Canceled Over Israel: James Cavallaro & Lara Sheehi

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James Cavallaro and Lara Sheehi join the show to talk about being canceled over their criticism of Israel. James Cavallaro is a prominent Human Right expert who was blocked by Biden from his nomination to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) over his criticism of Israeli apartheid. Lara Sheehi is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University who is the subject of a Title VI complaint launched by the Right Wing organization Stand With Us. Then Tara Alami, a Palestinian writer and organiser from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yafa, talks about the latest settler violence against Palestinians.

James Cavallaro is a visiting professor at Columbia, UCLA and Yale and a professor of the practice at Wesleyan University. He is also the Executive Director of the University Network for Human Rights. He has taught human rights law and practice for nearly a quarter century, most recently at Yale Law School (Spring 2020), Stanford Law School (2011-2019), and Harvard Law School (2002-2011). At both Harvard and Stanford, he established and directed human rights clinics and ran human rights centers. Cavallaro has overseen dozens of projects with scores of students in over twenty countries. In June 2013, Cavallaro was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He served as President of that body from 2016-2017.

Lara Sheehi, PsyD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book.

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