Case of Genocide Complicity Against Biden Dismissed & Gerald Horne on the Radical Origins of Black History Month

Part 1: Dismissal of the Palestine v. Biden case in Federal Court 

Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP.  He is a Co-Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden.

The court denied the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion and granted the government’s motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the administration’s conduct of foreign relations.

While Dismissing Case on Jurisdictional Grounds, U.S. Judge “Implores” Biden Administration to Stop its “Unflagging Support” for Israel’s Ongoing Siege of the Palestinian People in Gaza (CCRJustice.org)

The Case

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin for failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.

Part 2. The Radical Origins of Black History Month

Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston.  He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.  His latest is The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing.