as apartite israel pushes on with its vicious us-led bombing and man-made starvation campaigns against palestinians. this is gaza under attack. welcome back to the program everyone. first off, a quick reminder of some of the latest developments. for the second

day in a row, israeli occupation forces open fire at starving palestinians waiting for aid in northern gaza, killing at least 21 of them. arrests and restrictions imposed by apartide israel against thousands of palestinians trying to pray at alamask on the first friday of ramadan. in other news, australia reinstates funding to the key un aid agency anrua ammit concerns about the worsening humanitarian crisis. in gaza. in the us, senate majority leader chuck schumer calls for a partide israel to hold elections to replace prime minister benjamin netanyahu. also, in the u.s., the treasury department announces new sanctions against three settlers and two illegal outposts in the occupied west bank. and here in the uk, the government targets several muslim groups with the new definition of extremism. it comes after months of national protests calling for immediate ceasefire in gaza. joining me to

discuss all of that and more in the studio, latin american political analyst isaacio and via skype from new york, united states, ashish prasar. ashish is a political strategist and a spokesperson for gaza voices and a former advisor to the uk's middle east peace envoy, tony blair. welcome to you both. i'll start with you, isaac, if that's okay. more than 31,000 palestinians killed, over 73,00 wounded, nearly. 23 million tons of debris, including un exploded munitions according to the un, and deteriorating humanitarian crisis. your thoughts on the scale of this ongoing genocidal campaign by israel. you forgot to talk about the disappear people, all together is is 5% of the population of gaza. i think that gaza has become the most bombed place on earth in all history, the equivalent of four. hiroshima

bombs have been dropped into gaza, i a jew and my ancestor suffer the holocaust, ketos concentration camp, edney clingsing, and now israel is doing that on our name to the palestinians and the palestinians are the real inhabitants from judea, israel and the biblical kingdoms, we cannot. "we cannot allow to do that, this is reversing, and the other thing is when we are going to have five years in the monmarter catiral was fire in paris and everybody was saying, but gaza is more important, it it it used to be the first capital of kanaan, what is israel, palestine during the egyptians, they have so many mosk, churches, monuments, forts and they have been completely destroyed, even one of the..." all

the church on the planet, so this is, in my opinion, this is massacre not only against children and women, but also against a wordt human heritage. what do you call those who call jews such as yourself, we speak up for palestinian rights, as self-hating jews and the like? well, we are not self-hated jews, we are jews that support our rich traditions to fight against racism, because what is what we are, what i am seeing in israel now is that we have racist people in government that are killing all our traditions, i, my my grandparents used to live in muslim country for generation, they never have any problems, we had very good civilization in spain for 800 years, muslim, jews, christians together, they are killing that, so it is the races that are massacring the palestine. who are

betraying the jewist traditions, i and all these jews that are against all these massackers are are supporting our jewish traditions against. massacre pograms concentration cams and destruction and it's still ongoing as as we speak and ashish if i can come to you what do you think is preventing a ceasefire from being reached at this point? there's been another proposal by hamas but was spurned by the netanyahu regime. mean the us is being held sorry the world is being held hostage by the united states right? that's just the fundamental truth. there is no we've had. votes, we've had general assembly votes, um, there is questions about finally, should we reform the un and security council, because one country should not be allowed to hold the whole world hostage, israel cannot do what it's doing, cannot massacre with impunity, cannot commit

this genocide without the support of the united states, they have aided and abeted this genocide at every point, they've facilitated it from the weapons transfers that they've been... doing without the approval of congress, they have allowed for political support by literally vetoing everyone else's um call for a cease fire. mean i think the un, the us even said the algerian uh proposal was brilliant, but they're not going to vote for it. mean, what else can we say? mean, it's being held hostage by them. mean, and to see yesterday, i think some israeli officials announced that um when chuck shumer announced that israel should have elections to move on. well, let's just get two things straight. is elections are. not going to stop israelis committing this genocide with as long as they continue to have us support. 80% of people support the in israel support what's happening in gaza. 70% of people support the starvation policy. these are, this is radicalized society right

