Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine with Basil Farraj
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Basil Farraj 0:00 These practices, hunger strikes, have to be conceptualized, I think, as a manifestation of prisoners projecting the presence of this apartheid carceral regime in a sense, of prisoners’ desire for freedom and actually as a running towards freedom, not running away […]
The “Pro-Democracy” Israeli Protests with Ameer Makhoul
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Ameer Makhoul 0:00 For the Israelis, they want to keep the state as it is. Because it’s a Jewish state, it’s their state, not to allow the new elites to change it. They are very militarized demonstrations. The military voice, the security voice, is […]
Confronting Energy Poverty in Gaza with Asmaa Abu Mezied
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Asmaa Abu Mezied 0:00 So what the international community ends up doing is really providing Palestinians with painkillers and very short-term solutions rather than addressing the big elephant in the room, rather than addressing the root causes, which is the role of the Israeli […]
US Embassy Plans on Stolen Palestinian Lands with Rashid Khalidi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Rashid Khalidi 0:00 Now Israel stole the land, and that’s an issue that can only be dealt with in the very long term, but the US government is about to build on that property and thereby consecrate through that building its acceptance of this […]
Challenging Anti-Boycott Laws in the US with Tariq Kenney-Shawa
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Tariq Kenney-Shawa 0:00 Efforts to clamp down on Palestinian solidarity by outlawing boycotts of Israel are just one tactic amid a larger strategy by reactionary elements on both sides of the partisan divide to undermine democratic values in the US. And if they’re successful, […]
Palestine in 2022: A Year of Resistance
Yara Hawari 0:00 In our final podcast episode of the year, we have put together some of our favorite soundbites from all the episodes in 2020. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy putting it all together. We also want to ask you for your support. At Al-Shabaka, we’re working to strengthen […]
Football in the Middle East with Abdullah Al-Arian
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Abdullah Al-Arian 0:00 When we look at, for instance, what Israel has done through sport is that it’s not just using it to deflect attention away from ethnic cleansing, apartheid, or occupation. I think what the Israeli state has explicitly tried to do is […]
Latin America and Palestine with Hussein Sameh
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Hussein Sameh 0:00 We will have in Latin America, potentially center or left-wing governments in Cuba, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina and these could provide opportunities at the policy level, but we are still stifled by our leadership in how far […]
The Challenges of Fighting for Palestinian Prisoners’ Freedom
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Melina 0:00 We are all still working. None of the employees of the six organizations, none of them, left their job or retired or wanted to quit because this designation aims to silence Palestinian voices and we didn’t want to give the Israeli occupation […]
