Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home For The Jewish Left

We're joined by sports editor David Zirin live from opening day at the Paris 2024 Olympics. We talk Palestine, Israel, Hijab Ban, France's social expulsions, Black Lives Matter and sports, and David's own upbringing with a Zionist father an an anti-Zionist mother (Jane Zirin Z"L Yehi zichra mahapecha / May her memory be a revolution). We opened with David Zirin's opening remarks from 2019's “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech & the Battle for Palestinian Rights” panel at UMass-Amherst alongside Linda Sarsour, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Professor Marc Lamont Hill and Vijay Prashad. We close with Jewish Voice for Peace's action against Netanyahu's speech and arming Israel this week at Congress and a song by friend of the show, Rachel Angel, called Baby Can I Come Home to You. Dave Zirin is the sports editor of the Nation Magazine. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports, including most recently, The Kaepernick Effect Taking A Knee, Saving the World. He’s appeared on ESPN, NBC News, CNN, Democracy Now, and numerous other outlets. Follow David Zirin across all social media via @EdgeOfSports, at The Nation Magazine and on The Real News Network (TRNN). Let's keep this show going by becoming a buddy of the show at WBAI.org. Beyond The Pale airs live every Friday in NYC's 99.5 FM and the Tri-State Area after Democracy Now at 9AM. We release every show on your favorite podcast platform. Record your voicemails to ‪(917) 740-8971‬ and we'll play your questions and statements on air.

Comedian Matt Lieb joins hosts Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov to discuss his podcast, Bad Hasbara. The comedy podcast examining and ridiculing the failures of Israeli and US propaganda tactics during the siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. (This episode originally aired on radio in January 2024) We end the show with a clip from Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid. Find Matt Lieb on Instagram at @mattliebjokes and on X at @mattlieb Find Sammy Obeid at @sammyobeid on IG Find us at @BeyondThePaleFM on IG, X and Facebook and @rafternoon on IG, @rafaelshimunov on X, and Shoshana Brown at @shob18 on IG. Donate to Palestinian Children's Relief Fund at Rafael's fundraiser and receive free stickers. Become a WBAI buddy of the show, so we can keep this show going at wbai.org

We're joined by NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) leader Carlyn Cowen to to talk about their fight against New York City Mayor Adams' austerity budget, and Tiffany being only one of three Council Members to vote NO on the budget. We touch on NY Governor Hochul's proposed Mask Ban, Cop City in Queens, SCOTUS, Biden and other uplifting topics. We end with what we should be doing now to prepare for what's coming (hint: mutual aid, get to know your neighbors). ‪(917) 740-8971‬ for us to play on the show.

Daniel Delgado, a Qeuchua & Jewish writer & rabbinical student.Daniel Delgado (he/him) is a Quechua and Jewish writer, editor, game designer, rabbinic student, and rabble-rouser. He is a former editor of Earth First! Journal and the author of a chapter in The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet. His short fiction has appeared in publications including Lamplight Magazine and Cossmass Infinities. He is also a designer on Koboa, a forthcoming South American TTRPG setting. You can follow him on Bluesky or his mostly inactive Twitter. Help the support this show by becoming a "buddy of the show" and the station that broadcasts it on the radio across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at WBAI.org and we'll thank you on air.

We talk Wikipedia's ban on ADL, New York's Cop City, Gaza, The People's Plan, Congressman Jamaal Bowman. And we learn about Shoshana Brown's grandmother, a revolutionary clown, and when Mayor Adams called her one. How did he know?

Shoshana and Rafael speak on the news: Congressman Jamaal's Bowman's testimony on education, Brooklyn Museum being protested by Palestine groups, including using a controversial red triangle, as well as the New York Times failing (or succeeding?) at their job to falsely report all the protests' targets were Jewish. We touch on Florida politics, electoral worker abuse, and more. Jen Perelman, the Congressional candidate challenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't show up for her show. We hope she's OK. This morning, we had also sent her campaign a question we would ask on the show about former staff accusing the campaign of labor violations. Help support the station by becoming a buddy of the show at wbai.org and we'll thank you on air.

Shoshana and Rafael talk about Congressman Jamaal Bowman's race and his AIPAC recruited and funded Democratic primary opponent George Latimer. We talk about Bend The Arc's and NAACP's recent call to Biden to end weapons to Israel as they cross the so called "the red line". We touch on recurring topic of Congressman Ritchie Torres' grift, as he calls the campus movement for Gaza unAmerican. Rafael gets into it about his experiences with Mondaire Jones and him becoming a professional progressive election ruiner. Volunteer with #JewsForJamaal via Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) at https://www.jfrej.org/events Follow @JewsForJamaal on Twitter Support the show and station by becoming a WBAI buddy at https://wbai.allyrafundraising.com Find @BeyondThePaleFM on Instagram and Twitter

We're joined by Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden appointee who resigned from the administration over its support of Israel's attacks on Gaza. Find Lily on X at @LGreenbergCall and on Instagram at @lilygreenbergcall Become a WBAI buddy of the show at https://wbai.org Find @BeyondThePale FM on X, IG and Facebook

We talk news, look back on Naming The Lost (the COVID memorial project) and the new memorial, Big Slow Majestic, at Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery with renowned NYC movement icon Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works. We also play some vintage clips of Jenny opening the original Beyond The Pale show in the 2000s, when she was its arts and culture host. romainejnyc and check out the work at GreatSmallWorks.org Support the station and the show by becoming a WBAI buddy of Beyond The Pale at WBAI.org Follow us on Twitter, IG and FB at @BeyondThePaleFM Check out Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) events at https://www.jfrej.org/events Leave a voicemail for the show for us to play on air ‪(917) 740-8971‬

10 years ago, Palestinian Professor Refaat Alareer (z''l) appeared on the original version of Beyond The Pale with his student, Yousef Aljamal,⁠ while on US tour with their book, Gaza Writes Back. Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov replay segments of that episode from the the Beyond The Pale archives, housed at The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU. Rafael describes his relationship with Refaat, why it was so hard to edit these clips. Shoshana speaks on collective liberation, and healing after Refaat's and his family's murder by Israeli forces. And Yousef, now a scholar himself, opens archives with a tribute to Refaat. We hear the voices of past show hosts, including Alex Kane, Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark--and its original intro. We open the show with Brian Cox's reading of Refaat's final poem, "If I Must Die" and cover his impact around the world and across the campus protests by students across the United States and world. And we closed the show with a reading from the book itself, Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine.