July 26, 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Jul 26 2009

A new book on the history of red-lining in African-American communities, Family Properties; Israel's branding campaign targets the lesbian and gay community; plus an Israeli once seen as a potential prime minister critically examines his country's relationship with the Holocaust.

Episode segments
  • Race and Real Estate in Urban America
    National Politics, Domestic Policy, Civil Rights
    Beryl Satter is the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America  and an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.
    Max Fraser

    The current sub-prime crisis illustrates both the importance to our economy and the potential for abuse when access to credit is unequally distributed. Author Beryl Satter shows that the roots of the current crisis can be seen in the real estate markets and practices of post-WWII urban centers like Chicago as an emerging working and middle-class sought to improve their living conditions.

  • Israeli PR Targets LBGTQ community (A Rebroadcast of our Gay Pride Contribution)
    Global Justice, International Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation

    Haneen Maikey is director of Al-Qaws.

    Richard Kim is Associate Editor of The Nation.
    Alisa Solomon

    Alisa Solomon, Haneen Maikey and Richard Kim take a close look at Israel's campaign to brand itself as a haven for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transexual and Queer (LGBTQ) communities, particularly in contrast with its nemesis, Iran, while it glosses over its occupation of Palestinian territories and its own dubious human rights record. 

  • Israel and the Holocaust
    Holocaust, Israeli Politics
    Avraham Burg, not long ago was seen by many Israelis as a possible future Prime Minister.  The son of a prominent Israeli family, head of the World Zionist Organization, President of the Jewish Agency, a former speaker of the Knesset (Parliament), he appeared to be the perfect Zionist.  That was until 2003, when in an article in The Guardian newspaper, headlined "The End of Zionism," he called for a quick withdrawal from the Palestinian Territories.  His break with Zionism was solidified with the publication of his latest book, forthcoming in paperback this December, The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Excerpts from an address by Avraham Burg at a Spring 2009 Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration sponsored by several liberal Zionist organizations, including Givat Haviva, Hashomer Hatzair and Meretz.