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A podcast hosted by @sareemakdisi , @ussamamakdisi and @KarimMakdisi .
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"Many of us can't think about anything but Palestine" w/ Tariq Ali
The brothers welcome distinguished writer, novelist, and intellectual of the
@NewLeftReview
Tariq Ali (
@TariqAli_News
) to Makdisi Street.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"The beginning of the end of the Zionist project?" w/ Ilan Pappé
The brothers interview the historian Ilan Pappé, best known for his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), to gain some historical perspective on the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza.
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A clip from the latest episode:
@dianabuttu
on why she left her job as a negotiator:
"Each and every negotiation was about Israel showing Palestinians who the boss was. And I use that term because that was the term that they used with us."
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“Universities are complicit in Palestinian unfreedom” w/ Maya Wind
The brothers welcome
@mayaywind
, the author of Towers of Ivory and Steel, a searing critique of the Israeli academic establishment’s complicity in the regime of apartheid and genocide.
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🎧NEW EPISODE🎧
“Israel is becoming a burden to those who support it" w/ Mouin Rabbani
The brothers welcome the political analyst
@MouinRabbani
to discuss the broader implications of Israel completely losing both its military and political credibility.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“Learning how to be colonialists" w/ Rashid Khalidi
The brothers welcome Rashid Khalidi to discuss the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle against the Zionist project, the colonial affiliations of Zionism, the background of the Nakba, and more.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"The ground zero of a liberated world is Palestine" w/ Robin DG Kelley
American historian Robin DG Kelley joins the show to discuss the status of Palestine in Black American political culture from the 1940s through MLK and Malcolm X to Black Lives Matter.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“The murder of our colleagues has to stop” w/ Jeremy Scahill
The brothers welcome the investigative journalist,
@theintercept
Senior Correspondent, and
@intercepted
host
@jeremyscahill
to discuss the parameters of the media coverage of the genocide in Gaza.
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"Abuse and sexual abuse happen and it shouldn't happen. And I will never approve it. Not to Israelis nor to Palestinians and not in my name... Personally, as a feminist, I don't go and interrogate the rape victims. If a woman said she was raped, I will believe her."
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
Debunking Zionist Myths
#1
The brothers take on some of the most popular (and entirely mendacious) Zionist talking points and debunk them.
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Episode 5- The day after in Gaza w/ Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah
The brothers welcome this extraordinary Palestinian physician,
@GhassanAbuSitt1
, to the show, to talk about his recent experience in Gaza in comparison with other Israeli attacks on Gaza (2014, 2008-9).
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“There is so much love in Palestine" w/ Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
The brothers talk with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian about life under occupation in East Jerusalem and the affirmation of life and love at the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
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“Legitimacy does, in the end, prevail" w/ Richard Falk
The brothers talk with the distinguished legal scholar Richard Falk about the political, legal, and moral consequences of the ICJ case brought by South Africa against Israel on the charge of genocide.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"Saying ‘Pauses’ Implies There’s More Harm To Come"
In this episode, we discuss the international backdrop to the Gaza ceasefire/truce/pause (and what the distinctions are among all those terms).
@sareemakdisi
@UssamaMakdisi
@KarimMakdisi
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🎧 Special Episode 🎧
In solidarity with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
The brothers reflect on the suspension of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for having committed herself to justice, equality, rights, freedom and love.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"I just look for the day there will be justice" w/ Francesca Albanese
The Makdisi brothers welcome Francesca Albanese (
@FranceskAlbs
), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the podcast.
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"I truly hope this is our year” w/ Diana Buttu
Palestinian lawyer
@dianabuttu
provides a broader political context for the crisis in Gaza, including the growing contradictions within Israeli politics and the struggle for hegemony within Palestinian politics.
