The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3613 - The Anti-Zionist Israeli Left; ICE in Rural America w/ Iddo Elam, Emma Janssen

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

It's Hump Day on The Majority Report   On today's program:   It remains unclear as to whether Trump is planning to put troops on the ground in Iran.   A GOP back-bencher, Rep Rich McCormick, goes o...n Newsmax 2 to advocate for a full ground invasion.   Donald Trump, when asked about gas prices hitting $4/gal nationally says that he is planning on leaving on Iran very soon and the prices will come tumbling down.   Iddo Elam, refusenik and guest writer for Local Call - a Hebrew language news site dedicated to resisting the occupation - joins Sam for an update on the conflicts in the Middle East.   Emma Janssen, writing fellow at The American Prospect, joins the program to discuss her cover story for the April edition of The Prospect entitled: 'When ICE Blows Through Rural America".   In the Fun Half:   Bloomberg TV reports that in 48 hours the last shipment of jet fuel will reach the UK and after that no more will arrive until the Strait of Hormuz opens.   Jason Selvig posts a wonderfully short interview with former top Border Patrol Agent, Greg Bovino.   Fox News reports that Kristi Noem was blindsided by the revelation of her husband's cross-dressing double life. In this time, she asks for prayers and privacy.   Donald Trump is already planning on how to turn his presidential library into a hotel. Utilizing tax-free donations to build a business, sounds about right.   Billionaire and JP Morgan - Chase chair, Jamie Dimon says he doesn't know what Bernie Sanders means when he says that billionaires don't pay their fair share.   all that and more   Preorder Molly Crabapple's book: Here Where We Live is Our Country.   To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: RITUAL: Get 25% off during your first month. Visit ritual.com/MAJORITY. WILD GRAIN: Get $30 off your first box + free Croissants in every box. Go to Wildgrain.com/MAJORITY to start your subscription..   SUNSET LAKE: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You are listening to a free version of the Majority Report. Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily. Majority Report with Sam Cedar. It is Wednesday, April 1st, 2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the Industrial. ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
Starting point is 00:00:37 On the program today, Ido Alam, Refusnik, contributor to local call, Hebrew language news site out of Israel, then Emma Jansen, writing fellow at the American Prospect, where she reports on anti-poverty policy, health, and political power on ice, continuing to ravage. rural Minnesota. Meanwhile, Trump sits in the first president ever to sit in on a Supreme Court oral argument on his attempt to end birthright citizenship. Tonight, Trump to address the nation about his U.S. illegal war in Iran as thousands more troops sailed to the Middle East and the White House prepping. America for more oil increases.
Starting point is 00:01:40 Or I should say more oil price increases. Also yesterday, Trump signs a piece of paper calling for a federal voter list. NFL to keep the Rooney rule, essentially DEI, despite Florida's warning. Federal District Judge orders the Trump regime to reinstate legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who use the Customs Border Patrol One app. The U.S. counter-terror officials plan an Antifa summit and the buildup to interfere with the 26th election. Federal judge permanently blocks President Trump from unilaterally defunding PBS and NPR. And that February San Francisco teacher strike, a success one month later.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Pete Hegseth ends investigation into the pilots who did the Kid Rock and No King's flybys, and the DOJ drops 23,000 investigations into criminal wrongdoing to do immigration cases against moms and grandparents. All this and more on today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, it is Wednesday. Emma Viglin out today. But nevertheless, we still say that it's hump day because we paid her licensing fee to use that term that she coined. It's all about IP these days. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:03:26 You paid her? Yes, she coined the phrase. Did you not know that? No. Also, just a reminder, we will be sending out later this week, maybe over the weekend, maybe by Monday, a link for, for members if you want to. The close off will be, I mean, if you become a member by Friday, we will send a link to members with the opportunity for a free Molly Crabapple book about the Jewish
Starting point is 00:04:07 wound. But I would encourage you if you can afford to, regardless of whether. you're a member or not, pre-order her book as a way to try and get that to the top of the or somewhere on the New York Times bestseller list. Very important book in terms of like intervening in this debate in this country as to whether being anti-Zionist is anti-Semitic. there is a long history that is concurrent with the idea of Zionism. That is not just anti-Zionist, but is decidedly anti-Zionist,
Starting point is 00:05:01 but in believing that Jews can be Jews and their home is where they live. And so really important book, and certainly worth a read, gives you a lot of great history about both about the Bund and Zionism and in particular socialism both in this country and in Eastern Europe.
Starting point is 00:05:26 So pick that book up wherever your book sales are, you would pre-order it and I don't know when they ship it to you but it comes out Monday. So the more pre-orders, the better it does. Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:05:42 is addressing the country tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern about ostensibly about Iran, but it could be about, I mean, that's what we understand, but last time he did this, I thought he was going to attack Iran. I can't remember what dribble he was talking about. It could be about birthright citizenship. There's a reason why sitting in in this court case, and it's not because he's intricately interested in the nuances of the 14th Amendment or the 1952 Aliens and Nationality Act or in that the Dred Scott ruling or the Wong Kim Ark ruling that edified the idea of natural born. citizenship. It's because he wants to show his people that he hates immigrants and that he has a national
Starting point is 00:06:57 unity purity project. Or he could announce tonight that we've won the Iran war and he's pulling all of these troops that are still headed towards the Middle East. we now have the 82nd airborne seems to have arrived all of those personnel and now it sounds like there's another 6,000 naval personnel headed towards the Middle East. That doesn't sound like they're about to announce victory. He could announce we're going to take Carg Island and then announce victory or he could pretend that somehow Iran,
Starting point is 00:07:45 represented an imminent threat towards us. It's hard to know, but they're sending out some, like, semi-backbenchers to sort of like test out talking points. Here is Rich McCormick, Republican from Georgia, on the Todd Starnes show. Real open mic for this. Starns is what? Is he still, is he right for the National Review or did he? I can't remember.
Starting point is 00:08:20 This is on Newsmax, too. But this is on Newsmax, too. This is where you can get away with this. Rich McCormick has been reading some interesting history books. Yeah, I don't want to have boots on the ground, but also I want to have all options on the table. One of the things we've done poorly in the past is we do this thing called limited warfare. It's never word for us.
Starting point is 00:08:49 When we go to war college or we do command and staff college, we always learn that the worst kind of way to fight any more is to do it, half-ass. We are horrible in Afghanistan and Iraq until we did surge ops and then we won. We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Thunder 1 and Rolling Thunder 1 and Rolling Thunder 2, and then we won. As soon as we go half measures, we lose, we lose popular sport. The faster we get this over the better, if we seize Card Island that is technically boots on the ground, It could be done almost flawlessly. We have enough firepower that would be very easy to defend.
Starting point is 00:09:20 I know nobody wants to see that. But at the same time, we can choke them off and this war and get back to business so everybody's gas prices come back down. And so they're not funding Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, the people will be happy. But the long we drag us on, the more frustrated the people would get and the less support will have. So for those of you at home who have been under the impression that we had a Vietnam syndrome, in this country that right wingers would bemoan, which basically kept the United States from entering new wars ostensibly. That was because we won so much that people were tired of winning.
Starting point is 00:10:05 The Afghanistan War, remember we fought the Afghanistan War to defeat the Taliban? Who's in charge now? That's a good question, Brian. And it's actually the Taliban. Ah, winning. We were in Iraq for 20 years. I guess Saddam Hussein is dead. And the biggest winner in Iraq, if it wasn't for ISIS, maybe, would have been Iran.
Starting point is 00:10:40 So it's interesting. What wars did we lose? What wars did he? Is he talking about that we lost? The only war? Might be the only war. He thinks they walked. It sounds to me, if they're getting this specific about boots on the ground in Carg Island,
Starting point is 00:11:01 that's what the plan has been floating around is. Here's Donald Trump yesterday already prepping the idea of like, look, gases, prices go up, but then they go down. Here is, you know, it just gives you an insight into what, I don't know, little thinking is going on behind the scenes. The first one affects Americans who are on gas prices. Today they had $4.00, yeah. And we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us in six months. But Americans are feeling effects in the interim. And they're also feeling a lot safer. What is the plan to bring them back down? All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon.
Starting point is 00:11:49 And they'll become tumbling down. And stock prices were up today almost to a record because they know two things. Number one, we have a safe country. We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khomeini, who sadly is no longer with us. You know, Americans feeling a lot safer, I'm sure, because. was it six months or are we two weeks away? I can't remember which when we were going to get bombed by Iran with a nuclear weapon. It was probably two weeks away from having it and then six months to detonating it.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Although what could have happened in the interim is that someone could have teleported from Iran into a mall, a waffle house with a nuclear vest. So we will find out tonight, well, Well, all I can promise you we're going to find out tonight is whatever he talks about. That's what we're going to find out. I don't think it's quite clear that we're going to have an answer as to what we're doing. But I will say this. I think if he announces that, in fact, there are going to be, there is some type of military operation that is going to involve ground troops. Buckle up because this is going to be,
Starting point is 00:13:21 we're going to be there for, I would guess, years to come. Once there is that level of commitment, the whole blob takes over. I mean, we're already starting to see it. We started to see it rather early. Mattis a week or two ago was saying we can't leave Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz because now they're going to charge tax on everybody. We started to see it. Colin Powell once said about Iraq, you break it, you own it.
Starting point is 00:14:04 And, I mean, Trump is oblivious enough that he could pretend like we didn't break it and just walk away and just go, they're getting charged more for oil. It's okay. But it sounds like he's been convinced that taking Carg Island would be easy and that it would choke off Iranian oil sales enough that they would immediately capitulate and agree to not use the Strait of Hormuz as a leverage point in ensuring no more future attacks on them. And then once we're, we've got troops on the ground there and U.S. military personnel start to die, I mean, it's also quite possible they may end up sending paratroopers into various parts around the country.
Starting point is 00:15:04 I mean, who knows? But I suspect that what we're going to see is going to happen over the next couple of days. Although tonight would be a weird night for him to announce an invasion because you still have the stock market over. in tomorrow. When does it close for Easter? I'll check, but I assume Thursday. I'll check. All right. Well, we're going to take a break in a minute. And when we come back, we'll be talking to Ido Alam.
Starting point is 00:15:41 He's a refuse, Nick, and a contributor to local call in Israel, get a sense of what the activist, anti-Zionists left in Israel is making of both. Israel's incursion into Lebanon, this war with Iran, the ongoing killings in the West Bank, shutting down of aid to Gaza, and this new law passed by the Israeli Knesset to basically have a two-tiered system of capital punishment. where de facto, this is what the experts in Israel say, the de facto implications of that law are that Palestinians are subject to hanging as opposed to Israelis. So much so that the Israeli politicians were going around wearing little noose lapel pins.
