10/31/23 10/31/23 ." [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> they what to do populate the gaza strip completely from the entire population and for all in the land of egypt and sinai. amy: an internal israeli government document has revealed the israeli ministry of intelligence is recommending the forcible transfer of the entire population of gaza to the sinai

peninsula in egypt. as israel intensifies its ground invasion and the palestinian death toll tops 8500, we will speak to the palestinian writer leila el-haddad who is from gaza, as well as the israeli historian ilan pappé. 50 years ago, he fought in the israeli military during the 1973 arab-israeli war but has since become a leading critic of the israeli occupation. then the united autoworkers have ended an historic six-week strike against the big three automakers after reaching tentative new deals. >> we have shown the companies, the american public, and the whole world that the working class is not done fighting. we are just getting started. amy: all that and more, coming up.

amy: welcome to democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united nations children's agency has warned israel is committing rampant grave violations of human rights against children in the besieged gaza strip. on monday, unicef's executive director catherine russell briefed the u.n. security council on the humanitarian situation in gaza, warning israel's assault is killing or injuring more than 420 children in gaza every day -- a number she said should "shake each of us to our core." >> i implore the security council to immediately adopt a resolution that reminds parties of their obligations under international law and calls for cease-fire that demands to allow safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, demands the immediate and safe release of all of ducted children, and urges party to a four children special protection to which they are entitled.

amy: palestinian health officials say over 8500 people, mostly women and children, have been killed over the past 26 days. on monday, an israeli warplane bombed the turkish-palestinian friendship hospital, the only hospital in gaza for cancer patients. the attack set part of the building on fire and damaged medical equipment, drawing a strong condemnation from turkey. in the past 24 hours, israeli air raids have also struck near the european hospital, the indonesia hospital, and flattened homes in the vicinity of the al-quds hospital where some 14,000 palestinians are sheltering. israeli troops and tanks have pushed deeper into the gaza strip after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu monday refused to agree to a cease-fire. >> calls for cease-fire our calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen.

amy:'s comments came as hamas released a video showing three israeli women held captive in gaza. in the video, a hostage fiercely criticizes the israeli prime minister for failing to prevent the october 7 attack. netanyahu dismissed it as a cruel psychological propaganda. on monday, israel said it had freed the israeli soldier who was taken prisoner by hamas october 7. israeli officials also announced the death of a 23-year-old who was kidnapped by hamas from a music festival in southern israel. al jazeera is condemning threats by the israeli army against the family of its gaza correspondent youmna elsayed. on monday, elsayed's husband received a call from israeli forces warning family members to immediately leave their home or be killed in a bombardment. the threat comes just days after an israeli strike killed the

-- 12 family members of al jazeera's gaza bureau chief wael al-dahdouh, including his two children and grandson. al jazeera said in a statement, "israel's actions continue with impunity as they attempt to silence the messenger." democracy now! spoke to youmna elsayed last week. >> homes were targeted. hospitals were targeted. these same areas that people were asked to evacuate. hundreds of families who had evacuated from the north and from gaza city were killed in those bombings. when we say there is no safe place in gaza, we are not lying. amy: at least already journalists have been killed one since october 7 across the region. among the casualties is reuters visual journalist issam abdallah, who was killed in southern lebanon on october 13.

a preliminary investigation by reporters without borders found abdallah and the group of journalists he was with were targeted by israeli forces. rsf said, "two strikes in the same place in such a short space of time, just over 30 seconds, from the same direction, clearly indicate precise targeting." to see our interview with his friend, go to democracynow.org. in canada, crowds of protesters on monday led several sit-ins at the offices of parliament members in montreal and across at least a dozen other canadian cities demanding an immediate ceasefire in gaza. >> we are joined by over 20 occupations across the country from coast-to-coast of individuals not affiliated with any what organization to individuals who represent vast majority want to see our government taking action on the genocide in live-streamed. we what an end to the seizure a -- siege in gaza.

amy: meanwhile, in toronto, over 100 workers rallied outside the manufacturing plant and global headquarters of the security and defense company inkas, which produces arms exported to israel. protesters are demanding canada end its weapons trade with israel, which they say are being used for the ethnic cleansing of palestinians. in russia's north caucasus region, a mob of hundreds of young men stormed the runway of an airport in dagestan sunday evening, appearing to search for jewish passengers on a flight from israel. police say they arrested 60 of the rioters. the founder of telegrams that after the attack, the social media platform had shut down the accounts that organize the them up. dagestan's governor condemned the mob, writing on telegram, "there is no honor in hurling abuse at strangers, searching their pockets looking for their passports!" on monday, russian president vladimir putin blamed western spy agencies and ukrainian agents for the riot.

