Palestine This Week
Palestine This Week with Nasim Ahmed is a weekly analytical review of the biggest stories coming out of Palestine.
Episodes
133 episodes
No Vote, No Representation, No State: Democracy, Israeli Style | Palestine This Week
This week’s MEMO review examines claims about Netanyahu’s advance knowledge of 7 October, his provocative UN speech and Israel’s sweeping West Bank closure. We discuss calls to free Marwan Barghouti, moves to bar Arab-led parties from Israeli e...
Gaza and the dystopian future of AI-powered war | Palestine This Week
In this week’s Palestine This Week, Nasim Ahmed and Muhammad Shehada discuss allegations that Israel is destroying evidence of war crimes in Gaza, the growing use of AI to select targets and the disturbing revelations in the documentary N...
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9/11 at 25 — Why Israel Fuels Islamophobia | Palestine This Week
In this episode we speak to Muhammed Shehada about his clash with the Board of Peace and his concern that it is burying evidence of genocide in Gaza. We unpack revelations in the Haaretz that Benjamin Netanyahu was warned in advance of the 7 Oc...
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Israel’s Campaign Trail Runs on Cruelty Towards Palestinians | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s election campaign and how politicians are competing to run the most hateful campaign in an effort to win support from an increasingly radicalised Israeli public. We also discuss the pu...
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Is Evidence of Genocide in Gaza Being Erased? | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine allegations that evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being removed by Trump's "Board of Peace", South Africa’s latest submission to the ICJ over Israel’s non-compliance with provisional me...
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‘The Board of Peace’ Or ‘Broker of Deceit’ | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Jared Kushner’s meetings with Hamas political leader Khalil Al-Hayya and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking what the talks mean for the future of the Gaza ceasefire.We rev...
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Israel Defies Trump as a New Regional Bloc Begins to Emerge | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s Gaza plan and the growing power of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. We also discuss the emerging Saudi-Turkiye-Pakistan security alignmen...
Gaza Ceasefire Falters as Trump Remains Trapped in Israel-First Agenda | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we are joined by Palestinian political analyst Muhammad Shehada to examine the major developments of the past seven days.The episode covers the latest Hamas-Israel ceasefire negotiations, the role...
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Israel’s War on International Law | Palestine This Week
In this week’s episode, we begin with the growing normalisation of rhetoric aimed at erasing Palestinian identity and ask how Israel’s war on Gaza could reshape the global politics of genocide. We also explore the deepening crisis within Zionis...
The Anti-Klan Law Comes for Trump’s Israel Lobby | Palestine This Week
In this episode, we examine Trump’s drastically reduced Gaza recovery plan, growing criticism within Hamas over the consequences of 7 October and Israel’s covert efforts to downplay the scale of death, starvation and destruction in Gaza. We als...
Israel Loses Europe and America, Gains Somaliland
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine the EU’s new Gaza initiative, claims that Gaza’s authorities obstructed the delivery of humanitarian aid, the escalating campaign against UNRWA and Washington’s attack on the International Crim...
Concentration Camps Inside a Concentration Camp: Israel’s New Plan for Gaza | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Hamas’s decision to dissolve its government and the wider implications of Trump’s so called peace plan, as Israel moves ahead with proposals for “controlled humanitarian zones”.We also d...
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Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel | Palestine This Week
This episode of Palestine This Week opens with Israel’s renewed push to promote the so-called “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza, asking whether ethnic cleansing is now being pursued without even the pretence of concealment. We als...
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“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 Israe...
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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 relati...
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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 re...
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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...
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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 ...
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, bef...
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 Declar...
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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 J...
78 years on: what went wrong with Israel’s founding project? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we assess Israel 78 years after its founding, examining whether the Zionist project has reached a point of crisis. We explore competing interpretations of what “went wrong,” from claims of ideological failure to arguments that ...
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Gaza six months since ceasefire: the next stage of genocide | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of our weekly review, we look at Gaza six months into the ceasefire and the next stage in Israel’s genocide. We also discuss Israel’s settler-colonial “buffer zones” employed as a toll of expansion, ideological conti...
Israel’s New Gospel of Perpetual War | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we examine why the first round of Iran-US talks broke down, how Lebanon has moved to the centre of ceasefire negotiations and why Trump appears to be retreating from his earlier endorsement of Iran’s 10-point plan.We als...
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