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Notes from America with Kai Wright

A History of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Through One Activist's Life Story

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Attorney Abdeen Jabara’s life and work in the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights tracks a long history of Arab American activism.

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0:00.0

For almost 10 months and 75 years, Palestinians have been resisting.

0:07.0

And for 10 months and 75 years, have stood alongside them from here the belly of the peace.

0:19.0

Since October I've been to over 30 protests.

0:21.0

This has just been ingrained in me since I was born this is

0:24.2

something that me and all other Palestinians will never turn their back on.

0:27.6

We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us and we will continue building and sustaining this movement.

0:40.0

We are here because Haseh West Bank have suffered immeasurable horrific

0:47.2

carnage. These are our families. They will not be forgotten. It's notes from America. I'm Kay Wright. Welcome to the show.

1:10.0

It's notes from America. I'm Kay Wright.

1:12.0

Welcome to the show.

1:15.0

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

1:17.8

addressed a joint session of the US Congress last week,

1:21.0

roughly half of the Democratic Caucus skipped it, including the party's new standard

1:26.0

bearer of Vice President Kamala Harris.

1:28.0

Now there's a lot of reasons for that, but absolutely one of them is the mass movement that has grown in solidarity with

1:36.5

Palestinians and Gaza. It just has meaningfully shifted the politics within

1:41.0

the Democratic Party and that's a big political change.

1:44.6

But as with all change, there's a lot of history leading up to this moment and I've been talking

1:49.7

about that history with our producer, Suzanne Gabor. Hey Suzanne. Hey Kai, yeah, so over the last nine months,

1:56.8

especially as we head into what is looking to be a very tight presidential election.

2:01.5

There's been a lot of discussion around Arab American politics and the connection to pro-Palestine

2:06.4

protests that we've seen all around the country since the start of the war in Gaza.

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