The Anti-Imperialist Archive

1st: Sherif Fam and Huwaida Arraf - 2008 Host Sherif Fam interviews Huwaida Arraf, one of 46 activists from 14 countries who recently sailed two small wooden boats (the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty) on an epic journey to Gaza without having to go through Israel or get its permission, albeit risking being shot. They took small quantities of food and medical supplies. Read more about this trip at freegaza.org and consider donating and getting involved. This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is a three-quarter-hour segment of news from Palestine and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. Truth and Justice Radio is aired Sundays 6-10am ET on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org; its website, truthandjusticeradio.org, will link you to weekly playlists and thence to audio archives of numerous editions of This Week In Palestine. 2nd: An in-depth interview with Attorney Arraf, giving special attention to her experience being illegally kidnapped and arrested from the boat "Spirit of Humanity" in international waters heading for Gaza. (2009) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/gnXBZ01CuI4 The Community Church of Boston: A Peace and Justice Congregation Since 1920: http://www.communitychurchofboston.or... Professor Gerald Horne spoke with CCB about the war in Gaza. Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Prof. Horne is the author of numerous books, including W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America and the Caribbean, and many others. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

As Arafat's legitimacy continues to falter, the popularity of Marwan Barghouti, another Fateh veteran, continues to rise. Known as the "leader of the Intifada," Barghouti has emerged as a key figure during the last 15 months of uprising. He is a vocal opponent of the Israeli Occupation and a watchful critic of the Palestinian Authority ­ a combination that has earned him widespread respect among Palestinians. Some believe that if Arafat should fall or choose to step down, Barghouti will be the successor. Marwan Barghouti is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the leader of Fateh's military wing. He was interviewed by Free Speech Radio News reporter, Raphael Krafft, in early December. They met at an undisclosed location in the West Bank, because Barghouti is in hiding from the Israeli authorities. Over the summer, he narrowly escaped several assassination attempts by the Israeli Defense Forces. And in early December, his house was stormed by Israeli soldiers. The raid came in apparent retaliation for an attack on a bus of Jewish settlers just days before. Barghouti was captured by the IOF in April of 2002. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

As the controversy over Israel's refusal to allow Arafat to make his annual pilgrimage to Bethlehem continues to simmer, the Palestinian leader can look to some sympathy from home, but not much. Just this weekend, Palestinian unity came close to dissolving this weekend as clashes between Yasir Arafat's police and Palestinian civilians left six dead and dozens injured. The violence was sparked by Arafat's attempt to satisfy Israeli and US demands that he clamp down on organizations that advocate terrorism. It was the worst case of Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence since 1994, and it sparked fears of civil war. Audio ends pre-emptively - this is not in our control.  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Collective Punishment in Gaza: The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict In Context with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid-Washington Palestinian-Israeli negotiations of 1991-93. His most recent book is Brokers of Deceit. Chris Hedges is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012). As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Dr. Ussama S. Makdisi delivers the 2019 Edward Said Memorial Lecture in which he unpacks the 1919 King-Crane Commission in light of its historical context and legacies for U.S. foreign policy regarding Palestine. Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. 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. He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010). His previous books include Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008), which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Ghassan Kanafani was born in the city of Acre, Occupied Palestine in 1936. Following the Nakba in 1948, he and his family were forced into exile. Ghassan Kanafani became one of the most important Palestinian writers, a marxist, and the spokesperson for the PFLP. On July 8, 1972, Kanafani and his 17 year old niece, Lamees Najim, was murdered by a bomb planted in his car by Israel’s Mossad spy agency in Beirut, where he is buried. Returning to Haifa: Returning to Haifa tells the story of a Palestinian couple who goes back to Haifa after the 1967 war to look for their baby, whom they were forced to leave behind in the war of 1948. From the introduction: For nearly a century, politics, violence, and diplomacy have all failed to resolve the complex, mythified, and misunderstood clash that since 1948 has come to be known as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Certainly it is not for lack of study; books on the subject in English alone could fill a small-town library. Perhaps what has been missing - or ignored - throughout is the quotidian human reality underlying the vital history that continues to connect Palestinians everywhere to the land once called Palestine. Often, literature can provide the human dimension that the historian's work alone cannot. The literary works of the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani resonate with precisely that human dimension. This was read by Stonebluerue As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

There is a long history of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. That history has been carefully hidden from public view. Today, we have the privilege of exploring that history with Professor Mazin Qumsieh. Professor Qumsiyeh currently teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and is President of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People. Finally the second half of our recent interview with Brenner. The focus of discussion is the sordid history of Zionist cooperation and collaboration with the Nazi empire. Sherif Fam lived from 1936 to 2010 - and ran This Week in Palestine for the years leading up to his death. He wrote this about Gaza in 2006, eeriely echoing the current state of the besieged strip of land.  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

First clip is from Noor Elashi, daughter of Ghassan Elashi - video published prior to the trial in 2007. Soon after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the largest Muslim charity in the United States - the Holy Land Foundation - was shut down, its assets frozen and five of its senior staff arrested by the FBI. The charity was founded in California in 1989 and provided aid to a number of Palestinian causes. It also offered help to refugee communities in Jordan, Lebanon and other needy people across the Middle East and the rest of the world. As the charity grew and revenue increased, claims emerged against the foundation. The 1990s saw groups like the Anti-Defamation League and politicians such as the former Governor of New York City, Eliot Spitzer, and former Congressman Anthony Wiener lobby against the charity. These groups appealed to the Clinton administration to shut the charity down, but failed. The US government eventually responded to similar accusations, allegedly made by the state of Israel. The claims made were that the charity was a front for an illegal money-laundering operation, diverting funds to Hamas via zakat committees in the Occupied West Bank. Hamas, in turn, had been designated "a terrorist organisation" by the US government. "It was a huge record that the government created, an administrative record - and it was basically garbage. It was newspaper articles, interviews that were translated from Arabic to Hebrew to English," says Nancy Hollander, one of the lawyers defending Shukri Abu Baker, a founder of the foundation. "And we discovered when we did our own translations that their translations were completely wrong, that the government was relying on information that was completely false. But it didn't matter." The five foundation founders were charged with providing "material support" to Hamas. During the first trial in 2007, their defence team struggled to deal effectively with two secret expert witnesses called by the prosecution whose "evidence" was not shared in advance. Nonetheless, the jury failed to agree on the charges brought against them and the judge declared a mistrial. "More than 8,000 documents and the United States government didn't have a single American document that condemns the Holy Land Foundation. They might have had circumstantial evidence or doubts, but the only evidence was Israeli. And these documents were forged," says journalist Osama Abu Irshaid. The former US Consul General in Jerusalem also points out that the US Agency for International Development funded the same zakat committees named in the indictment of the foundation and continued to do so for three years after the charity was shut down. The Holy Land Five is a two-part documentary looking at the controversial trial of the Holy Land Foundation leaders. The films use interviews with defence and prosecution lawyers, family members, phone calls with the men themselves in jail - and reconstruction of court proceedings, to examine the case against the five men. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you

Edmund Ghareeb spoke at the Palestine Center about the American media and their coverage of Palestine. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: antiimperialistarchive@gmail.com We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you