US Military Aid to Israel with Nadya Tannous
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Nadya Tannous 00:00 Most lawmakers will never hold Israel’s military actions to the same standard or rubric that they will continue to hold other countries in the region accountable to. So there’s the much less political will I should say to condition military aid […]
Palestinian Securitization vs Liberation with Alaa Tartir
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Alaa Tartir 00:00 The final outcome, after all these millions of dollars and years spent on establishing that security forces, it resulted in what I call professionalization of authoritarianism, where security forces became more professional, but in repressing and in following authoritarian trends, and […]
Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond with Muna Dajani
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Muna Dajani 00:00 Sheikh Jarrah symbolizes how refugees managed to exercise some form of return – by establishing roots again, in a place in Palestine, and calling it home – only to be under the threat of losing that refuge and that place, only […]
Israeli Elections and Palestinian Citizens with Amjad Iraqi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Amjad Iraqi 00:00 Citizenship does not imply in any way that they are actually equals. On the country, there’s a large structure of discriminatory laws and policies that are inherently designed to make Palestinian citizens unequal. They are effectively colonial laws that continue to […]
In Pursuit of Justice at the ICC with Rania Muhareb
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Rania Muhareb 00:00 Together with an ICC investigation, there needs to be also effective measures by states – sanctions to bring to an end the illegal situation, including the apartheid regime imposed over the Palestinian people, and other effective measures in order to end […]
Palestinian Digital Rights: Crackdowns & Corporate Complicity with Amal Nazzal
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Amal Nazzal 00:00 When you are not paying for the product, you are the product. I think this is the case with Facebook and other social media platforms, and all the scandals of Facebook, particularly, in violating our own digital rights and selling our […]
Limitations and Possibilities of the Apartheid Framework with Lana Tatour
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Lana Tatour 00:00 Through seemingly radical discourse, for example, apartheid is being reconfigured from a colonial question into a liberal question. So the problem is the lack of equality; it is not colonization; it is not Zionism as a racist, settler colonial movement. Yara Hawari 00:27 […]
2020 and the Palestinian Leadership with Tareq Baconi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Tareq Baconi 00:00 I think the Palestinian struggle is also ongoing – in the sense that its understanding now in this 21st century reality we’re living in – that there are new forms of mobilization that can reshape an alternative phase of Palestinian liberation, […]
Biden in the White House: Alaa Tartir on Implications for Palestine
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Alaa Tartir 00:00 The US aid to the Palestinian Authority largely aims to solidify the role of the Palestinian Authority as a subcontractor to Israel, the Israeli occupation. It made the Israeli occupation cheaper and longer. It also benefited the Israeli economy and it […]
