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 […]
Tourism in Service of Israeli Settler Colonialism with Halah Ahmad
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Halah Ahmad 00:00 Up to 4 million tourists come each year to historic Palestine, and most of them visit Jerusalem and the dead sea. There’s a clear connection here between both not only the displacement and the illegal land theft, that predicates tourism at […]
Incarcerating Palestine in Life and Death with Randa Wahbe
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Randa Wahbe 00:00 So we see how quickly Israel employs mass incarceration as a way to try to suppress Palestinians, especially in moments of mass unity, when we saw Palestinians were uprising in 48, in the West Bank, in Gaza and in the diaspora […]
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 […]
Palestinian Resistance & Shifting the Media Narrative with Marwa Fatafta
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Marwa Fatafta 00:00 I, however, would not give the sole credit to those outlets, but rather to young and intelligent Palestinian journalists, analysts, and activists who are able to reflect and describe the Palestinian struggle eloquently and unapologetically, as well as the power to […]