Starting point is 00:16:47 And then we'll talk to Emma Jansen, writing fellow at the American Prospect on a great piece she did, looking into ICE's rampant involvement in rural Minnesota, we don't hear much about it because there's just no media there. She went in to write a piece about it for the prospect is a really great piece. We'll talk to her about that. In the meantime, over the past year, I would say really almost timed exactly when Donald Trump won the presidency. so maybe it's been closer to a year and a half. My health habits went out the window. Hard.
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Starting point is 00:22:38 All that will be in the podcast and YouTube description. Quick break. We are back. Sam Cedar on the Majority Report. Emma Viglin is out today. I want to welcome back to the program Ido Alam.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Refusnik. contributor to local call in Israel. It's a Hebrew language news site. And, you know, welcome back to the program. Thank you for having me. A lot going on these days that we could start. There are, Israel is now essentially occupying southern Lebanon. There's still denial of aid in Gaza. The military seems to be
Starting point is 00:25:13 more aggressive in helping settlers attack Palestinians in the West Bank, and of course, the attack on Iran, and this law that was passed yesterday. I guess from the perspective of, I'm curious from your perspective as a refusnik, as a leftist, as an anti-Zionist, where is the Israeli public? It feels from our perspective like their perspective has hardened rather than expanded in terms of like dissent. Yes. So first of all, most of the Israeli public is in Passover Seder, but me and you are not. I appreciate it. Happy Pesach. I'm going tonight, but you're ahead of us, yes.
Starting point is 00:26:11 I'm also later, you see me in my festive clothes now. But anyways, yeah, I would say that in the first week of this war, I think it was literally like almost all in the polls of Jewish Israelis that supported the war. Now it's a bit less. more and more Israelis are waking up, not in the numbers that we want, but at least you can see in Tel Aviv and in the other cities, the protests growing from week to week. We've seen at the start of the war, we had the protest in Nabim Square in Tel Aviv.
Starting point is 00:26:49 We were only 20 people, then we were 75, then 200, then 500, and this past Saturday we were already 1,500 people, something like that. with 20 other protests across the country specifically against the war. So there is people that are tired of it. Many people are tired of this war because there is a cost. Just today, for example, because it's Passover, we woke up at 8 a.m. to three consecutive sirens.
Starting point is 00:27:21 Then during the day, we had five more. Tonight we had three more. I really hope that we won't have one during this interview. but every day now we have rocket sirens, we have rockets that actually fall because our iron dome is not what we are told it is. So you do see some of the more liberal, center, left people that supported this war because obviously they have been indoctrinated into believing that Iran is the biggest threat, now a bit going back, a bit maybe thinking about it again. Well, we don't hear much by way of missiles that make it through the Iron Dome.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I mean, do you have a sense of how many have landed in Tel Aviv or in other major centers around the country? So, yeah, I mean, media censorship here is quite difficult. Even we don't really know if a missile falls, for example, on a, an IDF base, I wouldn't know probably unless it got leaked. Tel Aviv has been targeted quite heavily. I know of at least, I think, five rockets that fell around the Tel Aviv area, but that's not all, because obviously these are huge ballistic missiles. Some of them exploding the air and release small missiles.
Starting point is 00:28:52 we have seen a lot of that happening. One of those small missiles missed my apartment by literal, like a few degrees in the air. And you have many shrapnel that falls all the time. And when a shrapnel of a ballistic missile falls, it can destroy a whole building. It can kill people. So you do see quite a bit of landing sites around the Tel Aviv area. and in generally in Israel, but obviously nothing compared to what's happening in Lebanon or in Iran. Here it's only the few that make it out, but the majority do get fired in the air by the Iron Dome.
Starting point is 00:29:36 And even those that fall usually don't cause casualties because everybody has almost everybody has bomb shelters. Many people actually don't, but obviously those are the people in society that the government doesn't care about, like Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev or very low class people even in Tel Aviv. Many old building, for example, don't have bomb shelters. Lastly, and then we can move on from just this specific. But has there been any change in the rate in which these missiles make it through? because someone suggested like there's increasingly that Iran has adjusted its strategy
Starting point is 00:30:20 and that increasingly like the number of Patriot missiles like that weaponry is starting to be rationed in some fashion. I don't really know if you know you can see more rockets falling because we don't have enough counter missiles or Iran somehow figured away to fire them more precisely. At the start of the war you saw just on the first few days a few very bad rocket sites in Tel Aviv and the area. That was because there was a lot of sirens in the first few days of the war. Obviously in the weeks in between now and then there was a bit less fire
Starting point is 00:31:07 by Iran, but Hezbollah joined on the north. So the north is basically all the time sirens. You do see a bit more in the past week, I think, a bit more actually that make it through. But I can't really say if that's true or just a feeling. But today, specifically, you saw a giant amount of attacks. It's because obviously most people are on holiday. Most people are going from one city to their parents or whatever. So you saw today a lot of rocket attacks. And in the past few days, not very much.
