Palestinian Scholar SLAMS Auschwitz Museum’s ‘Absolutely HORRIBLE’ Response To Gaza

Watch the debate between Katie & Rabbi Shapiro here: Palestinian Human Rights lawyer Noura Erakat breaks down the problems with the Auschwitz Museum’s official statement on October 7th. 00:00:00 Auschwitz Museum statement 00:01:13 Noura’s response 00:01:39 the problem with the human shields excuse 00:02:07 colonial history of “human shields“ argument 00:03:01 racism of “human shields“ argument 00:03:47 Israel does NOT have the right to self defense against occupied territory 00:04:22 Gaza *is* occupied 00:05:03 legal decision on occupation 00:06:17 legal precedents 00:08:00 Israel’s genocide Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and 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 and was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and 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 and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context“ and “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, and The Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) and the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022). ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps