Israel's Crimes w/ Laila Al Arian & Tech Bros Lies w/ Dean Preston, Kate Willett & Shanti Singh

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Katie talks about dishonest tech bros and corporate Dems with tenants rights attorney and former San Francisco Board of Supervisors representative Dean Preston, comedian and Dystopia Now podcast co-host Kate Willett and housing organizer Shanti Singh. Then Katie is joined by Palestinian journalist Laila Al Arian to discuss Israel's ongoing murderous campaign against Palestinian journalists and the complicity of Western leaders and journalists. Check out my Patreon with TikTok comedian Blakeley where we ROAST Laura Loomer: https://www.patreon.com/posts/blakeley-and-137344631 Dean Preston is a statewide housing advocate, tenants rights attorney, public transit enthusiast, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He served as the elected representative of District 5 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He’s best known for his tax the rich and housing justice measures and passing the first ceasefire legislation in a major US city. Kate Willett is an award-winning comedian, author and the co-host of the podcast Dystopia Now. Shanti Singh is legislative director at Tenants Together, California’s statewide tenant coalition, on the board of the S.F. Community Land Trust! (And also a longtime DSA member and semi lapsed tenant organizer if that helps.) Laila Al-Arian is a Washington DC-based investigative journalist and the executive producer of Fault Lines, a current affairs and documentary program on Al Jazeera English. For her work, she has been honored with two News and Documentary Emmys, a Peabody Award and George Polk award. She is the co-author of “Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians.” ***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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0:40.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. We are thrilled to be joining you tonight.
0:46.2	We are thrilled to be joined by you tonight. And we have an amazing show for you tonight.
0:50.2	And, you know, we focus a lot, obviously, on the show and for very good reason on Palestine and
0:56.5	foreign policy. Tonight, we are going to be spending the second half of the show talking about
1:00.6	Palestine with the memorable Palestinian journalist Lel Arian, who's going to be talking to us about
1:06.5	the continuous murderous campaign launched by Israel against the journalists of Gaza, of Palestine,
1:14.4	but especially of Gaza.
1:16.2	And that, again, will be the second half of the show.
1:18.5	She'll also be talking about the complicity of Western media and Western leaders.
1:22.4	But during the first half of the show, we're actually going to be talking about some more local issues. And of course,
1:28.2	the local issues are also related to foreign policy issues. And that is going to be fun because we
1:33.9	haven't done that in a while. And as we'll see, they are pretty interconnected. And before I
1:38.7	bring on the trio of guests that we're talking on during the first segment, I'm very excited about.
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2:05.5	Again, that's patreon.com slash the Katie Helper Show.
2:09.6	And this week's Patreon is an amazing chat. It's actually going to be, it's an over an hour long chat with Blakely,
2:14.7	the great artist, TikTok content creator.
2:20.6	And they and I go over,
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