After claiming that Donald Trump’s son-in-law no longer has a role in the current administration, JD Vance went to Palestine this week to announce the new “investor” of his ethnic-cleansing plan for the reconstruction of Gaza: Jared Kushner. Which means that after killing or removing every Palestinian from their home, it will be Trump’s own family that profits off the new resort, or “freedom place” as Trump called it, once known as Gaza.

Interestingly, Kushner noted that “no reconstruction funds will go into Hamas-controlled areas” of Gaza. But by the administration’s logic, isn’t that all of Gaza? Sorry Jared, we guess you can’t build after all.

But Kushner and Vance aren’t the only ones spewing insanity over Gaza, which means this Thursday Throwdown is gonna be a headache. NYC Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman (heir of the Levi Strauss family) claims he isn’t ready to endorse Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. His reason? Mamdani has done too much to speak out against Israeli violence.

But he’s in good company! We also watch clips from Muslims Against Mamdani and the even more powerful Hot Girls for Cuomo. Just don’t try going to hotgirlsforcuomo.com.

It’s all this, and more, on this week’s nightmare episode of Thursday Throwdown. We’re releasing this one free for everyone, because sometimes everyone needs a good headache.

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This week we’re speaking to two Useful Idiots return guests: Mouin Rabbani, co-editor at Jadaliyya and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, and human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber, who resigned from the United Nations over its failure to act on Gaza.

Useful Idiots: What is your response to Trump’s so-called peace plan?

Mouin Rabbani: Well, just to say it’s not a peace plan. It’s a proposal to achieve a ceasefire. If you look at the proposal closely, it doesn’t include any enforcement mechanisms, even for those elements that have been agreed. And most importantly, it doesn’t say anything about Palestinian rights. And therefore, if it’s entirely successful, it will at best take us back to October 6 [2023].

Craig Mokhiber: It’s not a peace plan. It’s not a plan for ending the conflict. It’s not a plan that responds to the genocide. It addresses none of the root causes of the situation in Palestine. It is absolutely lawless.

This was created in the dark back rooms of Washington. It makes no reference to international law, and some of the provisions of the plan actually violate international law. Things like conditioning humanitarian aid, implicit threats of collective punishment if Hamas doesn’t agree to something, the explicit denial of Palestinian self-determination, and restrictions on political rights for some Palestinians. It tries to return to a situation where Palestinians have to negotiate for their human rights with their oppressors. And it fails to seek any accountability for Israeli crimes, including genocide.

This ceasefire has been repeatedly violated already by Israel. They immediately destroyed the water treatment plant, they killed several Palestinian civilians, and blocked some of the aid that’s supposed to be coming in.

It is a certain relief in terms of the amount of bombs and bullets that are flying in Gaza, it allows some aid in, and it has allowed for some Palestinian prisoners to be released from horrific Israeli torture camps. But beyond that piece of that ceasefire agreement, there is nothing here to celebrate.

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You’ll also get our Thursday Throwdown: Cory Booker’s Israel Panic Flub Turns Into An ‘Arrested Development’ Moment

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This week the Democrats have folded themselves end-over-end in a superfluous effort to prove to the public something that everyone’s known for some time: “We’re pushovers!”

On this Thursday Throwdown, Katie and Aaron are spotlighting two Democratic tools of the Zionist lobby: NJ Senator Cory Booker, who has received over $800,000 from the Israel lobby to vote at their will, and 2028 presidential hopeful Governor Gavin Newsom. Both were asked simple questions about Israel.

Booker was asked: “Do you think Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal?”

His answer: “I, I, I, again, these are these are questions that a lot of people think are the important litmus tests that are loaded and hot…I get these questions all the time that to me undermine my urgency… Here’s a here’s a yes or no for you: Do I think Netanyahu’s worse than Trump? Yes.”

After a mess of an answer, does he think you’re allowed to substitute a different yes-or-no question for the one asked? Is that how it works? But as if to make Booker’s answer sound intelligent, Gavin Newsom sunk even lower.

His interviewer says: “I will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from AIPAC.”

Newsom’s response: “That’s interesting. I mean, it’s it’s interesting I haven’t thought about AIPAC. And it’s interesting you’re like the first to bring up AIPAC in years, which is interesting. Not, not relevant to the my day-to-day life. Which is just interesting. It’s interesting you say that…it’s just interesting.”

That response was… thought-provoking.

And we couldn’t help but see a parallel between these two joker Dems and a certain favorite Arrested Development moment: