Campus Protests Continue as ICC Issues Arrest Warrants
The International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan is for Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the crime of genocide, and Hamas leaders, for other war crimes. Netanyahu remains , as does U.S. President Joe Biden, who called the charges against the Israeli leader 鈥.鈥澛
Over the weekend, Biden gave a address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, a historically Black university, where some students his policy of continuing to arm Israel, and the class valedictorian, DeAngelo Jeremiah Fletcher, called for an 鈥渋mmediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza strip鈥 as the president sat behind him and quietly applauded. Investigative Journalist Arun Gupta, whose stories for 猫咪社区! include 鈥Claims of Mass Rape by Hamas Unravel Upon Investigation鈥 and 鈥Students for Gaza Are Undeterred鈥 spoke with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the latest Gaza-related news.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥 in her 2014聽聽of the same name.
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