Starting point is 00:31:44 you had a few days that even didn't have one. And so what is your sense? I mean, you know, there is a lot of censorship in the context of the Israeli press. How, what can you tell us about the incursion into Lebanon and then really the way that people are reacting? Are they reacting to war in general? reacting differently between the conflict with uh in Lebanon than in Iran um and uh are there is there reporting about what's going on the West Bank because that seems to have ratcheted up uh over the past I don't know three four six months or so and so yeah I mean
Starting point is 00:32:39 with Iran we have been told and sold this lie that they are uh you know very nearing and always on our doorstep threat. Netanyahu has been a large proponent of that lie, but also, like I said, I mean, all parties in the Knesset, for example, even the Democrats, who are the Labour Party with the Ergo Lan, support the war with Iran, or at least supported it fully till now and now some of the more leftist ones have started to backtrack it, but still support it. So Iran for most Israelis is a justified war. It's something that we had to do, because both the media and the opposition tell us that. With Lebanon, I mean, this is like the third time in the past two years that we ground invaded Lebanon. People are starting to get
Starting point is 00:33:37 quite tired of the war in Lebanon. I think that many people remember the first and second Lebanon wars, I obviously don't. But they see that each time that we go into Lebanon, nothing happens. And the last time we went in and we really attacked in Lebanon, we killed many of the
Starting point is 00:33:58 Hezbollah guys, but now, once again, we are told that we need to do it again. So this cycle of war with no end is quite, it seems to many Israelis as something that is not
Starting point is 00:34:14 real. We shouldn't do it again. But I would say that still a majority probably supports the ground invasion in Lebanon. Still a majority probably thinks that Hezbollah is a major threat to Israel. I'm not saying that we are obviously, the Israeli government at Hezbollah, are quite different in their ideology, but I don't think that us attacking them first is just really showing that they are a threat. In the West Bank, I would say that there is a lot more.
Starting point is 00:34:44 more coverage now because the settlers have been relentless. Just a day before the war started, two Israeli activists were seriously injured in the West Bank by settlers, peace activists. One of them is still in the hospital till now. She is now, obviously, awake and good. But this kind of violence that is targeting Israelis and also sometimes soldiers by settlers, gets a lot more coverage than the normal day-to-day violence perpetrated against Palestinians. And then briefly also, what has the response been to this law passed that as far as I can tell,
Starting point is 00:35:35 it doesn't seem to be terribly controversial, at least coming out of, you know, the Israeli press that I've read, English-speaking press out of their, rats and others, that this is a law that, if not explicitly, de facto is geared towards Palestinians. The threshold to determine who is a terrorist has dropped dramatically. We have a similar dynamic in this country that the Trump regime is working on. But But the specifics of who constitutes a terrorist and are eligible for the death penalty by hanging because I guess it was easier for them to go around with a noose lapel pin than lethal injection lapel pin. What has been the reaction from both your perspective in the sort of Israeli left, anti-Zionist,
Starting point is 00:36:43 and just sort of across the spectrum to the extent that there is in Israeli politics to this law? So first I would clarify that they chose hanging because luckily at least this, the Israeli physician board didn't agree to help them with lethal injections. They basically said you won't get doctors for this. anyways though yeah it passed I think two days ago during the night in the Knesset the majority of reactions
Starting point is 00:37:23 both from liberals both from the media is that this is a bad law but only because how it's written not because they don't want to kill terrorists just because it's literally written in the most racist abhorrent way that's probably the judicial
Starting point is 00:37:42 system will strike down very soon. But in general, both you saw reactions, for example, from a member of Knesset, Mickey Levy. He's a member of the opposition of the Yeshatee Party. He's a part of the largest opposition party. And he, on the Knesset, said, I am opposed to this law. Don't tell me how to kill terrorists when I was a commander. I ordered somebody to shoot a terrorist that was bound and literally gas. We have this, we have a clip of this.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Let let, let's play this clip. This was, uh, extraordinary. He is arguing. And, and I'll read the, the, the, I will read the translation. Uh, if, if any of it's wrong, it doesn't sound like the way that you've characterized that this translation is wrong. I haven't seen anybody, uh, have any contention with it. He's arguing essentially that the problem with this law is that you're making a show out of killing
Starting point is 00:38:42 these people when what you really should do is do it quietly like I did on the battlefield summarily without any um you know trial or anything like that and that that is extraordinary that this is the centrist making this argument uh we'll play this clip i'm telling you since i was a company commander and until i was a district commander my legal advisor would always gasp when i would say in the briefing terrorist should not be neutralized, terrorists should be eliminated. That's what I said, and I stand by my statement. The moment there is intention and a weapon, you kill to avoid being exposed to continued danger.
Starting point is 00:39:32 You don't neutralize, you don't shoot at the legs. Unlike you, I was out in the field for many years dealing with terrorists. I chased terrorists in Judea and Samaria, and I gave the order to shoot at the head of a cuffed terrorist, unlike everyone sitting here. On the day a vile terrorist murderer, if it's all true, is sent to the gallows. A Jew on the other side will pay with his life. A Jew will be kidnapped and murdered in cold blood, and that's on you. I unlike you, I was there in the field.
Starting point is 00:40:15 I unlike you gave an order to shoot a terrorist with a hands cuffed behind his back in the head. I mean, that's extraordinary. I mean, this is my liberals. Yeah, that's like. I it's stunning yeah he did clarify that the terrorist had an explosive belt but it seems that he was already cuffed so I don't see what was the threat
Starting point is 00:40:46 and also he said that he will be okay with killing all the terrorists not only those with explosive vests I mean it's hard for him to go out there and say my credibility is such that I'm willing to to kill a terrorist without trial, without anything other than and with their hands behind their vest, for him to come out later and say, I killed them because it was a threat. I don't think so. Like, I mean, it doesn't make sense unless we take him for what his first words were.
