
It Could Happen Here Weekly 190
It Could Happen Here
Shifting Perspectives on ICE and Education Funding
This chapter explores the changing political views on ICE, highlighting a generational shift in perceptions and personal reflections from a social gathering. It also critiques recent budget proposals that threaten public education through tax credits for private schools and increased financial burdens on student loan borrowers.
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Palestine’s Stolen Future
- The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)
- Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community
- The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24
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Sources/Links:
Palestine's Stolen Future
Raz Segal on genocide - https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
Omer Bartov on genocide – https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide
Amos Goldberg on genocide - https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/intent-holocaust-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide-w-amos-goldberg/
Khaled Elgindy on Biden’s “bear hug” - https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/10/biden-israel-hamas-war-gaza-us-policy/
Bezalel Smotrich on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-gaza-to-be-totally-destroyed-population-concentrated-in-small-area/
Nissim Vaturi on population transfer - https://www.timesofisrael.com/occupy-expel-settle-minister-mks-at-far-right-rally-call-to-empty-gaza-of-gazans/
Arab Peace Initiative - https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=a5dab26d-a2fe-dc66-8910-a13730828279&groupId=268421
Arab Center Washington – “The Biden Administration and the Middle East in 2023” - https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-biden-administration-and-the-middle-east-in-2023/
Mike Huckabee on Palestinians - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/mike-huckabee-palestinian-comments-trump-israel-ambassador
Steve Witkoff making deals with Hamas - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-says-witkoffs-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-must-lead-end-war-2025-05-31/
Adam Boehler “we are not an agent of Israel” - https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/adam-boehler-hamas-israel-talks
Philippe Lazzarini on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-aid-distribution-has-become-death-trap
Doctors without Borders on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/siege-gaza-msf-denounces-new-aid-mechanism-proposed-us-and-israel
Jake Woods, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, resigns - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-aid-group-jake-wood-resigns
Saudi Minister on Two-State Solution - https://www.mofa.gov.sa/en/ministry/news/Pages/His-Highness-the-Foreign-Minister-A-Two-State-Solution-is-the-Only-Path-to-Achieving-a-Just-and-Lasting-Peace-in-the-Regio.aspx
France & Saudi sponsor peace conference - https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-855969
Qatari foreign minister on Saudi sponsored peace conference - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250613-qatar-france-fms-underscore-importance-of-upcoming-un-two-state-solution-conference-as-real-opportunity-for-peace/
The Oslo Accords and the Palestinian Authority background - https://www.palquest.org/en/highlight/31121/x-oslo-process-and-establishment-palestinian-authority
Yitzhak Rabin’s final address to the Knesset - https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/24965/yitzhaq-rabin%E2%80%99s-address-knesset-after-israeli-palestinian-agreement
Mapping Palestinian Politics – European Council on Foreign Relations - https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/plo/
“Abbas is America’s Man” - https://jewishcurrents.org/abbas-is-americas-man
Tariq Dana – “Lost in Transition: The Palestinian National Movement After Oslo” - https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/from-the-river-to-the-sea-9781978752658/
Wendy Pearlman – “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement” - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/violence-nonviolence-and-the-palestinian-national-movement/0F8D188C7D514D49F68D827066E0FABD
BDS call - https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/pacbi-call
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – September 2023 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2089%20English%20Full%20Text%20September%202023.pdf
Interview with Ukrainian outlet “Commons” - https://commons.com.ua/en/intervyu-z-danoyu-el-kurd/
Protests against Hamas – July 2023 - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/07/30/thousands-of-marchers-in-gaza-in-rare-public-display-of-discontent-with-hamas_6073136_4.html
Protests against Hamas - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/25/middleeast/anti-hamas-protests-gaza-intl-latam
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research – May 2025 poll - https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2095%20press%20release%206May2025%20ENGLISH.pdf
Changes in PLO structure and new Vice President role - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/palestinians-leader-mahmoud-abbas-president
Polling on Hussein Al-Sheikh - https://pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2092%20English%20full%20text%20July2024.pdf
Palestinian National Conference - https://ncpalestine.org/
A Land for All - https://www.2s1h.org/en
Israeli backed gangs in Gaza - https://zeteo.com/p/who-is-abu-shabab-meet-the-gaza-gangster
The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It)
Trans Income Project: https://www.transincomeproject.org/donate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/planned-parenthood-trump-lawsuit
https://time.com/7299514/bill-will-devastate-public-schools
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school
https://itep.org/trump-megabill-expensive-private-school-vouchers/
https://newrepublic.com/post/197412/donald-trump-big-beautiful-budget-bill-devastating-poll
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-in-trump-big-beautiful-bill-senate-version/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-whats-in-the-big-bill-that-just-passed-the-senate
The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25976535-boelter-federal-affidavit/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250614161224/https://www.pguards.net/leadership-team
https://youtu.be/Sh01z1t2l3w?si=vSme9mqCPmeDROqp
https://www.startribune.com/melissa-hortman-shooting-vance-boelter-suspect/601373342
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/vance-boelter-due-back-in-federal-court-thursday-afternoon/
https://www.wired.com/story/shooting-minnesota-melissa-hortman-vance-boelter/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/us/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting-invs
https://web.archive.org/web/20230723010430/https://www.redliongroupdrc.com/#
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24
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