“The Gaza Freedom March is not over, it’s only begun.” So says Professor Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Boston CodePink organizer, just back from the event in which most of the 1300+ marchers from numerous countries were harassed by Egyptian authorities and blocked from entry to Gaza. Salma Abu Ayyash interviews Roche-Mahdi and two other marchers, live in our studio, on their feelings and experiences in Egypt. The other two marchers are Stephanie Andrews (a local organic farmer), and Emily King (a PhD student at Tufts University).
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for January 10, 2010.
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Activist Salma Abu Ayyash (sitting in for Sherif) covers the annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts during Thanksgiving. First, an excerpt of the Native American speakers that gathered and proclaimed their solidarity with the victimized Palestinians. Then, a poem written by a Palestinian, was put to song and dedicated to our brother in injustice, Leonard Peltier. Salma offers her translation.
Salma reviews some of the dark history of the genesis of the Israeli takeover and occupation of Palestine, along with its distorted treatment by today’s mainstream media and a brief discussion of the growth and significance of the ongoing BDS Campaign.
Finally, news of the most recent Israeli attacks and incursions on the Palestinian people and the implications for their survival.
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for November 29, 2009.
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Omer’s speaks at Harvard on the details of his family’s home which was bulldozed to the ground without warning. His mother is in the hospital recovering from injury sustained jumping out the kitchen window to save her life. His sister was killed. The shocking photos he shows can be found on Omer’s website listed below. Among them, UN ambulances shot up by Israeli soldiers.
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for November 7, 2009.
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In this special 60-minute extended edition, discussion of the recent developments, including the Goldstone report and of the U.S. knee-jerk rejection of it. Also a interview with Professor Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (2007).
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for November 1, 2009.
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http://codz.org.
The third annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, already in progress, continues through Sunday, November 1, 2009. Each day there are several different films, some short, some feature-length. Their showings are distributed among three different venues including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard, and Kendall Square Theatre in Cambridge.
We decided that it might be worthwhile to hear descriptions of some of the films yet to run. We are honored that BPFF’s distinguished coordinator, Salma Abu Ayyash, agreed to spend time with us describing these fabulous films and the stories and the people behind them. It is remarkable what we can learn of the lives and the suffering of Palestinians through the medium of their own art.
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for October 25, 2009.
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First, a dramatic clip from Al Jazeera English. Then, Sherif’s summary of and comments on the continuing bad news including an affirmation on August 5, 2009 by U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman signaling that Congress fully supports Israel’s continued occupation of, and violent armed defense of, its settlements onto land and into homes stolen from Palestinian farmers. Finally, a detailed interview with our very special returning guest, the distinguished Professor Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Professor Pappé explains why “two-states” can never be a “solution.”
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for September 6, 2009.
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This Week in Palestine host Sherif Fam conducts a detailed interview with Dr. Ahmad Jamil Azem on the Karama (“Dignity”) campaign and Israel’s ever-more-oppressive abuses and restrictions on Palestinians’ mobility, including checkpoints, strip searches, and impossible permit and paperwork requirements. Fam also reports on recent news including Israeli assassinations of women and children doing as they are ordered while carrying white flags.
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for August 23, 2009.
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Reflection on recent news, especially the embarrassing, corrupt, cruelly anti-Palestine stance trumpeted by certain politicians, notably Congressman Henry Waxman. Finally a prerecorded recent interview with Mr. Lenni Brenner, prominent Jewish civil rights activist, in which the focus of discussion is on ways to realistically achieve a one-state solution.
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for August 9, 2009.
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An in-depth interview with Attorney Arraf, giving special attention to her experience being illegally kidnapped and arrested from the boat “Spirit of Humanity” in international waters heading for Gaza. She is a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and a co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement. She was on the first historic voyage of the Free Gaza Movement consisting of 2 wooden boats: the “Free Gaza” and the “Liberty.”
This program was produced by This Week in Palestine for July 19, 2009.
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In May 2009, the results of a 15-month study commissioned by The Middle East Project of the Human Sciences Research Council at Cape Town, South Africa were published in a report entitled: “Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? – a re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.” The research study over a 15-month period by a team of international scholars is arguably the most thorough and most authoritative investigation into Israel’s practice of Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The study was coordinated by Dr. Virginia Tilley, Chief Research Specialist at the Democracy and Governance Division of the Human Sciences Research Council at Cape Town. Dr Tilley discusses the report’s findings and their implications.
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on June 28, 2009.
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