Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Episode 6, host Dr. Yousef Aljamal and pals Tony Groves and Helena Cobban are joined by the former deputy head of the UN human-rights agency in Palestine, Saul Takahashi and the Bethlehem Palestinian justice activist Baha Hilo. As Israel resumed its fierce bombardment of the people of Gaza and continued its campaigns of terrorizing […]
Help! Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shortly before 6:20am this morning I received a series of messages from people in Gaza. One of them was from Irish citizen, Zak Hania, and it included pictures that clearly showed that Israel had resumed it’s bombardment of Gaza. Zak rejoined me a few minutes ago to talk about the cruelty of restarting the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This week we were joined by Alana Cahoon who is the PR Officer from the Ulster Young Unionists, and ‘One Young World’ delegate. She is also an Ambassador of TBUC (Together:Building a United Community). We discussed Unionism from the upcoming generations viewpoint, not conforming to lazy stereotypes and why some leave Northern Ireland and do […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Om International Day of Solidarity with Palestine this PalCast podcast episode discusses the two terms, and what they imply in Gaza. Humanitarian pause suggest a resumption of hostilities soon and the question of Palestine and Gaza are never humanitarian, they are political. There should a political proposal so that Gaza is not destroyed again. What […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We were joined by two wonderful people, Margo and Majella of Care Champions, to discuss the proposed investigation into residential care settings. Care Champions are campaigning for a human rights led approach with focus on learning lessons for any future pandemics. We also talk about the difficulties for patients and families which are just as […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We said we’d return to the horrific attack on Parnell Square that injured several people and left a 5 year old child in critical condition, and the subsequent chaotic scenes that played out in Dublin city centre. So here it is. Our podcast with the best immigration reporter in the country, the Dublin Inquirer’s Shamim […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode PalCast co-hosts, Yousef and Helena speak with Irish TD Richard Boyd Barrett from People Before Profit about his decades long involvement and activism for Palestine and the role of mass movements across the globe in bringing about change in Gaza and granting the Palestinians their right to self-determination. They discuss and highlight […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack If you read the piece A Lucky Gazan Routine, that we posted a few days ago by 20 year old Literature Student, Noar Diab, then you’ll be familiar with her experiences of the last 49 days. If you haven’t then you can read it here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-to-all-noar-93352128 Noar joined us hours before the temporary ceasefire began to […]