Palestine as a Transnational Anti-Colonial Struggle
tThe transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Hamza Hamouchene 0:00 The dehumanizing and deadly forces of capital and empire are really bent on destroying hope and killing the idea of resistance. We cannot fall in the webs of defeatism. We need to nurture the idea of hope, to find it by […]
Christian Zionism in the Global South with Fathi Nimer
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Fathi Nimer 00:00 The struggle against Christian Zionism is also a struggle against colonial interests in the region. It’s not simply ideological because it has a reflection on the material reality. And people can be helped to understand this, but it requires renewed grassroots […]
Palestinian Intellectual History with Sabri Jiryis
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 From Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, I am Yara Hawari, and this is Rethinking Palestine. The Foundations of Zionism was originally published in Arabic over two volumes in 1977 and 1986, written by renowned Palestinian scholar and former director of the […]
War, Political Economy, and Palestine
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Diana Buttu 0:00 Before October of 2023, there was a real push within Israel to push forward this normalization project. And the normalization project was, in large part, to send the message to the Israeli public that they never really need to do anything […]
The US Democratic Party’s Moment of Reckoning with Tariq Kenney-Shawa
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Tariq Kenney-Shawa 0:00 I think when we’re looking at candidates running for office in the midterms, when we’re looking at the eventual presidential candidates running for office in 2028, I think we need to pay attention to whether they’re actually supporting initiatives that will […]
Israel’s Scorched Earth Doctrine with Amjad Iraqi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Amjad Iraqi 0:00 But since October 7th, Israel has really taken a much more severe approach, where the concept of burning the lawn — of really trying to burn everything at its roots, not just in terms of specific military goals, but destroying the […]
The Ceasefire Scam in Gaza — with Jacobin Long Reads
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 This ceasefire needs to be understood not as an end to violence or a violent reality for Palestinians, but rather a very different phase of the genocide. Certainly one that doesn’t come with carpet bombardments every day like we saw over […]
De-Healthification of Palestine with Layth Malhis
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Layth Malhis 0:00 With de-healthification, we can recenter at least what is happening to the individual, and that is the body and the individual. And that the human is being de-healthified, that their health is what is being targeted and their access to their […]
2025 in Review: Palestine and the Fight for Liberation
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 Al-Shabaka’s Rethinking Palestine Podcast produces content that not only speaks to the pivotal moment in the Palestinian struggle for liberation, but also challenges the hegemonic narratives that have allowed the continued settler colonization of Palestine. More recently, the genocide in Gaza […]
