 | Prosecutors added a charge against Bob Menendez yesterday accusing him of being an illegal foreign agent of Egypt. |
| 2:47.0 | That's bad, right? |
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