the white house dismissed the claim and condemned putin for not doing more to condemn the violence. here in the united states, federal officials say there's been a spike in hate crimes and threats against jewish, arab, and muslim communities since israel began its assault on gaza in response to hamas's attack on october 7. in new york, the fbi is investigating violent threats against jewish student organizations on the cornell university campus. new york governor kathy hochul visited cornell monday promising the state would boost efforts to monitor social media for anti-semitic hate speech. in nevada, police have arrested a las vegas man who allegedly left voice mails that included anti-semitic comments and threats of violence against senator jacky rosen, who is jewish. in illinois, a 71-year-old landlord accused of fatally stabbing a six-year-old palestinian american boy 27

times pleaded not guilty on monday to charges of murder and hate crime charges. the boy's name was wadea al-fayoume. his mother hanaan shahin was left hospitalized with serious injuries from the assault. the landlord reportedly shouted "you muslims must die" during the attack. in colorado, authorities say a heavily-armed man died by suicide before carrying out an apparent planned massacre at an amusement park. police that the body of the unnamed 20-year-old was found saturday morning at the glenwood caverns adventure park wearing body armor and tactical gear. he was armed with an ar-15 style assault rifle, a semi-automatic pistol, multiple magazines, and explosive devices. in maine, newly surfaced records show police ignored repeated warnings about the threats made by the army reservist last week that left 18 people dead and 13 others wounded. in mid-july, an army commander was told that robert card should

not have a weapon, handle ammunition, or participate in live fire exercises. the commander alerted local police but it's unclear if officers took any action. and just six weeks ago, police records show card punched a friend and stated that he was planning to "shoot up the drill center" where his army reserve unit is based. an officer performed a wellness check on card but gave up after card did not come to the door. in denver, colorado, opening arguments got underway monday in a case brought by voters seeking to bar donald trump from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot. lawyer eric olson argued trump should be removed under the insurrection provision of the 14th amendment adopted after the civil war. >> our constitution prevents people who betrayed the solemn oath as trump did here from serving in office again. colorado law gives these voters the right to make sure their votes will count by coming to

this court and ensuring only eligible candidates appear on our ballots. amy: a similar lawsuit is being heard by minnesota's supreme court this week. in more campaign news, mike pence dropped his long-shot bid to win the republican party's nomination. trump remains the front-runner in the race, by far, even though he faces 91 felony counts across four criminal indictments. meanwhile, minnesota congressmember dean phillips said friday he will challenge president biden for the democratic party's nomination in 2024. phillips has made biden's age a centerpiece of his campaign saying, "i think it's time for the new generation to rise." the united auto workers on monday reached a tentative agreement with general motors, more than six weeks after thousands of auto workers walked off the job for a historic strike against the big three u.s. automakers. the deal followed similar contracts reached with stellantis and ford in recent days. this is uaw president shawn fain. >> we have won record agreements

. we have united our membership like never before. we have shown the companies, the american public, and the whole world that the working class is not done fighting. in fact, we are just getting started. amy: the agreement with gm includes a 25% wage increase over 4.5 years, among other benefits. we'll have more on the strike later in the broadcast. and today marks the end of pen america's inaugural prison banned books week, which revealed how prison censorship is now the most pervasive form of information suppression in the united states. more books are banned by prisons and jails than the country's schools and libraries combined. there has been a rise in content-neutral bans that require incarcerated people to get books from "approved vendors" and block free and used literature from family and friends. prison officials are also citing security and sexual concerns to censor scientific and creative literature. this is kwaneta harris, an incarcerated nurse and writer in solitary confinement in texas.

>> [indiscernible] amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. top united nations officials are expressing growing alarm over the humanitarian crisis in gaza as the enclave's last remaining hospitals are on the verge of shutting down due to a lack of fuel as israel intensifies its ground invasion while rejecting growing calls for a humanitarian ceasefire. palestinian health officials say over people, mostly women and 8500 children, have been killed over the past 26 days. the head of unicef said the "the lack of clean water and safe sanitation is on the verge of

becoming a catastrophe." philippe lazzarini, the head of unrwa, the u.n. agency for palestine refugees, repeated his call for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire, saying its "become a matter of life and death for millions." >> the current siege is collective punishment. two weeks with just a trickle of eight last week means services are crumbling, medicine is running out, food and water are running out, fuel is running out. the streets of gaza i started overflowing with sewage. amy: in north gaza, israel attacked areas next to the indonesian hospital on monday where doctors are struggling to treat patients. >> the damage has been caused

more than one area in this unit. the damage has led to the disconnection of electricity line of this unit. as you know, this means know the true city for the patients and injured here, which directly threatens their lives and could lead to the death of many of these patients. in a few hours from now, the power will be cut to the limited fuel and the generators. running out of fuel means power will be cut. meaning certain death for many of the patients in the icu, some of whom need respirators as well as patients in the surgical suites. patients and other units who number around 240, 250. amy: we go now to gaza city where we are joined by dr. hammam alloh, who works at al shifa hospital, the largest hospital in gaza. thank you so much for joining us. i know you just left the hospital a few minutes ago. you told jewish currents

yesterday, i had to stop the resuscitation of a patient who went into cardiac arrest in the dialysis unit because if she made it back to life, we had dove into later to offer her. we have to prioritize patients who are younger, healthier. we have lost the ability to provide true care. if you can talk about the situation right now at your hospital and overall? >> thank you for contacting me. this is not an incident i would really love to keep remembering but what you just said is exactly what happened to me. as physicians, we are trained to resuscitate patients who go into cardiac arrest, hoping they would make it back to life and consequently put them on until leaders to help them live again, go back to life -- ventilators to help them live again, go back to life. i had to top my nurses and

physicians from doing this. they asked me, why are you asking us to stop resuscitating the patients? it is like you're asking us to kill her. i told them we have no better options, we have no other choices because if she makes a back to life, we have no ventilators to offer her. and if there is any, we would prevent a younger, healthier injured patient from entertaining that victory by being ventilated. i don't know if you would imagine the amount of regret, the amount of sadness i am living with since this happened with me, but i am sorry to say there was no better options to go for except stop in the resuscitation. and if this tells us anything, it tells us how things are really getting worse and worse. i was talking to a journalist in

our ago -- an hour ago and he kept asking me, you told me a week earlier that things are bad and are these the same because they are telling me things are very bad now. i said, this is probably a very strange answer from my side because things were really bad 1, 2 weeks into war but now they are getting really worse. we have patients admitted to emergency departments where they should not be admitted, we should be making beds for new patients. we have patients in a closed unit where you offer a service and when you're done with your patients, you close your doors but we can't do this anymore. we are allowing people to live in the unit actually. we are admitting patients who need care other than dialysis patients.

the few trucks that were allowed in with aid to gazan people actually is a must nothing compared to what we need. many of the trucks that were allowed in had gloves and this is not what we're looking for. we are looking for water, medication, things of a major concern for providing real health care for people in need. the number of injured patients is increasing. the number of people with chronic illness with regular maintenance and prevention of medication is increasing. we are not capable of providing the care other than keeping people dying. this is the only thing we can do. and we cannot properly provide this care because we are running

out of medications, of supplies. amy: dr. hammam alloh, you sit every day, i see a fear in their eyes that i can't do much about. it is very painful. if you have kids, you know how horrible it is not to be able to comfort them, to make them hope for anything beyond living one more day. if you can talk about that in the hospital, would you set is not just a hospital for sick people, thousands are taking refuge at al-shifa and al-quds and the other hospitals. and also we are talking to you as you just left al-shifa. how do you comfort your family? what is happening to your family as you are at the hospital? >> i tell them at least we still have a house with a door to close. but many thousands, refugees, people like us, who used to live in dignity have no longer houses

and no doors to close, to protect them as they are surrounded by wastewater, by garbage. they don't have a continuous supply of clean water to drink. many of them have a lot of missing members of their families. they don't know if they are alive or not. i tell them, at least we still have a house to live in but they don't have. surprisingly, my four-year-old and five-year-old kids accept this as a comfort, as a better situation compared to those refugees living -- they are living actually in hospitals, but it is not like they are living inside the hospital departments. many of them do not have enough space to go into hospital

