Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine, and I am joined today by Shortcut Chakra BARTY. He served as tech director for Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign.

He co-founded Justice Democrats, which recruited progressive candidates to run around the United

States.

He was the first campaign manager for AOC, Alexandria OEC Kuzio-C-Cortez.

He then served as our chief of staff.

He worked directly on the Green New Deal program.

But now, excitingly, Sholikot Chakrabarty, is running to dethrone Nancy Pelosi.

He's running for Congress in San Francisco.

Shaiqat Chakrabarty. Welcome to

Current Affairs. Thank you for having me. Now listen, I, here's my first question. Okay,

well, I'm going to ask you something very serious here because yesterday I emailed,

I spent part of my afternoon email every U.S. Senator's press office. And I want to read you the email that I sent them. I haven't had any replies, and I don't expect to get any replies. An email I said the whiz. Hello, my name is Latha Robinson. I'm the editor-Chief for Current Affairs Magazine. I'm requesting comment from the senator on the following. It's now the consensus position of international human rights organizations that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide.

Organizations that have reached this conclusion include Amnesty, International Human Rights Watch, Batsselaum, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, EuroMed Human Rights Monitor,

International Federation for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Israel, America's Friends Service Committee, the UN Human Rights experts and the UN Special Committee on Palestinian Rights, as well as leading genocide scholars. Could you please comment

on the following questions? Does the senator accept the conclusion of the international

human rights community that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza? If they reject it, why do they

reject it? Does the senator believe it's appropriate for the United States to furnish

weapons of any kind offensive

or defensive to a state that the human rights community has concluded is engaged in genocide.

Will they commit to opposing any further support for Israel now that Israel's own leading

human rights organizations concluded the state is conducting genocide?

Now I ask you that first because I think genocide you know, genocide is probably the most morally serious

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