Palestine Deep Dive

Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association – New York City, discusses the inconsistency in global responses to occupied regions like Ukraine and Palestine, exploring biases in legal systems and geopolitical influences. The conversation delves into international voting patterns, challenges of defining terrorism, and the importance of global solidarity against illegal occupations.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   16th March 2022: Mark Seddon is in conversation with distinguished Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, to understand just what it's like to witness the crisis in Ukraine unfold through the eyes of the Palestinian people. They examine the apparent hypocrisy of the international community as well as the mainstream media in their response to Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine in comparison to their response, or lack of it, to Israel’s ongoing 74-year occupation of Palestine. This is not to be missed! What seems to be emerging on the global geopolitical stage? – Can new alliances form in the wake of shifting balances of power amidst the decline in US hegemony? Can Palestine really be forced to choose between its Russian ally and US funds over the crisis in Ukraine? And why are more public figures, the latest being Egypt's Squash champion Ali Farag, right now taking it upon themselves to speak up for Palestine on the world stage? 

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 23rd February 2022: We're live with Budour Hassan, Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), to hear the latest on what's happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah.   The Salem family of 12, including six children and the elderly mother, Fatima Salem – all of whom are Palestine refugees – face imminent forced ethnic displacement from their family home of 70 years. Palestinian residents are reportedly "under siege" in Sheikh Jarrah, with roads to the neighbourhood blocked off by Israeli Security Forces amidst ongoing abuse and intimidation of residents from Israeli settlers. There have been reports of property damage, multiple injuries and arrests, including the arrest of eight children since Friday 11 February. The Salem family is one of 218 Palestinian families, which comprise of at least 424 children, living in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan currently facing threats of forced ethnic displacement by Israeli authorities. Humanitarian Country Team in Palestine, comprising United Nations Agencies and international and Palestinian NGOs released a statement on Friday 18th February saying: "The United Nations has repeatedly called for a halt to forced evictions and demolitions in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem: under international humanitarian law, forcible transfers of protected persons by the occupying power are forbidden regardless of their motive."

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 10th February 2022: Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP). In addition to her work at FMEP, Lara is a Contributing Writer at Jewish Currents and a non-resident fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP). Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute where he also directs MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the newly-released book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump, published by Brookings Institution Press in April 2019.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   3rd November 2022: We're live on YouTube with legendary rock musician, Roger Waters. Roger Waters revolutionised progressive rock music as a founder-member and the creative force behind Pink Floyd and today continues to sell out the biggest venues across the world. His arena tour of the US "This Is Not A Drill" kicks off in July 2022, described by Roger as “a groundbreaking new rock & roll/cinematic extravaganza...” which is a "stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home." It is also no exaggeration to describe Roger as a human rights warrior, who continues to champion the rights of marginalised peoples across the globe, from Ecuador to Palestine. Mark Seddon will be in conversation with Roger discussing Israel's ongoing assault on Palestinian children, as well as the latest news from the region. We'll also be exploring what is being done to challenge Israel's apartheid and settler-colonialism around the world today, looking towards the growing student movement, the UK Labour Party conference hall, the ongoing occupation of Israeli weapons factories and towards the stands and players of elite football bearing the Palestinian flag. Tune in to hear all this and more, and to pitch your questions.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 20th October 2021: Mark Seddon is live with Dr Yara Hawari confronting the media bias Palestinians still face around the world today. We'll be exploring the distortions, deceptions and downright mistruths often seen in mainstream reporting on Palestine, as well as the challenges Palestinians so often have to endure when they agree to give mainstream media interviews, when they're lucky enough to be offered them. And in doing so, we shall reveal exactly how Palestine can and should be reported on meaningfully in 2021. Dr Yara Hawari is a Palestinian academic, writer and Senior Policy Analyst of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 13th October 2021: Mark Seddon is in conversation with Zaha Hassan, human rights lawyer & fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as Daniel Levy, political scientist, advisor, diplomat & President of the U.S. / Middle East Project. Zaha and Daniel are co-authors of the recent Carnegie / U.S. Middle East Project report of the same name: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo which outlines how a "A new U.S. approach should prioritize protecting the rights and human security of Palestinians and Israelis over maintaining a peace process and attempting short-term fixes."

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 6th October 2021: Mark Seddon is live with two special guests this week, shining a light on current efforts to reject Israel’s apartheid. We’ll be exploring both the recent motion passed at Labour Party conference in the UK rejecting Israeli apartheid and calling for sanctions, and also the work of young conscientious objectors refusing to serve in Israel's military. We're delighted to be joined by: Ben Jamal, Director of the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Mattan Helman, a conscientious objector who refused to be conscripted into the Israeli military, serving 110 days in prison as a result. He now sits on the Board of the Refuser Solidarity Network.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   15th September 2021: What's the latest on the Palestinian prisoner escapees? Is it true the four who have been recaptured have since faced unimaginable torture? What is the legality behind Israel's reported use of withholding Palestinian bodies and using them as 'bargaining chips'?

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   31st August 2021: Mark Seddon speaks to the phenomenal Noura Erakat this week discussing Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, settler-colonialism in Israel and the US alike, the 81 Palestinian bodies currently being held as 'bargaining chips' at a morgue in Tel Aviv University, the impending pregnancy of Anhar al-Deek who will likely give birth in an Israeli prison and much more. 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. Noura is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).