khalil gibran muhammad is professor of history, race, and public policy the harvard kennedy school.onse? >> we live in a country where the question of how we ought to make use of our resources, what kind of political structure we should have in order to decide on leadership, arell political questions and we en fighting the question about how to distributehose resourc since the beginning, since 1619 in the dete between indentured servitudand chattel slavery. when fox news suggests activism to advance a position of a more equitable, more gala terry and economy, called socialism if you like, or activism in pursuit of a multiracial democracy, call that woke if you like, is just another way of aiculating the same thing the right does whic is to say shoulonly be teaching capitalism, only teaching individual freedom. is absurd but it is good propaganda. my job -- our jobs as professors and faculties who have written an protest to what is going on, it is our job to actually tell the fullest history and account of the country we actually live in the past to the present. that is our job. it i

again, as you said, we did last month the harvard kennedy school restored can roth's fellowship aftertially rescinding it over his criticism of israeli human rights abuses. he appeared on democracy now! to warn against the chilling effect of harvard's initial decision. >> this is a very serious problem. not just a problem for me personally, not impeding my career and a serious way, but i think about, first of all, the younger academics who don't have the visibility that i do, who are going to take from this lesson the view that if you touch israel, if you criticize israel, that can be a career-killing move. you'll get canceled. and that's a disastrous signal to send. and may go to see that whole interview, go to democracynow.org. he is not the harvard kennedy school because there was so much international outcry, harvard kate and reoffered him the position. i want to ask you about sarah margon, who was nominated to serve as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor. then she came under intense criticism from senate republicans, most notably jim risch of idaho

earlier the harvard kennedy school rescinded a fellowship offered to the former head of human rights watch kenneth roth over criticism of israel's oppression of palestinians. the decision drew widespread condemnation and a storm of protests which force the dean to reverse the decision. civil rights attorney robert patillo believes it's hard to voice, even mild criticism of israel in the us. we've created this place where the israeli government is sacrosanct and cannot be criticized. so it came out we talked about even we've had congresspeople simply say we need to respect the human rights of palestinians and them be called anti semitic. i think that what we're saying is that the u. s. violating their own principles, violating international law, in order to prop up these really regime, we all know that that yahoo has been a voter out of office by his people on multiple occasions will yet still still will returns to power. he has one of the most right when governments in israeli history currently at the united states is complicit by not allowing even the most mild criticism of the curr

eyes maryana thank you maryana bodzherin, a senior researcher at the belfargan center of the harvard kennedy schools just with us in odesa oblast, citizens continue to volunteer battalions of the guards are advancing in parallel with the formation of another military formation in the composition of the black sea sich battalion of the armed forces of ukraine. who can join it and why are the odessans going to the assault brigades in the material of tetyana bazhanar conscripted citizens of ukraine aged 18 to 60 who are on military registration, as well as internally displaced persons and those temporarily living in the territory of odesa region can join the ranks of the voluntary formation in the black sea sich, the personnel of the future battalion will undergo military training according to modern standards nato countries and in the future will protect the odesa region from the invaders. with equipment and weapons, the most important thing is preparation, preparation with the participation of instructors who have combat experience, for example, ato oos or, of course, this full-scale war , that is, t

territory. complicate efforts to establish a palestinian state. ly, corey is a senior fellow at harvard kennedy school, is as israel won't be intimidated by western condemnation, you've got 2 things going on here. you got the big western powers really coming to the crunch of the question that they've never addressed for the last 3040 years, which is, are they serious about implementing international or equally for palestinians and israelis or they're just gonna issue statements when israel is do something illegal or criminal, but they take strong actual on the palestinians. do something the other one is for the israeli really implementing this policy are taken from the palestinians of settling it's colonizing it with their own people, mostly coming from brooklyn and poland and other places and, and they and russia and they have done this for since like the 47 they've been taken post on the law. so these are historical trends that are really at a moment of reckoning. now, we'll have to see if we're talking about the law and then we'll talk to get a better action response from the west. west has acted o

will exacerbate tensions between israel and palestine. rami hurry is a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school and says that israel will not be intimidated by western condemnation. they've been ignoring the state months. in fact, they've been sitting in the face of the americans, often literally one an american president or secretary of state visits israel the same day they authorize a new settlement. this has been their pattern over the last 2030 years. they don't really care because they're never subjected to real sanctions or accountability. and we don't know what's going to happen. i wouldn't be surprised that the americans of europe and realized that this gonna create a catastrophe ever keeps going on. that they might say, well, you know, maybe we should love the international court of justice or the international criminal court investigate this and help us to see what's to be done. signals like that might cause the israelis to react. but up until now, the signals have not been made by the west to hold accountable any wrong door in the region, especially in israel. and these rain is i wil

the consequences of criticizing israel earlier, the harvard kennedy school rescinded a fellowship offer to the former head of human rights watch kenneth ross over criticism of israel's oppression of the palestinians. the decision drew widespread condemnation and a storm of protest which forced the dean to reverse the decision. meanwhile, the israeli security minister has called for more jewish settlements in the occupied west bank territory. the land of israel belongs to the people of israel. this is our mission. this is sol dock train. 9 settlements is nice, but it's still not enough. we will in much more. this statement comes as israel approves the legislation of 9. saddler outposts in the occupied west bank with more housing units likely to be billed in other existing settlements, according to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the united nations has condemned israeli settlements in the occupied palestinian territories in multiple resolutions . and both, however, more than 200 settlements were built on palestinian land with more than half a 1000000 israelis living there. to discuss a

