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| Reflections on the Current Moment in Palestine with Makdisi Street | 11 Sep 2024 | 01:04:00 | |
In this episode, our host Yara Hawari joins hosts of the Makdisi Street podcast Saree, Ussama and Karim Makdisi to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza, intra Palestinian-Israeli politics and more. | |||
| A Region on the Cusp of War with Abdullah Al-Arian | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:29:28 | |
Abdullah Al-Arian joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the heightened tensions in the region as the Israeli regime expands its aggression on multiple fronts. | |||
| "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free," with Maha Nassar | 30 Nov 2023 | 00:23:46 | |
Maha Nassar joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the historical significance of this popular slogan, used by Palestinians and their allies as they protest the assault on Gaza and ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. | |||
| Countering Repression of Palestine Solidarity in the US & Europe | 30 Oct 2023 | 00:31:12 | |
Layla Kattermann (European Legal Support Center) and Diala Shamas (Center for Constitutional Rights) join host Yara Hawari to discuss the crackdown on pro-Palestine solidarity across the US and Europe and ways their organizations are working to resist state repression against activists. | |||
| The Palestinian Authority's Revolving Door with Alaa Tartir | 25 Sep 2023 | 00:21:18 | |
Alaa Tartir joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the revolving door/al-bab al-dawaar, a critical component of PA-Israeli security coordination. They situate the policy within the wider “collaboration paradigm" and examine its disruptive impact on Palestinian resistance and the liberation movement. | |||
| Countless Palestinian Futures with Danah Abdulla & Sarona Abuaker | 29 Aug 2023 | 00:33:16 | |
Danah Abdulla and Sarona Abuaker join host Yara Hawari to talk about their discussion-based game, “Countless Palestinian Futures.” They explain how the project seeks to challenge colonial temporal domination and stimulate imagination around Palestinian futures. | |||
| Challenging the British Anti-Boycott Bill with Ben Jamal | 31 Jul 2023 | 00:28:56 | |
Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the UK’s anti-BDS bill targetting pro-Palestine activism. They discuss the broader repercussions of the proposed policy and ways in which the PSC and other rights groups are campaigning against the legislation. | |||
| Liberal Zionism: A Veneer for Settler Colonialism with M. Muhannad Ayyash | 27 Jun 2023 | 00:33:06 | |
M. Muhannad Ayyash joins host Yara Hawari to discuss liberal Zionism and the dominant role it plays in Zionist ideology. He exposes its essential function of providing the settler colonial project with the veneer of enlightened, Western civilization and democratic politics. | |||
| Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine with Basil Farraj | 29 May 2023 | 00:19:27 | |
In light of the death of political prisoner Khader Adnan, Al-Shabaka analyst Basil Farraj joins host Yara Hawari to discuss Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes. Farraj explains how hunger strikes function as a resistance tactic, allowing prisoners to reclaim their power over life and death from the Israeli incarceration regime. | |||
| The "Pro-Democracy" Israeli Protests with Ameer Makhoul | 27 Apr 2023 | 00:32:59 | |
Ameer Makhoul joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the ongoing Israeli protests against Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government. Makhoul provides a sobering analysis of the so-called pro-democracy protests in the context of the Israeli regime’s settler-colonial and apartheid rule over millions of Palestinians. | |||
| Confronting Energy Poverty in Gaza with Asmaa Abu Mezied | 27 Mar 2023 | 00:24:14 | |
Asmaa Abu Mezied joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the energy crisis in Gaza, situating it within the context of the Israeli regime’s unrelenting blockade and repeated attacks on the besieged enclave. Abu Mezied also explains how the international community is complicit in maintaining this unlivable status quo. | |||
| US Embassy Plans on Stolen Palestinian Lands with Rashid Khalidi | 27 Feb 2023 | 00:21:25 | |
Rashid Khalidi joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the US plan to build a new embassy on a plot of land in Jerusalem owned by multiple Palestinian families, including Khalidi’s. They also discuss the systemic Israeli theft of Palestinian lands beyond those privately owned and registered with title deeds. | |||
