What Will It Take to End Gaza Genocide?
South Africa has against Israel at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The case centers on Israel鈥檚 relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip, considered to be the , worse even than what was done in Syria, Ukraine, or during World War II.聽
The official death toll has now surpassed , and yet Israel says it intends to its campaign. Meanwhile, the United States has been Israel鈥檚 biggest political supporter, supplying it with hundreds of millions of dollars of ; in December, President Joe Biden to Israel.
Palestinian American attorney and human rights activist Huwaida Arraf discussed international law and global solidarity with Gaza in a recent interview with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 麻豆社事件 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥 in her 2014聽聽of the same name.
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