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Race and Rights PodcastThe War Economy of the Fragmented Healthcare System in Syria (Episode 38)In this episode, we speak with regional experts who share their knowledge about Syria's healthcare system and how it has been affected by years of conflict. Based on research from MSF's book "Everybody's War: Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis," our guests provide thoughtful analysis of several important issues:The connection between healthcare provision and questions of state legitimacyHow Syria's once-unified healthcare system became fragmented during the warThe complex dynamics of delivering humanitarian aid in a polarized conflict environmentOur discussion examines the practical and ethical challenges facing healthcare workers and aid organizations operating in contexts...2025-07-1542 minRace and Rights PodcastInnocent Until Proven Muslim with Maha Hilal (Episode 37)Host Sahar Aziz is in conversation with scholar and organizer Dr. Maha Hilal as she unpacks two decades of the War on Terror and its devastating impact on Muslim communities. This eye-opening episode, based on Dr. Hilal's book Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11, explores how government narratives have been weaponized to build an extensive apparatus of state violence rooted in Islamophobia.Dr. Hilal offers unique insights into: (1) the evolution of counter-terrorism laws and policies (2) how Muslim Americans have internalized systemic oppression and (3) the complex role prominent Muslim American...2025-07-0124 minRace and Rights PodcastU.S. Military Aid to Israel During a Genocide in Gaza with Josh Paul ( Episode 36)Sahar Aziz speaks with Josh Paul about the law, politics, and policies surrounding the United States decades long military aid to Israel and specifically how such aid makes the U.S. complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza since October 2023. Josh Paul resigned from the State Department due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration’s decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, secur...2025-06-1751 minRace and Rights PodcastGlobal Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism with Audrey Truschke and Ivan Kalmar (Episode 35)Dr. Audrey Truschke and Professor Ivan Kalmar analyze the alarming global surge in Islamophobic violence and discriminatory policies, particularly in Eastern Europe and South Asia. Our guests explore how economic and political insecurities have fueled dangerous scapegoating of Muslim citizens and refugees, transforming vulnerable religious minorities into targets of state-sanctioned persecution. This thought-provoking episode examines the human cost of populist rhetoric and offers critical insights into one of today's most pressing human rights issues: the systematic marginalization of Muslim communities across national borders. Listen to the conversation on the intersection of religious identity, nationalism, and th...2025-06-0348 minRace and Rights PodcastCarceral Apartheid with Brittany Friedman (Episode 34)Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society. White supremacy within the institutional conditions in US prisons produces a power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Professor Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Host Sahar Aziz discusses the many shocking discoveries that Friedman finds from the research for her book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prison published in 2025. Beginning in the 1950s, California prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black p...2025-05-2042 minRace and Rights PodcastICC Investigation of Biden Administration Officials for Aiding Israeli War Crimes with Sarah Leah Whitson (Episode 33)In January of 2025, the human rights organization, Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), made a formal request with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for their accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.With the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, the submission details a pattern of deliberate and purposeful decisions by these officials to provide military, political, and public...2025-05-0643 minRace and Rights PodcastRace and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders with Asli Bali (Episode 32)In the Global South, the possibility of a post-imperial reality self-determined by former subjects of the empire has been undermined by the dominant Western narrative that centers “humanitarian initiatives, politics of counterterrorism, and migration control”. Host Sahar Aziz will speak with expert, advocate and Law Professor Dr. Asli U. Bali to deconstruct the mainstream narrative that portrays the international system and its dominant actors as benevolent agents of humanitarianism in regions like Libya. Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html F...2025-04-2232 minRace and Rights PodcastPost-Colonial Legality and Human Rights with Abdullahi An-Naim (Episode 31)Autonomy and self-determination for all individuals cannot be realized and sustained unless true within every person. Enslavement and dehumanization remain true of citizens of imperial nations so long as they remain true for colonized peoples. This week’s episode explores the contradictions between stated commitments to human rights and actions in Western and post-colonial societies. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with Emory University School of Law Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.Support the Center for Security, Race, and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Foll...2025-04-0833 minRace and Rights PodcastRace, Women and the Global War on Terror with Sherene Razack (Episode 30)This episode of the Race and Rights podcast features Professor Sherene Razack discuss how racialized Muslim bodies and gender are constructed by global white supremacy that produces and sustains networks, affinities and ideas in the so-called Global War on Terror. Sherene Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and author of the Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism (University of Minnesota 2022).Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us on social med...2025-03-2541 minRace and Rights PodcastSyria and Seismic Shifts in Middle East Politics with Bassam Haddad (Episode 29)Syria's complex history and politics led to the overthrow of Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – as unexpected as the Arab Spring revolutions that gripped the Middle East thirteen years earlier. Located at the center of regional competition, the nation of Syria will continue to experience foreign intervention from its neighbors, as well as the United States. Meanwhile, the millions of Syrian refugees outside the country are gradually returning to rebuild their homeland. Host Sahar Aziz speaks with Professor Bassam Haddad about the origins of Syria’s uprising in 2011 that culminated in the overthrow of the Assad regime in 2024...2025-03-111h 07Race and Rights PodcastThe Two Faces of American Freedom with Aziz Rana (Episode 28)Let’s take stock of the American experience within the global history of colonialism – specifically by examining the intertwined relationship in U.S. constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. This episode reinterprets American political traditions from the colonial period to modern times by placing race, immigration, and national security in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “The Two Faces of American Freedom” author and Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana.Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by followin...2025-02-2732 minRace and Rights PodcastIslamophobia, Race and Global Politics with Nazia Kazi (Episode 27)This week’s episode offers a powerful introduction to the scope of Islamophobia in the United States. The legacy of Barack Obama and the mainstream media’s typically negative portrayals of Muslims offer incisive examples into the vast impact of Islamophobia – connected to the long history of racism – both within the borders of the United States, and as a matter of foreign policy and global politics. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics” author and Stockton University Professor Nazia Kazi.Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a don...2025-02-1126 minRace and Rights PodcastHate Crimes, Terrorism and the Framing of White Supremacist Violence with Shirin Sinnar (Episode 26)In the face of pervasive racial violence in American society, the effort to address and subdue white supremacist extremism has been underserved by the framing of “hate crimes,” and the movement to re-frame these events as domestic terrorism, as these terms do not meet the heavy task of eliminating the perpetuation of institutional oppression. Host Sahar Aziz will discuss with Law Professor Shirin Sinnar what she has coined the “frame analysis,” where she argues against these labels as insufficient means of challenging the predominant racial and social order in the U.S. Support the Center for Securi...2025-01-2928 minRace and Rights PodcastWhat Lies Ahead for Syria: A Conversation with Dr. Omar Dahi (Episode 25)A complex array of domestic, regional, and international factors contributed to the rise of Hafez Al Assad as president of Syria in 1970 and the ultimate demise of his son, Bashar Al Assad on December 8, 2024 – thirteen years after the Syrian people unsuccessfully rose up peacefully as part of the regional phenomena commonly referred to as the Arab Spring. Located at the center of geopolitical competition between Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, the nation of Syria will continue to play an instrumental role in regional politics, which in turn impacts U.S. interests in the oil-rich Middle East.Hos...2025-01-1353 minRace and Rights PodcastTrauma in Gaza: Palestinian Diaspora Experiences with Ghada Ageel (Episode 24)In what a growing consensus of international legal scholars describe as a genocide, the systematic destruction of Gaza by the Israeli military has killed over 55,000 Palestinians and injured over 100,000 Palestinians in less than 15 months. The Israeli government’s severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into the blockaded Gaza Strip have produced unprecedented malnutrition, disease, and starvation of 2.3 million Palestinians.While only a few mainstream American media outlets have covered what has come to be known as the Second Nakba – harking back to Israeli militia's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 – even fewer journalists have covered the experie...2024-12-3052 minRace and Rights PodcastThe Fall of Syria's Assad Regime: A Syrian American Perspective (Episode 23)On December 8, 2024, the Syrian people overthrew Bashar Al Assad, bringing to an end a brutal fifty-four-year dictatorship. Although the Syrian people partook in the wave of revolutions during the Arab Spring, their efforts to bring about democracy in Syria were hijacked by a host of external actors in what deteriorated into a violent proxy war between Russia, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.As a result, over 300,000 Syrians were killed, and 13 million Syrians became refugees or internally displaced within the country, as explained in CSRR’s 2019 report “Toward Empowerment and Sustainability: Reforming America’s Syrian Refugee...2024-12-1648 minRace and Rights PodcastThe Illusory Peace in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict with Amb. Hesham Youssef (Episode 22)The present state of the unfulfilled peace brokering process between Palestine and Israel stands to undermine any meaningful progression toward the two-state solution proffered by dominant actors in the West. Host Sahar Aziz, in discussion with the former Egyptian Ambassador Hesham Youssef, explores the argument that Western ambivalence to the issue of Palestinian sovereignty has significantly eroded the path toward a peace agreement.