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Red Cards & Arrest Warrants

Western powers agree: Israel-USA must be free to commit high crimes with impunity. Those who name its crimes, and call for justice, face condemnation and sanction. Case in point: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. But the Italian law scholar won’t back down. The GPM speaks with her predecessor, Michael Lynk. And, a red card for Israeli footballers? Nowhere near enough. Human rights groups want top football chiefs to be prosecuted for their support of apartheid Israel, and have taken their case to the International Criminal Court. The GPM speaks with Irish Sport for Palestine.


Greenland Lust

Donald Trump wants Greenland, and won’t take no for an answer. Will Canada be next? The GPM speaks with Dalhousie University professor Robert Huish. And, speaking out against US-Israeli genocide in Palestine. Watch your back. Zionist campaign against a McMaster University professor thwarted.



Cold as ICE

They’re as cold as ICE. As US-backed Israeli forces terrorize Gaza, reducing the long-besieged enclave to rubble, smashing its people to bits, Donald Trump’s masked, plain-clothed, paramilitary militia terrorize black, brown and Latino communities coast to coast. The GPM speaks with antiwar/justice group CODEPINK. And, two dozen Canadian Senators call for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel. We speak with one of them.


Criminal Kingpins

Criminal arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; more charges and warrants in the pipeline. A conversation about the ICC with British barrister Toby Cadman. And, a conversation with Francesca Albanese, about US-Israeli crimes, impunity, and justice


Deny & Condone

Israel is an Apartheid State, four US legal scholars say. The GPM speaks with one of them, Boston University scholar Susan Akram. And, Israeli genocide: denying it while condoning it. American literary critic Saree Makdisi talks about Western intellectual subterfuge, and the erasure of the Palestinian people.


Naming Crimes

Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands and mouth empty words about peace, while continuing to sell weapons to Israel. And they refuse to name Israel’s crimes. British legal scholar Penny Green talks about this, and about an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabled people.



Stamping It Out

Gender-based Israeli violence, extermination and genocide in Gaza. A new report from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A conversation about Israel’s war on Gaza with Middle East affairs commentator Mouin Rabbani. And, human rights abuse and corporate takeover in the United States. A conversation with one of the authors of another UN report.


Activist Arrested, Gets To Talk About It

Montreal-based author and guerilla-style political provocateur Yves Engler talks about his recent arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Montreal’s Bordeaux Prison (something police originally tried to block him from doing), and what he’d rather talk about than his five days and four nights of forcible confinement. And, another Canadian’s account of the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, brutally assassinated by apartheid Israel. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris



Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech

The Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech. Exiled Students Take Columbia University to Court. The GPM speaks with Catherine Curran-Groome about her court case — Catherine Curran-Groome, Brandon Murphy and Aidan Parisi vs. Columbia University, at the New York State Supreme Court.



Inspired by Hind Rajab

A year after the brutal murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, trapped in a bullet-ridden car in the ruins of Gaza City, a Belgian-based foundation hunts down Israeli war criminals in the little girl’s name. And, in the heart of Israeli apartheid darkness, a Palestinian biodiversity group rescues native Palestinian flora and fauna from settler-colonial eco-vandalism.


Domicide

Ceasefire in Gaza: respite for those who’ve survived Israel’s genocidal onslaught – perhaps. And homeless, amid the ruins left behind by US bombs and missiles. The GPM speaks with Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons. And, an intensive care pediatrician tells the UN Security Council about Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system.


Obscure Committee

On the margins of the 23rd session of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Court, in The Hague, a stairway conversation about international law, and its fate, with South African Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela / The obscure UN committee charged with eliminating “all forms of racial discrimination” labours for five years on scrupulously detailed apartheid charges by Palestine against Israel, and comes up with … no comment — or “individuated” apartheid finding, as Irish legal scholar and CERD committee commentator David Keane tells the GPM.



No Reason to Cheer

A conversation about the downfall of Bashar al-Assad with Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, and about the global nuclear menace with Columbia chemist and nuclear arms analyst Ivana Nikolic Hughes