Starting point is 00:41:20 I mean, how do people react to this in Israel? I mean, we, like, the leftists like me are obviously against it. Yesterday, we held a protest outside the Knesset. We brought, we built and brought hanging noose, and the fellow activist was arrested when trying to put it in the middle of the road. We were only about 100 people, and we were beaten by. police, we were shot at with water cannons point blank. They also injured many photojournalists because they don't care. Besides us, the majority of people truly don't have a problem with the law.
Starting point is 00:42:12 They don't have a problem with killing terrorists. They have a problem with the way that it has been passed, maybe the way that is written, because technically actually we already have a death penalty in Israel. This law is basically meaningless, but it serves as another way to let the government basically decides who to kill, when to kill, and how many. And obviously, that's abhorrent, that's horrible. And the fact that it has been passed together with Israel Beitano, the Russian opposition party that voted for it, that's the part that we are truly against. I don't care if it, you know, we are already killing thousands of Palestinians. We're already killing Palestinians in prison, too, by disease, by neglect, by torture.
Starting point is 00:43:01 So this is only symbolic mostly. But I do care that this is a clear, abhorrent show of fascism. I don't want this kind of laws to be representative here. I don't want Palestinians to fear for their life by calling them a terrorist. They will be sent to die. They are calling the opposition, the Arab opposition terrorists. So who is a terrorist anymore? Lastly, and I know I want to let you get to Pesach dinner.
Starting point is 00:43:34 But what's happening with the protests? Like, you know, I mean, as frustrating and demoralizing is what's happening in this country, one of the things, at least in this era, then I went through this during the Iraq war era, is at least that, like, there seems to be the majority of the country to the extent that they care are against our attack on Iran
Starting point is 00:44:04 and, you know, largely, like, there seems to be pushback. Significant pushback. We had biggest protests, no king's protest ostensibly about the sort of the authoritarianism and the sort of fascist turn. We had in Minneapolis a huge pushback against what our fascist thugs were doing towards immigrants. What does it feel like to be fighting this battle in Israel? I mean, both in terms of like the material repression, but also just the looking around and the isolation there you must be feeling at times with everybody's
Starting point is 00:44:45 seemingly to be on board with this stuff? Just demoralizing, just depressing, completely depressing. I mean, I try to find hope when, you know, we see the protests growing, when I see new faces, when I see a bit more pushback from the opposition sometimes, but it's not enough. It's not even close to being enough. I mean, we have been protesting now for a month. We were in the streets in Tel Aviv when nobody wanted to join us, when police were beating us, arresting people,
Starting point is 00:45:22 when literally on Twitter you saw everybody telling us it's against the guidelines, you shouldn't be protesting, you shouldn't be gathering above 50 people because the army said so even though we have been protesting above literal bomb shelter, one of the biggest in Tel Aviv, There is no reason to attack our protests unless you have a problem with our message. Last, just this Saturday, for example, we're beaten completely. Many of my friends were attacked by police. I was dragged by three, by four border police officers on the grounds by my hands.
Starting point is 00:46:06 I have purple markings still here and on the other arm to show for it. it's quite depressing, it's horrible. I still can't believe that what once was the Peace Party of Rabin, for example, the Labor Party, what remains of merits within that party, that those people cannot say stop this war, they cannot bring themselves to say stop this war. In this protests, only the members of the Hadash Party, the Jewish-Palestinian Socialist Party are present. It's quite horrible, but yeah, I mean, I do want to live on a bit of an optimistic point because we are growing. We saw from 20 people now to 1,500 in Tel Aviv and at least 1,000 more in 20-plus locations across the country.
Starting point is 00:47:02 People are getting tired of this. You see that in the polls, you see that on the streets. maybe if after this sedder is completely destroyed by rocket sirens, more people will be against it. It's quite sad that we have to pay this price to be against this imperialist aggression in Iran, but I really hope to see on this Saturday we're holding another protest already thousands more in the streets. Because if we don't push back now, you will see Bibby and Trump try their best, to take what's little left in Iran and finish the war quickly. And that would be horrible.
Starting point is 00:47:44 Horrible for the region. Horrible for us. Horrible in Lebanon as well. You see Gaza level genocide level destruction in Lebanon. That's absolutely horrible. And yeah, everybody kind of in the world also forgets about the Palestinians that are now facing death penalty, genocide, ethnic cleansing once again. And I've never stopped facing those things.
Starting point is 00:48:06 in the past years. So I really just hope to see this protest movement growing, see more people joining us. And obviously, I invite people in the U.S. to join us. We saw the 8 million people, as you claim, in the No Kings. But it shouldn't be only No Kings. It should be directly on the Iran War. You should pressure your local representatives,
Starting point is 00:48:29 even on the local committee level, all the way to your senators, your parliament members, and to stop supporting Netanyahu, to stop giving us guns, to stop giving us the green light to do whatever we want in the Middle East. Because I'm saying this as an Israeli, from my perspective, I am tired of not sleeping for a month. I'm tired of being scared of rockets. I'm tired of my Jewish people committing genocide and committing imperialism all the time.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Stop letting us do that. Let us live. Let us have, as we say, a peaceful, and liberating Pesach. So please just put your pressure on whoever you can. Folks will be working on that. Ido Alam, really appreciate your time today. Hagtzmeach.
Starting point is 00:49:17 And we will catch up with you again soon. Just a reminder. You've just released some of your writing for a local call in English. We'll link to that. Really appreciate your time today. Good luck. And enjoy your Passover. All right, folks, we're going to take a quick break.
