To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-daniel-97695284 Katie talks to Columbia grad student Layla Saliba about her experiencing getting sprayed with a hazardous chemical at a protest for Gaza and to Prem Thakker, a journalist at the Intercept who covered the incident and the university's inadequate response to it. Then Katie talks to journalist Daniel Boguslaw about the New York Times' decision to shelf a podcast about the alleged...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Political scientist Norman Finkelstein and Human Rights attorney Craig Mokhiber react to the International Court of Justice's ruling and explain what it really means. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish s...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 52 min
In this special stream, Katie joins Briahna Joy Gray to co-host a discussion with political scientist Norman Finkelstein and Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani. Finkelstein and Rabbani analyze South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, predict the outcome, and explain why the case is so important, regardless of the decision. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton U...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 57 min
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-abby-de-96769546 A special live show bringing together Katie Halper, Rania Khalek, Abby Martin and Claudia de la Cruz talking about Palestine, the Presidential elections and more! Proceeds go to the Gaza-based Palestinian organization We Are Not Numbers, in memory of its co-founder assassinated Gazan professor, poet and translator Refaat Alareer. Sponsored by Breakthrough News, Empire Files and The Katie Halpe...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Katie remembers the amazing and prolific Australian journalist, filmmaker and author John Pilger, who died on on December 30, 2023. John Pilger wrote dozens of books, including Heroes, Hidden Agendas, and Freedom Next Time. He made over 60 documentaries, including Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back, The War You Don't See, The Coming War on China. He appeared as a contributor on BBC Television Australia, BBC Rad...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 11 min
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-norman-95955935 Political scientist Norman Finkelstein shares his thoughts on Gaza, Biden, Sam Harris, Bill Maher and more. But first, Palestinian-American college student Jamal Mohamad talks about being harassed and filmed by Rabbi Shmuley for daring to say "free Palestine" to him and offering him a fist bump while skating in a video that has since gone viral. Norman Finkelstein is a political scie...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 25 min
Hear full interview with historian Sam Biagetti here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-audio-on-95459366?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Anti-zionist organizers Jason Rosenberg, Ilana Cruger-Zaken and Richie Merino talk about what happened when they disrupted a discussion between U.S. Representatives Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel gives a West Bank update and ...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 45 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-said-95292037 Katie talks to Palestinian journalist Said Arikat about his reporting on Palestine and how he manages to challenge the State Department at their daily press conferences without getting kicked out or not called on! Said Arikat is a Palestinian journalist and Washington bureau chief for Al-Quds, a daily Newspaper which has been published out of East Jerusalem (uninterruptedly) sinc...
Dec 25, 2023•47 min
On this special bonus episode of both The Katie Halper Show and Useful Idiots (the show Katie co-hosts with Aaron Maté, on which she interviewed Refaat Alareer) Katie talks about the murdered Gazan poet with two of his former students and current writers Yousef Aljamal and Muhammad Shehada. Muhammad Shehada is a writer and analyst originally from Gaza who is now based in Sweden. His writing has appeared in Ha'aretz, Newsweek, The Forward, Al Jazeera. Yousef M. Aljamal is a Palestinian refugee fr...
Dec 17, 2023•1 hr
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 I...
Dec 15, 2023•2 hr 30 min
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-mouin-94287604 Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani shares his insights into Israel's war on Palestine, the hostage negotiations and what the hell Antony Blinken is thinking. But first Iraqi journalist and medic Ahmed Twaij draws on his experience as a journalist and medic in Iraq to explain why Hamas is not Isis and what it's like to try to treat people in times of war. Mouin Rabbani (https://twitter....
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 13 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-susan-93986481 Writer Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin) talks about getting detained in Egypt trying to get to the Rafah Border Crossing with Global Conscience Convoy. But first New York State Assemblymember for District 36 Zohran Mamdani talks about why he's joining other activists including Cynthia Nixon in hunger striking for a cease fire. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer a...
Dec 02, 2023•1 hr
To hear the rest, join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-rabbi-96556126 Human rights lawyer Noura Erakat debunks the Biden Admin's claim Israel isn't engaging in genocide. Then Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro explains why Zionism is antisemitic. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Assoc. Professor of Africana Studies & the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Ha...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Yousef Munayyer discusses what 'From The River To The Sea' really means, what happens next for Palestine and the future of the one state solution. Yousef Munayyer is a Palestinian American analyst and head of the Israel-Palestine program at Arab Center Washington DC. Yousef's relevant pieces: There Will Be a One-State Solution (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/israel/2019-10-15/there-will-be-one-state-solution) What Does “From the River to the Sea” Really Mean? (https://jewishcurrents.org...
Nov 23, 2023•39 min
Claudia De La Cruz disrupted Blackrock to call attention to its war profiteering and complicity in the war on Gaza. De la Cruz, who is running as a candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, talks about why she's running for president, the reason the U.S. supports Israel, the proxy war in Ukraine, her domestic policy and more! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, ple...
