January 20, 2008

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Broadcast Date: 
Jan 20 2008

An email smear campaign claiming Barack Obama has ties to Muslim extremism circulates in the Jewish community; Combatants for Peace call for non-violent solutions to the Israeli occupation; Dr. Martin Luther King on the war in Vietnam.

Episode segments
  • Smearing Obama
    Topic: National Politics | Electoral | Jewish
    Guests: Jennifer Siegel is a staff writer for The Forward , the Jewish weekly newspaper.
    Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An email smear campaign resurrects rumors about Barack Obama's alleged ties to Muslim extremism-an gets wide circulation in the Jewish community.

  • Combatants for Peace
    Topic: Israel/Palestine | Occupation
    Guests:

    Bassam Aramin is a former fatah fighter who served 7 years in an Israeli prison.  He is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace.

    Yonatan Shapira is a former Captain in the Israeli air force who authored a 2003 letter from 23 Israeli pilots refusing to attack civilian population centers in the Occupied Territories.  He is a co-founder of Combatants for Peace.

    Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Bassam Aramin and Yonatan Shapira are on a speaking tour of the U.S. advocating for a non-violent end to the Israeli Occupation in commemoration of the 1 year anniversary of the killing of Bassam's 10-year old daughter Abir by Israeli border police.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaches against the war in Vietnam
    Topic: National Politics | International Politics | Asia
    Guests: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama; a leader within the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and a winner of the Nobel Prize for his leadership of the civil rights movement.
    Hosts: Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    An excerpt from King's speech delivered on April 16, 1967 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam," a reprise of his groundbreaking April 4 speech delivered to a gathering of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City: