Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with escalating tensions on campuses across America as pro-Palestinian demonstrators

face off against supporters of Israel, with the charge of anti-Semitism weaponized against students

expressing outrage over the war in Gaza.

Joining us is Raz Siegel, a professor of Holocaust and

genocide studies, and an endowed professor in the study of modern genocide at Stockton University

in New Jersey. He was at the University of Pennsylvania encampment yesterday, giving a talk to students

on the perils of anti-Semitism at campus protests.

Then we'll assess the strength of the trial underway in New York, which may end up as the only

court to hold Trump accountable before the election, and speak with Dennis Aftergat, a former

federal prosecutor and chief assistant city attorney in San Francisco,

who has won cases of significance in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court.

He currently serves as counsel two lawyers defending American democracy,

and he has two articles at Salon, which we will discuss.

Scotis majority abandons

conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump's immunity claim and

underestimating Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump is a historic mistake.

Then finally with elections underway in India which is often referred to as the

world's largest democracy,

we will look into a disturbing article in today's Washington Post.

An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi's India

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