August 01, 2010

Broadcast Date: 
Aug 1 2010

Muzzlewatch's Cecilie Surasky on the latest neo-con efforts to frame the Israel-Palestine conflict; U.S. Defense and State Departments at cross purposes over the sale of Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel; plus Imagining Madoff, a new play by Deb Margolin.

Episode segments
  • More From Muzzlewatch's Cicelie Surasky
    American Politics, Israeli Politics, Occupation, Jewish
    Cecilie Surasky is Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace and the founder of Muzzlewatch, JVP's acclaimed blog documenting efforts to silence open debate about Israel-Palestine policy.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In today's conversation we talk about:

    1) A new organization to police Israel's critics, The Emergency Committee for Israel, from the same old neo-cons.

    2) The firing of 20 year CNN editor, Octavia Nasr, a too-familiar pattern repeated by the mainstream media.

    3) IDF Report vindicating Goldstone's key finding is surpressed in Israel.

    4) A report from ACRI on the erosion of civil liberties in Israel and the arrests of non-violent activists Ameer Makhoul and Abdallah Abu Rahmah.

  • Caterpillar Feels the Heat
    American Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Larry Cohler-Esses is the assistant managing editor of The Forward, with responsibility for news coverage.
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Among the targets of the now 5-year Boycott Diverstment Sanctions (BDS) campaign, one company consistently appears: Caterpillar.  We talk with Larry Cohler-Esses about his investigative story (with Josh Nathan-Kazis) about Caterpillar's sales to Israel and the contradictions between U.S. State and Defense Department policies. 

    For more information about campaigns that target Caterpillar go to: Stop Cat, Jewish Voice for Peace and U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation.

  • Imagining Madoff
    Theater, Arts & Culture
    Deb Margolin is an author, performance artist, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company.  She is a recipient of an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. She teaches at Yale University's undergraduate Theater Studies Program.  Her most recent play is Imagining Madoff.
    Alisa Solomon

    Alisa Solomon meets up with playwright Deb Margolin at the premier of Imagining Madoff at Stageworks Hudson and talks with her about the creation of the work and its controversial backstory.