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U.S.-Iran Relations, Activism Against GKN, and the Anti-Defamation League's History
Jun 22, 2026
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Sovereignty Beyond Borders
May 24, 2026
54m 24s
A Nakba Day Special: Journalism Under Fire with Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Robert Greenwald
May 15, 2026
58m 40s
Sumud: A Celebration of Palestinian Culture, Resistance, and Solidarity with Ramzy Baroud, Rolla Selbak, and Nidal Rafeedie
May 10, 2026
1h 14m 04s
Psychoanalysis Under Occupation with Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
May 3, 2026
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| 6/22/26 | ![]() U.S.-Iran Relations, Activism Against GKN, and the Anti-Defamation League's History | In this episode, we begin by discussing President Trump’s latest proclamation of an agreement with Iran, a statement that may hold beyond the next tweet storm, since Iran has suggested for once that the two sides have at least agreed to sign a “memorandum of understanding.” But with Israel doing its best to sabotage any peace accord, the outlook remains uncertain. David Lloyd speaks with Radio Intifada’s regional expert Hamoud Salhi in the hope of clarifying the elements and prospects of the “deal".We then come much closer to home to Garden Grove in Southern California, where the Palestinian Youth Movement has initiated a campaign with a coalition of other local groups to close down GKN, a corporation notorious for the recent failure of a chemical storage tank that forced the evacuation of 50,000 local residents and threatened an explosion that would have wiped out much of the neighborhood and spread toxic fumes all over Orange County and beyond. Though that immediate danger is over, PYM has drawn attention to GKN’s role as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the F35 bomber that Israel has used to carry out its ongoing genocide and war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon, and for which GKN supplies essential plastics. We speak with two organizers of the campaign, Sofia Awaida and Layal Bata of the Palestinian Youth Movement. The GKN campaign can be contacted at embargoforpalestine.com/LAOCIE where you can join the letter-writing campaign to Garden Grove city council, read the research brief and endorse the campaign. If you are local, you can show up to give public comment at the next Garden Grove city council meeting, Tuesday June 23 @ 6.30 pm and every other Tuesday going forward until the city truly holds GKN accountable. Follow the organizations leading this campaign on Instagram for future calls to action and updates:@PYMLAOCIE@VIETRISEOC@OCJPALESTINE@HARBORINSTITUTEOCTo support Palestinian youth grassroots organizing and our campaigns, donate via venmo to @PYM-LAOCIE https://venmo.com/u/PYM-LAOCIE. And finally, David Lloyd speaks with Emmaia Gelman, author of the new book, The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League as a Cold War neoconservative institution, just out from the University of California Press. We talk about the political history of the ADL, its anti-communism and, in particular, its use of charges of antisemitism to close down speech and activism by supporters of Palestinian liberation. Emmaia also is the director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions in Palestine and transnational contexts. She co-produces and often co-hosts the podcast Unpacking Zionism, on Apple podcasts and at the website criticalzionismstudies.org. | — | ||||||
| 5/24/26 | ![]() Sovereignty Beyond Borders✨ | sovereigntyanti-imperialism+4 | Nihaarika Negi | Radio IntifadaTenfa | IranHimalayas | sovereigntyKurdish filmmaker+5 | — | 54m 24s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() A Nakba Day Special: Journalism Under Fire with Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Robert Greenwald✨ | Palestinian Nakbajournalism+3 | Sharif Abdel KouddousRobert Greenwald | — | PalestineGaza | Nakbajournalism+6 | — | 58m 40s | |
| 5/10/26 | ![]() Sumud: A Celebration of Palestinian Culture, Resistance, and Solidarity with Ramzy Baroud, Rolla Selbak, and Nidal Rafeedie✨ | Palestinian cultureresistance+5 | Ramzy BaroudRolla Selbak+1 | Palestine ChronicleTeamsters Local 1932 | Los AngelesPalestinian+1 | Palestinian Nakbacultural celebration+5 | — | 1h 14m 04s | |
| 5/3/26 | ![]() Psychoanalysis Under Occupation with Lara Sheehi, Stephen Sheehi, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian✨ | PsychoanalysisColonial oppression+3 | Lara SheehiStephen Sheehi+1 | Psychoanalysis Under Occupation | — | PsychoanalysisOccupation+3 | — | 58m 00s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Genocide Remembrance Month with Munira Khayyat and Shash Trevett✨ | genocide remembranceLebanon-Israel relations+4 | Munira KhayyatShash Trevett | HezbollahThe Naming of Names | LebanonIsrael+2 | genocideLebanon+7 | — | 57m 08s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() The US-Israeli War on Iran with Masoud Kazemzadeh✨ | US-Israeli relationsIran+5 | Masoud Kazemzadeh | Sam Houston State UniversityMass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow | IranHormuz | US-Israeli warIran+7 | — | 56m 00s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Decolonizing Armenian Dance with Natalie Kamajian✨ | Armenian danceIndigenous knowledge+4 | Natalie Kamajian | Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsMiddle East Eye+1 | GazaIran+5 | Armenian dancegenocide+8 | — | 28m 10s | |