#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CSRRSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Follow us on...2024-12-0327 minRace and Rights PodcastBlind Spot: America and the Palestinians with Khaled Elgindy (Episode 21)The bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Israel has effectively blinded it to the most detrimental factors to the dissolution of the peace-brokering process, most notably the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian sovereignty and the legitimacy of international human rights law. Host Sahar Aziz will discuss these complex dynamics with author and political scientist Khaled Elgindy by decentering a unilateral perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a socio-historical lens.#Palestine #BlindSpot #Gaza #Israel #KhaledElgindySupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://g...2024-11-1927 minRace and Rights PodcastInternational Law and Palestine with George Bisharat (Episode 20)The indeterminate and contested nature of the terms of international law indicate a prevalent concern regarding the legitimacy of international law in the context of Israel’s war with Hamas and the ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Host Sahar Aziz explores this topic with Law Professor and expert on Middle Eastern studies Dr. George Bisharat to dissect the prevalent inconsistencies in enforcing and applying international human rights as persistent roadblocks to achieving justice for Palestinians. #Palestine #Hamas #Gaza #Israel #GeorgeBisharat #CSRRSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and mak...2024-11-0542 minRace and Rights PodcastEyewitness to the Palestinian Genocide in Gaza (Episode 19)Since October 8, 2023, the Israeli military has killed over 41,000 Palestinians, severely injured over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and destroyed the medical infrastructure in what international legal scholars have described as a genocide. Israel has also severely restricted the entrance of food and medical supplies from the Gaza Strip, resulting in the massive starvation of over 2 million Palestinian civilians. CSRR Faculty Affiliate Dr. Heba Khalil guest hosts today’s episode with an interview with Wilhelmi (Willy) Massay, a Tanzanian American trauma nurse who went to Gaza on a medical mission in the spring of 2024. Mr. Massay provides a harrowing account of his...2024-10-2239 minRace and Rights PodcastPeaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence with Juliane Hammer (Episode 18)Host Sahar Aziz invites Professor Juliane Hammer to discuss her book Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence that addresses how Muslim advocacy work against domestic abuse is embedded in and challenged by systems of anti-Muslim hostility and racism while also having to contend with changing notions of gender norms and practices. Based on ethnographic research and textual analysis, Professor Hammer offers an intersectional analysis of how Muslim advocates respond to these challenges both within and outside of the Muslim communities they serve. #Muslim #Islam #Islamophobia #DomesticViolence #CSRRSupport the Center for Security, Race a...2024-10-0840 minRace and Rights PodcastMuslims of the Heartland with Edward Curtis IV (Episode 17)What legal and extra-legal challenges did Ottoman Syrian Muslim immigrants face when they immigrated to the American Midwest before World War I? What opportunitiesdid they have? Join our host Sahar Aziz in her discussion with Professor Edward Curtis to learn how these Midwesterners built their communal power, creating a life that was American, Arab, and Muslim all at the same time. #Muslims #Islam #AmericanMuslim #Syrian #ImmigrantSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Fol...2024-09-2437 minRace and Rights PodcastRefuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential with Heba Gowayed (Episode 16)Drawing on a global and comparative ethnography, Professor Heba Gowayed explores how Syrian men and women seeking refuge in a moment of unprecedented global displacement are received by countries of resettlement and asylum—the U.S., Canada, and Germany. It shows that human capital, typically examined as the skills immigrants bring with them that shape their potential, is actually created, transformed, or destroyed by receiving states’ incorporation policies. Since these policies derive from historically informed and unequal approaches to social welfare, refugees’ experiences raise a mirror to how states (re)produce inequality. #Refugee #Immigrant #Syrian #MuslimBan #HebaGowayedSu...2024-09-1039 minRace and Rights PodcastAbortion, Religion and Race in Post-Roe America with Asifa Quraishi (Episode 15)The U.S. Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade has rightfully triggered a national debate about the role of religion in lawmaking, women's rights to control their reproductive health, and the racially disparate impact of state prohibitions on abortion. Join our host Sahar Aziz and legal scholars Asifa Quraishi-Landes, and Cynthia Soohoo on the legal, political, and social implications of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. #Roe #Dobbs #Abortion #IslamicLaw #ReligiousFreedom #FirstAmendmentSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/cs...2024-08-271h 18Race and Rights PodcastMuslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition with SpearIt (Episode 14)Since the early 1960s, incarcerated Muslims have used legal action to establish their rights to religious freedom and improve their conditions behind bars – ultimately safeguarding the civil rights not only of imprisoned Muslims but all people who are confined in a carceral setting. In this episode, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Professor SpearIt discusses his book “Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition.”#Muslim #Islam #MassIncarceration #CivilRights #SpearItSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Follow us...2024-08-1340 minRace and Rights PodcastComing to Understand Latino Anti-Black Bias with Tanya K Hernandez (Episode 13)It is possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and to also be discriminatory. Understanding the hard truth of Latino anti-Black bias is critical for fostering a multiracial democracy. Host Sahar Aziz discusses these issues with “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality” author and Fordham School of Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández. #Latino #Latinx #TanyaHernandez #CivilRights #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT #RaceSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Follow us on Twitte...2024-07-3035 minRace and Rights PodcastProtecting Academic Freedom, Empowering Muslim Students (Episode 12)Academic freedom, equity, Islamophobia, and the commercialization of higher education offer challenges to faculty nationwide. In a telling incident, Black Muslim students of Hamline University complained of Islamophobic incidents on campus while also taking offense at the showing of a famous Persian painting of the Prophet Mohammed in a global art history class. Host Sahar Aziz discusses these issues with Rutgers Art History Professor Tamara Sears and University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes.#AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Islam #Muslim #IslamophobiaSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:2024-07-1648 minRace and Rights PodcastSettler Colonialism, Race, and the Law with Natsu Taylor Saito (Episode 11)Racialized disparities continue to persist in the United States and are unlikely to be effectively alleviated by the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. A recent book provides a functional analysis linking disparate forms of oppression and makes the case that structural racism will be more effectively dismantled by contesting ongoing settler colonization and supporting the right of all peoples to self-determination. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists, “ author and Georgia State College of Law Professor Natsu Taylor Saito.#SettlerColonialism #Imperialism #Racism #Race #CRT #CriticalRaceTheorySupp...2024-07-0230 minRace and Rights PodcastIslam in Liberalism with Joseph Massad (Episode 10)American anxieties about intolerance, misogyny, and tyranny are projected onto Islam as part of the broader European use of Islam as a foil in Western liberalism. A recent book contextualizes this trend within recent efforts by the western world to proselytize liberalism as the only valid and sane worldview to Muslim-majority nations and references a rich historical record of Christian and liberal discourses revealing such attempts to cure Muslims of their supposed illiberal ways. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with “Islam in Liberalism” author and Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad.#Islam #Liberalism #Islamophobia #Orientalism #JosephMassadSu...2024-06-1834 min
Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelHouse Commitee on Education and the Workforce Investigation Echoes HUAC and the Era of McCarthyism w/ Sahar Aziz
On this edition of Parallax Views, Rutgers University's Director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights, Sahar Aziz, returns to the program to discuss the recent House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearings on antisemitism and why they resemble something more akin to the McCarthyite witch hunts of the House on American Activities during the Cold War than an honest effort to combat antisemitism. These hearings, she argues, are more about shutting down political criticism of Israel than fighting antisemitism. We'll also delve into some of the key points covered in Sahar's book The Racial M...2024-06-0951 minRace and Rights PodcastMuslim Contributions to American Prosperity with Dalia Mogahed (Episode 9)Muslims have long been central in America’s political discourse, policy debates and popular culture. Yet most Americans say they don’t even know a Muslim and more than 80% of media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the United States is negative. This week’s episode discusses the myriad ways in which Muslims contribute to economic development, medicine, philanthropy, arts, entertainment, sports, and education in the United States. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with scholar Dalia Mogahed.#Islamophobia #Muslims #Islam #DaliaMogahed #ISPU #AmericanMuslimSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and ma...2024-06-0434 minRace and Rights PodcastWhite Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America with Khyati Joshi (Episode 8)Christianity has wielded significant influence on the American experiment from before the founding of the republic to the social movements of today. A recent book, “White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America,” maps centuries of slavery, westward expansion, immigration, and citizenship laws to show how Christianity in the United States has always been entangled with notions of white supremacy. Host Sahar Aziz discusses this issue with author Dr. Khyati Joshi.#WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #Privilege #Race #Racism #KhyatoJoshiSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:Do...2024-05-2127 minRace and Rights PodcastThe Racial Muslim with Sahar Aziz and Deb Amos (Episode 7)Religious bigotry in the U.S. racializes Muslims and Arabs – particularly those in immigrant communities. This week’s episode tackles an ongoing trend where racism quashes religious freedom. Host Sahar Aziz and longtime war correspondent and Princeton journalism Professor Deborah Amos discuss the groundbreaking phenomenon of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” through an historical and comparative approach that demonstrates how race and religion intersect.#RacialMuslim #Islamophobia #AntiMuslimRacism #CRT #CriticalRaceTheory #SaharAziz #DeborahAmosSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-s...2024-05-0746 minRace and Rights PodcastThe 100 Years' War on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi (Episode 6)This episode delves into one hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, while backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. Host Sahar Aziz and this week’s guest, historian and distinguished Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, will discuss the origins and consequences of this non stop aggression against the Palestinians – which is also the subject of his latest book: ”The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017”. #Palestine #Zionism #RashidKhalidi #SettlerColonialismSupport the Center fo...2024-04-2341 minRace and Rights PodcastMerge Left: A Fireside Chat with Ian Haney Lopez (Episode 5)The political manipulation of coded racism, also known as dog whistle politics, has evolved in the aftermath of the Trump presidency. Host Sahar Aziz and Berkeley Law Professor Ian Haney López discuss how merging the struggles for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity builds solidarity across racial lines necessary for winning elections – which is also the subject of his latest book: "Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America".Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csr...2024-04-1239 min
Sumud Podcast: Inspired by PalestineSahar AzizDr. Ed Hasan sits down with professor, author, speaker, scholar, and human rights activist Sahar Aziz to talk about her journey, the motivations behind her activism, and the realities of oppressed people around the world, particularly in Palestine. Click the links below to learn more about Sahar Aziz and her work!Read Her Book, Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedomhttps://www.amazon.com/Racial-Muslim-Quashes-Religious-Freedom/dp/0520382293Learn About The Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR)https://csrr.rutgers.edu/about/staff/Professor Sahar Aziz...2024-04-041h 44Race and Rights PodcastExporting the War on Terror: Islamophobia in Asia with Khaled Beydoun (Episode 4)Host Sahar Aziz and Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Professor Khaled Beydoun discuss the latest legal and political developments in the troubling rise of global Islamophobia in India, China, and other Asian countries. The conversation is informed by Professor Beydoun’s new book The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims.#Islamophobia #Asia #China #India #KhaledBeydoun Support the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rucs...2024-03-2634 minRace and Rights PodcastShining a Light on New Jersey’s Secret State Intelligence System (Episode 3)Civil liberties are vulnerable to infringement in large part due to the post-9/11 expansion of a government surveillance apparatus. Join us as we examine the threats to civil liberties and rights posed by Fusion Centers, as highlighted in the Center for Security, Race and Rights’ groundbreaking report Shining a Light on New Jersey's Secret Intelligence System. Host Sahar Aziz addresses these issues with Brennan Center for Justice law enforcement expert Michael German, CAIR New Jersey staff attorney Ayah Zaki, and ACLU of New Jersey attorney Dillon Reisman.#Surveillance #Intelligence #CivilLiberties #SaharAziz #MichaelGerman #ACLU #DillonReismanSupport th...2024-03-1241 minRace and Rights PodcastConsistent Partiality: U.S. Foreign Policy on Palestine-Israel (Episode 2)Although the Biden administration talks about supporting democracy and human rights, it has maintained unconditional US support for Israel even as human rights organizations label it an apartheid state. What are the political and ideological foundations of America’s hostility to Palestinian freedom? And what would it take to change them? Does the US’s unconditional support for Israel serve America’s national interests? Host Sahar Aziz addresses these questions with Professor Peter Beinart and human rights attorney Sarah Leah Whitson.#MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #HumanRights #PeterBeinart #SarahLeahWhitsonSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by foll...2024-02-2730 minRace and Rights PodcastExcept for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics with Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick (Episode 1)Scholar Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. 'Except for Palestine' deftly argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend these core principles to the oppression of Palestinians.#Palestine #MarcLamontHill #MitchellPlitnick #FreeSpeechSupport the showSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation: Donate: https://give...2024-02-1355 min
