By Katie Halper and Aaron Maté / Useful Idiots
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Katie Halper
Katie Halper is a writer, filmmaker and host from and based in New York City. She is the host of the podcast, YouTube show and WBAI radio show “The Katie Halper Show,” and po-Host of the podcast and YouTube show “Useful Idiots.” Katie was first censored by The Hill TV and then fired from its morning broadcast, “Rising,” after writing a monologue in which she stood up for US Representative Rashida Tlaib and stated that Israel was, indeed, an apartheid state. She is currently working on a documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and is is the director of the forthcoming award-winning documentary “Commie Camp”, about Camp Kinderland, a summer camp founded by secular Jewish socialists in the 1920s which still exists. She was the recipient of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press’s Women and Media Award in 2022, and the American Muslims for Palestine’s Leadership Annual Award in 2023.
Aaron Maté
Aaron Maté is a journalist and producer. He hosts Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone. In 2019, Maté was awarded the Izzy Award (named after I.F. Stone) for outstanding achievement in independent media for his coverage of Russiagate in The Nation magazine. Previously, he was a host/producer for The Real News and Democracy Now!.