| 3/23/26 | ![]() Israel’s Latest War on Lebanon and the Resistance with Munira Khayyat✨ | Israeli war on Lebanonregional conflict+4 | Munira Khayyat | HezbollahUN Interim Force in Lebanon | LebanonIsrael+2 | IsraelLebanon+6 | — | 28m 00s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() On Iran & Imperialist Wars with Gelare Khoshgozaran✨ | IranUS-Israeli military attacks+4 | Gelare Khoshgozaran | UCLA School of Art and Architecture | IranIsrael+4 | IranIsrael+6 | — | 29m 00s | |
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| 2/23/26 | ![]() Bakarwals: The Shepherds of Kashmir with Zafeer Butt and Sidra Khawaja✨ | Kashmirdocumentary+4 | Zafeer ButtSidra Khawaja | Kashmir Creatives CollectiveNational College of Arts+1 | KashmirLahore+3 | BakarwalsKashmir+5 | — | 28m 57s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures with Lara Sheehi | In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Lara Sheehi the arguments of her latest book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures, which will be released by Pluto Press in May 2026.It goes without saying that we are living in unprecedented times. We continue to see the effects of the u.s. Empire-expanding war machine against our siblings in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen. Earlier this week it was revealed in an Al Jazeera documentary titled the rest of the story, that the zionist entity is using thermal and thermobaric weapons capable of generating temperatures above 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]. Essentially evaporating Palestinians in Gaza. As we bear witness to the machinations of empire and violence we must be acutely aware of how our very own capacities- our senses are being waged in a war of empire against our own selves. What are the psychological implications of bearing witness to these moments of accelerated violence, genocide and warfare? How do we cultivate an acute awareness of our selves in a moment when our very own affect is being weaponized or more appropriately articulated, part of a lexical warfare to draw on the work of our comrade dylan rodriguez, to suffocate revolutionary futures? How do we move from the clinic to the streets toward a more liberated future? To discuss these questions and more we are joined by Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets.. BIO: We are honored to have you here. Listeners, Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture. Her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures, which will be released by Pluto Press in May 2026. | — | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() No Azure for Apartheid Campaign with Nisreen Jaradat | Join us for our conversation with Nisreen Jaradat of the No Azure for Apartheid Campaign that seeks to end Microsoft’s complicity with Israeli genocide and apartheid.In what is dubbed the world’s first AI-assisted, algorithmic genocide, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)—or, more accurately, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)—have been using AI systems such as the Gospel and Lavender to accelerate their genocide. The use of these programs against Palestinians in Gaza follows a pattern of Israeli use of AI and Cloud technologies to advance and accelerate oppression against the Palestinian people and to control their demographic and spatial existence. Israel’s regime of domination and oppression against the Palestinian people for over 76 years has been identified by multiple human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and even Israel’s own B’Tselem as an apartheid regime according to international human rights law. US-based corporation Microsoft has not only remained silent about the application of AI and other digital technologies in warfare and genocide, but is actively complicit in the ongoing Nakba against Palestinians, supporting and enabling an apartheid state, by continuing to sell cloud and AI services to the IOF. This is in direct contravention of Microsoft’s own Corporate Social Responsibility commitments including a commitment to “protect fundamental rights”: in the corporation’s own words, “respecting human rights is a core value of Microsoft.”Microsoft is, of course, not the only corporation engaged in supplying Israel with the means to sustain its regime of genocide and apartheid, but on Nakba Day, May 15 2024, Microsoft workers began a campaign, No Azure for Apartheid, in the words of their very substantial petition, from which we have drawn extensively in our introduction, to demand several remedies, including: –to end Microsoft’s complicity in Israeli genocide and apartheid by terminating all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and government; –to make all its ties to the Israeli military publicly known, including weapons manufacturers and contractors.