Please help #BringZakBack by clicking https://gofund.me/292c52c4 Alexandria Saleem is a first-generation Palestinian American from Gaza, whose family was displaced in 1948 and 1967. She joins PalCast co-hosts Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves to talk about Gaza and how the genocide in Gaza resulted in the killing of many of her cousins, but also helped her forge ties with […]
Please join us patreon.com/tortoiseshack Chris Andrews is a Sinn Fein TD who has many memories of Gaza, from going to the beach and fishing (badly) to watching Palestinians circling around TVs to watch Spanish La Liga football. These memories are now of places that are now in ruins. PalCast co-hosts, Yosef, Helena and Tony talk to him about how we […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Shahd Abusalama is a Palestinian academic from Gaza based in the UK. She lost 40 family members during the ongoing genocide; her family is displaced and scattered. She speaks to PalCast hosts Yousef Alajamal and Tony Groves about the pain of enduring this genocide, the feeling the responsibility to rebuild and to fight defamation from […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Fady Joudah is a Palestinian poet and physician who just released a poetry collection on the genocide in Gaza. In this episode, Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban, and Tony Groves talk about poetry, memory, Gaza, Refaat Alareer and silence. Fady argues that the world should listen to the Palestinians and practice silence when they do. The […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack (CW: This podcast opens with the audio of Aaron Bushnell’s selm-immolation. Please skip to 3 minutes if you don’t want to hear it) Forcible depopulation of Gaza has been on Israel’s agenda since 1948. Hadeel Assali, a scholar at Colombia, discusses Israel’s plans, both public and secret, to push out and punish Palestinians in Gaza. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Hawaii and Palestine are tied together in many ways. Palestinians’ love for their land reminds us of Kanala Maoli’s love for Hawaii and vise versa. In this episode, which kicks off our second season of PalCast, Dr Yousef Aljamal, cohost Helena Cobban and producer Tony Groves are joined by Uahikea Maile, a professor of indigenous […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Israel is waging a war against UNRWA to defund it amidst genocide. The world watches as Palestinians are starved in Gaza, and does nothing enough to help people there, not as fast as some western countries rushed to defund UNRWA. China, Belgium, Ireland and Spain and other countries call for supporting the UN agency in […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yousef Aljamal hosted today’s episode from Zurich, Switzerland where he recently spoke with Café Palestine. Café Palestine’s Blake Alcott, who also works with One Democratic State, was our guest. These two, and PalCast’s Helena Cobban and Tony Groves, discussed Israel’s harsh continuing violence in all parts of Gaza and the northern West Bank and […]