Environmental Normalization in Palestine with Inès Abdel Razek
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Inès Abdel Razek 0:00 These projects are not new. The people-to-people projects have been actively promoted and millions have been poured into them after the Oslo Agreements, but it has shown that it has not worked because we’re here today and Israel has only […]
Resisting Palestinian Erasure in Jerusalem with Jalal Abukhater
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Jalal Abukhater 0:00 They want us to feel like we are diminishing in existence in Jerusalem, our flag is almost banned at every occasion in Jerusalem, saying you are Palestinian is akin to becoming a criminal. Sometimes if you express Palestinian identity, they suppress […]
Three Threads of the Movement for Palestinian Liberation
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 I think we should take inspiration from the Palestinian street. We can also do that within Palestinian civil society and Palestinian organizational spaces. It’s about fostering an environment of like-minded organizations that work together that have clear politics and obvious red […]
Reflections on Palestinian Local Elections with Fadi Quran
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Fadi Quran 0:00 I think Palestinian society at large, particularly the younger generation who are more hopeful, are moving towards that big picture. We want Palestine liberated. We want all Palestinians liberated no matter where they are, and we’re willing to sacrifice and find […]
Reimagining Palestinian Health and Education with Yara Asi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Asi 0:00 The question for Palestinians becomes, do we reject this paradigm? Do we use every lever to push for liberation? Even if we lose some of what so many sacrificed so much for. Even if it means rejecting certain streams of financial […]
Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid with Saleh Hijazi
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Saleh Hijazi 0:00 Amnesty does recognize, and that is in the report, the validity of settler colonial analysis and the complementarity between the settler colonial analysis and apartheid. It just limits itself to then its mandate of work under international human rights law. Yara […]
Ongoing Resistance in the Naqab with Riya Al-Sanah
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Riya Al-Sanah 0:00 Palestinian Bedouins will determine the lifestyle that they have. They don’t want to live in cities and towns. We are agricultural communities that have an intimate relationship to the land, and they want to keep that and they will fight to […]
Palestine in 2021: Victories and Challenges
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Yara Hawari 0:00 In this episode of Rethinking Palestine, we put together the best bits of all of our episodes this year to give you a roundup of Palestine in 2021. Of course, you can still listen to the episodes in full on all […]
Palestine Under Surveillance with Mona Shtaya
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Mona Shtaya 00:00 Unfortunately, today we are talking about mass surveillance of Palestinians in the digital spaces and on the ground. And it is clear that we are sinking in a pool of surveillance. And I’m not sure if we can get out of […]
