MIddle East Eye Features Noura Erakat: What is the link between Zionism, capitalism and the American empire?

FightBackBetter amplifies this presentation by Noura Erakat and reports her success in achieving a report by the esteemed Middle East Eye journal. Noura Erakat is an esteemed scholar and author who is a Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers and part of the Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers. A cousin of hers, martyred in Palestine, his body is actually illegally interred on the property of Tel Aviv University with which Rutgers has a “sister university” relationship that puts the university in open and direct complicity with the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine. This analysis is well worth your engagement,

The Big Picture PodcastWhat is the link between Zionism, capitalism and the American empire? Fresh off the back of a deeply toxic, all consuming US election – one in which the issue of Palestine and the war in Gaza was largely ignored – we examine what it means to survive a system intent on silencing and marginalising dissenting voices. Despite the key role the Biden Administration has played in arming and supporting Israel, a position opposed by the majority of Americans, few political voices were interested in challenging or even speaking about this policy. A policy which mirrors the US’ own bloody history of colonialism, empire and exploitation. An environment in which voices who challenge the status quo This week on The Big Picture Podcast, Mohamed Hassan sits down with human rights attorney, legal scholar and professor at Rutgers University Noura Erakat. Erakat is one of the boldest and most precise Palestinian-American voices in the public eye, and says despite speaking for years about the legal rights of Palestinians, she has always been sceptical of the law. In October she wrote a piece for The Nation titled ‘Nothing Will Ever Be The Same’, in which she says a year of genocide in Gaza has changed her as a person, as a Palestinian and as a legal scholar. Subscribe and listen on all podcast platforms: https://thebigpicture.buzzsprout.com/ Middle East Eye Website: https://middleeasteye.net Follow us on TikTok:   / middleeasteye   Follow us on Instagram:   / middleeasteye   Like us on Facebook:   / middleeasteye   Follow us on Twitter:   / middleeasteye