now, and an election is not going to change that. what was interesting in those statements, they were telling the us to stay out of their business. israel doesn't fundamentally cannot commit this military campaign. fundamentally can't exist frankly without us aid and support, so it's ironic that the person loaning them the money and the weapons to do this is being told to stay out of their business. in fact, i think it's actually doing damage to the us is standing as they look isolated from the world, but also look innept to some other people in the world. um, yes, speaking of damage, um, you talked about the us military support for israel, it's diplomatic support, the veto power, it's been the us. vetos as well as the uk's abstention at the un security council that's prevented any resolution against israel over the past six months and of course before that - what what do you uh how does how does it make you feel when you hear things like the conservative government here are afraid that there might be peace um in

the middle east and that will prevent - the labor the opponents in the next general election being hurt that in other words if the genocide continued, it would support them, the conservative party and power here in the uk to perhaps win the next general election. they already have that, i think the conservative party lost the next general election no matter what happens, i think it's about the size of the majority that labor get at this point, but it's the damage has already been done to labor, you know, and it shows you the the lack of humanity that every individual in that government has for other human beings, they have no soul as far as i'm concerned, watching them talk about this as palestinian child. and women frankly men as well are disposable to their war game that they have right now, but like the most important thing here is like it wouldn't matter which one of them is in government, mean if you watch kier starmer himself go out there and say at the beginning, remember this man is an international human rights lawyer

and he justified the starvation and lack of electricity and everything else that israel were going to do at the beginning, he justified it under the right to defend themselves, which anybody who understands international law, anyone who's worked in it like... i have knows that that's not even israel doesn't actually have the right to defend itself from people they occupy and that is the most important part and in britain british people uh the british government already calls palestine the occupied territories of palestine that is such an important thing that people need to keep resigning israel does not have that right that unilateral right to do all those things and the leader of the opposition and the prime minister of themselves have justified under justified this under the right to defend themselves uh absolutely, um, talking about the uh humanitarian crisis in the gaza strip now, australia has joined the european union and canada in restoring funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees, anrua, in late january, you recall, camera joined

more than dozen countries who halted hundreds of millions of dollars of support in response to israeli allegations against the organization. here's australian foreign minister penny wang announcing the... of donor countries and with unro on the shared objective of ensuring the integrity of unro's operations, rebuilding confidence, and

so importantly, ensuring aid flows to gazans in desperate need. penny wang speaking there, isag, what do you make of the fact that everything, first of all of the unfreazing of funds by australia and canada, and the fact that whatever israel says, whatever allegation it throws out there is accepted as fact by governments in the western world. and by established media, established media, well, i think there is double standard, because for example, when russia destroy one hospital in ukraine, no, oh, they blockade russia, they kicked out russia from the olympics, from the euro, the european song festival, eurovision, yeah, eurovision, but when... israel is doing destroying all hospitals in gaza, nothing is happening,

nothing, and for example, the the united states said that china is doing genocide against the muslims, birmania or myanmar is doing genocide against the muslims, but israel is not doing genocide against the gazans, which and the situation of the gazans people is even worse, much much. much worse, so i think it's a double standard, and the other thing that i wanted to say to you is as a jew, i'm very worried, because we have never been persecuted until 70 or 80 years ago in any muslim country, and who persecuted us was really the christian western powers, when napoleon bonaparte invaded palestine 200 years ago, the jews from gaza left. and the the leader of the resistant in palestine was a jew who kicked up napoleon, yeah, so the

point is this, now we are supporting, now the western power that always persecuted us, germany that did the holocaust, now they use israel as their own pone, so whatever persecute the palestinians, yes, i'll come back to a little later, because ashish i understand has to leave us, but one final question if that's okay. to ashish and that is let's talk more about uh how the situation in gaza and the genocide is playing out in the us and as far as the the uh funding to unro is concerned the us of course was really the first to to cut funding all together yeah mean the under thing shows you mean the double standard point is the key thing but also um like it just also made it so clear who is eating in a betting industry. i go back to that earlier point right, the us and the uk, australia, canada, the eu blindly