–to conduct a transparent and independent audit of Microsoft’s technology contracts, services, and investments, and ensure Microsoft products and services are not being used to violate the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, and Microsoft’s own Human Rights Statement, in Palestine or elsewhere.Since this campaign started, Microsoft has fired or otherwise sanctioned numerous of its workers who have spoken out for this campaign, and used arrests and violent methods to suppress protests by current and former workers and concerned community activists. These measures have not silenced the protests and many Microsoft employees have publicly resigned as part of this campaign which goes under the slogan “We will not be cogs in the Israeli genocidal machine.”Today we speak with one of those workers, Nisreen Jaradat about the campaign, Microsoft’s response, and the role of technology in both the Israeli and the US war machine.Nisreen Jaradat is a Palestinian organizer with No Azure for Apartheid, a movement of current and former Microsoft workers demanding that Microsoft cut all ties with the Israeli government and military. Nisreen was fired by Microsoft in August of 2025 following protests at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, where she took part in setting up encampments and establishing the Liberated Zone on the Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza and the Mai Ubeid Building. | — | ||||||
| 1/25/26 | ![]() Return to Tahrir Square with Rusha Latif | In this moment as we witness the rise and repression of the global intifada and the role of youth in liberation movements across the world, today, we are returning to Tahrir Square and the youth of the Egyptian revolution to learn from their lessons. The Egyptian revolution of 2011, emerges as a unique moment in mobilizing Egypt's youth in a country with a rich tradition in social movement and dissent. What was unique about this moment? What openings emerged that were different? What lessons can the youth of today glean from the youth of Tahrir? To discuss these questions and more we are joined by Rusha Latif.Rusha Latif is an Egyptian-American researcher and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on social movements and revolutions, centering the agency and lived experiences of the people who drive them. She is the author of Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution. | — | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan with Defence of Human RIghts | In this episode, we're joined by Aishah Masood from Defence of Human Rights, an organization that advocates for victims of enforced disappearances in Pakistan, to discuss enforced disappearances and the conditions experienced by people detained in prisons in Pakistan. Defence of Human Rights and Public Service trust, or DHR Pakistan for short, is an independent non-governmental, non-profit organization that was born out of personal experience of the deprivation of human rights of the victims of enforced disappearance. Defence of Human Rights offers legal aid, psycho-social accompaniment, economic support, campaign, and lobbying for policy recommendations regarding the issue of enforced disappearances in Pakistan to victims of torture, through active engagement with the stakeholders. | — | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | ![]() Poets for Palestine with Mohammed Ahmad | In this episode, we're joined by co-founder of Poets for Palestine, Mohammed Ahmad, to talk about the role of poetry in the Palestinian liberation movement.Mohammed Ahmad is a Palestinian-American poet residing in Los Angeles. He holds a Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing, with an emphasis in poetry, from the University of Denver. Beyond the page, Ahmad also works as an independent journalist and an actor. He is the co-founder of Poets for Palestine, a monthly open mic series with chapters in six cities, dedicated to Palestine and poetic resilience, connecting poets globally. | — | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | ![]() Repression and Retaliation in US Universities | Over the past 26 months of Israel’s still ongoing genocide in Gaza, we have covered the exceptional degree of repression on universities directed at Palestine solidarity activists. National media attention has largely focused on the violent actions taken by campus security forces against student protest encampments and on high profile cases like the arrest and detention of US green-card holder and Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil, still under threat of deportation by the Trump regime. We want to focus on the less widely publicized campaigns of repression directed at faculty which have ramped up over the past few years to a degree that threatens the very structure and mission of the postwar “liberal” university. Universities have long been the target of Zionist efforts to control the discourse on Palestine. For decades, the question of Palestine was rarely taught on US campuses and very few Palestinian faculty were hired nationally. Palestine was the “third rail” of academia as of the media. The work of Edward Said began to make inroads only thirty years after the Nakba and was immediately met with virulent antagonism as it illuminated the colonial nature of the Israeli