The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 7 Nov. '23

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 8:24 p.m.

b'First, we get an update on the March on Washington for Palestine, as well as hear voices from everyday NYCers talking about Palestine/Israel.\\n\\nThen, in the Bronx, activists are calling out Congressman Ritchie Torres, one of Israel\\u2019s most ardent supporters in Congress, for championing genocide in Gaza and for seeming to have forgotten his own constituents who live in the poorest congressional district in the country. We are joined by Sonyi Lopez and Richie Merino from The Bronx Anti-War Coalition (BAWC), an anti-imperialist organization dedicated to challenging state violence and U.S. militarism at home and abroad.\\n\\nLastly, we interviewed Ellen Davidson, a longtime contributing editor to The Indypendent, anti-war activist, and Jewish anti-zionist who has traveled multiple times to the West Bank. She is a member of Veterans for Peace, Jews Say No, and the U.S. arm of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition. We ask her about the article she wrote in our November issue titled \\u201cWhat Does it Mean to Call Israel an Apartheid State?\\u201d'