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, […]
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, […]
