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Apr 2024
1h 47m

“Learning how to be colonialists" w/ Ras...

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About this episode

The brothers welcome the historian Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to the show to discuss the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle against the Zionist project in Palestine, the colonial affiliations of Zionism, the background to the 1948 Nakba, and the role of Arab and Palestinian leaders and forms of resistance in bringing about change.

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Date of recording: Apr 16, 2024.

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