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We're joined by Editor of Veterans Today, Kevin Barrett, who's joining us from Saidia. Mr. Barrett, welcome to the program.

Chants of free Palestine can be heard across the globe once again. But the significance and what's unprecedented this time around is the demonstrations that are taking place across U.S. universities. This is of course something unprecedented regarding Palestinian support inside America. Talk to us about that, about these global demonstrations, how Israel has been cornered and now it's the most isolated it's ever been. And of course about the police clampdown on campuses which is being seen as a attack on freedom of expression in America.

Yeah, it's interesting how this particular issue brings such quick and massive police repression. If you speak out for Palestine in the United States, the authorities are likely to come down on you, attack you, repress you, and jail you much more quickly than if you were protesting about just about any other issue. And examples of this include the protests in the United States that began at Columbia University, and have been quite ruthlessly repressed, with a large number of students actually expelled from the university for protesting.

That's...maybe not entirely unprecedented. But American universities throughout my lifetime have been full of protests. And I can't recall anyone ever being expelled for protesting. And these are generally peaceful protesters too. At Ohio State University, the police arrived just an hour or two after a demonstration started, and they started arresting people almost instantly.

And likewise, I think it was in Chicago, at Northwestern where something similar occurred. They changed the school rules to make tents illegal so they could quickly try to stop the pro-Palestine tent city on campus.

Hundreds, if not well over a thousand by now, of American students have been arrested in these protests, which are continuing to spread like proverbial wildfire. And likewise, it seems that in France, they’ve been unable to stop them (from growing). When the first Sciences Po protest a couple of days ago was massively repressed in the typical style of Macron—though fortunately I don't think they were shooting out people's eyes with rubber bullets like he did to the Yellow Vests—that protest restarted, just today, and it's twice as big as it was a couple of days ago.

So the genocide perpetrators and their enablers in the West are now facing a serious problem, because the younger generation of students across the world, including in the Western world and even in the United States, the belly of the beast, is increasingly aware about this issue. And all of their sympathies are already tending towards the Palestinians. And the more they learn about this genocide, the stronger their sympathies for the Palestinians will be. So the Zionist propaganda machine has run into a really serious roadblock.

And these rallies on U.S. campuses gained more steam to protest the recent congressional approval of more military aid for the Israeli regime. About that aid package, billions of taxpayer dollars will continue to go to Israel to continue its genocide. What was your reaction to the approval of the military aid?

Well, it's, of course, disgusting. It's disappointing that the Republicans caved. Their new speaker Mike Johnson changed his position and caved on the Ukraine issue. But the continued all-out support from both major parties for this genocide in Gaza is just incredibly disgusting and embarrassing. It really makes me embarrassed to be an American, to have a government that is so unanimously pro-genocide, that is paying for this genocide, enab