Recent Blog Posts

WBAI premiums

Submitted by Esther on June 15, 2009 - 4:30pm

We're so grateful to all of our listeners who've ever made a financial pledge to support WBAI and the Pacifica network, and we know the station has been negligent in recent years in sending out the premiums (whether books or CDs) you requested when you made your pledge. Now, some good news on that front: the new premium manager, Yvonne Singh, is making her way through the backlog, shipping out long-overdue premiums and setting up a system to avoid this problem in the future.

Henry Siegman on Gaza Assault

Submitted by Marilyn on February 7, 2009 - 11:10pm

Henry Siegman, former head of the American Jewish Congress, has in recent years become a strong critic of Israeli Government policies and one of the most well-informed.  His views are often expressed in the London Review of Books. His most recent essay, Israel's Lies, takes on Israel's justiifications for their assault on Gaza.

American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP)

Submitted by Marilyn on February 7, 2009 - 2:11pm

Check out this relatively new progressive organization, AJJIP.  Good principles and a very useful website.

Tel Aviv Artists Protest War

Submitted by Marilyn on January 9, 2009 - 9:02am

At a celebration in Tel Aviv of the national poet, Bialik-- from whom the phrase "cast lead" was cynically taken to name the assault on Gaza -- our friend, the filmmaker Udi Aloni, and other well-known cultural personalities, demonstrate outside -- with a powerful alternative poem of Bialik's. Watch Israeli President Shimon Peres try to ignore the truth, here.

Tom Segev on Gaza Assault

Submitted by Marilyn on December 29, 2008 - 7:17pm

In Trying to 'Teach Hamas a Lesson,' revisionist historian and Haaretz journalist Tom Segev visits the historical record to illustrate the futility of Israel's efforts over the years to bludgeon the Palestinians into abandoning their national aspirations.

Gideon Levy on Gaza Assault

Submitted by Marilyn on December 28, 2008 - 11:49pm

Read Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy's trenchant critique of the Israeli assault on Gaza: The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again and his reply to Gaza war supporter, author, A.B. Yehoshua,

Calling A Pogrom A Pogrom

Submitted by Marilyn on December 15, 2008 - 7:13pm

On Sunday December 14's Beyond The Pale, I read on air from a chilling news story, A Settler Porgrom from the Receiving End, by Haaretz journalist Avi Issacharoff.  The story had been reprinted in The Forward, which in a lead editorial commenting on the growing settler violence asked rhetorically: "Is this what happens to a 2,000-year-old ethical tradition when its transplanted to a sovereign soil?  Can a moral system with such a profou

Education justice now

Submitted by Esther on September 21, 2008 - 9:57pm

Donna Nevel, a founder of the Center for Immigrant Families, based in uptown Manhattan, and a guest on today's show, offers this useful list of community organizations in New York City fighting for social justice in our public schools:

Center for Immigrant Families
c4if.org

New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCORE)
nycore.org

Teachers Unite
teachersunite.net

Education Liberation Network

Jon Stewart nails it on AIPAC

Submitted by Marilyn on June 8, 2008 - 10:44pm

Here's the link to Jon Stewart's take on the Presidential candidates speeches at the annual AIPAC conference--Indecision 5768--it says it all.

Pastor Hagee: God sent Hitler

Submitted by Esther on May 21, 2008 - 9:23pm

Check out this amazing bit of audio that Bruce Wilson at Talk to Action dug up. It's a speech Pastor John Hagee -- founder of the Christian Zionist group Christians United for Israeli and prominent endorse of presidential candidate John McCain -- gave in the late 1990s that claims the Holocaust was God-sent.

First Hagee quotes from Jeremiah 16:15-16, which reads as follows in the King James version: