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The Silencing of Genocide Critics
The International Court of Justice, known as the World Court, found it plausible that Israel was committing genocide against the Palestinian people living in Gaza. Thereafter the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Since October 8, 2023 Israel has murdered, on an industrial scale, upwards of 70,000 people and reduced most of the Gaza strip to a pile of rubble. They used American bombs and received American diplomatic cover and financial aid. On March 18, 2025, Israel unilaterally broke a recent cease-fire killing 400 people, including 174 children, in one night. Israel is carrying out the final stage of the genocide. The people living in Gaza will either be deported or killed.
The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote “ The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.“ Israel has fallen. It is a profound historical truth, as Mark Twain observed 100 years ago, that you can’t have imperialism abroad and a republic at home. The Democratic rights that we citizens of the United States hold are being suppressed here as an illustration of this maxim.
American partnership with Israel’s war has worked to destroy our liberal universities here at home. It started with the trustees at Columbia University totally surrendering the universities academic freedom, self government, and free speech in return for the promise by the Trump administration of restoring $400 million in federal funding. Columbia has been more than compliant in hopes that they’ll get the money.
Using the pretext of providing security for their Jewish students, American universities across the country enforce the silencing of critics of the ongoing genocide. They have not fought back to preserve the integrity of their institutions and the freedom of their students.
Law and Disorder: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine Interview
Guest – Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. He was educated at Yale and Oxford universities and is the author of many books on the Middle East. He is also the author of Under Siege: PLO Decision Making During the 1982 War, Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East and recently The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.
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Is The Trump Administration Upholding The Bedrock Of America’s Democracy?
On March 3rd, the American Bar Association issued a statement titled, The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. They called upon the Trump Administration to adhere to four major principles of law that have, they say, “guided our country for more than 200 years.” The four principles are: to defend judges and the courts; to acknowledge the role of the courts; to adhere to the rule of law; and to respect the separation of powers and the three co-equal branches of government with distinct duties and responsibilities. These principles have, they state, been the “bedrocks of American democracy.” The ABA statement accuses the Trump administration of violating these principles in several ways. Law and Disorder co-host Stephen Rohde takes our guest seat to evaluate whether the Trump Administration is upholding, or violating the principles that the ABA calls “the bedrock of America’s democracy.”
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