hallways so they are living around the buildings. surprisingly, my very young kids accept this. amy: the israeli military has dropped thousands of pamphlets warning people where you are in northern gaza to leave. why don't you go with your family south? >> and if i go, who treats my patients? we are not animals. we have a right to receive proper health care. we can't just leave. amy: the world health organization talked about this issue of telling doctors to leave their patients, choosing your own lives over your patients. can you talk about that choice since a mini patients can't

leave? for example, babies in incubators. >> i went to american school and for my post graduate degrees for 14 years, so to think about only my life and not my patients? i am asking you, ma'am. do you think this is the reason i went to med school? to go on about my life? this is the reason why i became a doctor. amy: can you talk about what is happening to the hospitals? just today we talked about and in the last few days the attack on the indonesian hospital, the turkish hospital is the only cancer hospital? can you talk about the significance of these places, both as a sanctuary -- thousands

of people taking refuge -- and for patients? >> the indonesia hospital is providing health care for over 400,000 citizens in the gaza strip. this part of the gaza strip is being split from the rest of the gaza strip. if this hospital stops providing care, so we are exposing many thousands of palestinians souls to living -- to the dangers of disease and death. the hospital had modest capabilities even before. providing for cancer patients across the gaza strip. i don't know how many patients and health care professionals were wounded yesterday.

many patients are dying now because they are not safe with their families to go to receive care and continue to chemotherapy -- their chemotherapy. the ministry of health has declared two hours ago also that the electricity would be cut off from al-shifa hospital, the largest hospital representing 40% of the health care in the gaza strip and providing services for many machine-dependent patients like the ventilated patients. so if electricity is cut out from this hospital, so we are directly deciding those patients are going to unnecessarily die.

medicated patients will die in minutes. other patients will die in hours today's from stopping -- two days after stopping the dialysis. many patients are now being treated with a modest supplies we have. many diabetic patients are being admitted to hospital because of their insulin is not being kept in refrigerators so it is not working. we ran out by many medications like antifungal medications. we have a patient who will die this week with an invasion of fungal infection that killed her because we had no medicine to offer her. my answer to your question is so many people in the gaza strip in

hours to days if this continues the same what is going on. amy: the middle east reports on a baby who died said his death certificate has been issued before his birth certificate. one day old baby has been killed by israeli bombings in gaza. israel, the military, the government says al-shifa, your hospital, is the site of hamas command and control. can you respond to that, doctor? >> i have been working at this hospital for over two years. i never saw this. i am no lawyer, no attorney, but this is how i am simply replying. i never saw this for over two years. if this were true, i would see

at least -- amy: i want to ask about the shipments of aid coming in. normally, in normal times, if there is ever a normal time in gaza, over 400 trucks a day. we are talking about a trickle of trucks now, maybe a dozen, maybe eight in a day. have you ever seen this aid arriving at the hospital? and can you talk about what you need right now? >> well, that number you just mentioned was allowed in the gaza strip is actually what you're referring to. it is nothing compared to what we need, nothing compared to the shortage in supplies, machines, and medications. the only thing, as i was leaving the hospital today, was iv fluid

bottles. i don't even know if this came through the aid trucks in the few couple of days or that was from the ministry of health. in addition, i happened to ask about in the hospital administration what they mentioned that was all about the gloves. this is not what we are needing. maybe the least you are in need for. this is nothing compared to what we are in need for. in terms of supplies and medications. amy: finally, dr. hammam alloh,

your message at this point to the united states, where we are based, and to the world? >> actually, the message has not changed since the beginning of this war. first, we need this war to end because we are real humans, we are not animals. we have the right to live freely. second, if your citizens were to live under the circumstances, what would you do for them? this is exactly what we would like you to do for us as a superpower country, as the united states. because we are as human as your u.s. citizens are. we were expecting earlier, i

mean, for humanitarian and health care catastrophe and crises but what we are seeing maybe a few trucks allowed into gaza is nothing compared to us. so we are being exterminated. we are being -- you pretend to care for humanitarian and human rights, which is not what we are living now. prove us wrong. please, do something. thank you. amy: dr. hammam alloh speaking to us from gaza city where he works at the largest hospital, al-shifa hospital. please, be safe. >> i hope i will be. thank you.

