"The beginning of the end of the Zionist project?" w/ Ilan Pappé
Release Date: 12/13/2023
“The Gulf, the Arab metropoles and shifting patterns of power” w/ Elham Fakhro
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The brothers welcome Elham Fakhro to the show to discuss the shifting patterns of relations between the states of the Arab Gulf and the established metropoles of the Arab world, the interplay of education and political transformation, the trend towards normalization with the Zionist state and recent developments in attitudes towards and relationships with Iran. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 23, 2024. Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to access future...
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"The process of liberation is irresistible and irreversible" w/ Vijay Prashad
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The brothers welcome historian and journalist Vijay Prashad to the show to discuss the emergence of Palestine as the keystone struggle of the Global South, the importance of the PLO, the question of sovereign national interests vs. solidarity with Palestinian liberation, and the radical student movements rising up across the West. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: April 30, 2024. Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to access future bonus content, including the...
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“Learning how to be colonialists" w/ Rashid Khalidi
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The brothers welcome the historian Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to the show to discuss the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle against the Zionist project in Palestine, the colonial affiliations of Zionism, the background to the 1948 Nakba, and the role of Arab and Palestinian leaders and forms of resistance in bringing about change. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 16, 2024. Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to access future bonus content,...
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(Preview) "Distraction and Denial"
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[Producer's note: This is a preview of the latest bonus episode of Makdisi Street. You can listen to the by subscribing to the for as low as $5 a month and get access to other great bonus content. Since we want to make as much content accessible as possible, we have this for the YouTube channel.] The brothers discuss the latest developments in and around Palestine, including European denial and complicity, the role of the ICJ and other systems of accountability in international politics, the possible expansion of the conflict, and whether dogs wag tails or tails wag dogs. on our...
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"Famine is never a natural occurrence" w/ Michael Fakhri
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The brothers welcome to the show Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, to discuss the ongoing starvation war against Gaza and how intentional law can be wielded to fight against it. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Apr 3, 2024. Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to get access to future bonus content, including the first Q&A*
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“Stadiums are completely ungovernable spaces, spaces of liberation” w/ Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs
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The brothers welcome Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs to the show to discuss their experience of the politics of sport in their native South Africa, the lessons that the country’s anti-apartheid struggle might have for the struggle for freedom in Palestine, and football as a potential site for galvanizing a broader boycott movement against Israel’s genocidal system of apartheid. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 22, 2024 Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up...
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“Two sides of the same coin”
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The brothers discuss, among other things, Zionism and denial; Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza; US-Israeli collaboration. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 19, 2024 Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to get access to future bonus content, including the first (soon to be released)Q&A*
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"A kind of intergenerational civil war" w/ Peter Beinart
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The brothers welcome Peter Beinart to the show to discuss the role of the Gaza genocide in the generational transformation taking place in the United States (including within Jewish communities across the country), as well as the campaign to redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Zionism and the Zionist state, and the many pathways leading from Zionism to democracy and freedom for all. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 12, 2024 Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on...
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In solidarity with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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The brothers reflect on the suspension of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for having committed herself to justice, equality, rights, freedom and love: principles which Zionist institutions and the Zionist state clearly find themselves to be incompatible. Call to Action: Support academic freedom for Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Date of recording: March 15, 2024.
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“There is so much love in Palestine" w/ Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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The brothers talk with Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian about life under occupation in East Jerusalem, the scattering and reconstitution of Palestinian bodies and Palestine itself, and the affirmation of life and love that lie at the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 6, 2024 Follow us on X: Follow us on YouTube: Follow us on Insta: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to get access to future bonus content, !*
info_outlineIn this episode, the brothers interview the historian Ilan Pappé, best known for his 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, in order to gain some historical perspective on the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza as well as what the current situation tells us about shifting global and local attitudes and even how one can start to anticipate the terminal stage of the Zionist project in Palestine—and what that means for the future.
Date of recording: December 12, 2023.
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