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The BBC reports that British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for the United Kingdom's recognition of Palestinian statehood. The warning comes as Britain joined several other nations including France to call for a Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denounced the growing international movement for statehood for the Palestinian people as a capitulation to Hamas which was responsible for the Oct. 7th attack which killed over 1,200 civilians, many of whom were attending a music festival.
Israel's all out two year siege of Gaza in response continues to galvanize protest here in the United States, in Israel itself as well as around the world. Italian unions staged a national strike over Gaza. Last month a general strike in Israel calling for a cease fire and a release of Oct. 7th hostages disrupted rail travel for days.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world's leading body of genocide scholars, decalred Isreal's targeting of Palestinians civilians as a genocide. At least 65,000 Paletinians have been killed, including tens of thousands of women and children, in the brutal campaign that's decimated Gaza's healthcare system and leveled entire residential neighborhoods in a grossly illegal campaign of forced civilian displacement and collective punishment.
Last month. Amnesty International declared that Israel was "carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation" in Gaza and is "systematically destroying the health, wellbeing and social fabric of Palestinian life."
The war in Gaza has taken the lives of at least 250 journalists--making it the deadliest armed conflict for media workers, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Cost of War Project at Brown University.
Earlier this year, President Trump shocked the world when he called for the United States to annex Gaza and turn it into a Mediterranean resort.
We discuss the growing isolation of the United States globally and its implications for the economy here inside the United States with Jim Henry, Yale Global Justice Fellow, attorney, economist and investigative journalist. He was joined by Dr. Joe Wilson, labor historian, union consultant and biographer of A. Philip Randolph, the iconic civil rights and labor leader.
In the B Block, we check in with Larry Hamm, with New Jersey's People's Organization for Progress. He was joined by Zayid Muhammad, founder of New Jersey Communities for Accountable Policing.
We discussed the implications of the end of Newark’s police monitorship and why police accountability has not surfaced in New Jersey Gubernatorial campaign.
In our second hour we hear from recently re-elected Transport Workers Union International President John Samuelsen on his take on New York City's Mayoral race and why he thinks Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani affordability message is resonating with voters.
NJ HPAE President Debbie White stopped by to give us an update about a new landmark contract New Jersey largest nurses union just negotiated for safer staffing avoiding a strike at Hackensack Median's Jersey Shore Hospital in Neptune.
New Jersey Hudson County Democratic Assembly candidate Kathleen Brennan suggests New Jersey should enact legislation to permit the clawing back of tax film credits from companies like Disney and Paramount that bow to the Trump administration pressure to fire employees targeted by the White House.
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