amy: coming up, we speak to the israeli historian ilan pappé, author of many books, including "the ethnic cleansing of palestine." stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: "palestine will be free" by lebanese-swedish singer, maher zain, who sang at an istanbul solidarity protest on saturday. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the an peace report. i'm amy goodman. internal israeli government documents have revealed the israeli ministry of intelligence is recommending the forcible transfer of the entire population of gaza to sinai peninsula in egypt. the 10 page document, dated october 13, has been published in full by the israeli news outlets local call and plus 972. the document recommends transferring all to egypt and setting up "sterile zone of several kilometers near the border between egypt and gaza. in addition, recommends israel prevent the "return of the

population to activities residences to the border with israel." fears of a new nakba having grown ever since israel ordered all palestinians living in gaza city and a north gaza to vacate their homes and head south. on monday, palestinian u.n. accused them of trying to depopulate gaza. >> they want to depopulate the gaza strip completely from the entire population and grow them in the land of egypt and the sinai desert. no one should justify our killing or find reasons to give more time to the killer. call for an end of this assault on an entire nation. stop the killing and the west bank i settlers and occupation forces in the forced

displacement underway there. amy: we go now to haifa in israel where we're joined by the israeli historian ilan pappé. he is professor of history and the director of the european centre for palestine studies at the university of exeter. he is the author of several books, including "the ethnic cleansing of palestine," "a history of modern palestine: one land, two peoples," and "the idea of israel: a history of power and knowledge." 50 years ago, ilan pappé fought in the israeli military during the 1973 arab-israeli war and since has become a leading critic of israel's occupation. professor, welcome back to democracy now! if you can start off by talking about your take on what is happening today? you just heard the doctor in gaza who just left al-shifa a few minutes ago. >> yes, amy, it is good to be

back on your program. thank you for having me. i think what we're seeing now unfold in front of her eyes is a genocidal situation by which people are targeted whether they are children, babies come in hospital's or in schools. this is a massive operation of killing, of ethnic cleansing, of depopulation. the pretext for that kind of savagery is revenge for what hamas did october 7, but i think the real intention here is not just revenge but trying to exploit what happened october 7 to create new realities and historical -- you called it a new nakba. i think it is never really ended for the palestinians.

this is really a horrific situation that can only be stopped from the outside because there still occupation inside israel to stop the occupations for to care about the lives of innocent people despite what the israeli army claims to do amy:. i want to play short clip of prime minister netanyahu speaking over the weekend. >> you must remember what amalek has done to you. and we do remember and we are fighting. our brave troops who are now in gaza or around gaza and in all other regions in israel are joining this chain of jewish heroes, a chain that started 3000 years ago from joshua until the heroes of 1948, the six-day

war, the 1973 war, our hero troops. they have one supreme main goal, to completely defeat the murderous enemy and to guarantee our existence in this country. we have always said, never again. never again is now. amy: and i want to play netanyahu from last night. >> call for a cease-fire. a call for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen. amy: can you respond to the israeli prime minister, professor? >> yes. i think that main intent is to make sure people to not understand the context in which the hamas operation occurred. to totally forget about the

years of inhuman siege on gaza, 56 years of ruthless occupation and ethnic cleansing in the west bank, and 75 years of not allowing refugees to come back to their homes. i think this is an attempt to nazify -- which is not you, by the way. then denazification is meant to -- he's policies without any consideration to international law, human rights. secondly, to divert us from talking about the real issue here which is not the hamas or its actions on october 7, but rather the situation that bred this kind of violence.

we should talk about the source of violence has not changed. we have millions of palestinians for years being oppressed, ruled, and controlled by. they are fighting with the means they have. this is going to go on unless of course there is a willingness to go back to the negotiation table and ask why the violence erupted in the first place and the best ways to prevent another cycle of violence in the future. there's a second reason for netanyahu's rhetoric. of course, he does not want the israeli elite or the international community to deal with his own problems and to say this is now the situation where you cannot at all -- this is a domestic issue. you cannot talk about me or my failures.

