Palestine in 2023: Unfolding Nakba and Genocide
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. As we end the year 2023, the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza continues. Bombs are still raining down on people’s homes, on schools, on hospitals, and […]
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free,” with Maha Nassar
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Maha Nassar 0:00 Really, in ten simple words, this phrase signifies to Palestinians their personal ties, their national rights, and their future vision for Palestine. The chant is really at its root about saying no to colonial partition schemes that deny Palestinians connections to […]
Countering Repression of Palestine Solidarity in the US & Europe
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Layla Kattermann 0:00 One should know their rights. Their current oppression is usually unconstitutional and unlawful. The police certainly are exercising unlawful conduct. Diala Shamas 0:11 I tell people, don’t stop speaking out, don’t stop opposing genocide. You are on the right side of […]
The Palestinian Authority’s Revolving Door with Alaa Tartir
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Alaa Tartir 0:00 What is common between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli regime, as far as the revolving door policy is concerned, is that it highlights a shared interest of the Palestinian Authority, Israel, and their international supporters in doing one thing, which […]
Countless Palestinian Futures with Danah Abdulla & Sarona Abuaker
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Sarona Abuaker 0:00 What does homemaking from afar look like, especially within our conditions as Palestinians who are incredibly fragmented? And in what ways can we talk about Palestine and generate ideas around Palestine that aren’t afraid of moving beyond what we’re currently experiencing? […]
Challenging the British Anti-Boycott Bill with Ben Jamal
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Ben Jamal 0:00 An important part of what we do is to make our struggle intersectional — to say, where does this struggle fit with broader struggles against unjust systems of power? Why is this also part of the climate justice struggle? Why is […]
Liberal Zionism: A Veneer for Settler Colonialism
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Muhannad Ayyash 0:00 Liberal Zionism didn’t create something out of nothing. They simply followed the playbook that was already established by Euro-American colonial, imperial, and settler colonial projects. They basically fall squarely into that phenomenon that decolonial scholars will call colonial modernity. Yara Hawari […]
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 rejecting the presence of this apartheid carceral regime, in a sense — of prisoners’ desire for freedom, and actually as a running towards freedom, not running […]
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, […]
