What REALLY Happened In Israel On October 7 With Noura Erakat

Watch the debate between Katie & Rabbi Shapiro here: Human Rights lawyer Noura Erakat reveals what we know really happened on October 7 which we’re not allowed to say. 00:00:00 irresponsibly linking October 7 to Holocaust 00:01:20 what ACTUALLY happened on October 7 00:02:06 the bodies found 00:02:23 why we’re not allowed to discuss what really happened 00:03:00 what is Hamas and why were they formed? 00:04:40 Hamas’ charter 00:04:50 Hamas NOT Isis 00:06:50 Hamas is Israel’s partner 00:07:53 why won’t Israel negotiate? 00:09:30 why Netanyahu needs to extend genocide to save political life 00:10:00 “unique opportunity“ for Israel 00:10:50 how could people be shocked by October 7? 00:12:00 colonialism is violence and breeds violence 00:12:30 apartheid consensus 00:13:51 Palestinian fractures 00:15:30 The Dahiya doctrine 00:16:40 Biden’s 40 baby lie 00:17:05 Biden is being politically self-destructive Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School and was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context“ and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and The Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) and the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps