The History of National Resistance Movements in Palestine (w/ Ramzy Baroud) | The Chris Hedges Report

About this episode

Chris Hedges interviews Ramzy Baroud about the history and current state of Palestinian resistance movements, as detailed in Baroud's memoir and personal experiences.

Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine,” traces the long arc of Palestinian resistance to the Zionist settler-colonial state leading to its current form in Hamas. It is resistance, defined by Palestinians themselves, as Dr. Baroud explains, that is the “sole leverage” of the Palestinian people in their struggle for existence, which began before the Nakba of 1948. In this episode, Chris Hedges speaks with Professor Baroud about his deep personal connection to this struggle. Dr. Baroud’s family lived in the village of Beit Daras before being forcibly displaced to Gaza during the Nakba. In the current war, more than a hundred of his family members have been murdered by the Israeli Occupying Forces, including his sister, Dr. Soma Baroud, who was a physician and community leader. His losses go beyond that. Professor Baroud explains that due to the decades of confinement in Gaza, “everyone who dies in Gaza is somehow family, friend, neighbor, relative, connection of some kind.” Dr. Baroud describes the “slow-motion genocide” of…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hedges

Guest: Ramzy Baroud

Topics covered

• Palestinian resistance
• Zionist settler-colonialism
• Gaza conflict
• historical perspective
• personal narrative
• genocide
• colonial history

Keywords

• Palestinian resistance
• Hamas
• Gaza
• Nakba
• colonialism
• genocide
• Ramzy Baroud
• Chris Hedges
• occupation
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine

Places: Palestine, Gaza, Beit Daras

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