Ep 1 - Who Are The Palestinians?

In this prologue to the Martyrdom Inc series I explore the evolution of martyrdom in the Palestinian imagination. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preoccupation-a-not-so-brief-history-of-palestine/donations 

The Great Revolt of Palestine (1936-1939) stands as the greatest challenge to British imperial rule in the interwar period. This is a story of how the peasants of the Palestinian countryside, in partnership with urban radicals, overcame insurmountable obstacles in their struggle ... Show More

This short episode explores how the axis of resistance will respond to the assassination of Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh after 300 days of genocide.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preoccupation-a-not-so-brief-history-of-pal ... Show More

What if all the Palestinians would disappear? Not in a figurative sense, or even through ethnic cleansing or genocide. What if they simply vanished out of thin air? What would that do to israeli society? This is the premise of the Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem’s Book of Disappe ... Show More

For those of us living in the United States, today — what we call Thanksgiving — is a very significant holiday because, for some of us at least, it’s a day to recognize and remember the violent, genocidal, settler-colonial history of the land we live on. Our lives here in North A ... Show More

What does coverage of Gaza tell us about how the West sees the rest of the world? A recent report into mainstream news coverage found Islamophobic and anti-Arab language was widely used in coverage of the events after 7 October, with Israeli victims described using emotive langua ... Show More

This week’s violence across Israel and the occupied territories points to a new era in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Palestinian observers find themselves wondering: Is it a changing diplomatic paradigm, thanks to a growing movement to acknowledge the human rights of Palestinian ... Show More

We are going to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most controversial subjects of your time. And in true fashion, we're going to try our best to avoid bias. This will be a multi-part series. In this first episode, we discuss the history of the Jews and Arabs. We start from ... Show More

In another crucial episode of Guerrilla History, we continue to examine Palestine and the various components of the conflict in Occupied Palestine.  This time, we bring on Tara Alami to discuss the ongoing bombardment of Gaza and media misrepresentations/propaganda surrounding it ... Show More

Before the Zionist project and the state of Israel placed their boots on the neck of Palestine, this region was a multicultural, multi-religious land, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived side-by-side in relative peace and harmony.  And despite what Israeli forces propagandi ... Show More

David Gornoski sits down with Scott Horton of AntiWar.com for a conversation on the much-neglected truth behind the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Do the Palestinians really have a country as many in the West claim? Is there something about the origin of Hamas that we're missing out o ... Show More