Rethinking Palestine

In this episode, Al-Shabaka policy analysts Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Al-Shabaka’s Co-Director Yara Hawari are interviewed by Al-Shabaka's commissioning editor Dina Hussein on the recent wave of  Palestine State recognition by several European powers as a policy response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Egyptian researcher and activist Engy Sarhan joins this month’s podcast to unpack the recent Global March to Gaza—offering critiques and urgent lessons for the international solidarity movement with Palestine.

Al-Shabaka policy analyst Safa Joudeh joins co-director Yara Hawari to discuss the privatization of aid and security, and how the Israeli regime and the United States weaponize humanitarian assistance as a tool for ethnic cleansing and colonization.

Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, joins Co-Director Yara Hawari to examine whether mainstream media and political discourses are shifting their stances on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and what those changes could mean for potential accountability.

Agnese Valenti, Senior Legal Officer at the European Legal Support Centre, joins the discussion to delve into the coordinated attacks on Palestinian civil society in Europe. She highlights how Israeli-backed NGOs are suppressing pro-Palestine advocacy through intimidation and defunding tactics. Valenti stresses the rise in repression following October 7, 2023, and the complicity of media in perpetuating negative narratives. She also introduces a 'Know Your Rights' toolkit to empower civil society organizations navigating funding challenges and emphasizes the need for a united response to counter lobby pressures.

Palestinian architect and researcher Abdalrahman Kittana, who has been actively engaged in discussions and initiatives on Gaza’s reconstruction, joins Yara Hawari to examine the various reconstruction plans and their feasibility amid Israel’s ongoing genocide.

In this episode, Yumna Patel, Yara Hawari, and Abdaljawad Omar discuss the precarious ceasefire and different future scenarios in Gaza and wider Palestine. This is the third and final episode in a collaboration series between Al-Shabaka and Mondoweiss.

Diana Buttu and Mondoweiss’s Yumna Patel discuss the challenges facing the ceasefire in Gaza in the context of the Trump administration and its support for Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Palestine. This is the second episode of a three-part collaboration series between Al-Shabaka and Mondoweiss.

Yara Hawari and Mondoweiss’s Yumna Patel break down the latest developments in Jenin and across the West Bank within the context of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and recent ceasefire. This is the first episode of a three-part collaboration series between Al-Shabaka and Mondoweiss.

In this episode of Rethinking Palestine, Yara Hawari highlights the key discussion points with our guests in 2024 as the Israeli regime's settler colonial genocide has continued unabated across Palestine.