Abdaljawad Omar is a Palestinian academic from Al-Bireh, Palestine. He is a regular contributor to Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss. His work explores questions of colonialism, resistance, and ideology, with a focus on Palestine.

Dr. Lana Tatour is a senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of New South Wales. She works on Palestine, human rights, settler colonialism and race. Her coedited book, Race and the Question of Palestine, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in June 2025. Dr. Lana spoke about the current state of affairs in Palestine and how it reflects on the local Australian political, academic and social atmosphere.…

Nagham Abu Samra is a Palestinian karate champion from Gaza who had a dream of representing Palestine in sport international platforms. However, her life was cut short by the Israeli genocide in Gaza. "Nagham of Gaza" is a documentary and a theatrical play written and directed by Palestinian award-winning filmmaker Ala'a Al Qaisi, that chronicles Nagham Abu Samra's life. In this conversation, Ala'a engages with Marwan Abu Samra, Nagham's father, to talk about the life of Nagham, his loss, and why it is important to amplify her story through art and film. Some parts of the conversation are in Arabic, translated by the interviewer.…

Dr. Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian public figure and the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society, London, dedicated to the documentation of Palestine's land and People. A Nakba survivor and author of “Atlas of Palestine” and “Mapping my Return”. We spoke about the Palestinian right or return and the situation in Gaza in light of the recent Trump announcement of owning Gaza and ethnically cleansing Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt.…

Zionism: The weaponization of Jewish trauma and anti-Semitism in the service of apartheid and empire. Professor Haim is an anti-Zionist Israeli Jew. Author of ”An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Force Made a Nation”.

Dr. Azzam is a Palestinian British academic and political activist, the chairman and Editor in Chief of 'Alhiwar' dialogue TV Channel. Author of several books on the Middle Eastern and Islamic politics, including "Islam and Secularism in the Middle East" and “Hamas: Unwritten Chapters”.

Matt Kennard is a British independent investigative journalist, author and Co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. Author of several acclaimed books including “Irregular Army” (2012), “The Racket” (2015), and co-author (with Claire Provost) of “Silent Coup” (2023) Matt was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London, UK. He worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, New York, and London.…

This episode is dedicated to the Palestinian 3-year old girl Reem Nabhan - Soul of My Soul - who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli air strike in November 2023. In her farewell, her grand father, Khaled was holding her small fragile dead body as he kissed her angelic face and eyes goodbye. Videos of Reem and her grandfather Khaled went viral on the social media. Her grandfather, Khaled Nabhan, was killed last week in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. He’s finally reunited with Reem: the soul of his soul. Rest in power Reem and Khaled. We will always remember you.…

Tony Greenstein is a Jewish anti-Zionist, anti-Fascist, and long-time Palestine activist and author. He is the son of a rabbi, and the co-founder of the “Palestine Solidarity Campaign - UK” in 1982. Tony’s recent book published in 2022 titled “Zionism During the Holocaust: The weaponization of memory in the service of state and nation” is an incredible reference for those who wish to learn about the dark and ugly history of Zionism in the early twentieth century, and during the first and the second world wars.…

Rami Khouri is a Palestinian American academic, veteran journalist and co-author of the book "Understanding Hamas and why that matters". Rami is a Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellow, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs in Arab East Jerusalem, a senior fellow at the Arab Centre Washington, DC, a regular contributor to Aljazeera online, and a member of the “Just World Educational” board.…

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs based in Washington DC and the president of " Just World Educational ". This conversation with Helena discusses the recently released book that she co-authored about the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. The title of the book is " Understanding Hamas and why it matters ".…

Diana is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, analyst and a former legal advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). She’s one of the 2 million Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel. She currently resides in Haifa. She is the host of This Is Palestine Podcast , produced by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)…

Asa Winstanley has been an associate editor and reporter with the award-winning website The Electronic Intifada for more than a decade. And he is also the co-host of their Podcast. Asa is the author of the best-selling book “Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn”, published in 2023.…

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory. Noura is also a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya , an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).…

A conversation with Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer . A retired Christ Church Vicar and the founder and director of “Peacemaker Trust”, the chair of “Convivencia Alliance”, a cross-faith, international initiative for a just peace in the Middle East, in particular in Palestine. Stephen's PhD thesis examined the historical roots, theological basis and political consequences of Christian Zionism in Britain and the USA from 1820. He is the author of “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” and “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”. Stephen has written a summary of his book “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”, that outlines responses to biblical narratives that relate Israel to the church. A link to a downloadable copy of this summary is available here . A link to a downloadable copy of Stephen’s book “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” is available here .…