Starting point is 00:49:40 When we come back, we'll be talking to Emma Jansen, writing fellow at the American Prospect. She has written a piece about ice blowing through rural America, specifically spending some time in rural Minnesota. And we don't hear much about ice activity there, but it's happening. We'll be right back after this. We are back, Sam Cedar, on the majority. your report, Emma Viglin is out today. Joining me now, Emma Jansen,
Starting point is 00:50:50 writing fellow at the American Prospect, reporting on anti-poverty policy, health, and political power. And you have a big piece in the American prospect when ice blows through rural America. It's a fascinating piece. We'll link
Starting point is 00:51:06 to it. But here to tell us about ICE's activity in Minnesota as the cameras have basically gone away. Emma, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited and grateful to be on. So you were up, you spent, you write about basically three towns in Minnesota. Well, I get, yeah, three, Alberta Lee, Northfield, and Wilmar. And this is in the wake of everything
Starting point is 00:51:40 that happened in Minneapolis, of course. There was a lot of attention. Bovino is actually. I think he's been like summarily fired all of his he has no access to his social media anymore. Christine Nome also out probably wishes she had less access to her social media right at this very moment. Although I have my doubts as to who leaked that information, but that's a different story. Tom Homan comes in a couple months ago and says, ICE is we're done here. we're going to leave, they had about 4,000 troops, I don't know what else to call them, in Minneapolis, and they were supposedly dwindling down to pre-surge levels, which was 150. And unclear, maybe you have insight as to whether, how many are still in Minneapolis,
Starting point is 00:52:36 but it's clear they just sort of went out into the rural areas. I don't know. I guess you can start with North. field and then go from there. Yeah, definitely. First of all, I just want to say that's completely correct as far as, you know, the anecdotes of people that I spoke to when I was in rural Minnesota. They kept telling me that, no, they actually haven't left the state.
Starting point is 00:53:04 They have just come into the outer parts of the state away from the Twin Cities where there aren't cameras and where local news is in many cases kind of dying out, these news deserts. So it's just not known as much, but there were ice agents in those communities. And so like you said, Northfield was the first town that I visited. And it's of the three places that I spent time in, It's the least kind of rural. It's a really beautiful college town home to St. Olaf's College and Carlton. So they have a bit more of that kind of infrastructure of resistance already there because it's a fairly liberal community. You know, it has all the resources of a college town. But the activists and faith leaders and just community members in general that I'm I spoke to in Northfield really confirmed what you were saying just a minute ago, which is that you were hearing in the news around the time that I was there late February, that the drawdown had happened, that things were much less severe in Minnesota, but that wasn't matching up at
Starting point is 00:54:25 all with what people on patrols out in Northfield actually saw. They were still seeing the same number of ICE agents, the same cars that they had been tracking in their community. And the effects were still very much lingering. For example, there's one small business in town that when I was there, I drove in and I saw it was completely shut down, darkened windows. There was like, you know, like brown almost newspaper paper covering the windows so people couldn't see in. And that was ongoing. It things had not snapped back to normal, even though there had been this kind of, um, rumor about a drawdown. And we should say, uh, the population in Northfield is about, uh, 20 some odd thousand. I imagine, uh, maybe, you know, uh, summer, it's a little bit less or more, uh, as a function of, of the colleges.
Starting point is 00:55:23 Um, and so, um, what are the, give us a sense of like what the immigration, uh, immigrant populations are there. And like why that might be a target. It's only about what, like 50 miles away from the Twin Cities. Is that right? Yeah, it's quite close. It's quite close. It's less than an hour's drive away.
Starting point is 00:55:47 So I think in Northfield, my sense of the kind of immigrant population and just the dynamics in that town is that the majority of immigrants would be Mexican American, has been. Hispanic Latino immigrants. In other parts of the state, you also have a big Somali population. Of course, that was talked about a lot. And you also have the Karen community, which is an ethnic group from Myanmar. So in the state as a whole, my understanding is that those are kind of three of the main groups that have been targeted by the ice surge. And in Northfield, from what I heard, and from the people I spoke to some of the biggest groups that were actually feeling the impact there were Hispanic immigrants. And are there specific industries?
Starting point is 00:56:41 I think it's in, was it in, there's a processing plant in one of the towns that you went to. But what about in Northfield? Is there a specific industry? Like, I'm curious in terms of like in, enforcement actions, how does that change town to town or city to city based upon like the sort of almost like the density of immigrant workforce at different places? Totally. That is something that I really heard a lot from people in these three different towns, which
Starting point is 00:57:19 as you kind of gesture to, they all have these different dynamics based on what the immigrant populations there are. what kind of workforces are biggest in those towns. So in Northfield, my sense is that it's less industrial than the other two towns that I visited. So, for example, Wilmer has a big Genie O processing plant, so that's Turkey mainly, and that is up kind of in the northwestern part of the state. And then the other town that I spent some time in was Albert Lee and then its neighboring town, Austin. And those two towns are really centered around Hormel foods, which has a lot of pork processing.
Starting point is 00:58:14 So there's actually an interesting dynamic there as well, which is that up in a town like Wilmer, which doesn't process pork, it processes turkey. you have a much greater population of Somali workers because they don't work with pork because of their faith. So in Wilmer, a lot of people being targeted were Somali, just because there are more Somali immigrants there. Whereas downstate in the south, in Austin and Albert Lee, there were more Hispanic immigrants and more Karen immigrants, because those are the people who worked with pork.
