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@marclamonthill and @RediTlhabi cut through the headlines with hard-hitting, in depth interviews. Fridays at 1930GMT on @AJEnglish.

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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. ▶️ https://t.co/5WYIitlPfD
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“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:  https://t.co/RCgpU3Yt6r
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“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 https://t.co/RCgpU3Yt6r
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"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: https://t.co/PUuRSYbQ2n
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“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: https://t.co/PUuRSYbQ2n
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"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: https://t.co/o50gajfVoR
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"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: https://t.co/o50gajfVoR
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“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: https://t.co/zqKy2mCtma
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“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: https://t.co/kNbpWwD6U4
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"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: https://t.co/kNbpWwD6U4
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"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: https://t.co/QK0cAX1GTD
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“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: https://t.co/jsHc583SWq
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“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: https://t.co/iafIE2KeWS
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"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: https://t.co/jZWxnyry2Q
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“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 ▶️ https://t.co/xwG7LaCOez
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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:   https://t.co/bdH21Ls5AL
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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: https://t.co/bhHbpMoAm3
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“The sovereignty of our country [Canada] is a critical baseline value that is shared by all Canadians,” Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations @BobRae48 tells #AJEUpFront host @RediTlhabi. 🔗 Watch here: https://t.co/QqTRMbirTx
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