Season 03, Episode 1:
Make America Israel Again- Why Israel Should Annex America
Hosted By:
Adel Iskander
Sinan Antoon
Bassam Haddad
Thursday, 23 October 2025
2:30 PM EST | 9:30 PM Apartheid Time
Israel was on top of the world in America, some say it was on top of America. Others say it is actually inside America, fingers and all. However, In a monumental reversal of fortune, Israel saw its popularity in the United States plunge to unprecedented depths. How can that be? Who can accept Israel’s reputation to be dragged through the doodoo in daddy-land? How long can we handle seeing poll after poll showing Americans no longer buy Israel’s kharrative? But fret not, Larry Allison and Bari Weis say. “We are here to make America Israel Again.” If purchasing dignity and America’s honor doesn’t work, Israel should annex the United States! خلصونا
Featuring the expert hosts of “3Arabs&,” Bassam Haddad (@4Bassam), Sinan Antoon (@SinanAntoon), and Adel Iskandar (@MinotaurLives), a multinational triglyceride think tank.

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Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry. A third collection of poetry in English, entitled Postcards from the Underworld, was published by Seagull Books this past October. He has been described as one of the most acclaimed Arab novelists. His most recent work in Arabic is a novel entitled, Khuzama. His scholarly works include the book, Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf: The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry. He is associate professor at New York University. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. His scholarly works include the book, Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf: The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry. He is associate professor at New York University. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.
Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies and the Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of numerous works including Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation(University of California Press, 2010). Iskandar is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.
Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).