The Indypendent News Hour airs Tuesdays 5–6 p.m. on WBAI-99.5 FM. Check out our archives to listen to past interviews with movement organizers, authors, elected officials and others fighting for justice in New York City and beyond.
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 23 April '24 by The IndypendentBy The Indypendent
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Legal Aid Workers on Strike: UAW 2320 President Cyntha Carter Speaks With The Indypendent
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We speak to Cynthia Carter, President of UAW Local 2320 here in New York which represents legal aid workers at Mobilization for Justice who have been on strike for the past eight weeks.By The Indypendent
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Press Photographer Targeted for Arrest While Covering Pro-Palestine Action
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We speak with Indypendent photographer Neil Constanine. Constantine was arrested yesterday while covering a massive pro-Palestine Tax Day protest as it crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. We also get updates on the growing worldwide movement to end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation in Palestine.By The Indypendent
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Housing Organizer Johnny Rivera Speaks with The Indypendent About Anti-Tenant State Budget
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We speak with Johnny Rivera, longtime East Harlem tenant and socialist housing organizer. Housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with StateBy The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 16 April '24
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We hear first from housing activists who are lambasting the pro-landlord/anti-tenant provisions in the state budget deal that New York Gov, Kathy Hochul announced on Friday following weeks of closed-door negotiations with State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Then, we speak with Indypendent photograp…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 9 April '23
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In the first segment of this week's episode, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epochal rather than merely current and caused mos…
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NY State Senator Jabari Brisport x The Indypendent: Updates on State Budget Negotiations
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In the second segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we hear from New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, a democratic socialist from central Brooklyn. Negotiations on the roughly $230 billion annual state budget have sailed by the March 31 deadline mandated by state law and remain deadlocked. Gov. Kathy Hochul…
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Linda Martín Alcoff x The Indypendent: White Fright in a Changing World
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In the first segment of this week's episode of The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we spoke with Linda Martín Alcoff, who penned an article in the April issue of The Indypendent titled “White Fright and a Changing World: Here’s What Keeps MAGA up at Night.” In her article, Alcoff writes “We need to understand today’s political crisis as epoc…
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Historic Protests Continue Against the New York Times
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We speak with Naim Mian of Writers Against the War on Gaza about the recent groundswell of direct action targeting The New York Times as well as a new unsubscribe campaign and the website newyorkwarcrimes.com, which was recently launched by a group of anonymous researchers, reporters and creatives.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 March '24
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In the first half of the show we speak with two Indy reporters, Amba Guerguerian and Ariana Orozco about their stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Guerguerian’s cover story looks at how younger workers are leading the charge in a resurgent labor movement as they strive to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into s…
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Updates on Albert Einstein Free Tuition and Fight to Save SUNY Downstate
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We speak indy reporter Ariana Orozco about her stories in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Orozco has been covering the State of New York’s attempt to close SUNY Downstate Hospital in central Brooklyn. She also spoke with med school students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine about the recent announcement that a $1 billion don…
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Momentum is Being Maintained in the New Labor Movement
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We speak with Amba Guerguerian about her article in the newly-released April issue of The Indypendent. Guerguerian’s cover story looks at how younger workers are leading the charge in a resurgent labor movement as they strive to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs. And how they're winning.…
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Starbucks Announcement a Huge Victory for Organized Labor
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We speak with a barista at a unionized store in Williiamsburg about the positive impacts that are already being felt by workers at her/their store. And we speak with a labor historian who says the breakthrough at Starbucks could turn out to be the biggest victory for the labor movement in the United States since the great industrial strikes of the …
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Gaza Update with The Indy's Amba Guerguerian
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—Over 100+ cities around the world took to the streets to denounce Israel’s threats to intensify the genocide in Gaza by ground invading Rafah, the tightly-packed “safe” zone on March 10, the first day of Ramadan.—We know of protests that occurred in many US cities, including but not limited to DC, Philly, Baltimore, Cambridge, Providence, Chicago,…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 22 Feb. '24
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In our first segment, we speak with workers at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also be joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe's …
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UFT Retirees Running Opposition Slate in Upcoming Internal Election
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We hear an interview by Indypendent Editor-in-Chief John Tarleton with Bennett Fischer of the United Federation of Teachers. At the United Federation of Teachers, one of the city’s largest municipal unions, UFT Retiree Advocate, a group of retiree activists, announced on Friday that they will contest an internal union election this spring for leade…
