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USF students protest Israeli home demolitions in East Jerusalem listen
03/04/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Across the Bay from Eckerd College, a small group of students at the University of South Florida in Tampa also used the day to take action. But this protest isn’t against the university; it is against the plans by Israel to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. Neveen Nawawy is a junior political science and international relations major. She organized the event.
Nawawy says her mother is a refugee from a Palestinian village south of Tel Aviv that was destroyed by Israel in 1967....
Be the first to commentUSF Student questions Obama on human rights in the Middle East listen
01/28/10 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Israel, Palestinians, Human Rights Ordinance, Barack Obama, Palestine, Laila Abdelaziz
President Obama answered questions from the audience during his speech today at University of Tampa. USF student Laila Abdelaziz asked Obama the first question.
Laila Abdelaziz: "Hello Mr. President, my name is Laila Abdelaziz. I'm a student at the University of South Florida."
President Barack Obama: "Hey Laila"
[crowd boos]
President Barack Obama: "Uh oh, Uh oh, Uh oh. We can all get along here. Tampa, behave yourselves."
Laila Abdelaziz: "First of all I'd lik...
5 commentsNoam Chomsky on Gaza siege listen
01/04/10 Samar Jarrah & Ahmed BedierWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Noam Chomsky, True Talk, Middle East, Gaza, Israel
Last Friday on WMNF’s True Talk, hosts Samar Jarrah and Ahmed Bedier spoke with Noam Chomsky. A year ago, the three-week-long Israeli attack on Gaza was underway. Critics of the ongoing siege of Gaza have pointed at U.S. and European support of the blockade but also have called out Egypt for participating.
You can hear this program every Friday on 88.5 FM beginning at 11am.
Be the first to commentHolocaust survivor Hedy Epstein on Gaza Freedom March listen
01/01/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Holocaust
About 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in Israel’s attack on Gaza one year ago.
To mark the anniversary, and to call for an end to the siege of Gaza, thousands of activists from around the world converged on Cairo last week to participate in the Gaza Freedom March.
On Thursday, December 31, 2009, WMNF spoke with Hedy Epstein. The family of this self-described Holocaust survivor escaped from Hitler's Germany w...
Be the first to commenttourism religious travel
04/07/09 Doris NorritoWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, tourism, travel, Middle East
Tours to Israel have always enjoyed popularity. But visits to the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank are discouraged by news of terrorist attacks and government warnings. Palestinian run tour groups offer a different view for travelers to the Holy Land.
Last November, the First World Religious Travel Expo and Educational Conference was held in Orlando. For the first time, Palestine tour trips were represented. Although both Israeli and Palestinian tours include visits to sacred Christi...
Be the first to commentLake Worth Commissioner arrested for protesting shooting listen
03/18/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, Mideast conflict
A Lake Worth city commissioner was arrested on Monday during a protest outside the Israeli Consulate in Miami.
Commissioner Cara Jennings and 35 others were protesting the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces, who shot American Tristan Anderson in the head last Friday in the West Bank village of Ni’lin.
WMNF spoke this afternoon with Commissioner Jennings about Monday’s protest and her arrest.
“I was with a group of people outside the Consulate – the Israeli Consulate – in downtow...
Be the first to commentAmerican Tristan Anderson shot by Israeli Defense Forces listen
03/13/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
An American is in critical condition with life-threatening wounds after being shot in the head today by a member of the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF.
Tristan Anderson, from California, is in a Tel-Aviv hospital after being transported from the village of Na’alin in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank.
WMNF spoke with David Jacobus, who is in the hospital with Anderson.
David Jacobus: “We actually just got word from the surgeons who came out. He has a very high velocity impact in h...
Be the first to commentRobin Wright on Middle East - Part I listen
03/04/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Foreign policy, Mideast conflict, Israel, Palestine, Syria
Journalist Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries in her career. She most recently covered foreign policy for the Washington Post.
Her latest book, Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East, has just been published in paperback.
WMNF spoke with Wright yesterday, and asked her about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement that two top State Department officials will travel to Damascus to hold a series of meetings with Syrian officials this wee...
Be the first to commentReporter discusses recent trip to Gaza and Israel
02/24/09 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Gaza, human rights, bombing, missiles, Israel
Good Afternoon,
Welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity program. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up: we’ll talk with St. Petersburg Times Senior Correspondent Susan Taylor Martin who has just returned from a reporting trip to Gaza and Israel. She’s written a series of reports for the Times and in a moment she’ll be on the air for a live interview.
But first: a lot of listener comments about last Thursday’s debate over whether radical Islam was the main school of thought within the Muslim religion. W...
1 commentsPalestine-Israel conflict debated at Tiger Bay listen
02/20/09 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Palestine, Israel, Mideast conflict
During the more than 60 years since Israel was founded in 1948, there has been conflict between Israel and the Palestinians displaced by the formation of the Jewish state. That clash came to a heated apex recently during Israel’s three-week-long offensive on the Gaza strip in December and January.
At the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center this afternoon, about 50 people from the Tiger Bay Club of Tampa heard from advocates on both sides of the conflict.
T...
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