G&R Episode 90: Dr. Ussama Makdisi on Sheikh Jarra, Gaza and the Israeli Colonization of Palestine

Beginning on May 9th, the Israeli Defense Force attacked  Palestinian populations in Gaza for 11 days leaving 250 dead (including 66 children), more than 1700 injured and over 6000 homeless. This most recent attack by the Israelis was in relation to Israeli settler provocations against Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

We talk with Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) about the history of Israeli colonization and displacement of the Palestinian people. How the U.S. supports Israel with $3.8 billion a year in military aid while trying to appear as a "mediator" in Israeli-Palestinian relations. The Israeli propaganda machine targeting of critics and journalists of Israel in the U.S.  

We also talk about the unprecedented global protest of the Israeli attack on Gaza from the streets of New York, Houston and London to the "Squad" in the House of Representatives. 

Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press.

See also Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine, https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution#, and Btselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories,  https://www.btselem.org/

Read more//

• Saree Makdisi: The Nakba Is Now (https://bit.ly/3vpoPZz)
• Patrick Cockburn: Biden’s Timid Gaza Intervention Won’t Count for Much But US Reaction Against Israel has Changed Significantly (https://bit.ly/3oQGcjN)
• WaPo: ‘From Ferguson to Palestine’: How Black Lives Matter changed the U.S. debate on the Mideast (https://wapo.st/3wuvqCe)
• Ussama Makdisi: Age of Coexistence. The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (https://bit.ly/3fow1Qo)
• Dr. Makdisi's bio page (https://bit.ly/3vtqyNQ
  

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This is a Green and Red Podcast   production. Produced by Bob  (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).   “Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Isaac.  Special thanks to our special advisor Jeff Ordower.