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

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.

We interview Jewish campus protestors. And talk current news. (This is also a fund drive episode, which means it's twice as long, and we find entertaining ways to ask you to support WBAI radio). We talk Gaza. We play NYPD's ridiculous fascist music video made from their raid on Columbia University. We explore the new Antisemitism Legislation (aka gag law), we talk bad ass Councilmember Tiffany Caban, the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt being called out by another Jewish group, Bend The Arc. And the People's Plan. We open the show with Dartmouth professor Annelise Orleck who was thrown to the ground by police in New Hampshire for protecting her students from their raid, and how she, as a 65 year old Jewish faculty member, felt totally safe on campus until the militarized police showed up. And we open the show with a chant of other faculty standing for their students, recorded by Shoshana at CUNY City College, another site of police violence. We touch on why this episode was supposed to be all about our Refaat Alareer archives, and why it isn't. That'll be next week! Become a WBAI buddy of the show at wbai.org Follow us on social media @BeyondThePaleFM

"Everytime I go to Palestine, I update my will." Professor Wynd Kaufmyn speaks about how she and crews of other volunteers plan to reach Gaza with 5500 tons of aid and hundreds of human rights observers. We speak about security concerns, given Israel's history attacking and even killing volunteers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. We also talk about Columbia University campus protests that have sparked a national campus movement, genocidal Columbia professor/toddler Shai Davidai, Shoshana debuts a new accent, antisemitic conspiracy theories by NYPOST, Shoshana's own aid travels for Cuba, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt defaming students with false claims they are terror "proxies" for Iran, a message from Cole Kravitz, another volunteer boarding the flotilla ships, all the new faces in the reemerging Palestine solidarity movement, our new Beyond The Pale mascot (we need your helping naming it), Shoshana's gonna speak in Kingston, New York and more. Closing Music 1-800-Genocide by Rebel Diaz. Sign up and follow to help the flotilla at: https://freedomflotilla.org https://twitter.com/GazaFFlotilla https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/ https://facebook.com/FreedomFlotillaCoalition Support the show https://wbai.allyrafundraising.com/ Follow Beyond The Pale https://twitter.com/BeyondThePaleFM https://www.instagram.com/beyondthepalefm https://facebook.com/beyondthepalefm Golem Mascot Art by https://devotaj.com/

We touch on how the right wing tries to claim Passover, a revolutionary holiday opposing everything they stand for. All the progressive and left Haggadah supplements for you to choose from. Columbia University and Berkeley Law's attacks on their own anti-Zionist students, including genocidal cheerleader, assistant professor Shai Davidai, how to support the folks at Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Shoshana's advice about Negro Spirituals during Passover, Seder Plates, Rafael vents about Asian Jewish organizations and occasionally we're joined by the voice of G-d and Flo' Rida.