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these rarely citizens, there's a level of ton so can use all physician says that government should create jobs at home tonight instead of looking for them abroad. we know the genocide that for me to me because that's a, that's just the regular ones that we have p low k as a country. but we all know that's not true. i mean, these are in demands. we presidents. uh, we can presidents that are not able to view their own countries is trying to sunny days itself. kenyans is struggling with slowing living costs. the farm is here say worked half of the risk, the terms of adding more fluid. he's too good to turn down. malcolm web out 0 kick, who you can. yeah. the welcome back. let's take a look at some news from around the world. now the least. 23 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bowman gun. the tank on the police station and northwest focused on it happened
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in the district of dallas. my hon. compound was being used by the pug style in the army as a base camp. beyond group that they could, you had focused on says it was behind the attack. 5 of the silence were killed by security forces. now the morality house of you and climate talks into by say that working on a new draft deal comes a day off through a live the crew size proposal stopped short of cooling for the phasing out of fossil fuels. under the rules of view and climate convention agreements need consensus of old pots as offends minus 9200 countries. so there are those who want stays out, throw those one phase down there or what those who want different formulations. the point is to get a consensus and we don't want one formulation that causes blockages in the process . we need that the parties to come together because we need to come back to what's the objective. the objective is to achieve $1.00 is to reduce global emissions by
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43 percent by $22.00 giga times. poland, incoming prime minister, donald to success potent will demand the full mobilization of the west to help you crane to made the announcements while presenting is government's plans. the parliament selected him on monday. they also said colon will achieve a leadership position in europe as well as being a strong part of nato. russia is jail deposition. the that i've seen a vanity is reportedly disappeared within the countries present system. is allies say is whereabouts are on the and there's no longer in the prison he was held in. they signed the valid, they became ailing the cell last week is not shop for his latest video link. quote, hearing crumbling critic was set to be moved to a highest security prison. it's the bottom line now. stay with the
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a sub is in and somebody as a natural spring, they ramallah say incursions by seth was some of them happening almost daily to let me go ahead and go to something in the media if need be i got a board meeting. i believe you me your hunting book or your double leg, i never get to share. i need the legends granted. who am i not the let me try to see why it's got the i'm looking. i'm trying to get the color. yeah. good. yes. not good to match the hook up with you in the i actually have content and i have a question. has the warren gaza unleashed a new wave of bigotry and hate in america? let's get to the bottom line, the as israel's war and gaza rages
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on with no end in sight. everything that happens over there is affecting people over here. emotions are running high among followers of all major religions, muslims, and many christians. since a sizable portion of the palestinians are christian are rallying for the cause of palestine, and many jews are rallying for the cause of israel. now both sides are reporting a rise of racism here in the us. and we're not just talking about cases of intimidation and harassment. one week end of the war, a 6 year old palestinian american boy was allegedly murdered by his landlord in chicago and an elderly. jewish man was knocked over and allegedly killed during po test encounter protests in california. in vermont, 3 palestinian college students were shot as they were walking down the street wearing a palestinian cap here like this one and speaking in arabic. so are these isolated incidents or a rising trend across the us today on talking with me?
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had a want the executive director of the council on american islamic relations, the nation's largest, most one civil rights and advocacy organization based here in washington. yeah, thank you for joining us and these are tough times and i just want to get right into the meat of things. so i don't know you, you, you walked into want adjuster, you through a hornet's nest with your comments. that you were glad to see the siege of gaza ended on october 7th. the white house deputy press that great andrew bates of the new york times said we condemn the shocking anti semitic statements in their strongest terms. what are your reactions to the white house and what were you trying to say? i'm sure the white house misconstrued my statement and a little bit of money and the way they knew, but unjustly, and without, without any justification. that's up to up i said, universe said that actually they saw the video, they saw my speed. there was not
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a 3rd before they did. so for that i asked the right types to reconsider the position and hear what i said. what i said is the siege on gas or is it leaking? and the processing is the freedom they deserve the same freedom that we are applauding. uh for the your people of your ukraine and other people who are under occupation or press. there shouldn't be nothing strange about this, but i always said, and i continue to say that i will fight on to submit isn't in the same way. and the same thing and bigger, i 5, the summer for you. because both phenomenons of people and those communities, both the jewish community and this and community are targeted because of the, for you, by extreme, is unusually my wife extremist. and we have been fighting this for 3 decades
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together. so anyone who doubts this, it would be the method of presenting my position and what iced and i never meant. and i never said actually that i support the violence against civilian people. uh both is there it is contesting in. anyway, any attack on any civilian and innocent people is that back on all. it was in fact as it most of them. i believe. parity and harming civilians is pathetic and so might be deep as the most them my values. and also my position as, as a kind of thing. and as most of us as a need to have the largest in the sense of what rights and advocacy organization, what i meant by that state is there's an indigo, lucky on the people of guessing for 17 years of the people, those guys have to play 3 medium, people are not allowed to move to leave,
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that's to they cannot go on. so you can do cation, they cannot go and seek medical health. they cannot live their lives normally, like anyone else on this plan. why the palestinians should be the exception that they should live in an open air prison without having that i to be free. so when i say i was happy, i meant that regular, that a single residence walk street in the land that was ethnically clients they had, has there ever been a moment where you saw the divisions exploding on college campuses? exploding we're learning even among the white house staff inside companies, a people on both sides of the line that are, that are not that are feeling pain. but using this moment to move their agendas, has there been any time like this in your past?
