Katie talks to Sumaya Awad and Beth Miller about Zohran Mamdani's victory. Then she talks to Milton Perez about homelessness in New York and what Zohran can do about it.

Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian New Yorker, writer and organizer and member of NYC-DSA. She is co-editor of "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction."

Beth Miller is the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, where she spearheads the organization’s Congressional advocacy and electoral organizing. Beth has worked in the movement for Palestinian rights since 2011.

Milton Perez, from The Bronx and Puerto Rico, is a Leader in VOCAL, New York's Homelessness Union. He is an advocate for those experiencing homelessness, the formerly homeless and the housing insecure. He is a lived experience consultant after Spending Over 5 Years in The Shelter System.

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The Katie Halper Show celebrated Zohran’s election night with a flashback to his November 2023 appearence — long before he announced he was running for mayor when he was doing a hunger strike as assemblyman. Katie was at Zohran's election night party in Brooklyn, which you can hear all about at her special livestream on YouTube tonight Thursday November 6th featuring Sumaya Awad and Beth Miller.

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UPDATE: Israel has refused to release Mohammed. The next hearing in November 9. Visit https://palestine.salsalabs.org/actionjuly31/index.html to take action to demand his release.

Katie speaks to Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, about the two party system, colonialism and white power in Black faces. Plus the 17th Annual Black People’s March on the White House happening November 1st followed by a conference on Sunday, November 2. This year’s theme: “Don’t Agonize, Organize! Info on the march is here: https://blackisbackcoalition.org/

Katie then talks to Zeyad Kadur about his nephew Sayfollah Musallet, a 20 year old American citizen who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and his nephew Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16 year old American Citizen who is languishing in an Israeli prison where he has been kept since early 2025.

Then Katie speaks to Samuel Biagetti, a historian and host of the Historysplaining podcast about the end of the unipolar world order.

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Katie speaks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber about the Gaza Tribunal being held in Istanbul October 23-26, which Craig helped organize and Katie will be covering. Katie will also be delivering testimony on the media’s complicity in the genocide. Then Katie speaks to three people arrested for protesting the UK’s Draconian Terror Laws, which make it illegal to support proscribed organizations like Palestine Action, a direct action group from the UK and has targeted and sabotaged the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems factories. All three are Jewish and the descendents of Holocaust survivors: Colonel Chris Romberg is a former Army officer and defence attache with the UK embassies in Jordan and Egypt. His family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is a Jewish activist and former Labor Party electee, as well as the cofounder of Jewish Voice for Labour. Carolyn Gelenter is a longtime activist since the Vietnam war and is also the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.

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Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.

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Katie catches up with Palestinian-American physician Dr. Dhiaa Daoud, who joined the show last week from the freedom flotilla, to talk about being kidnapped and tortured by the IDF. They're also joined by Tommy Marcus, a Jewish-American activist and the creator of the viral Instagram account Quentin Quarantino who was also kidnapped and tortured from another flotilla. But first Katie talks to Palestinian-American grandmother and activist Janine Ali and her lawyer, Palestinian-American free speech attorney Jenin Younes. Janine is being falsely accused of choking a member of the zionist extremist organization Betar, which is famous for harassing, doxxing and presenting people with pagers, in a reference to Israel's terrorist pager attack in Lebanon.

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At 73, Janine Ali is a dedicated activist and proud Palestinian American. A retired professional, she is the mother of four and the grandmother of eleven, cherishing her family while passionately advocating for peace. Since the 1980s, Janine has been a vocal advocate for peace, speaking out against the bombings in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as the war in Iraq and Bosnia. She has volunteered in many Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Lebanon, providing support and compassion to those in need. Janine was also part of the 24/7 peace vigil in front of the home of then Secretary of State Antony Blinken from January 26- July 26 2024. Since October 7, she has spent her time demonstrating against the genocide in Gaza, working tirelessly to bring awareness to the American public about the atrocities being committed by Israel and striving to educate others and foster understanding. Janine channels her energy and experience into making a positive impact in her community through peaceful means.

