Palestine Uncensored

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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July 8, 2024 47 mins

Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at the University of California Berkely and auhtor of several books on the history of the Middle East on Israel's modus operandi in wars, and why it never learns its lessons. Despite the 42-year gap between the invasion of Lebanon and that of Gaza, the parallels are striking. Its 1982 invasion of Lebanon resulted in an 18 years occupation and ended with a withdrawal leaving behind, Hezbullah, an...

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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 a...

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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

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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 ...

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