| The UK Elections and Palestine with Sara Husseini | 31 Jul 2024 | 00:22:48 | |
Sara Husseini joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the recent British elections, the role Palestine and the Israeli genocide in Gaza played in the election results, and the challenges facing pro-Palestine activism under the new Labour government. | |||
| Challenging Anti-Boycott Laws in the US with Tariq Kenney-Shawa | 30 Jan 2023 | 00:19:17 | |
Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the escalating legal attacks on the right to boycott in the US led by the Israeli regime's defenders. He highlights the multifaceted nature of this assault on social and political expression in the country. | |||
| Palestine in 2022: A Year of Resistance | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:36:40 | |
In this episode of Rethinking Palestine, host Yara Hawari highlights the best bits of all our episodes in 2022 to give you a round-up of how Palestinian analysts and experts reflected on the most important events in Palestine this year. | |||
| Football in the Middle East with Abdullah Al-Arian | 28 Nov 2022 | 00:28:37 | |
Abdullah Al-Arian joins host Yara Hawari for a timely discussion about football in Palestine and the wider Arab region, exploring the sport's historical and current roles in anti-colonial movements and grassroots organizing. | |||
| Latin America and Palestine with Hussein Sameh | 30 Oct 2022 | 00:32:28 | |
Hussein Sameh joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the historical and contemporary relationships between Palestine and Latin America. They also touch on the latest wave of left-wing leadership in the region and its implications for the Palestinian liberation struggle. | |||
| The Challenges of Fighting for Palestinian Prisoners' Freedom | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:36:23 | |
Milena, the international advocacy coordinator for Addameer, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the ways in which Palestinian prisoners and administrative detainees are fighting for their freedom. She also explores the challenges facing her organization's work in light of the escalating Israeli criminalization of Palestinian civil society. | |||
| From Jenin to Gaza to Nablus: Palestinian Resistance Under Attack | 29 Aug 2022 | 00:34:03 | |
Mariam Barghouti and Ibrahim Fraihat join host Yara Hawari to discuss how the latest Israeli attacks and assassinations in Jenin, Gaza and Nablus are part of a wider Israeli strategy to crush Palestinian armed resistance. | |||
| Environmental Normalization in Palestine with Inès Abdel Razek | 28 Jul 2022 | 00:24:40 | |
Inès Abdel Razek joins host Yara Hawari to discuss how the Israeli regime uses eco-normalization projects and greenwashing tactics to cover up its theft of Palestinian natural resources and lands as part of its settler-colonial project across Palestine. | |||
| Resisting Palestinian Erasure in Jerusalem with Jalal Abukhater | 27 Jun 2022 | 00:33:55 | |
Jalal Abukhater joins host Yara Hawari to discuss how Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem are pushing back against Israel's de-Palestinization of the city. | |||
| Three Threads of the Movement for Palestinian Liberation | 30 May 2022 | 00:36:28 | |
Critical connections and interdependence are key for any liberation movement. Aline Batarseh of Visualizing Palestine and Tamara Ben-Halim of Makan join host Yara Hawari to explore how the work of their organizations intersects with that of Al-Shabaka, and how we can collectively build stronger communities in the struggle for justice, freedom, and equality. | |||
| Reflections on Palestinian Local Elections with Fadi Quran | 25 Apr 2022 | 00:29:59 | |
Fadi Quran joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the main outcomes of the recent Palestinian local elections and the historical role of municipalities in Palestine. They also discuss the value of elections under military occupation and settler colonialism. | |||
| Palestinian Genocide Survivors in Egypt | 30 Jun 2024 | 00:22:34 | |
Ali, a humanitarian worker from Gaza now in Egypt, joins host Yara Hawari. He speaks on the experience of Palestinians from Gaza in Egypt as they maneuver the different legal, financial, and social hardships of their forced displacement. | |||
| Reimagining Palestinian Health and Education with Yara Asi | 28 Mar 2022 | 00:23:53 | |
