6. Proud Boys and Zionists team up
Episode description
What is it like when Proud Boys and Zionists attack you online at the same time?
We spoke to Olivia Katbi Smith, national U.S. organizer for the BDS Movement and co-chair of the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. In the last few weeks, Olivia was one of the targets of a doxxing attack by a member of the Proud Boys. Shortly after, she was named the "Anti-Semite of the Week" by a rightwing organization created to harass pro-Palestinian activists.
Michael Arria spoke to Meera Shah, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, about their new website that tracks anti-BDS legislation around the U.S. These bills, in both federal and state legislatures, are direct attacks on basic free speech protections and will have repercussions far beyond the movement to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Links:
- News & Observer: NCSU investigating employee accused of Proud Boys membership. He calls it 'slander.'
- Willamette Week: Portland’s Democratic Socialists of America Co-Chair Is Suing an Alleged Proud Boy for Doxxing
- Anonymous Comrads Collective: Doxer Gets Doxed: "Proud Boy" Chadwick Jason Seagraves of NCSU
- DSA's BDS and Palestine Working Group on Twitter
- BDS Movement
- Palestine Legal and their new legislation tracker site.