Why would you be a member state of an organisation whose agencies you accuse of terrorism, whose schools you bomb, whose employees you murder at historic rates, and whose court orders you don't listen to?

And why should this organisation welcome you as a "normal" member?

Israel is a rogue state that has only shown disregard and contempt for everything the UN aims to represent.

It's time to suspend it. In my episode, I talk about how it could be done.

To see people who describe themselves as progressive cheer for a presidential candidate whose current administration has been literally supporting a genocide has been one continuous exploding head moment for me.

This is what my episode is on, with a simple deconstruction of what we need to remember about Kamala Harris.

It's difficult to see Fascism on the rise. It's difficult to see people - from country leaders to "regular" people - justify and advocate for mass murder.

My head is exploding when the complete flattening of Gaza by an occupying force is presented anything else than what history, international law, and basic human decency in the end require: an extermination of a people. In broad daylight.

That heaviness is real, but this is where we have to do our best for it not to bring us into despair.

In my episode, I remind myself and you, my kind and interested listener, that it's been done before. We can learn from each other, we can get inspired, and we can continue going.

There was little unexpected in Netanyahu's address in Congress yesterday. Nonetheless, there's a lot to be said about it.

In short, it didn't reveal anything new about Israel. Yet it has revealed - or at least reminded - us what the US Congress is really about, proudly and shamelessly.

Find more resources in my article: https://wp.me/pc6sQr-19S

In my episode, I invite you to notice how simple the "counterarguments" are oftentimes to the reports by some of the world's established institutions on Israel's destruction of Gaza.

I invite you to listen to what the UN, Save The Children, the ICJ, the ICC, and others have to say.

"We're in the middle of a genocide, Fascism is on the rise, and now this?" I was thinking (despairing, really) yesterday as messages about Noam Chomsky passing away were coming in.

Thankfully, those messages were false.

But my reflections aren't.

That's what I'm sharing with you today. So we don't fall into that despair together. Not yet.

If it hasn't been clear from Israel's killing of children at historic rates, using starvation as a weapon of war, and its history of murdering children with impunity -- it's even more official now.

The UN has announced that this month it is adding Israel to its blacklist of parties who commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict.

In my episode, I describe the report on which that list appears, what it's comprised of, how Israel was assessed on that same report last year, and what this new development could mean.

Find all these annual reports here:

https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/document-type/annual-reports/

What is a rogue state?

And if we use this concept to describe Israel, why would that matter?

As US-backed Israeli forces just committed yet another massacre in Rafah, targetting displaced people in tents and burning some of its victims alive, what are our elected leaders waiting for, pretending not to have any power?

It's all in my episode. That and a healthy amount of rage that I'm encouraging you, too, to let out in healthy ways.

My article with more resources here: https://justinaposkeviciute.com/

Student protests and encampments around the US and, increasingly, outside of it, have shown a lot. Or, rather, they have revealed a lot.

From the rise of Fascism in the US used to protect a Fascist regime in Israel to how parts of our societies can be angered by peaceful protests but not by daily mass murder in Gaza.

This and more is what my episode is about.

Find more resources here: https://wp.me/pc6sQr-17i

I don't think there are any debates left: Israel's brutality is completely in the open, as shown by its recent destruction of the Al Shifa Hospital and all executions that took place there, as well as its targetting and killing of the World Central Kitchen aid convoy.

The disregard for International Humanitarian Law here is two-fold at least: in Israel's conduct and in what its defenders still claim (or have never claimed in the first place).

This is what my episode is about.