“You can’t hide the smoking gun of this genocide” w/ Sherene Seikaly and Tony Alessandrini
Release Date: 01/20/2025
"The Israeli disposition is to maximize what it can get" w/ Daniel Levy
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The brothers welcome Daniel Levy, president of the and former negotiator, to discuss how Israelis employ negotiations to pursue their political goals of expansionism, the role of the US as a supposed third-party guarantor, and the growing internal political chaos threatening the Israeli political status quo. Watch the on our YouTube channel Date of recording: April 7, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *Sign up at to access all the bonus content, *
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"An even worse collaboration than the one before" w/ Abdaljawad Omar
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The brothers welcome Palestinian analyst and researcher Abdaljawad Omar to the show to discuss the nature of the Palestinian Authority's collaborative dealings with the Israeli occupation, how it compares against other examples of collaboration historically, how supporters of the PA regime view their role through the prism of national liberation, and why Palestinians in the West Bank are not able to do more to fight colonial expansion. Check out Abduljawad's recent and Watch the on our Youtube channel Date of recording: April 1st, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: ...
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"We refuse to change our Syrian identity" w/ Wael Tarbieh
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The brothers welcome artist and activist Wael Tarbieh from the occupied Golan Heights to discuss the Israeli colonization of the region since 1967, the mixed ethnic and confessional makeup of the Indigenous population, and their decades-long steadfastness in retaining their political and legal identity. For more information on the ethnic cleansing of the Golan, check out Al Marsad Watch the on our Youtube channel Date of recording: March 24, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *Sign up at to access all the bonus...
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"Palestinians have the right to reject surveillance" w/ Hadeel Assali
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The brothers welcome Palestinian anthropologist (and former chemical engineer) Hadeel Assali. They discuss the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil, the history of tunnels and the ecology of Gaza, the ontological relationship of the Palestinians to their indigenous environment that the US-backed Zionist colonizers seek to destroy, the different forms of resistance to incessant colonial surveillance, the story of a secret Israeli population transfer scheme to move Palestinians from Gaza to Paraguay, and the possibilities of life and mutual aid amidst the ongoing genocide. "Opacity in Gaza" ...
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"Nobody wants to name the traumatizer" w/ Lara Sheehi
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The brothers welcome psychoanalytic scholar, professor and licensed clinical psychologist to discuss the historic role of psychoanalysis in national liberation struggles, the connection between the revolutionary work of Franz Fanon and the Palestinian resistance, and how liberal educational institutions are facilitating fascist attacks on oppositional voices. Watch the on our YouTube channel Date of recording: March 3, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *Sign up at to access all the bonus content, *
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"The West Bank is being annexed" w/ Mariam Barghouti
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The brothers welcome Ramallah-based journalist Mariam Barghouti ) to discuss the ongoing de facto annexation of the West Bank, the unchecked growth of colonial outposts, the role of the mainstream Western media in whitewashing and censoring this violence, and the position of the Palestinian Authority as a subcontractor to the Israeli occupation. Watch the on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Feb 11, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *Sign up at to access all the bonus content, including* ...
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"Every single one of us has a role to play" w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
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The brothers welcome journalist and writer Mohammed el-Kurd to the show to discuss his new book, , his family's surreal experiences with Jewish Israeli settlers in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the role of resistance in the broader meaning of the term, and why Palestinians can never surrender to the "politics of appeal." Watch the on our YouTube channel Date of recording: Feb 3, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: *Sign up at to access all the bonus content, including*
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"The minimum we owe is solidarity” w/ Asli Bâli
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The brothers welcome Aslı Bâli, Professor of Law at Yale Law School and President of the Middle East Studies Association. They discuss the increasingly repressive academic climate in the United States over the question of Palestine led by private sector as well as the current Trump Administration, how anti-Palestinian racism is used as a wedge issue in contemporary culture wars, how Zionist and rightwing organizations seek to criminalize dissent by claiming that it is discriminatory, and then how this politics is connected to the increasingly repressive Pax Americana in the Middle East...
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"They still think we are 'savages'” w/ Wadie Said
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The brothers welcome their cousin Wadie Said, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, to reflect on Donald Trump’s personalized domestic and Middle East agenda, the Gaza ceasefire deal and the demise of international legal order. The conversation then focuses on insidious concepts of “terrorism” in the US, and its legal implications for those accused on trumped up charges as well its weaponization against college students. Watch the on our YouTube channel Date of recording: January 21, 2025. Follow us on our socials: X: YouTube: Insta: TikTok: ...
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“You can’t hide the smoking gun of this genocide” w/ Sherene Seikaly and Tony Alessandrini
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Note: we recorded this before the appalling of the democratic vote of its membership to condemn Israeli scholasticide The brothers welcome Professor Sherene Seikaly, historian at University of California at Santa Barbara and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and of Middle Eastern Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, to discuss the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) engagement with the question of Palestine. We discuss the historic...
info_outlineNote: we recorded this before the appalling AHA leadership veto on Jan. 17 of the democratic vote of its membership to condemn Israeli scholasticide
The brothers welcome Professor Sherene Seikaly, historian at University of California at Santa Barbara and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and of Middle Eastern Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, to discuss the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) engagement with the question of Palestine. We discuss the historic vote by the AHA membership on January 5, 2025 to condemn Israel’s scholasticide in Gaza despite the deeply anti-Palestinian stance of the leadership of the AHA.
We discuss how this leadership mobilized fear, "anticipatory obedience" to avoid taking an ethical position against the obliteration of every Palestinian university in Gaza, despite explicitly condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We also discuss how the MLA leadership has systematically undermined discussions and resolutions about Palestinian liberation. They also discussed how ethical scholars have confronted the extraordinary silence and complicity of the two major scholarly associations about the Gaza genocide.
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Date of recording: January 13, 2025.
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