‘New Phase in Gaza’: Israel Tries to Rebrand Genocide

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 1/11 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, Eugene and Rania are joined by special guests: Anan Quzmar - Israel is assassinating journalists and their families in Gaza. Since Oct. 7th, Israel has killed over 22,900 Palestinian people, while simultaneously deliberately targeting and killing over 110 journalists in Gaza. Among the latest journalists to be killed is Hamza Dahdouh, son of the Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief, after an Israeli airstrike targeted his car on Sunday. Anan Quzmar, a volunteer with the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate based in the Occupied West Bank, explains Israel’s calculated and deliberate assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists. Amari Butler and Kojo Acheampong - Following weeks of right-wing, pro-Israel attacks accusing her of being insufficiently Zionist, Harvard’s President, Claudine Gay, resigned from the university. But just how ‘anti-Zionist’ is Gay? Amari Butler and Kojo Acheampong, organizers with the African and African American Resistance Organization at Harvard, join the show to discuss the intense harassment and attacks that pro-Palestine student activists are facing from the right wing as well as the Harvard administration. Ju-Hyun Park - The global media portrayed the DPRK’s recent announcement about significant changes in their approach to Korean reunification as a belligerent North Korean decision. In reality, the announcement was in response to the years of aggression from the US, South Korea, and Japan that the DPRK has faced. In 2023 alone, the US and South Korea held a record-breaking 20 joint war drills, targeting the DPRK. Ju-Hyun Park, a member of Nodutdol and the Engagement Editor at The Real News discusses the region’s rising tensions and how Biden and South Korean President Yoon have ushered in a new era of the Korean War. Keyanna Jones - Activists are demanding answers after 215 dead bodies were found buried in unmarked graves behind a prison in Hinds County, Mississippi. Multiple families of the deceased have stepped forward, asserting that the State never informed them about their loved ones’ deaths and that the burials occurred without their knowledge. Rev. Keyanna Jones, a Community Organizer in Atlanta, Georgia discusses the shocking story and the long history of racist government failure in Mississippi. Lamis Deek - Over 90 days into the genocide in Gaza, the International Court of Justice began hearing South Africa’s historic case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. A growing list of countries have announced their support for the proceedings as Israel’s ongoing bombardment rages on, killing 23,000 Palestinians. Lamis Deek, an international attorney with DeekDictorAdi and the Palestine Assembly for Liberation Commission on War Crimes, Justice Reparations and Return, discusses the landmark case and the global movement for Palestine. Aishe Ghose - On January 7th, tens of thousands of students gathered in Kolkata, India to protest corruption and demand the right to work and education. The massive rally, which was led by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), also marked the culmination of the ‘Insaaf Yatra’, its 50-day March for Justice. Aishe Ghose, an activist with the Students’ Federation of India and president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, explains what is driving the large student movement and the resurgence of the Left in the Bengal state of India.