Behind the News: The Genocide Case Against Israel w/ Sean Jacobs
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel. Eric Blanc, who wrote a recent piece about sprawl and the suburbs, talks about organizing in a scattered and atomized society. Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the widening war in the Middle East.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online at https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. In |
| 0:36.2 | contravention of all that's sacred, we have a super-numerary three |
| 0:40.1 | guests in three segments today. Sean Jacobs will tell us what motivated South Africa. three layout make it harder to organize unions, and Hassan Al-Tahab will offer some |
| 0:54.8 | observations drawn from a recent visit to Israel-Palestine. Before that, an update. A |
| 1:00.3 | couple of weeks ago in this show Wanda Bertram of the Person Policy Institute said that there |
| 1:04.5 | were no current estimates of the number of Americans subject to electronic monitoring, ankle bracelets, |
| 1:09.6 | by the criminal justice or immigration systems. |
| 1:12.6 | The last reliable count, 125,000, was by Pew in 2015. |
| 1:18.1 | But now there's some news. |
| 1:19.9 | The Vera Institute of Justice is just out with a fresh estimate. |
| 1:23.2 | Around half a million in 2022, roughly a third criminal and two-thirds immigration, a fourfold |
| 1:28.9 | increase in seven years. |
| 1:31.0 | Add that half million to the two million behind bars and you've got quite the |
| 1:34.4 | corsural state. What led South Africa to filing charges of genocide against |
| 1:38.9 | Israel in the International Court of Justice, aka the World Court? And since we're on the topic of South Africa... Court, |
| 1:43.0 | and since we're on the topic of South Africa, |
| 1:45.0 | why did the African National Congress kick out Jacob Zuma, |
| 1:48.0 | the president of the country from 2009 to 2018, |
| 1:52.0 | who is driven from Office |
| 1:53.0 | Over Corruption Charges before completing his second term. |
| 1:56.0 | Zuma eventually did some time for refusing to cooperate with a judicial inquiry |
| 2:00.0 | into those charges. |
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