state. Gradually, both the persistence of scholars and activists on US campuses and the increasingly evident violence of the Israeli settler-colonial regime made Palestine a critical site of study and activism, and students now have a complex and detailed understanding of the workings of Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism and genocide and a language that informs their activism.Faced with the fact that every debate now forces them to justify the unjustifiable facts of the Israeli supremacist regime, Zionist organizations no longer demand debate, but seek to repress and punish speech about Palestine in schools and universities. California’s “democratic” governor Gavin Newsom recently signed off on Assembly Bill 715 that effectively bans the teaching of Palestinian perspectives in California schools after years of Zionist lobbying. Numerous faculty have been targeted for their speech on Palestine, both on private social media accounts and in the classroom, or for their protection and support of student activists at encampments. They have been targeted by external actors, from right-wing MAGA activists to their Zionist allies such as Silicon Valley Chapter Hillel (as in the case we discuss today) or the ADL, and by their own university administrations. Even Harvard, that is making media capital for its legal defiance of the Trumpian demands, fired an assistant dean in the Divinity School merely for the crime of hosting a program on Christian Zionism.In California, the UC and CSU system’s administrations are behaving in a no less draconian manner, from demanding oversight of syllabi on Palestine and the “Middle East” to undermining longstanding faculty disciplinary proceedings, and from prosecuting or expelling students to sanctioning and even firing faculty. Today we speak with two CSU professors, Ahlam Muhtaseb and Sang Heal Kil, who have been subject to many years of Zionist and administrative harassment, culminating in the firing of one of them, tenured San Jose State University professor Sang Hea Kil. We discuss with them their first hand experience of the collaboration of university administrations and Zionist lobby groups, the overall picture of regression in academia, and Sang’s case in particular. How are faculty and students resisting this new repressive regime? What does it mean for the future of universities that are also threatened from many other quarters, from the advent of AI to the right-wing efforts to control university research and teaching in line with their own agendas? Is Palestine once again the cutting edge of violent reactionary efforts to curtail learning and democracy in the United States? | — | ||||||
| 12/1/25 | ![]() The Indigenous Truthtelling Project with Mona Kadah, Weshoyot Alvirte, and Mark Minch-de Leon | In this episode, as we have done for many years now, we honor the original stewards of this land, its defenders and protectors. We acknowledge first nations as the original custodians of this land, honor their elders past and present, and recognize that the land upon which we are guests, here in southern California, is unceded or occupied. The settler state’s annual “celebration” of what we call Thankstaking attempts to sanitize the history of colonial violence upon the people and land. Our observance recognizes the devastating impact of European settlement: land dispossession, massacres, forced assimilation, betrayal of treaties, and the attempted destruction of native life, life-ways, and lands. As we honor the histories of dispossession and displacement inflicted on Native nations here on Turtle Island, we are acutely aware of the settler colonial project unfolding in Palestine. The Gaza Government Media Office says that Israel has violated the October 10, 2025, ceasefire at least 497 times as of November 22 and has killed over 70,000 Gaza’s, including hundreds since the so-called ceasefire. On today’s episode we are joined by Mona Kadah, Weshoyot Alvirte, and Mark Minch de Leon to discuss the Indigenous Truthtelling Project. Co-founded by Jenna Wilson, Setsu Shigematsu, Mark Mich de-Leon, along with UCR alum, Shaheen Nassar, and Rana A. Sharif, the Indigenous Truthtelling Project brings together past and ongoing legacies of resistance to colonialism to educate about Indigenous resistance movements - with distinct homelands, languages and cultures – including Indigenous residents of Turtle Island and the Palestinian shatat, or diaspora, as well as their co-strugglers.Mona Kadah is a Palestinian watercolor artist whose work centers on themes of land, memory, motherhood, and steadfastness. Drawing from personal heritage and lived experiences, her paintings explore the interconnectedness between people and place, and the resilience found in Palestinian and Indigenous struggles for dignity and belonging. Her work has been exhibited across Southern California and has received multiple awards, including recognition from the Yucaipa Valley Art Association and the National Orange Show and Coachella Valley Watercolor Society. In addition to her studio work, she has been involved in community cultural work through the Dabkeh group Zaytouna based in San Diego, California. She is currently developing collections featuring