Jenin Younes is a civil liberties and free speech attorney and is National Legal Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She is on the defense team representing Janine Ali.

Tommy Marcus is the creator of the viral Instagram account Quentin Quarantino. He set out to create a meme page during the pandemic, but has since used his Instagram fame to raise more than $30 million for humanitarian causes. He was aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying aid to Palestinians when they were arrested by Israeli naval forces. Tommy and his fellow Jewish-American friend David Adler were singled out and forced to be filmed with Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir when the convoy was intercepted. Tommy spent 5 days in an Israeli prison and returned home to Los Angeles on Friday.

Dr. Dhiaa Daoud is a Palestinian-American emergency physician and humanitarian. His work in Gaza during the 2024 war inspired him to found the Doctors for Hope Foundation, which provides medical care and rebuilds essential infrastructure. He recently returned from a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.

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We're joined by Palestinian novelist, writer and activist Susan Abulhawa, political scientist John Mearsheimer and Dr. Dhiaa Daoud, MD, an emergency medicine physician currently aboard a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, joining healthcare workers, journalists, and international parliament members to break the siege and shed light on the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer and activist whose novels, including Mornings in Jenin and Against the Loveless World, have been translated into dozens of languages and widely acclaimed. She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the Palestine Writes literary festival.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a leading realist scholar of international relations. A West Point graduate and former U.S. Air Force officer, he is the author of numerous influential works on U.S. foreign policy and power politics.

Dr. Dhiaa Daoud is a Palestinian-American emergency physician and humanitarian. His work in Gaza during the 2024 war inspired him to found the Doctors for Hope Foundation, which provides medical care and rebuilds essential infrastructure. He is currently aboard a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.

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Roger Waters joins the show to talk about Gaza, the UN, free speech & what he wants the president of Colombia to do. Plus, he reacts to the latest crackdowns on speech, the war in Ukraine, & why some musicians are such cowards when it comes to Israel.

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But first, we're joined by Vaniya Agrawal & Hossam Nasr, two former Microsoft workers who helped pressure the company to bar the Israeli military from using Microsoft services to spy on millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza & the occupied West Bank & stored in Microsoft’s vast Azure cloud computing platform. But there's more work to be done, as Microsoft continues to collaborate w/Israel in other ways.

Of course, we can't leave you hanging on Trump's deal so we will ALSO be joined by Mouin Rabbani & Craig Mokhiber who will break down what's really happening in Gaza.

Roger Waters is a singer, songwriter & musician, best known for being a member of the legendary rock band, Pink Floyd. He's also an outspoken activist for peace, a free Palestine & several other causes that get him in trouble.

Vaniya is an organizer w/No Azure for Apartheid & ex-Microsoft worker who was terminated for protesting at Microsoft's 50th anniversary keynote event, where she disrupted a panel of current & former Microsoft CEOs including Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, & Steve Ballmer. Since then, she has continued organizing w/NoAA to apply pressure on Microsoft executives to meet workers' demands. Most recently Vaniya was arrested twice last month for participating in encampments on Microsoft campus, & occupying the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith at Microsoft's global headquarters.

Hossam Nasr is the co-founder of No Azure for Apartheid & a former Microsoft worker. He worked at the company for 3 years before being fired in October last year for organizing a vigil on Microsoft campus for the Palestinians killed in Gaza. Since then, he has organized w/NOAA to pressure Microsoft to end its relationship w/the Israeli military & confronted executives at company events. Most recently Hossam was arrested twice last month after participating in the Liberated Zone encampment on Microsoft's campus & the sit-in at Brad Smith's office.

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst & commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict & the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer w/the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East w/the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, Senior Middle East Analyst & Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine w/the Int'l Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya & a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report.

Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official & a specialist in international human rights law, policy, & methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" & accusing the UN of failing to act.

