Israel Lobby EXPOSED with Mosab Abu Toha, Cory Archibald & Medea Benjamin
The Katie Halper Show
Katie Halper
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Mosab Abu Toha joins to talk about Gaza, and Cory Archibald talks about the Israel Lobby and AIPAC Tracker. Then, Medea Benjamin talks about the federal subpoena over CODEPINK's humanitarian convoy to Cuba.
Mosab Abu Toha is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and poet from Gaza. He is the founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza and the author of Author of Forest of Noise.
Cory Archibald is co-founder of AIPAC Tracker, the popular watchdog dragging AIPAC's receipts into light and pressuring lawmakers to change course on Israel policy. She's a longtime a progressive political strategist and fundraiser who has advised over 250 candidates for federal and state office. For six years she led Brand New Congress, and was part of the team that helped launch Justice Democrats and elect progressive members of Congress like AOC, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman.
Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She is the author of 11 books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran and War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, coauthored with Nicolas J.S. Davies. Her most recent book, coauthored with David Swanson, is NATO: What You Need to Know.
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| 0:40.8 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Katie Halper show. We have a fabulous show for you. |
| 0:46.6 | And now I'm fully in the screen. Not sure what happened there, not too surprising, because as some of you may know, we were hacked. |
| 0:53.4 | So maybe the Mossad is still inside the computer, as they say, in Zoolander. |
| 0:58.0 | The files are in the computer. |
| 0:59.6 | Just kidding about that. |
| 1:00.7 | But we are very happy that whoever tried to hack us was ultimately unsuccessful. |
| 1:05.5 | We'll get into that later. |
| 1:06.5 | I don't want to waste any time up top of the show because we have three incredible guests on today's show and one of them has limited time and we do not want to waste any of his time. |
| 1:15.4 | Not that we want to waste any of our guest time, but again, this guy, just so thrilled to have him |
| 1:19.4 | on. Put your hands together virtually and give a thumbs up to Mosup Abu Toha, who is an incredible |
| 1:24.9 | poet, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author from Gaza. He's the founder of |
| 1:29.6 | the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza and the author of Forrest of Noyes. So welcome Mossab to the show. |
| 1:36.6 | Thank you so much for coming. Thank you. I'm excited to be talking to you. Thank you. Yes. It's |
| 1:41.9 | wonderful to see you. Wanted to ask you, I mean, I thought it was really important to have you on. Full disclosure, I'm always trying to get you on the show. But especially now because so many eyes are on Iran, understandably, Lebanon, understandably. And some people are almost beginning to forget Gaza, either because it doesn't get the attention |
| 2:02.1 | it deserves or because people are the more kind of charitable read is that for some people, |
| 2:06.7 | they're just looking at Lebanon, hopefully, or Iran. |
| 2:09.9 | So what do you think the most important thing for people to remember about Gaza is right now |
| 2:14.7 | at the moment? |
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