abstract Arabic words and floral paintings from her garden.Weshoyot Alvitre is a Tongva and Scottish comic book artist, writer and illustrator. She was born in the Santa Monica Mountains on the property of Satwiwa, a cultural center started by her father Art Alvitre. She grew up close to the land, raised with traditional knowledge that inspires the work she does today. Her work focuses on art, writing and archival research materials that visualize historical material through an Indigenous lens and re-frame colonial narratives.Mark Minch-de Leon is a member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCR where he also co-Directs the California Center for Native Nations. He is a founding member of the California Indian Studies and Scholars Association and the author of Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse. | — | ||||||
| 11/3/25 | ![]() A Conversation with Jawad Sharif, director of Moklani | In this episode, we host Pakistani filmmaker Jawad Sharif to discuss his most recent film, Moklani. Winner of the 2025 Jackson Wild Global Voices prize, the documentary follows the lives of the Mohanas, an Indigenous community that has lived off of Manchar Lake in Sindh, Pakistan for generations. Through the swiftly changing lives of the Mohanas, Sharif explores the deep sense of loss that comes with the ecological destruction of Manchar Lake. This week’s show is hosted by Misha Choudhry and David Lloyd.Jawad Sharif is an award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer based in Pakistan. Exploring the themes of social change and human rights, his projects focus on reviving the suppressed cultural and indigenous identities of Pakistan. In the past 15 years, Jawad has pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling by documenting stories about the rights of folk musicians, high-altitude porters, climate migrants, and marginalized communities. Some of his films include The Losing Side, The Color of Smog, Natari, and Indus Blues. You can find more information about him and his work at: https://jawadshariffilms.com/ | — | ||||||
| 10/5/25 | ![]() Artsakh Political Prisoners with Gevorg Vardanyan | Today, on October 5, 2025, it’s been two years since the ethnic cleansing of the Artsakh population. On September 2023, after nine months of blockade that resulted in shortage of food, medicine and essential supplies, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against the autonomous enclave of Artsakh. The military action lasted 24 hours. At the end, the indigenous Armenians of Artsakh surrendered. Over the course of 11 days, around 120,000 Artsakh Armenians fled to neighboring Armenia resulting in a massive refugee crisis.Following this offensive, Azerbaijan detained political and military leaders of Artsakh. They were taken to Baku and after languishing in prison for over a year, put on trial. The trial of 16 Armenian prisoners, including eight former leaders of the former self-proclaimed republic, opened on Friday, January 17 in Baku, Azerabaijan. Their charges include "terrorism," "separatism" and "war crimes." Azerbaijani media outlets have broadcast images of the detainees being led to the military court by a police convoy. The trial was not being held behind closed doors, but yet international observers or foreign media – Reuters is known to have been denied access.To discuss the status of the political prisoners and POW’s, the trials, and the rights of the refugees to return, is Gevorg Vardanyan. Gevorg is a civil litigation attorney based in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Center for Truth and Justice, CFTJ, and has been involved in educating and training law students in Armenia on the methodologies to collect admissible testimonial evidence. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/25 | ![]() Repression on U.S. College Campuses with Hatem Bazian | No description provided. | — | ||||||
| 8/25/25 | ![]() The People’s Conference for Palestine | We preview the upcoming Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit next weekend, August 29-31, with two of the conference organizers, Tara Alami & Rama Ali Kased. But first, two important articles have appeared, in Counterpunch and Current Afairs respectively, which have addressed the dismal question as to the actual death toll to date of Israel’s continuing & unchecked genocide in Gaza. For almost two years the mainstream or, rather, the state-sanctioned media has maintained the obscene charade of questioning the death toll released by the Gaza Ministry of Health, either by using the moniker “Hamas” to taint its numbers, though they are widely accepted by international organizations and even Israeli intelligence, or by reiterating the mantra that the ministry does not distinguish between combatants or non-combatants. This distasteful and unchanging caveat contributes to the pretense that the number of deaths in Gaza is hard to establish. But as Adam Rzepka writes in Counterpunch, “we do have a very clear idea of the minimum. … And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count.” Rzepka’s figures for the toll Israel’s genocide has taken–and these are the most conservative possible figures–are indeed horrifying: "That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic deaths only—immediate deaths from bullets, bombs, and demolished buildings—in the Gaza genocide is currently more than 115,000. The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000." We encourage our listeners to check out these articles that cast the western media’s complicity with genocide into sharp relief. The horror that they document can lead us to feel numb and the refusal of the governments of the United States and its allies to intervene to prevent it–as is their duty under international law and the Genocide Convention–may make us feel helpless. We devote this episode to an upcoming event that not only gives hope in this darkness but also the opportunity to consolidate Palestine solidarity work in the United States and beyond and to imagine new paths forward to contest the genocide and to shape a liberated Palestine. Next weekend, August 29-31, the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine will take place in Detroit, Michigan. Sponsored by an array of organizations familiar to regular listeners, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and many others, the conference is designed to address the current political moment and to bring together critical voices in the struggle. Given the ongoing genocide that Israel is committing, Gaza will be the focus of the conference. As the organizer’s announcement states: Gaza is the compass! This is our guiding principle for the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine. Gaza keeps our path true: it reminds us of our direction in the struggle and the sacrifices that have been made by the Palestinian people; it exposes the forces that we have to contend with on the path to liberation. For this reason, Zionism and imperialism are waging a continuous genocide on Gaza, and we, the people of the world, will fight at every turn to reject it. Today we speak with two of the organizers of the conference, Tara Alami and Rama Ali Kased, about the conference and its goals and where listeners can find further information about it. Tara Alami is a Palestinian writer and organiser from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yaffa, and a member of Palestinian Feminist Collective. Her writing can be found at The New Arab, Mondoweiss and The Maple among other publications. Rama Ali Kased is Professor of Race and Resistance Studies at SF State University, and long-time organizer currently organizing with US Palestinian Community Network and also a member of the Palestine Feminist Collective. | — | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | ![]() Crises in Sudan with Khalid Mustafa Medani | In this episode, we discuss the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Sudan, which has been called the worse humanitarian crisis of all. Our guest is Khalid Mustafa Medani.Professor Medani is Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies, Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. His research focuses on globalization, the political economy of Islamist and Ethnic Politics in Africa and the Middle East, with a special focus on Sudan, Egypt, and Somalia. Dr. Medani is the author of Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa. It received an award from the American Political Science Association for the Best Book in the Field of Middle East and North Africa Politics by a Senior Scholar in 2022. | — | ||||||
| 7/21/25 | ![]() On Christian Zionism with Atalia Omer | In this episode, we have a conversation about Christian Zionism and its impact on Zionism, Israel, and the support of Western powers for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the annexation of historic Palestine to the apartheid state.Over the past month Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has continued to intensify even as it drops from the headlines of most of the mainstream or state-sanctioned media. Lately, the criminal state’s foreign minister Israel Katz openly declared its intent to create a concentration camp for over half a million Palestinians in Rafah, on the Egyptian border. Since October 7 2023, the current Israeli government has made no secret of its intent to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population and to declare Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank. But we should be under no illusion that this plan is of recent date: Zionism has always promulgated the supremacy of the Jewish state and its settler population over the indigenous Palestinians, building an apartheid regime as a prelude to further expulsions under the euphemism of “transfer”, voluntary or involuntary. The ongoing genocide is the brutal extension of that logic, intrinsic to Zionism’s racial formation and political ideology, and only the latest if most vicious iteration of Palestine’s eighty-year long Nakba.What does continue to cause perplexity is the ongoing resistance of the Western powers, who have long touted the international legal order and humanitarian and civil rights as the pretext for their maintenance of global economic and political hegemony, to taking any steps to end the genocide or effectively cut the zionist’s state’s ability to kill, disposses, and destroy. On the