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Updates from Tami Gold on Spring Palestine Film Series at Hunter College
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We speak with Tami Gold, Professor of Film and Media Studies at CUNY’s Hunter College about an ongoing film series showing movies about Palestine. She’ll also update us about an upcoming Jewish Voice for Peace protest for Palestine.By The Indypendent
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Worker Update: Labor Battle at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing Continues Three Years In
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We speak with Don Mark Roxas and Diego Ramirez, workers at Trader Joe’s Essex Crossing in Lower Manhattan, about the recent firing of a union worker and the ongoing struggle there to unionize the workforce. We are also joined by Seth Goldstein, a union lawyer who represents the workers, about threats that labor law is facing: Amazon, SpaceX and Tra…
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Abdullah Akl of Within Our Lifetime Palestine Speaks on Recent Censorship
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We speak with Within Our Lifetime Palestine organizer Abdullah Akl. WOL has led over 100 protests across the city since Oct. 7. The pro-Palestinian group has been dealing this month with an intensifying crackdown by the NYPD and recently had its Instagram account suspended by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.…
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We look back at an earlier era in New York City history — a very different world in many ways, but not so different in others. In 1741, New York City had a population of 11,000 people, about one-sixth of whom were enslaved. We learn about a terrible court case that was prosecuted by Judges Chambers and Murray. We are joined by longtime defense atto…
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Update: Skunk Spray Attack at Pro-Palestine Columbia U. Student Protest
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We speak with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 13 Feb. '24
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We spoke with Columbia student and Indy reporter Claudia Villalona about the larger context and outcomes of a Jan. 19 chemical weapon attack on pro-Palestine student protesters on Columbia's campus.Then, we hear from Abdullah el-Akl from Within Our Lifetime Palestine talking about the repression that the organization and its leaders are facing incl…
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Reverend Billy's Earth Church is Offering Migrants Respite in East Village
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The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is home to Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir. But now it’s also a welcoming center for hundreds of migrants who have been denied essential city services and part of a broader community mobilization in the East Village to aid despe…
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Unprecedented Firings of 26 Full-time Queens College Faculty Amid Budget Cuts
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CUNY has been under increasing financial strain in recent years. The surprise firings and the course rollbacks at Queens College have stoked fears across CUNY that more such measures could take place across the CUNY system. We speak with Ash Marinaccio, one of the 26 fired professors, and Karen Weingarten, Professor of English at Queens College. Ka…
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A round of Gaza updates from The Indy's Amba Guerguerian: ICJ decision, UNRWA defunding, updates from on the ground in southern Gaza, perspectives on various attacks in the Middle East & the arresting of Nerdeen Kiswani and other pro-Palestine protest leaders on Friday, Jan. 26.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 30 Jan. '24
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First segment: A recent spate of budget cuts and faculty firings at Queens College have stoked concerns that a devastating new wave of austerity could sweep across CUNY, the largest urban higher education system in the country. Second Segment: The Earth Church is a radical theater space housed in a former bank building in the East Village. It is ho…
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This is a Manufactured Crisis: Immigrant Arrival Doesn't Have to be a Bad Thing
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Indy editor Amba Guerguerian spent the entirety of the hour with Desiree Joy Frias of South Bronx Mutual Aid about how the financial aspects of the migrant "crisis" in New York City have been manufactured and how it is a crisis not for the inhabitants of the city, but for the migrants themselves. We speak about updates in conditions and rules for t…
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Talking Presidential Politics and the New Hampshire Primary with Indypendent Editors
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John Tarleton and Nicholas Powers of The Indypendent talk about the New Hampshire primary and what it means that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both on the verge of locking up their party’s nominations and pivoting to a general election contest that most Americans say they do not want to see.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM
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Much of NYC's fate is decided in Albany where a new session of the state legislation has begun. We speak with State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, both Democratic Socialists, about their top priorities and how to make state government work for working people. In the second half of the show, we speak with Jonathan Soto, a …
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Jonathon Soto Wants to be The First DSA Member to Rep the Bronx
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We speak with Jonathan Soto, a public-education advocate and NYC DSA-endorsed candidate for the NY State Assembly. If he wins, Soto will be the first Socialist legislator elected from the Bronx in more than a century.By The Indypendent
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New NYS Legislative Session Updates with Sen. Jabari Brisport & Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes
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Much of NYC's fate is decided in Albany where a new session of the state legislation has begun. We speak with State Sen. Jabari Brisport and Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, both Democratic Socialists, about their top priorities and how to make state government work for working people. They also respond to Gov. Hochul's goals set out in her recent …
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Little Palestine: Resistance and Comfort in Bay Ridge
