The Electronic Intifada Podcast 16 November 2014
This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast:
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Palestinian American community leader Rasmea Odeh convicted of immigration fraud in what her lawyer says was a political prosecution by the US government: an interview with reporter Charlotte Silver. (Read the full transcript)
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Members of a recent African heritage delegation to Palestine talk about making the connections between liberation struggles in Palestine and in the US. (Read the full transcript)
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News headlines from the last month in Palestine.
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Music by Raast — “Yarmouk: When you’re born a refugee.”
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African Heritage delegation member Trina Jackson shields her face from tear gas, fired by the Israeli military, in the West Bank village of Bilin earlier this month. (Anthony Grimes)
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Rasmea Odeh
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Rasmae Odah's conviction was a rail road job. U.S. District Court Jude Gershwin Drain wanted her to be convicted. His instructions t o the jury titanically and after the trial made that very clear. He also prohibited relevant information from being presented, e.g. that she was tried by a military tribunal in Israel 45 yeas ago, that has a 99% conviction rate, and that she was raped and tortured in prison..
He ordered her held in jail immediately because she doesn't have a strong support system in Chicago and might be a flight risk, even though busloads of Chicago supporters attended all seven of the court sessions in Detroit.
Actually she is a political prisoner.