this is a threat to israel and therefore this kind of rhetoric will continue. and it is very dangerous, not to mention the fact when he uses the holocaust, it abuses the holocaust memory because of the horror that happened october 7, this is not the holocaust. there is no comparison between palestinians who act after years of oppression in siege to nazis who just target jews because they are jews. this language is not the one to be used. i think netanyahu is trying to galvanize a very indicative israel behind him, and the results of this kind of policy are unfolding in front of our eyes and we just have this horrific and very moving kind of

report that you have with the doctor from gaza before me. amy: professor, can you talk about the hostage families? they don't get a lot of attention, what they are calling for, though they get tremendous attention for who these hostages are and the people who work killed on october 7. but there are many, for example, we interviewed noy katzman, his brother was killed october 7. he said his brother was a peace activist and he himself said "not in my brother's name." he called for a cease-fire. i what to ask you about this force of the hostage families and about the everybody for everybody proposal. on friday, just after we got off their broadcast, it said imminent major release. some thought netanyahu was

pushing forward with the invasion more quickly because he did not want this possibility to happen. but explain the proposal of all hostages, over 200 of them, in return for all palestinian prisoners and who these prisoners are, close to 7000 of them. >> yes, i think not everybody among the families because i don't think they're all made of the same cloth, but many of them understand that the only way to bring their dear ones back home is this kind of exchange of prisoners. we are talking about thousands of palestinians who are incarcerated in israeli jails, many of them without trial. the allegations against them very from participation in

violent actions against israeli citizens or soldiers and those who are incarcerated for being a member of a palestinian organization. some of them are very young. some of them are women. some of them are old and have been there for a very long time. and some of them were recently incarcerated without trial in the west bank. they are all part of the palestinian liberation. it needs a different israeli perception for those who participated in the struggle to be able to say, indeed, this is only way forward, to release all of them and receive all of the people who were taken by the hamas on october 7. what i can tell you, amy, which

is interesting, former generals in the israeli army, former heads of the mossad and others are supporting this kind of a change. this is a very important position they are holding. let me explain the fear on yahoo!'s side -- netanyahu's side to let this extend longer because the voices that are calling for session exchange are not coming from the extreme left, they're coming from very powerful people who were heading some of israel's most important institutions such as the mossad, the army, and the secret service. will it take place? i don't know. it depends very much on how things are on the ground to help with the invasion. nobody in israel gives the israeli public details of how it

goes on but it seems it does not go as well as the israelis claim it does. and the international community. quite a few people who are held by also have jewish citizenship. this is the other way to release the people who were taken on saturday. neither israeli nor peace building will bring all the people back. this is a situation where you can solve the problem and not delay it for another five or six years with babies and others who might not survive a long stay in captivity. amy: professor, you were born to german-jewish parents who fled persecution, the nazis, in the 1930's. you five in 1973 in the israeli military. can you talk about your life

trajectory and how you came to write a book talking about the ethnic cleansing of palestine and the response in israeli society, your university, and how you ended up in exeter? >> it was a journey. there was no one moment, awakening that makes you actually take decisions which will frame you as a traitor in your own society and definitely would leave you with the reference group in your own society. for me, it was a journey that had many important stations such as spending some time as a postgraduate student outside of israel, having an arab supervisor, and historian who is interested in the documentation that became available about 1948. so all of these, to be able to

research as a professional historian history or documentation that revealed evidence that contradicted in a very significant way the narrative of which i grew up on stuff all of this led me to a moment where i thought i understand what is going on in palestine, what went on in historical palestine, and i saw quite clearly, at least from my perspective, who were the victims, who were the colonizer, who was an ethnic cleanser, who was the victim of ethnic cleansing. and because my parents came from germany and because we lost a lot of people in the holocaust, and because of that legacy, i felt i could not be indifferent to the suffering of the palestinians, nor did i want to

be part the society that caused this suffering. i think as the years go by and the research becomes more and more intensive and my understanding and relationship with the palestinians increased and widened, i am even more confident today that i was in the early years of my career either as an activist or professional historian that i am at peace with my moral positions with israel and zionism. in 2006, that position led to pressure from my university to leave the university and resign, so i had no choice. i had to leave. i was lucky to be offered a position in university in britain. i am still a citizen of israel.

