In a Katie Halper Show exclusive, journalist Matthew Petti discusses for the first time, his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, Qatar, Tom Barrack, Trump’s Middle East envoy, and Sultan bin Sulayem, a very powerful Dubai businessman tied to the royal family and more.
Then Katie gets an update from Zeyad Kadur about his nephew Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16 year old American Citizen who is languishing in an Israeli prison where he has been kept since early 2025.
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Links for Mohammed Ibrahim:
Institute For Middle East Understanding Policy Project: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/newsletters/lawmakers-call-on-trump-admin-to-free-mohammed-ibrahim-from-israeli-detention
CAIR and CAIR-FL Urgent Action Alert: https://secure.ngpvan.com/DYkFiy0PwEiVEvRJaQFdIQ2
freeMohammedIbrahim: https://linktr.ee/freeMohammedIbrahim
Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.
In 2022, Matthew was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research the ways in which Arab journalists interact with foreign media. Through the Fulbright program, he worked at a variety of newsrooms in Amman, including Jordan News and Radio al-Balad, where he hosted a program on Latin music. Previously, he was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad and Foreign Language Area Studies fellow in Amman.
Matthew graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He got his start in journalism as a features writer at the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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In a Katie Halper Show exclusive, journalist Matthew Petti discusses for the first time, his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, Qatar, Tom Barrack, Trump’s Middle East envoy, and Sultan bin Sulayem, a very powerful Dubai businessman tied to the royal family and more.
Then Katie gets an update from Zeyad Kadur about his nephew Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16 year old American Citizen who is languishing in an Israeli prison where he has been kept since early 2025.
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-143899463
Links for Mohammed Ibrahim:
Institute For Middle East Understanding Policy Project: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/newsletters/lawmakers-call-on-trump-admin-to-free-mohammed-ibrahim-from-israeli-detention
CAIR and CAIR-FL Urgent Action Alert: https://secure.ngpvan.com/DYkFiy0PwEiVEvRJaQFdIQ2
freeMohammedIbrahim: https://linktr.ee/freeMohammedIbrahim
Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.
In 2022, Matthew was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research the ways in which Arab journalists interact with foreign media. Through the Fulbright program, he worked at a variety of newsrooms in Amman, including Jordan News and Radio al-Balad, where he hosted a program on Latin music. Previously, he was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad and Foreign Language Area Studies fellow in Amman.
Matthew graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He got his start in journalism as a features writer at the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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Katie speaks to Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber about the Gaza Tribunal being held in Istanbul October 23-26, which Craig helped organize and Katie will be covering. Katie will also be delivering testimony on the media’s complicity in the genocide. Then Katie speaks to three people arrested for protesting the UK’s Draconian Terror Laws, which make it illegal to support proscribed organizations like Palestine Action, a direct action group from the UK and has targeted and sabotaged the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems factories. All three are Jewish and the descendents of Holocaust survivors: Colonel Chris Romberg is a former Army officer and defence attache with the UK embassies in Jordan and Egypt. His family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is a Jewish activist and former Labor Party electee, as well as the cofounder of Jewish Voice for Labour. Carolyn Gelenter is a longtime activist since the Vietnam war and is also the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
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Craig Mokhiber is an American former United Nations (UN) human rights official and a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In his final letter to High Commissioner, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.
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In a Katie Halper Show exclusive, journalist Matthew Petti discusses for the first time, his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, Qatar, Tom Barrack, Trump’s Middle East envoy, and Sultan bin Sulayem, a very powerful Dubai businessman tied to the royal family and more.
Then Katie gets an update from Zeyad Kadur about his nephew Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16 year old American Citizen who is languishing in an Israeli prison where he has been kept since early 2025.
For the full discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-143899463
Links for Mohammed Ibrahim:
Institute For Middle East Understanding Policy Project: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/newsletters/lawmakers-call-on-trump-admin-to-free-mohammed-ibrahim-from-israeli-detention
CAIR and CAIR-FL Urgent Action Alert: https://secure.ngpvan.com/DYkFiy0PwEiVEvRJaQFdIQ2
freeMohammedIbrahim: https://linktr.ee/freeMohammedIbrahim
Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.
In 2022, Matthew was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to research the ways in which Arab journalists interact with foreign media. Through the Fulbright program, he worked at a variety of newsrooms in Amman, including Jordan News and Radio al-Balad, where he hosted a program on Latin music. Previously, he was a Center for Arabic Study Abroad and Foreign Language Area Studies fellow in Amman.
Matthew graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He got his start in journalism as a features writer at the Columbia Daily Spectator.
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