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Oct 2024
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Bonus | How Israel “shrinks” the categor...

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To mark one full year of the ongoing gen.ocide, we are re-releasing a conversation we had last November with Noura Erakat, a Palestinian-American activist, legal scholar, human rights attorney and professor, where she explains how Isr/ael continuously violates international law by “shrinking” the category of civilians to justify the ethnic cleansing of Pale.stini@ns.

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Hosts: Elissa Freiha (@freiha), Amira Salah-Ahmed (@amiralx)

Guest: Noura Erakat (@nouraerakat)  

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