"They carried a memory in their head" w/ Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
Release Date: 02/07/2024
“Israel is becoming a burden to those who support it" w/ Mouin Rabbani
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The brothers welcome the political analyst Mouin Rabbani to the show to discuss the broader implications of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, the loss of Israeli military credibility, the implications of the recent ICJ and ICC decisions for Israel’s growing global isolation, and the growing sense that we may be at an inflection point in the Zionist conflict with the Palestinian people as Israel becomes more of a liability than an asset, politically, militarily and electorally. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: May 21, 2024. Follow us on our socials: X: ...
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"A Special Relationship" w/ Stephen Walt
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The brothers welcome Professor Stephen Walt to the show to discuss US foreign policy in the Middle East, the role of the Israel lobby in influencing US decision-making, and how all these dynamics may develop in the wake of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. on our YouTube channel Date of recording: May 14, 2024. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *You can now support Makdisi Street on Patreon! Sign up at to access future bonus content, including the first Q&A and the !*
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“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...
info_outlineThe brothers welcome to the show the preeminent scholar and Nakba survivor Dr. Salman Abu Sitta to discuss his personal journey after 1948, the relative simplicity of implementing UN resolution 194 for Palestinians to return to their lands, and his high hopes for younger generations.
Read his article, "I could have been one of those who broke through the siege on October 7"
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/i-could-have-been-one-of-those-who-broke-through-the-siege-on-october-7/
Check out the Palestine Land Society
https://www.plands.org/en/home
Date of recording: Feb 5, 2024
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