called themselves, when they say things like the world's on israel side, they literally name 20 countries, right, the rest of the world is not on israel side watching this genocide take place, the unrefunding, pulling it without actually having the evidence, just some allegations, is diabolical, there's other words for it, this is a un recognized agency that served palestine other territories all around. the world for generations and then to find that the accusations were based on torture, they were based on people being forced to confess and were tortured for hours by israeli officers, israeli occupation officers, you got to ask which western leader knew that part, and if they did, why was that not the allegations not thrown out straight away, the un still hasn't got the allegations for what the actual? report that israel, because israel wouldn't submit it to the un, they just made some allegations. it also goes back to the

point that the us and the uk to a degree are providing that political cover, they, it's not that everyone believes what israel is saying comes out, those two governments will just follow what israel wants them to do and provide the cover for them to continue continue this genocide, and everything that i think a lot of people have worked in the space know to be true is being shown to the whole world right now, everything from those un. in its power to prevent further acts of genocide and how is all of that going down as she sorry to jump in with the us public you have all kinds of support on the part of the american government for the israeli regime and then on the other hand you have the sanction of sanctioning of the settlers, you have the building of peer to get

humanitarian aid in and the like, so the us public is not stupid, they're seeing everything for what it is, no one but believes that when you see thousands of trucks and images of thousands of trucks at the borders of gaza um not being led in by israel, no one believes this peer is going to do anything, they don't i think the us public is joe biden basically is at odds with where the public is, i mean i've seen it's not just protests, it's everywhere right, you can even look at this thing they're trying to do with tiktok, this is not a ban to ban tik tok, this is the patriot act for information, it's to control... what people can see, it's nothing more than that. they are unhappy that the public are being able to see ghazans, palestinians in gaza blown to shreds every day, indiscriminately by israel. it's playing to see that israel are the bad guys, it's playing to see we are suppointing the bad guys. so what do they do? instead of focusing our energy on getting sessfire and focusing our energy on doing what the public itself

wants, remember nearly 80, 78% of people support a ceasefire, immediate cease fire in the united states. instead of doing that, they're banning tik tok, or they're trying to ban tik tok, and and what's really dangerous in that, bill that nobody is talking about is the use of a vpn is going to be illegal and get you jail time, if you you if you access an app, they don't want you to access, also there'll be security council for information that will pass things that you as a as a resident in the united states won't know might be illegal in the future, so you might be in the vpn on an app that you didn't know was illegal, but they've passed that because you're seeing information they don't want. to see, it shows you how worried the administration and the political elite are, that the public are finally learning the truth about what israel is doing to palestinians? absolutely, it is election year in the us and lot hinges on that. ashish prasar, thank you so much for joining us, i hope we can speak again soon. moving on now, uk conservative minister michael gove has

unveiled the government's new definition of extremism. the move has angngered rights groups to accused the... communities secretary of stoking division and targeting muslim organizations, especially those who are pro- palestine. we spoke with renowned anti-zionist campaigner and academic, professor david miller, who outlined the dubious origin of this new attempt to reframe the debate and why muslim groups were in the government's crosshairs? the policy comes from a review of prevent the government's counter terrorism policy conducted by lord shawcross uh who is famous islamophobe and who uh worked when he was appointed to that process at the policy exchange uh his findings were which were all accepted by the government had come uh almost verbatim from a previous report by the policy exchange the the think tank for which he worked which is published the year before his findings so

this is a policy dreamed up by the policy exchange which of course as people will know is islamophobic think tank, which is funded to a large extent by key zionist families in the uk, most notably of course, the wolfson family which runs next retail chain, so this is a this is an israeli government policy essentially uh being vintolquized by the zionist michael go of course was the first chairman of the policy exchange and it's being introduced in order that they can attack the palestine solidarity movement, but they're as you say, not doing very well with that, because of course what happened was uh that in the draft speech, anour before gove was due to give it and leaked selectively to many mainstream media outlets were uh seven organizations and when he gave the speech he listed five organizations amongst which were three muslim organizations cage, mend and the

muslim association of britain, now the organizations that they removed the last minute from the speech. were first of all five pillars, the muslim news website, which wouldn't look very good given he's saying this is not an attack on freedom of speech, but secondly also uh friends of alaxa which is kind of rather liberal pro- palestine organization which they have removed from from the listing, so the actual uh pro palestine organizations they've listed are effectively just muslim organizations, mean cage is a pro- palestine organization yes, mendes too and so but they are these are not specifically palestinian related organizations, they do other things as well, so this is an this is a an indication really the government really doesn't know what to do and is struggling to... uh to get it stucks in their own this and actually it was scared in the end to name these other organizations and rightly so because of course they would have sued and probably won. we also ask