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this is the worst i'm a go see the in communities and the people should have the right to freely express their views. no matter how, how much we disagree with them in a civil society in a peaceful environment where we are equal and then we can exchange views and colleges, universities and schools shouldn't be a safe place for learning. exchanging ideas and even debate. think i guess about the silence people because of their views is on this because the democracy then should not be allowed to take place. as we have seen, students have been silence, have been suspended. student organizations have been deactivated and cancel, and this is a serious back from the americans, right? to freely express themselves, the right to have an assembly and speak through the power. it's an american
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tradition to silence people who oppose the government. the government indicates upper or so this slide for the policy is, is, is helpful. the democracy, the more conversation, the more debates we have, the more enlightened will be. and hopefully, we wouldn't be equipped delete or force for good to establish fees and prevent conflicts and oppression from taking place as we have seen. see what, what i have seen. also, this is a new phenomena. young jewish americans are on rising and speaking up their minds in protest of the israeli government and gets up by nature. they are protesting. the white house is up. ready search to what's taking place against garza and these voices are new and fresh when i, when i say new and they're not like very, very new. but they have been really a transforming themselves and 3 the angry,
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searching exchanging views with other people. and they have taken the stem that so many americans who are landing more about books taking place against the palestinians, both in the west bank and gaza. and they are taking steps. in fact, 66 percent of the american public believe that this government government should call for a few minutes use fire. unfortunately, only 7 percent of the members of congress are heating the cold. so a question to members of congress. why are you into listening to the american public? i mean, there, they elected you, they paid for your salaries. no other group of people. why don't you hit the wrong and, and there's a genocide that's taking place against the palestinian people on some college campuses. we had a very dramatic hearing in congress with re presidents of us from diversity, mit harbbard and the university pennsylvania. and since that hearing some of these
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university presidents have walk back their defense of speech in the sense that they were ask if people are calling for a genocide against the jews, what would they do about that? and these uh, university. presidents said they have a standard, a brief speech that has to tolerate that. and so i'm interested in whether we need to have a better debate about what constructive and fair and civil debate that's maybe deeply felt is, or whether we have to from your perspective, tolerate those that are calling for a genocide of jews, which i find outrages of course we should take a very, very soon and clear sense against any of called even for violence against innocent people. let alone a genocide against people because of who they are. mean this is a part of it. but also this is what it is doing to the front of senior people see what, what's new is what americans are learning about books and dr. jones. and i think
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the biggest fear is a, has, is uninformed american public. and that's why the, is there any pro big on the machine is just working hard they and on they are, you know, with all the sophistication but their negative is falling apart in front of the images of children being the bodies of children being pulled from the rubble of houses offers eventually, buildings that you know um, kindly is being wiped out of the tooth and destruction the, the, the, the, the, the block it preventing, the cussing is event to have water electricity fueled in this route. or rather now in garza, half of the population are, are homeless basically now. so people are seeing this and there is no censorship. if the ministry media decided not to show those images. and then the american
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people are smarter than they are. they are on social media and they see the reality on the ground and they are taking the stand and you know, so but that should not be misconstrued with the right of people to this city and also to push back against. is there any the genocide, the policy, i mean, if there's any pressure it shouldn't be against this administration that has given the green light for the setup is or has to do what they did in by a nation. all international laws and universe and batteries and even americans greeves to be the, the, the beacon of freedom and, and this chunk champion of human rights, especially this administration who claim that it was center human rights in it's folder and policy agent. we don't see any of that. we see the human edition or the palestinians with the we see it dismissing dismissal of their suffering. and we see
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that the giving is a noted lines. and now this administration, they feel the pressure and abandonment of the ottoman american list and communities a support for, for by then. and that's why we started to see it shift into it. not because, you know, all of a sudden they can about the right thing and they told the stall and the injury done so on. but now they started to feel that, you know, their, their, their, the approval rating is dropping, especially among young americans who see that this is a genocide taking place with the support. right. and, and let me ask you about that. let me ask you about the collapse of that support and youth and if you pull most of americans today, their support for president biden has eroded quite significantly as well. my question to you when they say we're not going to support joe biden. in 2024. the alternative, if things go the way they look today is donald trump, it do,
