Mohsen Mahdawi DEFENDED By Jewish Israeli Classmate + Lee Camp & Alex Kane

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Katie talks about Mohsen Mahdawi, the SECOND Palestinian Columbia student unlawfully arrested with one of his Jewish American-Israeli classmate Aharon Dardik and journalist Alex Kane. Aharon talks about moving from the U.S. to the West Bank where he and his family were settlers, and then going to prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Alex talks about his investigation into who funds The Canary Mission. Then Katie talks to political comedian Lee Camp about Ben Shapiro and trying to do comedy in this insanity. Aharon Dardik is an Israeli-American ex-settler, conscientious objector to the Israeli military, and nonviolent activist. He is currently getting his undergraduate degree in both Philosophy and Political Science at Columbia University, where he founded Columbia Jews for Ceasefire in the wake of the Israeli military’s response to the October 7th attacks. Aharon is a close friend of Mohsen and a partner in their peace efforts, hoping to bridge the Israeli and Palestinian communities together towards a shared future. Their work together has ranged from trying to craft Columbia campus policy changes that would be supported by both the Jewish and Palestinian communities, to crafting the framework for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan designed to meet the needs of all the inhabitants of the land. Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish currents and has also reported on The Canary Mission for The Intercept. Lee Camp is the former host of Redacted Tonight and current host of Unredacted Tonight on YouTube. He used to perform comedy with Katie Halper! ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

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0:40.4	Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper Show.
0:43.4	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:44.8	We have such an exciting show for you today.
0:47.4	We have a show that is really going to bring you some breaking news, breaking analysis,
0:56.1	really important perspectives. We're going to be talking during the second half of the show with the great comedian Lee Camp. We'll be talking
1:01.1	about Israel, Ben Shapiro, Donald Trump. But during the first half of the show, I'm so excited to
1:05.8	bring on two guests who are going to be talking to us about a very important story. I'm sure,
1:16.8	as everyone knows by now, Monday, we had one more Columbia student who was Palestinian who was swept up, detained, abducted on the orders of the Trump administration, perhaps
1:24.4	with collaboration of Colombia.
1:25.9	We'll get to talking about that shortly.
1:28.3	And I'm speaking, of course, of the Palestinian student, Massen Madawi. And so we are really lucky
1:33.9	because we have joining us to talk about this story and Massen, not only one of the journalists
1:40.7	who really is at the forefront of covering groups like the Canary Mission,
1:45.5	which do terrible doxing of people. He also focuses a lot on Israel in general, and that is Alex
1:52.5	Kane, and he's now a senior reporter at the Canary, oh my God, a senior reporter at Jewish
1:57.9	currents, not at the Canary Mission, although that would be good if he did that.
2:01.5	That would be good to go undercover there.
2:03.3	And we also have a classmate of Masan, Aharon, Dardik.
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