professor miller why the new definitions would be problematic to police and would leave the government open to legal challenges by the organizations named? very difficult job because the way in which the definition so-called definition is written is definition. which would fit uh michael golf and of course uh all those who support the genocide in gaza, because there is no clear evidence of supporting violence and terrorism and horror than there is in the zionist movement, the the evidence that mend or cage or the muslim association of britain support such activities is extremely minimal to nothing, so they're going to have a a difficulty here, and of course it's going to be robustly challenged by everybody in the... movement and of course indeed uh with the support of the broad mass i would say of the british public we saw only last night that uh on question time where they carefully select

the audience to have range of political views by which they mean a range of mainstream views the question time uh chair couldn't find a single person to speak in front in favor of the government's uh new policy so this is a policy which is destined to be even less popular than the previously uh very, very unpopular and islamophobic prevent policy. across the pawn, the us has imposed sanctions a group of three extremist israeli west bank settlers accused of harassing and attacking palestinians to force them off their land. the announcement comes a time of increased friction between president joe biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose far right government reacted angrily to previous sanctions of the kind. extremist settler violence carried out with impunity in the west bank has killed, injured and threaten the livelihoods of countless

palestinian civilians. this violence risks destabilizing the west bank and obstructs efforts to advance pathway to peace and security for israelis and palestinians through two-state solution. there is no justification for violence against civilians, no justification for forcing families from their homes. in february, president biden issued an executive order giving the state department new authorities to impose sanctions on those responsible for undermining peace, security and stability in the west bank, and the department imposed sanctions on four individuals. today, we are imposing further targeted sanctions on three israeli individuals involved in undermining stability in the west bank. we have also designated two associated entities referred to as farms. these west bank outposts are owned or controlled by designated individuals, have acted as a base from which to launch violent acts and are illegal even under israeli law. well let's get to thoughts on those developments and perhaps on the new

definition of extremism by the uk government since ashish already talked about those sanctions on israeli settlers. um, what do you think the government here is reaching for and what is that even mean for civil liberties, freedom of expression and of speech? well, i am bly. surprised that they tried to illegalize or restringe for example the muslim association of britain for two decades they had organized peaceful demonstrations, but they are not putting in the extremism category, the people that support the extremist israeli government, it's the government itself here, look, you have in israel, i am, when i watch channel 14 in israel which is... like is the the most progovernmental channel, they discuss how many palestina we need to kill, that the children the we need to kill children, you

have a minister that said i am racist, other minister said we have to nuke gaza and kill everybody, you know in britain if we have one single person that said that against the irides, the scottish, the wells or the is going to be in jail, but we have this kind of government. in israel and we have supported of this government and they are not called them extremists you know it is when every time i see this kind of racist that claim to be jewish i am very very very sad. i don't think that this definition of extremism is is is is correct because it on one side this only against muslims not against right-wing jewish and on the other hand i saw like was a conservative. mp who even criticize sadh can islamist and sadiqan not even, he doesn't go even to the palestinian demonstration and i know his team of muslim people and they are

pro lgt. be, they are very liberals, but so there is kind of islamophobia being developed at this moment, as the definition definitely not deterring the pro-palestine protesters, and we'll see that probably in the next weekend or the one after. all right, our time is up, many thanks to isaak, bijo and sheish prasar for their thoughts and to you for staying with us, catch our earlier episodes by visiting pressv.co.uk, until next time, continue to keep palestine in your hearts, goodbye.

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voting in protest against the government. in the meantime, most opinion pieces published by well-known mainstream media rejected the idea that iran is democratic country, essentially recycling tired stories and narratives with no fresh perspective. also this week, we cover social media reacts to the famon brought on by the ongoing zinus israeli genocide in gaza as well as the air drop surade of aid and expired food on gaza residence. right here on expose, the truth is just a revelation away. the depressed coverage of this accination of plasanmani now entering its uh uh fourth day we're looking at some.

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