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they really believe that donald trump will be better in this equation. then joe biden, people should not skip the. those who are angry with this administration about the identity. in fact, this administration should be terrified from their own behavior from or their own decision. and to break away from their own base and correct and have a shift in their policy before it's too late tonight. or is it your sense that the power of the american muslim and arab community is going to have greater traction in this election than, i mean, i just, i'm trying to understand the political footprint, the political sway. this community has. what is your sense of it? of so do you see a michigan? uh the do you have a sizable community, the swing voters, they are the ones who basically decide where is this, what were with the said go uh, you know,
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4 foot 4 which candidate. and they have done a number of states. uh, georgia. uh, the form of prisons was looking for about those kinds of boats. and some community, it has more than 60000 votes. right. uh, wisconsin, the size of the use of the community, ohio. excuse me, even in florida. uh nevada. there are a size of the subcommittees that is organized including arizona. and this was some can we see is no fired up. so this president is serious about not losing them. maybe it's not too late for him to reconsider. so yes, they are very motivated organizing and they will not have a short money and they will not be emotional in that approach to do the responsible thing. but they want to let this administration and anyone who has taken the community for granted that they should think twice before they keep thinking the way they are now. we had,
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i am appalled by what i've read or some horrific and anti semitic attacks. and also is swamp phobic attacks i'm, i'm appalled by some behaviors that have been out there about people expressing views that i would consider constructive, not plan bullying or outrages losing their jobs, essentially being, quote, unquote cancelled or on both sides of this equation candidly. and, and i'm interested in the many requests of my understanding is that care is received over 2000 request for assistance. and as you want to dive down and these can you give us a quick snapshot, and it's probably not fair to give this to have a quick snapshot, but of what these people are feeling inside the united states in their communities, in their workplaces in their schools. what's going on? what's the temperature is from the 1st week of october on the 2nd, which is almost like a it's a,
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a disability at this time. we have received a 2171. i mean, the december 2nd. yeah, yeah. so yeah, yeah. and december, 2nd, we received the 2171, complains of requests for him. and that's like 172 percent covering the same 2 months of last year. so it is, it is a sky rocketing and significantly increase in the cases. and this is unprecedented, these cases 34 percent of them are present, siphoning and suppressing pretty speech with on college campuses. and universities and schools. uh, you know, the standings is schools organizations from expressing support to the policies or even expressing a position do they? is there any new policies or even this administration? and that's really, it should be a red flag for all americans when they see the significant attack on 3 speech up
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for, for americans to express themselves. 22 percent of prison complaints from employment . so many people lost their jobs that were filed for the job. of course i've been rescinded and c o as of a corporations work on i sound the for be a and i'm to kind of thing and feelings by sending emails. uh we stand with is there any uh uh, so that could really created one sided, a position on, on the 2nd, please gotta sign a completely unfair and created how side work environment for, for tens of thousands of not hundreds of thousands of, of interviews. and some of them protested these statements as of that been filed uh without any justification. we have seen about 17 percent of these uh,
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2171. they left it to hit crimes and hit speech. we have seen the case of what they are you only the 6 year old about us thing and it's about chicago, who was stab to the $26.00 times. and his mother was stab 12 times. she said why? we've seen him better than linkedin on vermont infinity broadcasting, and students who were shocked and enjoyed. one of them is now a, paralyzed from the neck down. we've seen many complaints like this one has many incidents, and this is the finding and steve, this is not unrelated or disconnected with what's taking place in, in, in the westbank today. as the humanize ation of the palestinians is completely related to the attacks on the pedestal and communicate with united states. because you have so many elected officials, the media, all you're talking about settlers,
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the settlers in the west bank attacking palestinian residents in the west bank. yeah, yeah, but also, but also here, so many electrical officials and commentators like, you know, have, have to humanize the palestinians and they have been justifying what's taking place in, in, in the, in against godsa. and that is connected to the impact of a sound before we. i love the brothers thing and sent them and in this country so. so this is, this is really making america most of our students and even provide a science support as in this country and save an unprotected. and it's a very dangerous environment. you had, i have watched you over many years be attacked, and yet you still call for constructive dialogue. you're willing to sit down with people. but, you know, as the president of harvard said, regrettably, you know, she, she felt sorry for what she said. words matter, what is your experience?
