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Can't Hide a Genocide f/ Dylan Rodriguez & Loubna Qutami

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Episode notes

Gaslighting and double-standards are all over the media and at schools, where Zionists often get put on pedestals, while pro-Palestinian voices get silenced. A discussion of how censorship works on and off college campuses, featuring:

Dylan Rodriguez, co-founder of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, and professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside

Loubna Qutami, co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and assistant professor in Asian American Studies at UCLA

Shownotes:

• Palestine Legal: 'Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights' 
• 'Professor 'un-hiring' fuels battle for academic freedom' (Toshio Meronek, Waging Nonviolence)
• 'Students fight smears as universities back Israel’s genocidal attacks' (Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada)
• A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF (IndyBay)
• 'The Lobby' (Al Jazeera documentary on the Israel lobby, featuring UC Davis)
• Dylan on Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
• Loubna on Academia.edu | Twitter 
• Past episodes on Palestine: Queers for a Free Palestine with Kate Raphael; the Antizionist Boycott of Manny's with Deeg

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If you are in the Bay this weekend:

THIS SATURDAY, 12/2/23 Palestine solidarity action c/o QUIT! and Gay Shame, 1 p.m. at Market and Castro

THIS SUNDAY, 12/3/23  Howard Zinn Book Fair