Yara Asi joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the Palestinian health and education sectors within the context of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. | |||
| Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid with Saleh Hijazi | 24 Feb 2022 | 00:18:51 | |
Saleh Hijazi, Al-Shabaka analyst and Deputy Regional Director - MENA at Amnesty International, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the organization's new report on Israeli apartheid, the settler-colonialism framework, and the Palestinian right to self-determination. | |||
| Ongoing Resistance in the Naqab with Riya Al-Sanah | 27 Jan 2022 | 00:34:42 | |
Riya Al-Sanah joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the latest escalation by the Israeli regime against Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Naqab, and to situate it within the context of ongoing settler-colonial ethnic cleansing across colonized Palestine. | |||
| Palestine in 2021: Victories and Challenges | 20 Dec 2021 | 00:40:24 | |
In this episode of Rethinking Palestine, host Yara Hawari highlights the best bits of all our episodes in 2021 to give you a round-up of how Palestinian analysts and experts reflected on the most important events in Palestine this year. | |||
| Palestine Under Surveillance with Mona Shtaya | 25 Nov 2021 | 00:23:01 | |
Mona Shtaya joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the highly invasive mass surveillance of Palestinians by the Israeli regime in light of recent hacking and spying reports. They explore the impact of such tactics on the work of activists and human rights defenders as well as the consequences on Palestinians' daily lives. | |||
| Tourism in Service of Israeli Settler Colonialism with Halah Ahmad | 28 Oct 2021 | 00:28:40 | |
Halah Ahmad joins Yara Hawari to discuss how tourism, specifically religious tourism, has been a key pillar of the Israeli settler-colonial project, legitimizing and expanding the theft of Palestinian land, since the first Zionists settled in Palestine. | |||
| Incarcerating Palestine in Life and Death with Randa Wahbe | 28 Sep 2021 | 00:32:05 | |
Randa Wahbe joins host Yara Hawari to discuss Palestinian political prisoners in the wake of the Gilboa prison break, and explain how Israel’s military prison system serves as a key pillar of the regime’s settler-colonial project. | |||
| US Military Aid to Israel with Nadya Tannous | 27 Aug 2021 | 00:33:37 | |
Nadya Tannous joins host Yara Hawari to discuss US military aid to Israel and its vital role in sustaining the colonial project in Palestine as well as in shaping US’s imperial and capitalist interests in the Middle East. | |||
| Palestinian Securitization vs Liberation with Alaa Tartir | 22 Jul 2021 | 00:27:24 | |
Alaa Tartir joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the internationally-funded Palestinian security forces. Together, they assess the forces' authoritarian role in sustaining Israel's settler-colonial project and criminalizing Palestinian resistance, shedding light on the recent killing of critic and activist Nizar Banat. | |||
| Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond with Muna Dajani | 29 Jun 2021 | 00:28:10 | |
Muna Dajani joins host Yara Hawari to discuss how the #SaveSheikhJarrah campaign in support of her family and others in the Jerusalem neighborhood has acted as a catalyst for the ongoing uprising across historic Palestine against decades of Israeli settler-colonialism. | |||
| The Student Intifada on US Campuses with Samer Alatout | 27 May 2024 | 00:33:41 | |
Samer Alatout, Al-Shabaka policy analyst and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, joins host Yara Hawari to speak about his experience at a student encampment, where he was assaulted and detained by police. Alatout also touches on the overall significance of the student uprising in the US against the genocide in Gaza. | |||
| Palestinian Resistance and Shifting the Media Narrative with Marwa Fatafta | 09 Jun 2021 | 00:27:11 | |
Marwa Fatafta joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the shifting international media coverage of the recent events that unfolded in Jerusalem, Gaza, and across all of colonized Palestine as the Israeli regime continues to advance its plans to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan. | |||
| Israeli Elections and Palestinian Citizens with Amjad Iraqi | 25 Apr 2021 | 00:38:24 | |