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Journalist and Bad Faith podcast host Briahna Joy Gray talks about debating Charlie Kirk and pushes back on the way much of the Left is talking and writing about Kirk.But first, Antizionist Jewish author, educator and Instagram star Sim Kern cuts through pro Israel propaganda you don’t even know you’re getting.

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Briahna Joy Gray is the host of the Bad Faith Podcast and editor at large of Current Affairs magazine. She is the former national press secretary for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign and former Senior politics editor at The Intercept. Briahna was the co-host of The Hill's Rising until she was fired over her criticism of Israel. In March 2022, she debated Charlie Kirk.

Sim Kern is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of Genocide Bad and The Free People’s Village. As a journalist, Sim has investigated petrochemical polluters and exposed malfeasance amid the state takeover of public schools in Houston, Texas. Sim is also a book influencer and activist, who created the The Trans Rights Readathon in 2022, which raised over $250,000 for trans-supporting organizations in its first year alone. Since October 7th, 2023, Kern has shared educational content about Palestine and mobilized their followers to raise more than half a million dollars in direct aid for families in Gaza.

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Palestinian-American Human Rights lawyer Noura Erakat & Palestinian-Dutch analyst Mouin Rabbani talk about the new UN report which found that Israel is committing genocide & whether that even matters or changes anything. Then Due Dissidence's Russell Dobular & Keaton Weiss join to talk about Charlie Kirk, his killer & Kirk's relationship to Israel.

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Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst & commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict & the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East w/the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, Senior Middle East Analyst & Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine w/the Int'l Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, & a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Professor of Africana Studies & the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School & was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.

Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law & the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award & the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya & an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She's a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival.

She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights, & as nat'l organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" & "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, & The Boston Review. She's a frequent commentator on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) & the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022).

Russell Dobular is a New York native, born & raised in Flushing, Queens. He worked in New York’s independent theater scene for over 20 years as a writer, director, producer, & theater owner, drove a Hansom Cab in 3 cities & is a licensed tour guide in both NYC & New Orleans. He is currently the co-host of Due Dissidence podcast.

Keaton Weiss is the co-host of Due Dissidence podcast on YouTube, Rumble & Spotify. He also writes occasionally on Substack.

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Journalist Seth Harp talks about his hit book, which has just been picked up by HBO, investigating the drug cartels and string of murders plaguing the Fort Bragg U.S. Army military installation located in North Carolina. He also discusses his own time in the military as well as what he saw in Ukraine. Then we're joined by student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik, who was recently suspended by CUNY City College and adjunct professor Dr. Corinna Mullin who was recently fired by John Jay and Brooklyn College for pro-Palestine activism.

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Seth Harp is an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent who writes about the intersection of armed conflict and organized crime. A contributing editor at Rolling Stone, he has reported from countries including Iraq, Syria, Mexico, Ukraine, and elsewhere for Harper’s, the New Yorker, The Intercept, and Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for the New York Times and the Texas Observer. He is currently working on a book for Viking Press about drug-trafficking in the U.S. Army Special Forces and a series of unsolved murders at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Before becoming a journalist, Harp practiced law for five years, and was an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Texas. During college and law school, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve and did one tour of duty in Iraq. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he was born and raised.

Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik is a 21 year-old organizer, student, poet, and Student Leader of the Tamkeen Movement, which aims to uplift the Muslim community through education and social organization. She is a double major in Political Science, International Relations, and minors in Human Rights.

She was recently suspended from CUNY City College for pro -Palestine activism.

Dr. Corinna Mullin is an anti-imperialist academic who was recently fired from her job as adjunct faculty at The City University of New York for Palestine solidarity. Corinna is a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. She is a delegate in the PSC-CUNY’s delegate assembly and serves on the Steering Committee of the PSC-CUNY’s International Committee. Corinna organizes with CUNY for Palestine and Labor for Palestine. She is an Associate Editor for Middle East Critique and Science & Society.

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