Palestine Uncensored
A discussion on Palestinian struggle for freedom and statehood hosted by veteran Palestinian journalist Ruba Husari. In each episode the host interviews academics, historians and experts in their fields on Palestiine, Israel, and Zionism history and explores the path to an independent Palestine.
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Palestine Uncensored host Ruba Husari interviews Bir Zeit university lecturer Abdal Jawad Omar on armed and non-armed resistance across one century of the Palestinian national movement to Oct.7, 2023. He analyses where Hamas and its military wing emanate from, the conflation of resistance and terrorism, why resistance against Israeli occupation is hope for Palestinians, what has the aftermath of Oct 7 achieved so far and whether it was worth it.
Follow Abdal Jawad Omar on X: @HHamayel2
Read more from Abdal Jawad Omar:
The Question of Hamas and the Left
Gaza is Showing the Rest of Palestine the Truth of Struggle
Jenin: The Fight over the Capacity to Resist
“If peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.“
Nelson Mandela in his memoir "Long Walk To Freedoom" :
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Palestinian-American academic Leila Farsakh, professor of political science at the Univeristy of Massachussets Boston, discusses dismantling Zionism, abandoning the two-state solution and the case for a one democratic state in Palestine.
Further reading:
Leila Farsakh: The Question of Palestinian Statehood
Leila Farsakh (ed): Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Palestine Uncensored host Ruba Husari interviews Professor Susan Akram, of Boston University school of law and an expert on international human rights and refugee law on Palestinian nationality and "Jewish" nationality and the issue of citizenship from a historical and legal aspect. The episode explores how Palestinians who were recognized as Palestinian nationals and citizens at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire became stateless as a result of laws and orders decreed by British and Israeli authorities.
To read more:
- Susan M. Akram: Palestinian Nationlity and "Jewish" nationality: From the Lausanne Treaty to Today in Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
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Art work: Y. Katkhuda