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i won't ask this very carefully where it more there are people on both sides use really side. those victims of family members of those attacked the nation on october 7th. and now just so many in palestine as they have seen, as you said children, women, others killed, that are in a sense of this conflict. what is your advice to people in a time of rage and frustration, and anger about words and how you get from this moment to the other side, where you hopefully get to something that will eventually have to sort this out and get to a different moment and equilibrium that hopefully has more justice baked in into it for the palestinians. but what is your advice on words? i think people shouldn't be mindful of the humanity to for each other. eventually we are brothers and sisters and we are equal in the eyes of god. and we should
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be equal in the eyes of egypt. and we have 2 or 3 each other with dignity and respect. which would not allow any sense of superiority, fall sense of superiority to become policy and behavior. and to inflict suffering and being on other people just because they don't believe the way we believe or that cultural is different or the language is different or their background is different. if we seem to align our sense with universal badges of dignity, hundreds fit for and justice foothold, we will be the humanizing other people and the immunization. because the 1st step towards the genocide, the jews have gone through this experience in europe. in many places the seniors are going through with this. now in the palestine. we need political leaders not to exploit divisions,
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no matter how legitimate or legitimate to pass the political agent, such as nothing yeah. was been trying and accused of corruption. and so the throwing up the, the, the legal system is, are right, the one that this, this work is done. you might be interested and he will lose your job. we want our administration to be a responsible god bless america with think with the sources we should use the for the sources, nothing. the white people not to establish, call on these and being forced companies. we have to use these resources. the god bless the somebody that and the american people who gave us that hard money in terms of taxpayers, we should trust or being we are invested with these other sources. we should use them to establish peace and equality among people which would love to reinforce occupations of apartheid. and we should stop dehumanizing the,
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the kind of thing and people we shouldn't bring. it isn't better stimulus to the sam table and ask them to reconcile the narratives and sit for the genuine piece because everyone wants to live in peace. but you cannot live in peace if your neighbor is not in peace. and if you look at your neighbor as a sub human and you can explode them and you can subjugate them, just because you think that somehow you, our problem is something that was never problems to you. i mean, we have to at least couple conflicts from the religious dogma and just be city as a human beings. and 3 people, people with big need to have respect, even if it helps us to give the fall of an influence. because that's what humanity requires us to do well in the hot a lot co founder and executive director of the council on american islamic relations. i really appreciate you joining us today. thank you. thank you. so what's the bottom line? palestine is real, have ripped open,
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deep fissures between communities inside the united states, businesses, universities, media organization, even the white house and the pentagon. they're all divided over narratives. they bring to the crisis as lama phobia is surging, and so is anti semitism. these are emotional and complicated issues, and we're seeing some folks become vigilantes prior to curtail the rights and the speech of others, while others are using america's free speech standard to other outrages and irresponsible claims and aspirations. there's just no neat way out of this. the sad truth is that we're seeing so much death and destruction in gaza and it will be a long time before conditions move to a more constructive tone in conversation with just a long way from that moment in my view. and sadly, that's the bottom line. the, [000:00:00;00]
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the way you're the mazda for the gym for us to travel. sure. of which of, of, of us for preferred that his life is that a security medicaid, the last state which has me enough, i realize they had to frustrate you out of who's that has been stuck and accumulated. let's hit the wall, the movie g at the case that has been provided sort of cream in for so we have to cross those really additional these are some of assessment for his i that he has, i'll just put it in the cash will some additional got us all of my them to charge the unique perspective. choice for peace is the way for me to take action voices. you don't often hear problem. nations do stand with palestine, it's the same service. shared connect with our community and tap into conversations, you will find elsewhere, brand new episodes,
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just to stream on these cultures solutions that gives us know for future that we have to find creative solutions, not just turn our backs on the. don't think that has a number, think about it as a person yourself and that person shoes. so as you can see for this is my us, my life, or at least in my life, those dentures. we want, we want the education, we want to go. because the women in my country, the not sweet to come up to on we are in the night all a to we are human beings in this area to be trees and the coins. we are walking in their footsteps, our ancestors whatever has been done before. can be done even better, as long as a human being is doing it. you just have to keep pushing because no one else can see the visions keywords. you the
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