Beyond The Pale: Radio's Home For The Jewish Left

We speak with Rabbi David Mivasair and Rich Siegel, two Jewish activists who stood up against Palestinian land sales at their community synagogues in the Teaneck, New Jersey and Toronto, Canada. We also learn about how these land sales work, why're they're appearing in synagogues, and how we can stop them. And we touch on Kamala Harris' response to Palestine protestors and get play som...

We speak with the group who just exposed a local corporation, Atlas Airlines, for their role in Gaza genocide with a dramatic HQ takeover where they blocked employees and held their own press conference. We were joined by Irene Siegel, a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and Jake Levin, a staff organizer at JFREJ. Follow JFREJ at @jfrejnyc and Jake Levin at @JakeBLevin across...

We're joined by sports editor David Zirin live from opening day at the Paris 2024 Olympics. We talk Palestine, Israel, Hijab Ban, France's social expulsions, Black Lives Matter and sports, and David's own upbringing with a Zionist father an an anti-Zionist mother (Jane Zirin Z"L Yehi zichra mahapecha / May her memory be a revolution). We opened with David Zirin's opening remar...

Comedian Matt Lieb joins hosts Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov to discuss his podcast, Bad Hasbara . The comedy podcast examining and ridiculing the failures of Israeli and US propaganda tactics during the siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. (This episode originally aired on radio in January 2024) We end the show with a clip from Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid . Find Matt Lieb on Inst...

We're joined by NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) leader Carlyn Cowen to to talk about their fight against New York City Mayor Adams' austerity budget, and Tiffany being only one of three Council Members to vote NO on the budget. We touch on NY Governor Hochul's proposed Mask Ban, Cop City in Queens, SCOTUS, Biden and other uplifting topi...

Daniel Delgado, a Qeuchua & Jewish writer & rabbinical student. Daniel Delgado (he/him) is a Quechua and Jewish writer, editor, game designer, rabbinic student, and rabble-rouser. He is a former editor of Earth First! Journal and the author of a chapter in The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet. His short fiction has appeared in publications including Lamplight Magazine and Co...

We talk Wikipedia's ban on ADL, New York's Cop City, Gaza, The People's Plan, Congressman Jamaal Bowman. And we learn about Shoshana Brown's grandmother, a revolutionary clown, and when Mayor Adams called her one. How did he know?

Shoshana and Rafael speak on the news: Congressman Jamaal's Bowman's testimony on education, Brooklyn Museum being protested by Palestine groups, including using a controversial red triangle, as well as the New York Times failing (or succeeding?) at their job to falsely report all the protests' targets were Jewish. We touch on Florida politics, electoral worker abuse, and more. Jen Per...

Shoshana and Rafael talk about Congressman Jamaal Bowman's race and his AIPAC recruited and funded Democratic primary opponent George Latimer. We talk about Bend The Arc's and NAACP's recent call to Biden to end weapons to Israel as they cross the so called "the red line". We touch on recurring topic of Congressman Ritchie Torres' grift, as he calls the campus movement fo...

We're joined by Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden appointee who resigned from the administration over its support of Israel's attacks on Gaza. Find Lily on X at @LGreenbergCall and on Instagram at @lilygreenbergcall Become a WBAI buddy of the show at https://wbai.org Find @BeyondThePale FM on X, IG and Facebook

We talk news, look back on Naming The Lost (the COVID memorial project) and the new memorial, Big Slow Majestic, at Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery with renowned NYC movement icon Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works. We also play some vintage clips of Jenny opening the original Beyond The Pale show in the 2000s, when she was its arts and culture host. romainejnyc and check out the work at GreatSmallW...

10 years ago, Palestinian Professor Refaat Alareer (z''l) appeared on the original version of Beyond The Pale with his student, Yousef Aljamal,⁠ while on US tour with their book, Gaza Writes Back. Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov replay segments of that episode from the the Beyond The Pale archives, housed at The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU. Rafael describ...

We interview Jewish campus protestors. And talk current news. (This is also a fund drive episode, which means it's twice as long, and we find entertaining ways to ask you to support WBAI radio). We talk Gaza. We play NYPD's ridiculous fascist music video made from their raid on Columbia University. We explore the new Antisemitism Legislation (aka gag law), we talk bad ass Councilmember Tif...

"Everytime I go to Palestine, I update my will." Professor Wynd Kaufmyn speaks about how she and crews of other volunteers plan to reach Gaza with 5500 tons of aid and hundreds of human rights observers. We speak about security concerns, given Israel's history attacking and even killing volunteers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. We also talk about Columbia University campus protests th...

We touch on how the right wing tries to claim Passover, a revolutionary holiday opposing everything they stand for. All the progressive and left Haggadah supplements for you to choose from. Columbia University and Berkeley Law's attacks on their own anti-Zionist students, including genocidal cheerleader, assistant professor Shai Davidai, how to support the folks at Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Shosh...