Amjad Iraqi joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the Israeli elections, focusing in particular on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Iraqi explains the current political deadlock, the history of Palestinian participation in the Knesset, the rise and demise of the Joint List and the curious case of an Islamist party embracing Netanyahu. | |||
| In Pursuit of Justice at the ICC with Rania Muhareb | 24 Mar 2021 | 00:25:49 | |
Rania Muhareb joins host Yara Hawari to discuss Palestine's case at the International Criminal Court. Whilst many legal experts are optimistic toward the possibility of pursuing justice for Palestinians, some remain less hopeful, citing the many challenges that lay ahead in terms of international pressure, Israeli lobbying, as well as institutional issues within the ICC itself. | |||
| Palestinian Digital Rights: Crackdowns & Corporate Complicity with Amal Nazzal | 25 Feb 2021 | 00:41:00 | |
Amal Nazzal joins host Yara Hawari to discuss her extensive research into violations of Palestinian digital rights by Israeli and Palestinian authorities with the complicity of social media giants, while also touching on the rise of "Slacktivism" and explaining the principles of ethical digital research of oppressed peoples. | |||
| Limitations and Possibilities of the Apartheid Framework with Lana Tatour | 31 Jan 2021 | 00:27:16 | |
Lana Tatour and host Yara Hawari discuss the limitations and possibilities of using the apartheid analysis in the context of Palestine whilst also stressing the importance of the settler-colonial framework and decolonization within the discussion on Palestinian liberation. | |||
| 2020 and the Palestinian Leadership with Tareq Baconi | 28 Dec 2020 | 00:32:01 | |
Tareq Baconi and host Yara Hawari discuss this year in Palestine, focusing on the failure of the Palestinian leadership to provide a challenge to the Israeli regime on the ground and to unite an increasingly socially, geographically, and politically fragmented people. | |||
| Biden in the White House: Alaa Tartir on Implications for Palestine | 03 Dec 2020 | 00:26:18 | |
Alaa Tartir and host Yara Hawari discuss what Joe Biden's win in last month's US elections means for the Palestinian people. Whilst many have breathed a sigh of relief at Trump’s ousting, critics also warn that work is yet to be done given the president-elect's track record of support toward Israel and promotion of the antiquated "peace process." | |||
| A Century of Colonial Mapping in Palestine with Zena Agha | 21 Oct 2020 | 00:26:43 | |
Zena Agha and host Yara Hawari discuss how decades of colonial mappings, first by British imperialism and then by the Israeli colonial project, have undermined Palestinian self-determination and explore how Palestinians are fighting back. | |||
| Ireland's Solidarity with Palestine, with Brendan Browne | 29 Apr 2024 | 00:30:45 | |
Brendan Browne joins host Yara Hawari to explore the historical solidarity between the Irish and Palestinian peoples, and discuss how the Irish government's policy towards Palestine fails to reflect grassroots demands against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. | |||
| Israel’s Disinformation Apparatus with Tariq Kenny-Shawa | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:28:40 | |
Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss Israel’s information warfare tactics, used to influence public perception of its ongoing genocide in Gaza. | |||
| Settler Colonial Spillover in the West Bank with Fathi Nimer | 27 Feb 2024 | 00:23:11 | |
Fathi Nimer, Al-Shabaka Palestine policy fellow, joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the acceleration of Israeli settler colonialism in the West Bank amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza. | |||
| The Arab World and Gaza Genocide with Elham Fakhro | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:23:19 | |
Elham Fakhro joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the reactions of Arab peoples and their governments to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, placing them within the historical and contemporary context of Arab normalization with the Israeli regime. | |||
| Palestine in 2023: Unfolding Nakba and Genocide | 26 Dec 2023 | 00:30:22 | |
In this episode of Rethinking Palestine, host Yara Hawari highlights a selection of key excerpts from our discussions with previous guests throughout 2023. Together, they shed light on the Palestinian experience under settler colonialism as well as pushback and resistance by Palestinians and their allies. | |||