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units which hold nuclear codes. moran, a chairman, is a senior research associate at the harvard kennedy schools bell for center. she joins us live from washington. d. c by scott, thanks very much need for for being with us. or would you say that this move by fruit in deals a final blow to this to this treaty that limits russia and us is arsenal. lauren, this is indeed bad news, but it doesn't mean that the treaty is dead and the water that it is no longer valid. as has been mentioned in your program, russia did not withdraw from the treated. it's suspended, it's participation in it. and what it means, specifically, what we understand from russian foreign ministry that subsequently issued an explanation on this move, is that they will not resume inspections on side in person inspections that involved in personnel from each country going to the others strategic sites that are covered by the treaty inspecting that they, they assets under the tree to have indeed been eliminated and are they both sides are in compliance, but those inspections have been suspended still for cove, it and russia has ref

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detained in south it on and forced to leave the country in 20. 20 is now a fellow at the harvard kennedy school and joined us from maryland. what do you make of the pope's visit, and is it likely to make any difference to not just the churches, but also the way in which politically just choose to behave now? well, thank you. first of all, for inviting me to the show i to answer your point. i have great hope for, for the visit of the pope and the other 2 religious leaders, the archbishop of canterbury, and a moderator of the church of scotland. this visit is very historic and as we should not see it from the lens of the leaders alone, we should see. what does this mean for the people of south? what does it mean for the faith of christian faith in 1000, to done and what it mean for the catholic church? i do believe this is historic visit and it will have him when the menace impact i among our people and in our country. that's a really good point because obviously these, there are high level meetings taking place. very strong remarks in the pope. he said that the churches should deal more to raise

nonresident fellow in governance studies at the brookings institution and a card center fellow at harvard kennedy school right across the street. tonight they have joined us for a discussion of stephen's book, the viral underclass, a compelling and humane into how race, class, gender and sexuality combine to help some survive while others do not, which klein calls at once precise and sweeping, rigorous and inviting. i will end with final praise from michael eric dyson, who writes, stephen has written the book. we urgently need his analysis of the underclass should be required reading for everyone concerned with transforming unequal access to health care. in a world where pandemic heightens the brutality of inequality. we so excited to be hosting this event. please join me in welcoming and victor ray. thank you so much for that incredibly kind introduction and thank you to everyone who's here. there are people from all different parts of my life from oxnard, california, parents of friends, my aunt judy, people that i know from twitter, people who know and respect victor. and i could not more pleased to g

i just want to refer to where you're sitting today in harvard university, because you were offered this fellowship at the kennedy schoold you seem to believe that that offer was briefly rescinded because the leaders of the university had pressure put upon them by pro—israel groups who were donors to harvard university. you've made that allegation. i've not seen any evidence that you've provided to back it up. are you still sticking to that? well, what i said is, i mean, the dean himself said he initially vetoed my fellowship because of my criticism of israel. so he's on the record on that. he said he did so because of people who mattered to him. he's denied that they were donors. you know, were these people who were worried about what donors would say? you know, who knows? he doesn't really have a personal record on israel—palestine. i need, i do need, for all sorts of reasons, i need to be clear that dean elmendorf has said that donors did not play a role in a decision to withdraw the fellowship. he said the decision was based on his evaluation of your potential contributions to the school. that's his position. yeah,

pro-western president of moldova maya sando, who, by the way, graduated from harvard university is the same, and the kennedy schoolher, may santo yesterday accused russia of it seems like she tried , allegedly, again to carry out a coup d'état in moldova listen to russia's plan to carry out sabotage operations on the territory of our state nefenov plan for the near future involves the involvement of saboteurs with military training disguised as civilians violent actions attack on some government buildings and hostage-taking with the help of forceful actions disguised as protest actions, the so-called positions are planned to attempt a change of power. in chisinau, the purpose of these actions is the overthrow of the constitutional order, the change of legitimate power to illegitimate ones, which would give our country at the disposal of russia in order not only to stop the process of european integration, but also so that russia could use moldova in its war against ukraine. military dictatorship in ukraine. now apparently. this is the way it goes. e maya san do, who will most likely use this duck and, with the sup

library a letter from a at harvard writing to joseph kennedy saying, you know, glad to you that we've admitted ted. and the same thing happened at the university of virginia law school. either the letter was intercepted or it went to joe. and then he then referred it to ted. but it was it was it was not like, you know, ted took the sats and filled out the applications and asked mom, dad for a $50 check. so the entered into the sweepstakes, get into harvard. it was all done at that higher and and one of the letters that they sent joe said, you know what, while it's rare to happen every once in a while something happens to one of our students and either for character reasons or school tastic reasons, and we have to we have to deal with it. if there's anything, you know, tell us now and we'll like build some barriers around it and it sounded to me like they were looking at his academic record, which was less than distinguished because he'd had a very cold childhood and his parents had shipped him around to nine different schools and cluding boarding school at the age of seven. and so he was not the greatest scholar. and they seemed to be saying, you know, okay, joe, we