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"They carried a memory in their head" w/ Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
Preeminent scholar and Nakba survivor Dr. Salman Abu Sitta discusses his exile story, the relative simplicity of implementing UN Resolution 194, and his high hopes for younger generations.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“To think about Palestine is to be human”
The brothers provide an assessment of where things stand after 100 days of Israel’s war on Gaza, the horror suffered by the people in Gaza, the forms that resistance takes, and the paths toward liberation.
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A teaser of the next episode of the show with UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley
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🎤A preview of the next episode 🎤
Salman Abu Sitta on the difference between Indigenous Palestinians and Zionist settlers.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“Every single Palestinian is traumatized" w/Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
The brothers welcome Palestinian educator, political intellectual, and activist
@DrHananAshrawi
to discuss the political horizons after the trauma of Gaza, and the pitfalls of the "peace process"
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A clip from the latest episode of the show featuring investigative journalist
@jeremyscahill
:
"There is this unstated understanding among most American journalists who work in corporate media that when the US govt says 'these are the bad guys,' that those are the bad guys"
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 📷 Christmas—and Christians—in Palestine w/ Dr. Mitri Raheb
@RahebM
talks about Christians in Palestine’s ecumenical culture, so-called Christian Zionism, and how the Bible can be read either as a text authorizing empire or resisting it.
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"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.1)
The brothers welcome historian
@abedtakriti
, the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman 1965-1976 (2016).
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"Famine is never a natural occurrence" w/ Michael Fakhri
The brothers welcome
@MichaelFakhri
, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, to the show to discuss the ongoing starvation war against Gaza.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"The process of liberation is irresistible and irreversible" w/ Vijay Prasad
The brothers welcome historian and journalist
@vijayprashad
to discuss the emergence of Palestine as the keystone struggle of the Global South, the importance of the PLO, and more.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“Calm before the storm"
The brothers gather in the garden of their family home in the mountains of Lebanon to discuss recent Israeli escalations and the possible consequences from Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, following the Israeli bombings in Beirut and Tehran
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⚡️ BONUS EPISODE ⚡️
“98% of the UN has been condemning what Israel has done.”
The brothers discuss the deceptive conflation of antizionism with antisemitism to shut down Palestinian solidarity, how ZIonists used a synagogue in LA to sell properties in occupied Palestine.
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"The purpose of lawfare is to distract us" w/ Dima Khalidi
The brothers welcome Dima Khalidi, founder and director of
@pal_legal
, to talk about the institutionalized Zionist assault on academic freedom and free speech in the United States.
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Call to Action: Support academic freedom for Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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A clip from the episode with
@GhassanAbuSitt1
"Even those who vociferously call for a ceasefire never call for sanctions. And so after 70 days of calling for a ceasefire, you'd think people would have noticed that that's not working and we need to be calling for sanctions."
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🎧 NEW EPISODE🎧
“Two Sides Of The Same Coin”
The brothers discuss, among other things, Zionism and denial; Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza; US-Israeli collaboration.
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"A Special Relationship" w/ Stephen Walt
The brothers welcome
@stephenWalt
to discuss US foreign policy, the role of the 🇮🇱 lobby in influencing US decision-making, and how all these dynamics may develop in the wake of 🇮🇱's genocidal campaign in Gaza.
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🎧NEW EPISODE 🎧
"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.2)
The second half of the conversation with
@abedtakriti
. In this part, they do a deep dive into the Oslo negotiations and why Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords.
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@KarimMakdisi
: "Are you saying the US cares about international norms?"
@UssamaMakdisi
: "No, of course not!"
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
“Calm before the storm"
The brothers gather in the garden of their family home in the mountains of Lebanon to discuss recent Israeli escalations and the possible consequences from Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, following the Israeli bombings in Beirut and Tehran
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A preview of the next episode on the naked double standards in football politics.
@KarimMakdisi
: "You can't have it both ways"
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🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨
Around 5 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hebrew University professor and internationally renowned feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police at her home in the Old City of Jerusalem on the charge of incitement to violence.
