Connections Podcast Episode 90 Unsilencing Palestine Mouin Rabbani Interviews Diala Shamas Wednesday, 31 January 2024 1:30 PM EST | 19:30 CET Join us on Wednesday, 31 January for a conversation with Diala Shamas about the recent US Supreme Court case in which the Jewish National Fund’s effort to muzzle the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights through anti-terrorism legislation was decisively defeated. This episode of Connections will examine the intensification of the organized campaign to silence opposition to Israel and its policies, particularly in the US, and the efforts to defeat this campaign. Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Prior to joining CCR she was a Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Staff Attorney supervising the CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility) project at CUNY School of Law. Shamas has also worked on a range of international human rights issues.
This includes human rights and humanitarian law violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory, where she has lived and worked extensively, as well refugee policies in Australia and Greece. Shamas received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, where she was an editor for the Yale Human Rights and
Development Law Journal. She has been published by or appeared in major news outlets, including the New York Times, The Nation, DemocracyNow!, CNN.com, The Washington Post, NPR, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, This American Life, and The Intercept. Host Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, where he also hosts the
Connections podcast and edits its Quick Thoughts feature, Managing Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report. He is Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University’s Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major print, television and digital media.
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