Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Mike Prysner here with Abby Martin.

This content is normally just for our patrons, but because of the major developments in the

struggle for Palestine, we wanted to make this episode in its entirety available to everyone.

But if you'd like to support our work and we'd like to access all of our previous

exclusive podcasts and all the ones that are forthcoming, please go to patreon.com slash empire

files and join the Patreon family. We have reached a turning point over the past two weeks

through the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza and its brutality in the rest of Palestine. Of course,

here at the Empire Files, we have been working

nonstop to intervene in the Israeli propaganda narrative, producing new videos, new podcasts,

releasing our film Gaza Fight for Freedom for free on YouTube, which got almost a quarter million

views in just about a week, and doing countless interviews on the topic in other media,

including Abby appearing

on Al Jazeera and some other big platforms.

In addition, we've been doing everything we can to mobilize people in the streets around the

country and here in L.A., we've been endorsers and Abby has been a speaker at several mass

actions at the Israeli consulate.

And so we want to bookend this really historic two-week period with a glimmer of hope.

Actually, not so much of a glimmer of hope, but a beam, a bright beam of hope.

The movement for a free Palestine has just had a breakthrough, one there is no turning back from,

and our guest today believes it is the beginning of the end for the Israeli colonial project.

We are joined by Brian Becker, who has been on this podcast before and has been in several episodes of the Empire Files videos.

Brian is host of the podcast called The Socialist Program, which is a really essential source of news and analysis

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