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"The world has been lied to" w/ Chris Gunness
The brothers interview
@MyanmarAProject
, former chief UNRWA spokesperson, about the work of the Agency, journalistic distortions, the representation of Palestine, and the moral responsibility of its funders.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE🎧
“The Gulf, the Arab metropoles and shifting patterns of power” w/ Elham Fakhro
Elham Fakhro on the shifting relations between the Gulf states and the established metropoles of the Arab world, the trend towards normalization with the Zionist state and more.
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Check out
@mayaywind
's book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (2024)
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Watch the episode on our YouTube channel
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Please help grow the show by giving us a rating/review on Itunes
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“Stadiums are completely ungovernable spaces, spaces of liberation”
The brothers welcome
@TonyKaron
and Sean Jacobs from
@africasacountry
to discuss football as a potential site for galvanizing a broader boycott movement against genocidal Israel.
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Link to the episode on Apple Podcasts. Please rate/review the show to help with the alogirithm
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A clip from the latest episode:
@UssamaMakdisi
and
@sareemakdisi
on the question of the Palestinian political polity:
"So we need to be wider in our perspective rather than ceding everything to those on the ground. Yes, they're on the ground, but we're also Palestinians."
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"There is control over the aerial space, the electromagnetic space. There is control of the goods getting to Gaza up to the point Israel controls the calories allowed for Gazans to feed themselves, how many medicines they can have, the equipment hospitals can have"
@FranceskAlbs
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Video edition is now up! Apologies for the delay. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and interact with our content to help us grow.
Link to the video here
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Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's family and colleagues would like it shared widely that while detained, Israeli police subjected her to torture and interrogated her. They spent an hour asking about an article she wrote in 2020. They shackled her feet and hands, put her in
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"The American Jewish community was trying to convince the American public that there isn't such a thing as dual loyalty. And then [Blinken] says, “No, in a moment like this, I’m not the Secretary of State of the United States. I’m the Secretary of State of the Jewish state."
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A clip from the latest episode:
Sean Jacobs (
@africasacountry
) on Israel and its political identification with Europe.
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You can watch the episode on YouTube channel
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🎧 BONUS EPISODE 🎧
"Distraction And Denial"
The brothers discuss the latest developments in and around Palestine, including European complicity, the role of the ICJ and other systems of accountability, the expansion of the war, and whether dogs wag tails or tails wag dogs.
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Watch the episode on our YouTube channel
Please subscribe, like, and comment to help us with the algorithm.
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🎧NEW EPISODE 🎧
"Camp David is a primordial document for the Egyptian political apparatus” w/ Lina Attalah
The brothers welcome journalist
@linaattalah
, the co-founder and chief editor of
@MadaMasr
, an independent online Egyptian newspaper.
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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts
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You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to access future bonus content, including the first (now published!) Q&A and the latest bonus episode!
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"A kind of intergenerational civil war" w/ Peter Beinart
The brothers welcome
@PeterBeinart
to the show to discuss the role of the Gaza genocide in the generational transformation taking place in the US.
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We have launched a Patreon to help support the production of this. Patrons will have access to bonus content including our first Q&A
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We're considering launching a Patreon to help defray the costs of production, whereby for a low monthly rate, supporters will get access to different kinds of bonus content.
Let us know if you'd be interested by commenting under this thread!
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Support the show on Patreon and get access to all the bonus content, including the latest Q&A
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Watch the episode on our YouTube channel. Apologies for the video quality; the guest's camera feed gets choppy in the second half of the conversation.
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧
"The beginning of the end of the Zionist project?" w/ Ilan Pappé
The brothers interview the historian Ilan Pappé, best known for his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), to gain some historical perspective on the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza.
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🎧 BONUS EPISODE 🎧
"Distraction And Denial"
The brothers discuss the latest developments in and around Palestine, including European complicity, the role of the ICJ and other systems of accountability, the expansion of the war, and whether dogs wag tails or tails wag dogs.
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