Makdisi Street

The brothers welcome historian and journalist Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) to the show to discuss the emergence of Palestine as the keystone struggle of the Global South, the importance of the PLO, the question of sovereign national interests vs. solidarity with Palestinian liberation, and the radical student movements rising up across the West. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: April 30, 2024. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to access future bonus content, including the first (now published!) Q&A and the latest bonus 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. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 16, 2024. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to access future bonus content, including the first (now published!) Q&A and the latest bonus episode!*      

[Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of Makdisi Street. You can listen to the entire episode by subscribing to the Patreon for as low as $5 a month and get access to other great bonus content. Since we want to make as much content accessible as possible, we have unlocked this for the YouTube channel.] The brothers discuss the latest developments in and around Palestine, including European denial and complicity, the role of the ICJ and other systems of accountability in international politics, the possible expansion of the conflict, and whether dogs wag tails or tails wag dogs. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 13, 2024. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii

The brothers welcome to the show Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, to discuss the ongoing starvation war against Gaza and how intentional law can be wielded to fight against it. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 3, 2024. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first (now published!) Q&A*  

The brothers welcome Tony Karon (@TonyKaron) and Sean Jacobs (@africasacountry) to the show to discuss their experience of the politics of sport in their native South Africa, the lessons that the country’s anti-apartheid struggle might have for the struggle for freedom in Palestine, and football as a potential site for galvanizing a broader boycott movement against Israel’s genocidal system of apartheid.   Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 22, 2024 Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first (now published!) Q&A*  

The brothers discuss, among other things, Zionism and denial; Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza; US-Israeli collaboration.   Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 19, 2024 Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first (soon to be released)Q&A*  

The brothers welcome Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) to the show to discuss the role of the Gaza genocide in the generational transformation taking place in the United States (including within Jewish communities across the country), as well as the campaign to redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Zionism and the Zionist state, and the many pathways leading from Zionism to democracy and freedom for all.   Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 12, 2024 Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first Q&A!*  

The brothers reflect on the suspension of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for having committed herself to justice, equality, rights, freedom and love: principles which Zionist institutions and the Zionist state clearly find themselves to be incompatible. Call to Action: Support academic freedom for Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/call-to-action-support-academic-freedom-for-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian/ Date of recording: March 15, 2024.     

The brothers talk with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (link) about life under occupation in East Jerusalem, the scattering and reconstitution of Palestinian bodies and Palestine itself, and the affirmation of life and love that lie at the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 6, 2024 Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first Q&A!*  

The brothers interview Chris Gunness (@MyanmarAProject), former chief spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), about journalistic coverage and distortion, the shaping of representation of Palestine, the work of the Agency, the moral responsibility of those funding it, and how calumnies spread by Zionist organizations about its workers provided a pretext for Western countries to cut their support.   Watch this episode on YouTube Date of recording: Feb 26, 2024 Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on Insta: @Makdisist Music by Hadiiiiii *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at Patreon.com/MakdisiStreet to get access to future bonus content, including the first Q&A!*