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Palestine This Week with Nasim Ahmed is a weekly analytical review of the biggest stories coming out of Palestine.

  1. “The Jewish KKK” and the Catastrophe Jewish Critics Warned Was Coming | Palestine This Week

    há 3 dias

    “The Jewish KKK” and the Catastrophe Jewish Critics Warned Was Coming | Palestine This Week

    This week, we begin with Hannah Arendt, the Jewish intellectual who warned that a state built without Palestinian consent would be condemned to permanent war. Her warning now feels less like abstract history and more like a description of Israel today: a militarised society, trapped in endless war and dependent on propaganda to justify the violence needed to sustain its project. We also look at the casual anti-Muslim racism used by Israel advocates to dismiss equality for Palestinian, the UN Human Rights Council’s findings on Israel’s targeting of children in Gaza, and the rise of settler violence in Hebron and around Al-Aqsa Mosque. The episode ends with Trump’s U-turn on Iran, Lebanon’s central role in US-Iran diplomacy and the pro-war commentators already trying to explain away another Middle East disaster. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 01:13 Hannah Arendt’s warning: Was Zionism destined for permanent war? 10:14 The casual anti-Muslim racism of Israel advocates 18:41 Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in Gaza 26:50 Hebron, Smotrich and the collapse of the Hebron agreement 36:51 Trump’s U-turn on the Iran war: What explains the shift? 40:57 Lebanon as the make-or-break arena for US-Iran diplomacy 46:59 Iran war cheerleaders and the making of another American debacle

    53 min
  2. Is Israel Losing Its American Shield? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    18 de jun.

    Is Israel Losing Its American Shield? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this episode, we examine whether Gaza features in the Iran ceasefire calculation, the crisis facing Israel’s security doctrine and its fear of US abandonment. We also discuss whether the Iran deal signals a deeper rupture in US-Israel relations, Al Jazeera’s shocking investigation into Israel’s abuse of Palestinian detainees and Israel’s strangling of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Watch the Al Jazeera documentary ‘Bodies of Evidence’ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3pApprHfrY  Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 00:19 Did Iran sell out Gaza in the ceasefire deal? 12:05 Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran: Axis of resistance or sectarian politics? 22:10 Why did the UAE unlock billions for Iran while others brokered peace? 27:38 Israel defies Washington: Can it wage war on Iran without the US? 33:42 Israel’s biggest fear: What if America stops coming to the rescue? 38:37 Is the Iran deal the beginning of a US-Israel split? 43:19 Al Jazeera exposes Israel’s torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees 52:23 Is Israel deliberately strangling the Palestinian Authority to death?

    58 min
  3. 100 Days In: Palestine, Iran, and the War Remaking the Middle East | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    10 de jun.

    100 Days In: Palestine, Iran, and the War Remaking the Middle East | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    With the Iran war passing its 100-day mark, we take a bird's-eye view of what this war has truly revealed. From its roots in the unresolved question of Palestine, to the limits of US power, fractures in the US-Israel relationship — including reports of Israeli intelligence spying on American negotiators — and the crisis of Zionism itself, we ask whether this war has backfired on its instigators and made Palestine more central than ever.

    1h 2min
  4. The Iron Dome of Lies: Rape, Ruin & Plunder | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    3 de jun.

    The Iron Dome of Lies: Rape, Ruin & Plunder | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Israel’s addition to a UN blacklist over sexual violence in conflict, Dr Nick Maynard’s harrowing testimony from Gaza and the wider backlash to evidence of abuse against Palestinians. We also discuss plans to turn Gaza’s destruction into an investment opportunity, tensions between Trump and Netanyahu over Lebanon, stalled ceasefire diplomacy with Iran and the UAE’s reported role in the regional war. The episode closes by looking at US efforts to integrate Israel’s military with its own, the Democrats’ refusal to confront Gaza’s electoral impact and Western crackdowns on critics of Israel. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 02:03 UN report exposes Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians 11:00 Dr Nick Maynard’s Gaza testimony and Israel’s targeting of healthcare workers 22:45 The plan to turn Gaza’s destruction into an investment project 28:57 Trump-Netanyahu tensions over Lebanon  36:52 Iran war ceasefire deadlock 42:36 UAE airstrikes on Iran and the fallout for Gulf politics 47:14 Congress moves to integrate Israel’s war machine with the US military 52:22 DNC autopsy ignores Gaza genocide 57:48 UK bans Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker amid crackdown on criticism of Israel

    1h 4min

  5. 27 de mai.

    US 'Suicidal Empathy' for Israel as Gaza Faces Apocalypse | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this episode of Palestine This Week, we discuss Mouin Rabbani’s Gaza Apocalypse, a real-time account of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the decades of policy, international complicity and failed diplomacy that preceded it.  We also examine Israel’s plan for the occupied West Bank, described as a staged process of ethnic cleansing: first entrenching apartheid, then emptying rural areas, forcing Palestinians into cities and creating the conditions for mass expulsion. The episode also covers Mladenov’s Gaza plan, Ben-Gvir’s humiliation of flotilla activists, the normalisation of Israel’s far-right politics, US' "suicidal empathy for Israel", Trump’s efforts to link Iran negotiations to the Abraham Accords and reported US-Israeli moves to strip Jordan of its custodianship over Al-Aqsa Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 01:18 Key arguments of Gaza Apocalypse and why Mouin Rabbani wrote it 04:27 Who is Gaza Apocalypse for? 09:03 Writing books in the age of social media 11:40 Mladenov’s Gaza plan and the “Board of Peace” 21:50 From apartheid to transfer: Israel’s plan to ethnically cleanse the West Bank 26:57 Ben-Gvir, the Gaza flotilla and the Israeli far right 35:15 US “suicidal empathy” for Israel 44:25 Iran war negotiations, Trump and the Abraham Accords 47:56 US-Israel efforts to strip Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship

    51 min
  6. Debunking The Founding Myths of Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    20 de mai.

    Debunking The Founding Myths of Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this week’s episode, we take on some of the most persistent myths used to justify Zionism, erase Palestinian dispossession and rewrite the history of the Nakba. We begin with the claim that Arab conquest expelled Jews over the centuries, before examining how this distorted reading of history is used to present Zionism as a “return of Jews to their ancestral homeland” rather than a colonial project. We then turn to the Nakba, challenging claims that Israel was founded on legally purchased land, that the 1948 war was a war of annihilation against Israel and that Palestinians left because Arab leaders told them to evacuate. The episode also unpacks the accusation that Palestinians want to “push Jews into the sea”, before addressing post-Nakba myths about Jewish refugees from Arab states and the claim that mass displacement after the Second World War makes the Palestinian case unexceptional. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 02:05 Myth #1: “Arab conquest expelled Jews over the centuries” 16:17 Myth #2: “Zionism is not colonialism” 29:19 Myth #3: “Israel was founded on land purchased by early Zionists” 32:59 Myth #4: “The 1948 war was a war of annihilation against Israel” 44:45 Myth #5: “Palestinians fled because Arab leaders ordered them to evacuate” 51:11 Myth #6: “Palestinians want to push Jews into the sea” 56:42 Myth #7: “Jewish refugees from Arab states cancel out the Palestinian right of return” 57:02 Myth #8: “Population displacement was normal after WW2 — why single out Israel?”

    1h 1min
  7. Nakba at 78: The Beginning of the End of Zionism? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    13 de mai.

    Nakba at 78: The Beginning of the End of Zionism? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this episode, we mark Nakba Day with a special discussion on the historical roots and continuing reality of Palestinian dispossession. We place the Nakba within the wider settler-colonial project that shaped Palestine from the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate through 1948, 1967, Oslo and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The episode examines whether Gaza represents the final and most violent stage of a century-long project to erase the Palestinian people, or whether this moment marks the beginning of the end of Zionism as a settler-colonial system. It also looks at the crisis of Palestinian political leadership, the collapse of Israel’s claim to moral legitimacy and the regional fallout from Gaza, including Iran, Trump and the limits of US power in a changing Middle East. Get your copy of ‘Gaza Apocalypse’ by Mouin Rabbani: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gaza-apocalypse/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 01:09 The Nakba in the historical context of the Palestinian question 08:38 Gaza and the possible final stage of Israel’s century-long settler-colonial project 11:16 The impact of 7 October and the Gaza genocide on global understanding of 1948 19:39 Zionism’s survival in a post-colonial world 26:08 Zionism’s framing as Jewish self-determination, refuge and biblical return 33:03 The Nakba and the fragmentation of Palestinian political life 36:15 Palestinian leadership in the final stage of Israeli domination 48:02 New York Times coverage of the rape of Palestinian detainees 54:50 Iran, Trump and the strategic limits of US power

    1h 1min
  8. Israel’s ‘Absolute Security’ Doctrine: A Recipe for Regional Insecurity | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    6 de mai.

    Israel’s ‘Absolute Security’ Doctrine: A Recipe for Regional Insecurity | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani

    In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Israel’s expanding control over Gaza through the shifting “Yellow Line” and the emergence of a clandestine “voluntary migration” programme, before turning to the occupied West Bank, where the JNF is cutting funding to settler farm outposts as Israel’s wider strategy moves from “conflict management” towards annexation. We also discuss fresh allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, Israel’s application of the Gaza model in Lebanon and Barack Obama’s claim that Benjamin Netanyahu pushed him towards war with Iran before making the same case to Donald Trump. The episode ends by looking at the growing regional divide between Saudi Arabia and the UAE over Israel, Iran and the future of Gulf security. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & Overview 01:20 Israel expands Gaza’s “Yellow Line” and undermines Trump’s ceasefire plan 08:54 Israel’s clandestine ethnic cleansing programme under the guise of “voluntary migration” 18:54 JNF cuts funding to West Bank settler farm outposts 27:22 Israel’s West Bank policy shifts from “conflict management” to annexation 33:14 Allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan as pressure builds over the Netanyahu case 41:21 Israel applies the Gaza model in Lebanon 45:41 Obama says Netanyahu pushed him towards war with Iran before making the same case to Trump 51:20 Saudi Arabia and the UAE split over Israel, Iran and regional security

    1h 1min
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Palestine This Week with Nasim Ahmed is a weekly analytical review of the biggest stories coming out of Palestine.

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