Starting point is 00:58:52 And then back to Northfield, like I said, it's less industrial, less of that kind of meatpacking industrial landscape. I heard stories primarily about people being targeted, either workers in the service industry at restaurants. That was a big one. Or folks who are just kind of living on the outskirts of town where it's lower income, more working class, people being targeted outside of medical centers, people being targeted at truck stops near the
Starting point is 00:59:27 family dollar in some lower cost apartment complexes in Northfield. And you mentioned this in the piece, and I think it's Northfield. And I think people had heard this story nationally where, like, ICE agents had eaten at a restaurant and then came back like a couple hours later and arrested the owner and deported one. That's where that story came from out of Northfield. That was Wilmer, actually. Oh, Wilmer. Okay.
Starting point is 01:00:00 And so characterize the three cities, Northfield, like you say, is a little bit more liberal leaning. It's closer to the Twin Cities. It's got a couple of colleges there. and so, but tell us about Albert Lee and Wilmer. I'm curious as to like what the political makeup was there and how it impacted people's, like, you know, I imagine Northfield, I'm just, you don't say this explicitly in the piece, but I imagine Northfield the actions of the Trump administration more sort of like confirmed or edified their priors.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Whereas maybe in Albert Lee and Wilmer, people were like, I may have made a mistake here. Yes, definitely. I think that's very true. In Northfield, like I said, there was sort of some pre-existing infrastructure around mutual aid for anyone who was experiencing economic instability, and that was leveraged,
Starting point is 01:01:13 powerfully in this moment, specifically to help immigrants who were sheltering at home and folks who were resisting ICE. But like you said, in Wilmer, in Albert Lee, in Austin, these are places that from the anecdotes, and also when you look at like election data that are more conservative, more likely to have voted for Trump, and that also are experiencing a bit more kind of economic depression. That was something that I spoke with folks in both these areas about, particularly Albert Lee. They have really struggled, Albert Lee and Austin to some extent, as there have been a number of plant closures, of these meatpacking plants in recent years. And just, you know, it's kind of a story that we hear a lot about these,
Starting point is 01:02:13 Midwestern towns where the work dries up and it kind of foments a lot of, I don't know, conservative leanings and can sometimes really just spark this like racial hatred of the, you know, long-term white residents of the town feeling as though they're being replaced by immigrant workers. I definitely got a sense in Albert Lee that there were some undercurrents of that in those towns. But at the same time, that's not to diminish the people who are doing all the work-resisting ICE in those areas. They, despite not having the pre-existing groups and infrastructure and just lines of communication that a town like Northfield or Minneapolis and St. Paul had, they were able to put together these incredibly complex and, um, just really enduring networks to get kids to school, bring people groceries,
Starting point is 01:03:21 make sure that people could carpool to work safely, all those sorts of things that we heard were happening in places like Minneapolis and St. Paul, were also happening in these smaller towns. And I imagine in the context of a smaller town, it's like it's harder to do that. Like, you know, you can have people who are, are sheltering at home or hiding out in like a neighbor's, you know, house. In a big city, it's easier to get lost on some level and not stand out. But it seems to me like much more obvious in a small town, you know,
Starting point is 01:04:01 and I'm curious about two things. One is the tactics, the right about change there. Like at first that they were being more confrontational, but with the absence of like a media that could come and record what's going on between ICE, you know, ICE's brutality in the face of these protests ended up cutting against them, which is a civil disobedience tactic that we've seen, you know, for for generations. but in the absence of any media that can tell this story, they chose to be less confrontational and really sort of more just tactical. Talk about that. Totally. And just before I kind of get into the techniques that folks were using,
Starting point is 01:04:58 you're completely right when you say that it is much harder to hide in these small towns where a lot of people know each other. And there are only, say, like, two or three apartment complexes where lower income people work. Or, for example, in Albert Lee, there's one or two, like, mobile home communities that everyone knows. These are places where a lot of immigrant workers live. So, like you said, much harder to hide. And then also just a pure numbers game, fewer people to go deliver groceries or, you know, raise money to help someone make rent. whereas in Minneapolis, I think there was in some places almost an overflowing and an outpouring of that kind of financial and just time support.
Starting point is 01:05:47 But to directly answer your question, this was something that I first spoke to folks about in Northfield. Some people who are members of the kind of community patrol ice watch team there started out, like you said, being more confrontational, sort of of the style that we saw a lot of coming out of the Twin Cities, where you know, you go right up to an ICE agent and you film them right in their face and you make very clear that you don't like what they're doing. You're here to police them or not police them, but just like watch them and make sure that they know that they're being watched. And after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Preti, a lot of groups in these smaller communities, I think this, I'm sure this was also happening in the Twin Cities,
Starting point is 01:06:43 but at least in Northfield, Albert Lee and Wilmer, a lot of these people really got together and said, okay, you know, this could be a really serious risk to our safety and the safety of some of our younger or older volunteers who are out here every single day. So they really took a step back. They would still, of course, follow ICE agents, go to the scene and make clear that they were filming and watching what was happening. But they did it more from the sidelines, both to protect themselves and also to protect the victims of the ICE agents. because they could tell that the more that they as Ice Watchers really kind of got in the faces of the agents, the agents would escalate and it would kind of amp them up.
Starting point is 01:07:40 And that, of course, would then be transferred onto the person who was being arrested or assaulted by the agents. So it was both to protect the volunteers, but also to protect the people who, were being arrested just to kind of de-escalate as much as humanly possible in that situation. And you don't have the same leverage of having 25 or 50 or 100 people around you that can intervene or report out on what's happening. I've walked walking in New York City, the sense of if an ice agent came and grabbed someone on the street, there'd be two.
