Andrew Kadi
Al-Shabaka Policy Member Andrew Kadi is a human rights activist and occasional contributor to the Guardian’s Comment is Free, The Electronic Intifada, MondoWeiss, Left Turn, and other publications.
Shifting Growing Palestine Support into US Policy
Join Al-Shabaka’s policy analyst and board member, Zaha Hassan, and US Policy Fellow, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, for a discussion with host 24503 about bridging the divide between US public discourse and policy on Palestine.
Biden’s Mideast Visit: Sobering Lessons for Palestine
US President Joe Biden’s July 2022 visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia signified a new era of regional alliances that are inextricably linked to the expanding normalization deals heralded by the Abraham Accords. Indeed, the US appears more determined to buttress these authoritarian and apartheid regimes with military and technological superiority, particularly for future confrontations […]
Lawfare and Palestine: Strategies for Resisting Criminalization
Israel’s recent criminalization of six Palestinian human rights organizations has sparked global outcry. But this tactic fits into a global trend of lawfare led by right-wing and conservative governments, including in the US and Europe, against activists and grassroots organizers. it must be actively resisted politically and legally. On the anniversary of the First Intifada, […]
Tourism in Service of Israeli Settler Colonialism with Halah Ahmad
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Halah Ahmad 0:00 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 […]
Restricting US Military Aid to Israel in the Age of Normalization
With the rise in global solidarity with Palestinians since the May 2021 Unity Intifada, United States policymakers and activists are calling for conditioning and halting US military aid to Israel. Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow, 24507, examines this shifting tide and offers recommendations for how policymakers, lobbyists, and the international community can seize on this historic moment in the defense of Palestinian rights.
US Military Aid to Israel with Nadya Tannous
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Nadya Tannous 0:00 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 much less political will, I should say, to condition military aid, because […]
Palestinian Digital Rights: Crackdowns & Corporate Complicity with Amal Nazzal
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Amal Nazzal 0:00 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 […]
Biden in the White House: Alaa Tartir on Implications for Palestine
The transcript below has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Alaa Tartir 0:00 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 […]
