24. Gaza – The World Doesn’t Care Enough

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmad Al-Naouq is the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. He lost his family due to Israeli bombing on his family home in Gaza in October 2023. Since then, he has been appearing on different media outlets to defend and put forward the Palestinian narrative. He joins PalCast co-hosts Yousef and Helena to talk about […]

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23. Gaza, the Beijing Agreement and US Political Pantomime

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As if US politics couldn’t get any more chaotic, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived for an official visit. Add in the ICJ’s opinion on the Israeli illegal settlements and the ongoing daily horrors in Gaza and there is a lot to discuss. On this PalCast, Yousef, Helena and Tony are joined by Gazan […]

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22. ‘I Woke Crying Knowing That I Had To Leave’

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shahd Safi is an Arabic/English translator and teacher, freelance journalist, social media coordinator, and human rights advocate. She is from Gaza and is now in Cairo. She joins Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves to talk about her journey out of Gaza and her experience of surviving Israel’s airstrikes which ended with her movement […]

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21. Gaza – Lancet Report of 186,000 Dead

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla is a Palestinian social and political scientist, and a native of Shujayia in Gaza city. In this episode of PalCast, he joins Yousef Aljamal and Helena Cobban to talk about his memories there and what has happened to his family. Dr. Alijla discusses Israel’s plans behind evacuation orders, its impact on Palestinians […]

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20. Gaza: Nine Months of Terror

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef, Helena and Tony talk about the last nine months of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. They discuss the terrifying reports about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners, the ongoing IDF incursions that are attempting to carve up Gaza into even smaller Bantustans and the fears for an escalation of the war […]

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19. Maha Hussaini in Gaza – You Cannot Be Neutral in a Genocide

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Maha Hussaini is a Palestinian award-winning journalist and the Strategy Director of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. In June, she won the Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women’s Media Foundation, an award that was later rescinded following a smear campaign by pro-Israelis. She joins us from Gaza to talk about her reporting, the situation […]

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17. Gaza and the Quakers – Decades of Solidarity

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Editors Note: This is the first PalCast since Yousef’s sister, Fatima was killed in Gaza. Yousef talks about her at the beginning. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) started Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza in 1948. The AFSC’s educational work in Palestine goes back to the early 1900s when the first Quaker School, the Friends […]

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16. Dark Humour for Dark Times with Tadhg Hickey

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On this episode of PalCast, Yousef, Helena and Tony are joined by comedian, satirist and activist, Tadhg Hickey to talk about the role that activist art plays in protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza and how the price creatives pay for speaking up is a price he gladly pays. They discuss the need for laughter […]

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