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Ret. Special Forces Anthony Aguilar + Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls On Israel's Brutality

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 218 minutes

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Summary

Katie talks to Chris Smalls, the founder of Amazon’s first U.S. labor union, the Amazon Labor Union founder, who was beaten, arrested and detained by the Israeli military for attempting to bring aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The only Black passenger on the ship, he was treated worse and was one of the last to be released from Israeli prison. Then we are joined by Anthony Aguilar, a U.S. military veteran who worked with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a security contractor who witnessed U.S. mercenaries and IDF members shooting and killing starving Palestinians waiting for aid. ***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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Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. We are so excited to be joined by you today. And we have

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a really amazing show. It is a tripartate show, if I do say so myself. I don't think I've

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ever said that. We have three wonderful guests. First, we're going to be joined by Chris Smalls,

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the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, who was on the Freedom Flotilla Hondella boat going to Gaza

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and was, of course, intercepted and arrested and kidnapped and singled out and beaten,

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and we're going to get into that when we talk to Chris. And then we're going to be speaking to Greg Stoker, who is a former Army Ranger, and he's been on the show before, and he's

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an anti-war vet. And we're going to be speaking to someone who I know we've talked about before.

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We've shown videos of him before, so we're really honored to be having him on the show.

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Anthony Aguilar, a U.S. military veteran who worked with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a

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security contractor. He didn't work for them, though. And he witnessed U.S. mercenaries and

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IDF members shooting and killing starving Palestinians as they waited for aid.

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So we're really very much looking forward to talking to all three of these guests.

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