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The Katie Halper Show

The Assassination Of Refaat Alareer & The Witch-Hunt On College Campuses

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Katie discusses the life, death and legacy of poet Refaat Alareer with his colleagues at Electronic Intifada, journalists Ali Abunimah and Nora Barrows-Friedman and his former student and current writer and translator Mahmoud Alyazji. But first Katie talks to law professor Sahar Aziz and writer and analyst Mitchell Plitnick about their new report “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse” which looks at how accusations of antisemitism stifle criticism of Israel and empower its systematic violations of Palestinians’ human rights. We also talk about the witch hunts and censorship on college campuses which are distracting from Israel's crimes. Link to piece remembering Refaat Alareer: https://electronicintifada.net/conten... Ali Abunimah is Director of http://electronicintifada.net. Author of “One Country”and “The Battle for Justice in Palestine.” Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of "In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine" Mahmoud Alyazji is a translator, a writer and a video editor. Sahar Aziz is professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar, and Chancellor’s Social justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. She is the author of "The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom" Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. He is the former vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B'Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace. He is the co-author of "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics," and former

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and rarely seen clips that aired on our live shows. Hello and welcome to the Katie helper show. So excited to be here. Thank you for your

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patience. We just had some tech issues we were dealing with but you will be

0:51.1

very happy that you stuck around because we have a great show for you.

0:54.8

So during the second half of the show we are going to be talking about Raffa

0:58.6

Alarir, the Gazan poet, translator, professor, inspiration, and mentor for many who was tragically and infuriatingly

1:09.7

assassinated by Israel on December 6th.

1:12.7

We'll be talking to Ali Abunima,

1:15.4

who edited and published, really published,

1:18.1

more than edited, published,

1:19.2

or Fots work at Electronic and Defada.

1:21.7

We'll also talk to Nora Barros Freeman who is also an editor at

1:26.2

electronic and defada and we will talk to Mahmoud Aliazi who was a student

1:32.4

of refahts and that'll be very who was a student of Rufaus.

1:34.1

And that'll be very moving and important

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and yeah, it's a terrible thing that happened.

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