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Sep 2024
40m 29s

Democrats Want to Turn Israel’s Murder S...

RANIA KHALEK
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Alana Hadid — activist, designed and creative director of the newly-launched Watermelon Pictures — joins Rania Khalek to discuss the Democratic Party’s campaign strategy to suppress and ignore Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 
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