Nov 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-craig-92682755 A panel of Jewish activists against genocide join the show followed by leading human rights and UN Official Craig Mokhiber who resigned over the institution's failure of Palestinian people. Rosalind P. Petchesky is a political scientist and member of Jewish Voice For Peace, who was arrested protesting outside of Chuck Schumer's house last month. Jay Saper is an artist, translat...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Bethlehem-based journalist Yumna Patel and political scientist Norman Finkelstein react to and analyze Israel's latest war on not just Gaza, but all of Palestine. And human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik talks about being assaulted by John Fetterman's staffer for daring to ask the senator why he won't support a cease fire. Yumna Patel is a journalist based in Bethlehem. She is Palestine News Director at @Mondoweiss. Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust su...
Nov 06, 2023•2 hr 36 min
Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama and Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli genocide. Join CodePink's march here (Nov. 4th): https://www.codepink.org/palestinedc23 Ali Abunimah is executive director of the @TheElectronicIntifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Nour Jaghama is CODEPINK's Palestine Campaigner and has been advocating for Palestinian liberation for over 5 years, including organizing within her university DePaul University. Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn based comedian and writer a...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors, talks about Israel's latest attack on Gaza and debunks some of the most pervasive talking points used to justify Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Je...
Oct 21, 2023•2 hr 12 min
To hear the rest of my discussion with Miko Peled, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-miko-90927870 Israeli-American activist Miko Peled explains what Israel is doing and why they're doing it. Then I'm joined by Mohammed Hisam, a Palestinian-American community organizer and attorney based out of Houston, TX. Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is the author of "The General's Son: Journey of an Israe...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 41 min
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/90496913 Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski talks about exposing Yaroslav Hunka for being in a Nazi unit, the Ukraine War, the Maidan massacre and more. Then Peoples Dispatch's Zoe Alexandra explains The New York Times' connection to press crackdowns in India. Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University ...
Oct 06, 2023•42 min
To hear the rest, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-marianne-90236663 Marianne Williamson joins the Katie Halper Show to talk about her campaign, and domestic and foreign politics. Then journalist Lev Golinkin joins to talk about Canada's Ukrainian Nazi problem, along with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine. Marianne Williamson is a political activist, author, non-denominational spiritual lecturer and New York Times bestselling author. She began in the 1980’s, during...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 13 min
To hear the entire discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-arn-get-89771825 Katie is joined by climate change activists, and labor organizers to talk about why they're risking arrest and their jobs. First, Katie talks to Chris Falzone, a rank and file United Auto Workers (UAW) member who is on strike at Stellantis’s Toledo Assembly Complex; Marcelina Pedraza, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Auto Workers Local 551...
Sep 24, 2023•47 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-abayomi-89297276 Abayomi Azikiwe discusses the recent BRICS expansion, the admission of the African Union into G20, France's ongoing war with Africa and de-dollarization. But first, headlines with Justin Williams. Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire. http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/ Justin Williams is a comedian and co-host of ‘Fraudsters’ on the Last Podcast Network...
Sep 15, 2023•40 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-lesley-88637267 Journalist, historian & author Lesley M. M. Blume, historian of science David Hecht, & nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein join Katie to discuss the film Oppenheimer, the legacy and future of nuclear war & what is happening in Fukushima Japan. Then Jamie Peck joins to discuss the latest developments regarding the Stop Cop City Movement as well as her upcoming live s...
Sep 01, 2023•59 min
Jan Kavan is a Czech politician aligned with the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). From 1998 until 2002, he served as Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic and was Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 until 2002. He was then elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly, a post he held from 2002 until 2003. He is also a member of the organising committee of peace initiative Peace and Justice, which launched last January and to date has 20,000 signatories. Mr Kavan is an Honorary Fe...
Aug 24, 2023•52 min
Kaniela Ing and Kahala Johnson talk about the connection between colonialism and the fires devastating Maui. But first Katie is joined by comedian & historian Justin Williams to go over recent news stories. Kaniela Ing is a former member of the Hawaii House of Representatives representing Maui, currently national director of the Green New Deal Network. Kahala Johnson (He/They/Oia/Siya) is a Hawaiian-Filipinx organizer from Waiehu, Maui and a Kiai of Haleakala and Mauna Kea. ***Please support...
Aug 18, 2023•59 min
To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-eugene-87518516 Journalist and author Eugene Puryear destroys The NY Times' “pernicious, disgusting, McCarthyite and racist” smearing of anti-war activists and exposes the true motives behind the attack on organizations like CODEPINK, The People’s Forum, and Tricontinental Institute. Eugene Puryear is a journalist at Breakthrough News and the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceratio...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 20 min
To hear the rest of my discussion with Freddie DeBoer, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-freddie-87362584 Katie is joined by Kate Willett to go over some recent news stories. Then Katie talks to CIA-turned-activist Ray McGovern about the War in Ukraine and the multipolar world order. Then she's joined by writer Freddie DeBoer who talks about his latest article "AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now" and what to do about it. Kate Willett is a comedian, actress ...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 28 min
To hear the full discussion, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-norman-86814649 Norman Solomon talks about how America hides the human toll of its military machine. Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include "War Made Easy," "Made Love, Got War," and "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus ...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min