The Real News PodcastHow Israel's supporters use Islamophobia to silence critics | The Marc Steiner ShowBy now, the false equivalency between anti-Zionism and antisemitism—which Israel’s supporters use to give rhetorical cover for Zionism—is a well-worn topic on the left. What’s less discussed is the role of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Zionists’ attempts to smear their critics, particularly Arab and Muslim ones, as antisemitic. A new report from Rutger University Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR) maps the use of Islamophobic tropes in the discourse on Israel-Palestine, noting that the racist association between terrorism and Arab and Muslim identity is intentionally invoked by Israel’s apologists.Michael P...2024-02-0642 minThe Marc Steiner ShowHow Israel's supporters use Islamophobia to silence criticsBy now, the false equivalency between anti-Zionism and antisemitism—which Israel’s supporters use to give rhetorical cover for Zionism—is a well-worn topic on the left. What’s less discussed is the role of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Zionists’ attempts to smear their critics, particularly Arab and Muslim ones, as antisemitic. A new report from Rutger University Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR) maps the use of Islamophobic tropes in the discourse on Israel-Palestine, noting that the racist association between terrorism and Arab and Muslim identity is intentionally invoked by Israel’s apologists.Michael P...2024-02-0642 min
The InsurgentsEp. 248: Presumptively Antisemitic ft. Prof. Sahar AzizProf. Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law and author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, joins us to discuss her recent report “Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes In The Palestine-Israel Discourse.” We explore the ways Islamophobia spreads in the media and shifts the balance of conversation of coverage, resulting in a dehumanizing effect for Muslims, and how—especially in this moment—some genuinely pro-Palestinian advocacy is inaccurately framed as anti-Semitic. You can read the full report here: https://csrr.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/csrr-presumptively-antisemitic-report.pdf | Our most recent premium episode f...2024-02-021h 02
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American Muslim ProjectThe Racial Muslim with Sahar AzizSeason 2 of American Muslim Project kicks off with Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. She is also the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights.Sahar joins AMP to talk about her new book, "The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom."About the Book:"Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to cre...2022-01-2839 min
MnemosyneThe Racial Muslim with Dr. Sahar AzizMnemosyne is the Greek Goddess of memory and language, and this podcast seeks to immortalize feminist conversations through the ancient art of storytelling. In this episode, Andrea and Ameena interview Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School, as well as founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu).
Sahar's book, The Racial Muslim: https://csrr.rutgers.edu/the-racial-muslim/ | Out on November 30, 2021, and currently available for pre-order on ucpress.edu, use the promo code 17M6662 for $8.99 of...2021-11-1628 min
National Security Law TodayCybersecurity Infrastructure and the New Era of Information SharingIn this week’s episode, we hear from an esteemed panel of cybersecurity professionals on two big ticket items of this year: President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and the Rule 41 Search and Seizure warrant obtained by the FBI in response to the Microsoft Exchange Server data breach this past spring.
This panel is moderated by ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force Co-Chair Claudia Rast
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Dan Sutherland is the Chief Counsel for CISA:
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Christopher Peters is the Chief Security Officer at Entergy:
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Terrence Berg is a U...2021-09-0232 min
The Ansari PodcastE23: How Muslims Became the Villains of the Century w. Law Professor Sahar AzizThe Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Professor Sahar Aziz discuss how the American government treated Muslims and reacted to the attack on 9/11. They talk about how the U.S government used 9/11 as an excuse to expand their power and abuse it on Muslims, knowing there would be no repercussions. They talk about how the government was able to do whatever they wanted to Muslims because Muslim Americans are weak and had no political power. Muslims were an easy target for the U.S. government. And whether the government still runs these sting operations on Muslims, also how people easily...2021-07-261h 22
She Speaks: Academic Muslimahs019 Sahar AzizOn the 19th anniversary of 9/11, Sahar Aziz talks about how the tragedy impacted Muslim Americans and Muslim immigrants within the United States. This episode discusses the PATRIOT ACT, NSEERS (2012 male registry for Muslim immigrants), and how the curtailments of rights impacted Muslim participation within social and political sphere. Dr. Aziz also talks about Muslim political interests during this election season and what we should focus on as a community (institutional change!). Center for Security, Race and Rights: https://csrr.rutgers.edu/2020-09-1137 min