contrary, Zionism has become the pretext for exceptional degrees of repression of dissent, from the assault on the universities in the United States to the criminalization of non-violent protest in Europe. In the face of Israel’s bare-faced criminality, what explains this unbending materials and ideological support for Israel and the willingness of states to sacrifice the rights of their own populations to defend and resupply the means to go on committing genocide?Christian Zionism, according to the ecumenical organization Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), “is a political and theological ideology that misuses Christian texts to support the modern nation-state of Israel out of the belief that Israel has a cosmic purpose in bringing about the ‘End Times’ which will culminate in the second coming of Jesus and the end of the world”. But it has a long history that predates its current manifestations and even laid the groundwork for the political Zionism’s emergence in the late nineteenth-century. In this show, we discuss with our guest, Professor Atalia Omer, both the history and the influence of Christian Zionism on right-wing support for Israel.Atalia Omer is Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Her research focuses on Israel/Palestine; religion, violence, and peacebuilding; as well as theories and methods in the study of religion. Professor Omer is the author of Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2023). Professor Omer's article, In the Ruins of the Modern, mentioned in the show, can be found here: https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/in-the-ruins-of-the-modern/ | — | ||||||
| 6/16/25 | ![]() Laila Soueif, Undefeated with Atef Said | In this episode, we turn to Egypt and to its ongoing violations of human rights in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring and the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and throughout Egypt that brought the downfall of President Mubarak and the eventual rise to power of the current President Abd el Fatah Sisi, once dubbed by the US President Trump as his favorite dictator. In the wake of Sisi’s seizure of power, thousands of political prisoners were incarcerated in Egypt’s notorious jails, including journalist and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been almost continuously incarcerated for the past dozen years and continues in detention to this day. In May 2022, Radio Intifada spoke with Sanaa Soueif about her brother’s situation and about his extraordinary collection of writings You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, published in 2021. Since then, many world leaders have made ineffectual efforts to persuade Sisi to release Abd el Fattah and other political prisoners with no result and Sisi continues his oppression without any sanctions from his Western allies and sponsors.We speak with Atef Said, an old friend of the family who has just returned from London after visiting with Laila Soueif about her situation, Alaa’s case, and the overall political situation in Egypt. The article on Laila Soueif's hunger strike mentioned by Atef during the interview is here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/day-250Last year, September 29 2024, Alaa Abd El Fattah was due for release and once again the regime denied urgings to end his incarceration, especially on the part of his mother, Laila Soueif, the mathematician and Human Rights activist, herself a former political prisoner, who has advocated tirelessly on Alaa’s behalf. In September 30 2024 Laila Soueif commenced a hunger strike in London on behalf of her son, seeking to pressure the British government to take serious action on behalf of her son who, like herself, is a British as well as an Egyptian citizen. Extraordinarily, Laila has now been on hunger strike for over 250 days, an unheard of duration for such an action. She has lost over 40% of her body weight yet miraculously continues her fight. Her life is clearly now in danger, as she resumed a total hunger strike in May of this year.Atef Said is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His scholarship engages with the fields of sociological theory, political sociology, historical sociology, sociology of the Middle East, and global sociology. His book, Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities and Counterrevolution in Egypt, published by Duke University Press, examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. He is currently working on the nature of future revolutions as they relate to political and social change and the evolving meanings and practices of democracy today, and on the global rise of neo-liberal authoritarianism over the past two decades, within historically established democracies and non-democracies alike. He has also published in outlets like the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) as well as Jadaliyya and Truthout. He is also a poet. Formerly, Professor Said was a human rights and legal activist in Egypt and in that context knew Laila Soueif, Alaa Abd El-Fattah and their family. He has recently returned from London where he met with Laila Soueif. | — | ||||||
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