This is so important. We know that Israel has unleashed a genocide against the people of Palestine.

Now there's another part of the story which we don't hear about enough.

A fifth of the population of Israel's pre- 1967 borders, that is excluding the occupied territories,

are Palestinian citizens of Israel, and they're treated as third or fourth class citizens

by a state which makes clear that this is a state which exists for its Jewish citizens.

And they face rampant discrimination and they also face intimidation if they speak out for their rights

and the rights of the Palestinian people in general.

Which brings me to the case of the renowned Palestinian feminist academic Naderra Chalahub

Kavorkian, whose work focuses on state violence, trauma, genocide genocide you can see why her work is so

relevant right now and her case really exposes Israel's claim to the world that

it is the Middle East only democracy now those speaking out who are Jewish in

Israel against the horrors in

Gaza face being victimized but for its Palestinian citizens it is so much worse.

Now she's been arrested for comments made in a podcast and subjected to horrendous conditions.

What she's been arrested for is absurd and false, incitement to terrorism, violence and racism,

by state which she should know allows its leaders, politicians, general, soldiers, army officers, media outlets,

journalists, private citizens to engage in rampant and obscene genocidal incitement in violation

of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which Israel put on its statute books in

1950, actually made incitement to genocide a capital offense, i.e. in theory having the death penalty, and indeed also defies the provisional

orders of the International Court of Justice which ordered Israel to fulfill its legal obligations

and prosecute such people. That she, she's the sort of person that they're arresting in Israel.

Now first I'm going to play the comments she made in the podcast which she's been attacked

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