The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Order has

almost been restored. Two guests today, though with a postscript from the

third. We'll hear from Jody Dean, frequent Behind the News guests who's been suspended from the about the serious problems of society in the American South.

And as a postscript, we'll hear a bit of an interview first broadcast last June

with the Economist Samuel Bazzie on the effects of the Confederate diaspora on recipient areas.

The crackdown and dissenting voices around Israel's

war in Gaza, a crime perpetrated with a generous assistance of the U.S. has been remarkable,

though similar must be said about the level of dissent.

One instance that strikes close to home, my friend infrequent behind the newsgast Jody Dean

was suspended from teaching by the administration of Hobart and Williams-Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, for an article she wrote for the Verso blog that defended Hamas.

It's not the article I would have written, but whether I agree with it or not is irrelevant.

A professor should not be punished for a controversial article. But that's where we are. Here's

Jody Dean with the story. So, Jody, what happened? How'd you find out what's been happening to you? What's

the college doing to you? So I'll start from the beginning on April 9th the

Verso blog published an essay of mine. Palestine speaks for everyone. And I guess two days later I started getting notices that some different right wing and Zionist Twitter accounts were on it and were

criticizing it and sharing it a lot with a lot of outrage.

And then in one of the threads,

someone essentially docks to me.

Now, that's not hard.

I've written a bunch.

Well, you're a very public figure.

It's not hard to find out where you are.

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