Episodes
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Jawad, Thafer & the Palestinian Dream of Freedom with Ru’a Rimawi
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
This week (technically last week) Lara and Michael sit down with Ru'a Rimawi, a doctor in Palestine and sister of two Palestinian martyrs, Jawad and Thafer Rimawi. Both brothers were murdered by the Israeli occupation on the same day in November 2022. We sit down with Ru'a and talk about Jawad and Thafer's lives, their hopes, their dreams, the impact they had on their community, and the gaping hole left after their martyrdom. We discuss Ru'a's campaign to seek justice and the plight of so many Palestinians who have had family members stolen from them by the illegally occupying zionist entity.
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Cut the Cord with Ronnie Barkan
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
This week Lara and Michael sit down with anti-zionist Israeli dissident, Ronnie Barkan who is currently facing trial in Bristol for smashing up an Elbit weapons factory. The factory was supplying weapons to the occupation to be used to murder innocent Palestinians. Ronnie talks about how Zionism is a cult, and we relive his journey to antizionism, how Israeli society is heavily brainwashed, fascist, and militarized society conditioned to accept and be complicit in committing crimes against humanity, with the exception of a handful of dissidents. We talk about how these waves of protests are not real allyship, and how zionists can only sense the vibes are off when the occupation starts to impact their daily life.
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
The Cracks are Showing
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
This week Lara and Michael discussed the various BDS victories which include boycotts on Netanyahu and other government officials, Saudi Arabia's refusal to grant travel documents to Israeli officials, and the former head of Mossad saying the apartheid state is "on the verge of collapse." Fingers crossed. We discuss Ahmad Manasra and the absurdity of protesting to save a judicial system that has stolen his childhood and tortured him and countless other children.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Campus to Congress with Amal Thabateh of Pal_Legal
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
This week Lara and Michael sit down with the Michael Ratner Justice Fellow at Palestine Legal, Amal Thabateh. We talk about the growing support for Palestine on college campuses that intersects with other anti-racist struggles. We cover how this support is increasingly being censored and chilled by lobbyists, think tanks, and apartheid apologist groups in a way that harkens back to McCarthyism in the 1950s. We chat about the environment at CUNY that is producing some of the best Palestinian legal minds in the country, and finally, Amal assures us that most of the people who get involved with this work come out whole despite the difficult odds we face.
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Olive Branch & The Gun with Fred Wreck
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Grammy-award winning producer, DJ, and artist Farid Karam Nassar also known as Fred Wreck. He takes us through some of his earliest memories growing up in Michigan surrounded by generations of his Palestinian family. Farid relives some of his experiences visiting Palestine and interacting with the occupation. Lara takes Farid through some of his most outspoken tweets critiquing US policy and describing the nature of Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. Farid describes why it is so important for him to speak up and makes a clear case for supporting Palestinian resistance. Lara asks Farid about his favorite record of all time and his favorite album he has produced. Farid names his favorite Palestinian food and weighs in on the infamous bamya-gate. Farid shares with us what on earth his mom and Snoop talk about on facetime.
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
You Were Not Invited
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
This week Lara and Michael cover an "Israeli diplomat" being ejected from the African Summit in Ethiopia. We also cover other BDS wins like Barcelona cutting ties with the occupation after 100 groups and over 4,000 residents urged their government to divest from the apartheid state. We cover the occupation plan to strip Palestinians living in 48' of citizenship and forcibly transfer people to the West Bank in violation of international law. Michael covers Israeli meddling in 33 elections worldwide, 27 of which were successful according to the person who engineered the elections.
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
A Tale of two shootings
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Lara and Michael break down the media coverage surrounding the massacres in Jenin vs the Palestinian resistance response. Unsurprisingly Israelis are humanized, and Palestinians are dehumanized. People received buzzing notification alerts from various news agencies the second a zionist is injured but Palestinians are murdered and maimed every day and nobody gets a notification. Michael clarifies where exactly the shooting took place because the media lied about the location. Lara breaks down the latest polling surrounding normalization with the occupation and Algeria and Mauritania come in strong at 99% opposed to normalization. We cover the life of Khalil Sakakini, one of Palestine's early intellectuals who kept a vibrant journal that tells us about the good times in his life like building and securing his house, to the bad times when the zionist militias stole his house and the apartheid state gifted it to a so-called feminist organization. Finally, we talk about a Holocaust survivor who has resigned from the Labour party after threats of expulsion for talking about his life experience of zionists collaborating with Nazis resulting in the death of the majority of the Jewish Hungarian population.
Monday Jan 30, 2023
War Crimes Bingo
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
This week Lara and Michael cover the bloody massacre by zionist forces in occupied Jenin. Zionist forces injured 16 and murdered 9 Palestinians in Jenin including an elderly woman. They then stormed the pediatric unit and fired tear gas at babies. They spent the next 24 hours dropping bombs on Gaza, and they shot at an ambulance responding to the massacres, hence, war crimes bingo. Israeli terrorism was encouraged by their elected officials who tweeted in support of the massacre. We also connect the brutal murders in the United States by police forces who are trained by zionist occupation thugs. Memphis police department is one such department, we cover the murder of Tyre Nichols. In Atlanta, the environmental activist Tortuguita was murdered by police attempting to disrupt the development of a massive police training compound known as "cop city." Also, the NYPD has at least 16 offices globally including one in Palestine. Decolonization means police abolition.
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Within our grasp
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
This week (technically last week) Lara and Michael cover the martyrs of Palestine. Some were murdered defending their land from foreign occupation forces, and others were murdered for simply existing as Palestinians in Palestine. It's becoming so common for children in Palestine to be murdered by zionists that many people are walking around with notes in their pockets. We read two such testimonies left by victims of colonial violence. We cover the UN resolution which continues to add to the already well-established paper trail at the international level. We discuss the decision to reverse course by Harvard Kennedy School. We also cover the vandalizing of the Armenian Covenant in Jerusalem by the people who purport to be taking care of the land. Finally, we cover some of the most chronically online zionists, and the absolute fairy tale they live in.
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Can’t plug a boat with a rifle
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
This week Lara and Michael cover the martyrs murdered by the occupation in the first week of January. We discuss the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta, as well as the irony of the settlers in 48' protesting this new government as if it's actually different from previous governments (it's literally Bibi, again). We cover the phenomena of zionists online endorsing BDS and talk about Netanyahu's fascist decree about an unquestionable, and exclusive right to settlement. Finally, we cover the story of the former Executive Director, Ken Roth at Human Rights Watch who had his fellowship rescinded by the Dean of Harvard Kennedy School.