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Gaza, Islamophobia, and the Democratic Party's Complicity (w/ Yasmine Taeb)

Gaza, Islamophobia, and the Democratic Party's Complicity (w/ Yasmine Taeb)

Update: 2025-08-26
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Yasmine Taeb, Legislative and Political Director of MPower Change Action Fund—the largest Muslim digital activist organization in the U.S.—joins Current Affairs editor Alex Skopic to discuss the bipartisan complicity in the Gaza genocide, the rise of progressive challengers like Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani, and the Islamophobic attacks Muslim candidates continue to face.

✊ MPower Change Website: https://www.mpowerchange.org/

✊ MPower Action Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mpoweraction/?hl=en

✊ MPower Action Twitter: https://x.com/MPowerAction

0:004:32 Origins of MPower Action and the No Muslim Ban Ever Campaign

4:327:37 Gaza Genocide and U.S. Complicity

7:3710:49 Democratic Party Silence and Support for Israel

10:4916:47 Progressive Challengers Taking on Pro-War Democrats

16:4720:45 Islamophobia and Attacks on Muslim Candidates

20:4524:24 Kamala Harris, the DNC, and Palestinian Exclusion

24:2429:57 Iran, the JCPOA, and the Push for Diplomacy

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Gaza, Islamophobia, and the Democratic Party's Complicity (w/ Yasmine Taeb)

Gaza, Islamophobia, and the Democratic Party's Complicity (w/ Yasmine Taeb)

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