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“[My tax money] is killing those kids. We can have a conversation about whether I should stop paying taxes but it's still in the context of a level of privilege – relative to the atrocity.” — @omarelakkad on US involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. ▶️youtu.be/vgcoRA9UkN0

“The battle is not over... It’s not just about me. It’s about everyone who is implicated in this attempt to strangle and bury what remains of international justice,” Francesca Albanese tells @RediTlhabi on @AJUpFront after a US federal judge overturned sanctions against her.

“In Israel when you talk about starvation [in Gaza], what you're saying is, Hamas has succeeded in its hunger propaganda.” Omer Bartov explains to @marclamonthill how Israeli public opinion denies or rationalises genocide in Gaza. Watch #AJEUpFront here: aje.io/omerbartov

“What the IDF [Israeli army] is doing is an intentionally deliberate destruction of the place so that people would not be able to live there.” Genocide scholar Omer Bartov compares Gaza’s devastation to Hiroshima. Watch #AJEUpFront with @marclamonthill:  aje.io/omerbartov

"It's another chapter of the Palestinian ethnic cleansing, of the Palestinian Nakba," Mahmoud Khalil tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront as they discuss Donald Trump’s Gaza Strip proposal. Watch here: aje.io/mahmoudkhalil

“My story is only one drop in the sea of Palestinian sorrow.” Mahmoud Khalil speaks to @marclamonthill, reflecting on his family’s forced displacement in 1948 and his own detention in the US for protesting against Israel’s genocide. Watch here: aje.io/mahmoudkhalil

"This is the play under the Trump administration to engage in a new version of that rogue actor with the support of the US." Ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy, speaks to @marclamonthill about Washington's role in Israel’s strike on Doha. Watch: aje.io/israelattacksq…

"When Israel strikes ... they are trying to assassinate the concept of diplomacy itself.” Hanna Alshaikh, Palestine project coordinator at the Arab Center in Washington, DC, speaks to @marclamonthill about Israel’s strike on Doha. Watch here: aje.io/israelattacksq…

“What authority does the government have to impose biblical ideas about morality?” asks @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront, pressing former Project 2025 director Paul Dans on the role of religion in US policy. Watch the full debate here: youtube.com/watch?v=omujq0…

“We're in a multipolar world and we can't bomb our way out of it,” economist Jeffrey Sachs tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront on June 11, urging US leaders to stop fuelling Middle East conflict and embrace a multipolar reality. 🔗Watch here: youtu.be/4ivEWwaGQBI?si…

"We think we can make trade wars…or we could threaten other countries… It doesn't work,” economist Jeffrey Sachs tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront how the delusion of “running the show” hurts the #US influence in a changing world. 🔗Watch here: youtu.be/4ivEWwaGQBI?si…

"What we lack in the United States is any ownership over how our data is being used,” AI ethicist Rumman Chowdhury tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront as she explains the difference between surveillance and a lack of data privacy in AI usage. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=N1x8Lx…

“As we build more and more technology, we are further and further removed from the real-world human implications,” AI ethicist Rumman Chowdhury tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront as she unpacks how AI is reshaping war and accountability. 🔗Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=N1x8Lx…

“There are ways in which these Christian ideas float into, almost permeate, every area of governmental life,” professor @AntheaButler tells @marclamonthill on #AJEUpFront why she believes the US is already sliding toward theocracy. 🔗Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=nM8bXD…

"The way they talk about God blessing the nation... You get blessed if you're a Christian, but if you are not Christian, you're not gonna get blessed financially or otherwise," Professor @AntheaButler tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill 🔗Watch here: youtu.be/nM8bXD2FpQ4

“There's an exchange rate on human life…some number of Palestinians that need to be slaughtered or starved to death before the gears turn a little bit faster.” — @omarelakkad on the world’s slow response to genocide in Gaza. Full interview ▶️ youtu.be/vgcoRA9UkN0?si…

The Democratic party has a “hard time positioning itself as the anti-oligarch party,” Former Bernie Sanders’ National Press Secretary @briebriejoy tells #AJEUpFront host @RediTlhabi. 🔗 Watch here with @Tim_Shenk and @KatedeGruyter:  youtu.be/KnsjnPL197I

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“[Donald Trump] has lied to the American public,” policy director @nayna_gupta tells #AJEUpFront host @RediTlhabi about the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accused of being part of the MS-13 gang. 🔗Watch here: youtu.be/V9t-y8F2quk