Starting point is 01:08:24 200 people on the street in a number of minutes, as opposed to being out in a town with 15, 20,000 people, somebody might not drive by for 20 minutes or something. No, totally, totally. What can be, I'm curious, has, particularly in the Albert Lee and in Wilmar and Austin, where you might have had people who were more conservative, more like. to have voted for Trump, more prone to having some type of resentment towards immigrants. Has the attitudes of the people that you spoke to politically changed at all? Or is it basically just the rump of liberal-oriented people or handling this stuff? And the other folks there are like, good, this is what I voted for. I think it's, unfortunately, a bit of a mix.
Starting point is 01:09:28 Also, I apologize if you can hear the wind. Chicago is like... You're in Chicago. Yeah, it works. It works. So I would say it's really a mix from what I heard. I did hear some stories of, let's see, I heard some stories in Wilmer that were really moving.
Starting point is 01:09:47 So one of the people in Wilmer that I spoke to, his name is Willie, and he is a member of a law enforcement motorcycle club. So he hangs out with a ton of ex-military, ex-police, ex-firefighter, ex-paramedic guys. And you can kind of envision what that vibe is like. It's not necessarily the most, like, bleeding heart liberal group out there. And so Willie is... Mexican-American and he owns a restaurant in downtown Wilmer, which unfortunately, you'll read about this in the article, but he had to shut it down at least temporarily because no one was out on
Starting point is 01:10:34 the streets. Everyone was sheltering from ice and just business costs were too high. But all that aside, when it was still open over the holidays, Willie was talking to some of the guys in his biking group and was like, hey, I'm hosting this holiday fundraiser, but I'm really worried that, you know, this could be a target for ICE. And these guys who are pretty, you know, conservative, a lot of them, not all of them, but a lot of them are, you know, Trump voters, folks who may broadly kind of support the ideas of this immigration enforcement. They set up in like a radius around Willie's restaurant right in front of it, and then also like a two-block radius away,
Starting point is 01:11:20 just to kind of be on alert and show that they were there in support. So you have stories like that that are, you know, stories of people who might not necessarily change who they vote for or even say that they kind of regret the policies that they voted for. But when something like this comes to their town and comes directly to their friend, they will kind of stand up in that way. On the flip side, though, to take this same story in Wilmer,
Starting point is 01:11:56 Willie was actually arrested and assaulted by ICE agents, and basically the story is he was racially profiled. He's a citizen, and there's no reason he was doing nothing, and he was arrested and assaulted, and then released before they didn't take him to be processed or anything. But this was clearly and very obviously a really traumatizing incident for him. And I think a really radicalizing and politicizing moment in his life as well, where he realized that he could be a target for ICE agents.
Starting point is 01:12:37 And he was a target for ICE agents despite being a very long time member of community and being a business owner and being kind of like this noticeable figure in his town. And he really noticed that some of the people who he expected to kind of have his back, including like in the local police department, really didn't have his back. And he felt a sense of kind of deep abandonment. and yeah, I think that kind of like politicizing moment for him. So that's one situation where it was like, yes, some people do regret what they voted for and did kind of get radicalized into helping immigrant neighbors or anyone else who's affected by ICE,
Starting point is 01:13:26 but at the same time, not everyone did. And for some people, they liked what they were seeing. I would encourage everybody to check out the piece, particularly if you're in a rural area. I mean, just to get another set of tactics that you may not be aware of, I think this is very, very helpful. Where if people want to support, particularly in these smaller towns where there's less resources and the costs associated with people not being able to go to work, you have some people basically like, you know, reminiscent of hiding Anne Frank's family. in their homes, supporting them. They've, like, are there funds out there where people can donate any type of resources for this? Yeah, there definitely are.
Starting point is 01:14:17 In the case of a group in Northfield, I do have a link in the article to one of those funds. And then I think one of the issues with some of the smaller, more rural towns, like I've kind of been harping on, there is less of a centralized, like, apparatus of resistance and mutual aid. But in those towns, there are still, in some cases, like local food banks who are really involved in this work. There are some churches and mosques that I think would likely also be able to facilitate donations. It's just a little harder because it's not, like I said, it's not as centralized. But if you are hoping to support some of the folks in these more rural areas,
Starting point is 01:15:07 I honestly, how I would start is look up Wilmer Food Bank or even look up some of the folks that I wrote about in the articles. I spoke to a lot of pastors. I spoke to some leaders at the Wilmer Islamic Society. And those people would be great resources as well. Unfortunately, it's just harder. like I said, because it's a little more scattered around these smaller areas. Emma Jansen, the piece is when ice blows through rural America and the American prospect. We'll link to that at majority.fm and in the podcast and YouTube description,
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Starting point is 01:16:59 and the idea of a counterbalance to Zionism within the Jewish community and that it pre-exists Zionism or at least popped up in the exact same year is, I think, pretty important when you've got folks like, I don't know, Jake Tapper. I mean, really, you could just sort of
Starting point is 01:17:24 shake a stick and hit half a dozen people who do this on the reg, but equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. And having a competing ideology within Judaism immediately makes it impossible for these people to get away with conflating these two things. and were it not for history and really Zionists hiding this history, I think we'd be in a slightly different position right now. I don't know. Oh, say the name of the book.
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