Charlie Kirk & Israel’s Losing War Noura Erakat, Mouin Rabbani, & Due Dissidence

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Palestinian-American Human Rights lawyer Noura Erakat & Palestinian-Dutch analyst Mouin Rabbani talk about the new UN report which found that Israel is committing genocide & whether that even matters or changes anything. Then Due Dissidence's Russell Dobular & Keaton Weiss join to talk about Charlie Kirk, his killer & Kirk's relationship to Israel. For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-139074119 Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst & commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict & the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East w/the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, Senior Middle East Analyst & Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine w/the Int'l Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, & a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Professor of Africana Studies & the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School & was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law & the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award & the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya & an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She's a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights, & as nat'l organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" & "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, & The Boston Review. She's a frequent commentator on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) & the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022). Russell Dobular is a New York native, born & raised in Flushing, Queens. He worked in New York’s independent theater scene for over 20 years as a writer, director, producer, & theater owner, drove a Hansom Cab in 3 cities & is a licensed tour guide in both NYC & New Orleans. He is currently the co-host of Due Dissidence podcast. Keaton Weiss is the co-host of Due Dissidence podcast on YouTube, Rumble & Spotify. He also writes occasionally on Substack. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kthalps Follow Katie on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@kthalps

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0:50.4	We have guests talking about a number of things. During the second half of the show, we'll be talking to the chats from due dissidents. We're also going to be talking to filmmaker and Lana Trachman. But during the first section of the show, I know you guys are going to be thrilled because these are two of our fan faves, friends of the show, Nur Ericot and Muin Rabani. Before we start talking with them, though, please do give a thumbs up. That's a free way for you to support the show. Just give it a thumbs up, give it a like. Also, if you haven't already, please do subscribe, and you can do that by hitting subscribe and then the bell. Thank you, Brad, for putting that up there. And also, if you can become Patreon supporters, please become Patreon supporters at patreon.com
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2:00.3	to be having these two great guests come on.
2:03.1	They are so insightful and so astute.
2:05.8	And they really do the Lord's work.
2:09.0	I say that as a secular person.
2:10.4	So the secular Lord's agnostic.
2:12.4	So the I don't know Lord's work in their scholarship, but also in their speaking out and in their activism. And I'm
2:19.1	speaking about none other than Nour Ericot, the human rights attorney professor at Rutgers,
2:26.3	and also Mouin Rabani, the inimitable Palestinian Dutch analyst. And I could read all of their credits, but we'd be here all day.
2:35.9	But they're linked in the description.
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