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May 2021
23m 18s

Jerusalem and Human Rights Watch’s Apart...

The Institute for Middle East Understanding
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We have a two-part episode today! In the first part hosts Diana Buttu and Omar Baddar, discuss the recent violence by Israeli mobs in occupied Jerusalem as well as settlers' attempts at erasing Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem. In the second part of the episode, we focus on the major new report, in which Human Rights Watch declared that Israel is comm ... Show More
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