Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Starvation is being used by Israel in Gaza as a weapon of war. After two months of little or no food supplies, Palestinian families of seven in the south received only three sacks of flour. An increasing number of Palestinians have been posting that they no longer can find food in the south, let alone […]
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 […]
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 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 This conversation delves into the founding of Hamas, its view of itself, its designation by different actors/nation states and the change that took place in its discourse by highlighting its charter of 1988 and its document of 2017, in addition to its different wings as well as comparisons with other international groups designated as terrorist. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The second episode of Palcast discusses the shared struggle of the Palestinian and Irish peoples. From Captain Boycott, to Bloody Balfour, to hunger strikes, Dr Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves delve into the shared struggle between the two nations, and indeed the anti-apartheid movements globally. We also look at the mistakes that Ireland […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, PalCast’s Dr Yousef Aljamal and his co-host Helena Cobban survey the situation on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank and the waves of pro-Palestinian sympathy that have swept around the whole world, including throughout the Global South and even at the grassroots level within most Western countries. […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The tortoise shack is delighted to be working with Just World Education on a brand new series, PalCast, hosted by Palestinian refugee (and friend of the shack) Dr Yousef Aljamal and his longtime collaborator and friend Helena Cobban, herself an activist and author of great renown. This twice weekly series will discuss the ongoing crisis, […]