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May 2024
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Why Palestinian Liberation Threatens the...

RANIA KHALEK
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The struggle for justice in Palestine isn’t just a fight against the settler colonial Zionist project. It’s a struggle against US imperialism itself. To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Bikrum Gill, a political scientist and author of the forthcoming book “The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism: Race, Nature, and Accumulation.”

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Past episodes with Bikrum:
https://youtu.be/F8GMyxAWjYk?si=4a2X1CWUNhn4Cq3O
https://youtu.be/3OV31mk8rns?si=-Ho7-sJQdPtmr9E3

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