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We hear from The Indy's Lara-Nour Walton about the process of writing her cover story on the Little Palestine neighborhood in South Brooklyn.By The Indypendent
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Ridgewood Tenants Union Rises Up for Palestine
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Over the weekend the Ridgewood Tenants Union led a 1,000-person march that highlighted the displacement experienced in both rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like Ridgewood and by Palestinians at the hands of Israeli settlers. We speak with two organizers from the Ridgewood Tenants Union, Raquel Namuche and Lamisse Beydoun.…
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Traffic Jam: Lower Manhattan Clogged by pro-Palestine Protest Blockades
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We look at the continued surge of pro-Palestine protests in New York City, starting with a report-back from Monday’s shutdown of Lower Manhattan traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters who made national headlines yesterday when they blocked inbound traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges and outbound traffic at the Holland Tunnel…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM9 // Jan. '23
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We look at the continued surge of pro-Palestine protests in New York City, starting with a report-back from Monday’s shutdown of Lower Manhattan traffic by pro-Palestinian protesters who made national headlines yesterday when they blocked inbound traffic on the Brooklyn, Manhatta,n and Williamsburg Bridges and outbound traffic at the Holland Tunnel…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 26 Dec. '23
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In this special Christmas edition of The Indypendent News Hour, we spend the first segment with Jonathan Kuttab, executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, an unapologetic Christian voice for Palestine. Kuttab is a human-rights attorney and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution. We will speak about the ongoing atrocities in Palestine …
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Comparative History: Armenia and Palestine
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We speak with Dr. Bedross Matossian about the Armenian genocide, the current ethnic cleansing of Armenians from the Artsakh territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the oppression Armenian Palestinians face in Palestine.Matossian is a professor of Middle East History & Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincon. He focuses on Armenian and c…
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Palestinian Christians are Under Attack, Too
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Jonathan Kuttab is the executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America, an unapologetic Christian voice for Palestine, and a human-rights attorney and author of Beyond the Two-State Solution. We speak about the ongoing atrocities in Palestine, including those against Christian Palestinians.By The Indypendent
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Farid Nassif & Eben Wood Bring "Beirut to Brooklyn" Exhibit to Brooklyn College
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We learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College, for which students in Beirut wrote first-person pieces about being in Lebanon and Beirut, and Eben Wood took corresponding photographs.By The Indypendent
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Tara Currie on the Fight to Divert Money From the Pentagon
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We speak Tara Currie of Brooklyn for Peace about the Move the Money campaign to divert money from the Pentagon to meeting human needs, and then we learn about the "Beirut to Brooklyn" art exhibit at Brooklyn College.By The Indypendent
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Brandon West on How Eric Adams is Making Austerity Budget Cuts
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We speak with former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it.By The Indypendent
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 19 Dec. '23
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We start the show by speaking w/ former City Council budget staffer & socialist Brandon West about Mayor Adams' brutal mid-year budget cuts, how he is abusing the budgetary process, and what the Council should do about it.We also weak with Tara Currie of Brooklyn for Peace about the Move the Money campaign to divert money from the Pentagon to meeti…
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Riham Barghouti Q&A with Amba Guerguerian
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The Indypendent's Amba Guerguerian in conversation with Riham Barghouti, founding member of the BDS movement that came out of Palestine in 2005 and founding member of Adalah-NY here in NYC. Barghouti has a deep knowledge of Palestinian resistanceBy The Indypendent
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Savitri D. & Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping // 5 Dec. '23
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Amid Israel's war on Gaza and COP 23, we speak with Savitri D. and Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, a good friends of The Indy that are always on the cutting edge of social movements.By The Indypendent
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Tefa Galvis of DSA Eco-socialists on COP '28 and BPRA
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This week, diplomats, world leaders and a small army of fossil fuel industry lobbyists have gathered in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, for the 28th annual U.N. climate summit. There’s no sign that progress will be made on reaching new agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize soaring global temperatures. We are joined by Tefa G…
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We go to CUNY, the City University of New York. For the past months it’s been a flashpoint in the battle over campus free speech during a time of war. At Hunter College on the Upper East Side, the campus has been roiled by the administration’s flip-flopping on whether they will allow a film that’s critical of Israel to be shown. And at Baruch Colle…
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The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-999.5 FM // 5 Dec. '23
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First, we go to CUNY, the City University of New York. For the past months it’s been a flashpoint in the battle over campus free speech during a time of war. At Hunter College on the Upper East Side, the campus has been roiled by the administration’s flip-flopping on whether they will allow a film that’s critical of Israel to be shown. And at Baruc…
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