i'm still going to israel and spitting time in israel and britain, trying to decide between the two places. i still believe what i cherish as human rights, as human morality is the only basis for better life for everyone concerned, jews and palestinians alike. a state in the future that would be based on equality, that would not discriminate against people because of their nationality, religion, or culture. and rectify past evils and allow refugees to return and hopefully build a state that would radiate the middle east as a whole. amy: ilan pappé, thank you for being with us, professor of history and the director of the european centre for palestine studies at the university of exeter. he is the author of several books, including "the ethnic cleansing of palestine." coming up, the united auto

workers has added its historic six-week strike against the big three automakers. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: james connolly by black47 featuring gary og. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in a major victory, the united auto workers announced monday they reached a tentative agreement with general motors following deals with ford and stellantis last week.

this brings an end to uaw's historic 46-day-long strike against the detroit big three automakers. uaw president shawn fain addressed members monday. >> we have won regular agreements at ford, stellantis, and now gm. we have united our membership like never before. we have shown the companies, the american public, and the whole world that the working class is not done fighting. in fact, we're just getting started. amy: on monday, we spoke to scott houdieson, a member of uaw local 551 who works at ford's chicago assembly plant and is the steering committee chair of unite all workers for democracy, the union's reform caucus. >> our plant was part of the third round of standup strikes. the strategy was to play one

company off the other looking for better terms. it is a new strategy. in the past, they have targeted one company and negotiate with him while the others were on hold. the standup strike also had an inside strategy where workers that were still on the job at different plants were instructed to refuse voluntary overtime and try to work to the letter of the contract so that they would kind of slow things down for the company. there was an inside/outside strategy for that. amy: for more, we are joined in detroit by jane slaughter, founder of labor notes where she has covered the auto industry since 1979. before that she was briefly an auto worker. she's the author of many books, including "secrets of a successful organizer."

her recent piece in jacobin is headlined "we can thank a union reform caucus for the militant uaw strike." welcome to democracy now! tell us what you understand these deals entail. >> they entail a whole lot of money. they will be life changing for some of the lowest paid members of the union, the so-called temps who worked for years, although being called temps. these people who are now making $17 an hour within four years will be making over $40 an hour. the union has made a huge effort to bring its lower paid members and to get rid of the nefarious tiers that have been inviting workforce in auto since 2007,

2009. amy: how do they a call this? >> by striking and by organizing the members. the new administration has only fully been in power since late march but they immediately stepped out to try to get members involved in the way they have never been before in letting the companies know they were willing to strike and ready to fight to bring their wages up and undo some of the other injustices that have happened over the years. so they got members doing things that all practice ticketing. they have demonstrations outside the plants. they had everyone wearing red shirts. it is a signal to management that we are all unified here. it was really unprecedented. this union, that the members would be organized to let their feelings be known to the company. amy: if you can talk about, jane, who shawn fain is? the headline of your peace,

"secrets of a successful organizer." >> none of this would have been happening if it were the old uaw. leaders were caught in egregious corruption, 13 went to jail including two presidents for embezzlement and other crimes dealing with the crimes in an and prisons -- unprincipled way. the government stepped in and give the members opportunity to decide that they wanted to be able to choose their top leaders rather than in being chosen as in the old system at a convention that was tightly controlled. so once that members have the right to vote on their top officers, they voted in this new slate. this slate that is called uawd, formed in 2019, expressly with the purpose of trying to get the

right to vote. they won -- ran seven candidates for the executive board and they were all elected. as they had a majority on the executive board, things could start changing from the top, encouraging the members also to change things from the bottom. amy: can you talk about the strategy used come the standup strikes? >> yes. this was a way to keep the company's off-balance. boy, did it work. it seemed like management had no idea how to respond to this new strategy. they were used to a very ceremonial, ritualistic process of bargaining. it was the same every time. this time shawn fain, the president, said, we are going to not let you know what we're going to be doing next. so they would call strikes at -- three plants to start with and they added in a bunch of

responsibilities and each week new plans would be added. if a company was cooperating and giving in some things at the bargaining table, they might not get struck that week. but if they were being recalcitrant, then they would get struck. toward the end, the union really struck the most profitable plants, and that is when the companies caved. amy: when does the vote take place? people are going back to work. >> there going back to work most of the vote will take place sometime over the next two, maybe three weeks. amy: what about places like tesla that are nonunion? >> it was just announced an organizing committee at tesla is in existence. the union very much wants to organize tesla but also all of the other many, many nonunion auto plans that exist now. as you know, toyota, mercedes,

bmw, nissan and many others, set up mostly in the south, those plans are nonunion. now, and my view, there will be tremendous incentive to join -- amy: we will