Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm me and Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the Israeli Knesset, voting to expel the UNS-Palestinian refugee agency,

UNRWA, from Gaza, raising dire humanitarian concerns that food and water will be cut off from a besieged population,

already facing starvation and death from bombing.

Joining us is Sarah Lee Whitson, the Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, Dawn, who was formerly the Executive Director of Human Rights Watchers, Middle East and North

Africa Division, where she oversaw 19 countries with staff located in 10 countries.

Then, with Trump describing his recent Madison Square Guard racist hate-filled rally as, quote,

a love fist in which he was proud to participate, we will examine the fallout in terms of how

the Puerto Rican vote in key swing

states like Pennsylvania could shift in Harris's favor. Joining us is Luis Martinez-Fernandez-Fernandez,

who is a professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is an historian of

Latin America and the Caribbean, who focuses on the histories of Cuba,

Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

He was born in Cuba, graduated from a Puerto Rican university, and currently lives and teaches

in Orlando, Florida, which is one of the world's highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans.

Then finally we'll assess how many pro-Trump so-called

Christians follow the Bible's call to quote, love thy neighbor as thyself and speak with Peter Montgomery,

research director at People for the American Way, who has studied the religious right movement

and its right-wing

political allies for more than two decades. He has written extensively about marriage equality,

religious liberty, and other conflicts at the intersections of religion, politics, and

LBGTQ issues, and is also an associate editor for the online magazine, Religion Dispatches,

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