Early on Saturday Morning, Hamas led a militant raid on Israeli settlements around the outskirts of the Gaza Strip, flying over border fences In paraglides, bulldozing Israeli border fences, and assaulting Israeli colonial settlements just outside the fiercely controlled Gaza Strip. In the process, many Israelis were killed, more captured. In the days since, Israel has declared war on gaza, has killed many Palestinians, has leveled buildings in Gaza, and has called on its military reserves to prepare for a ground war. Meanwhile, Palestinian liberation fighters have continued to fight back, breaking through more border fences, taking control over land and apparently trying to build a land bridge between the Gaza strip and the west bank.
This is a new chapter in a many decades-long struggle for land, in a context that has placed Israel’s US-supported settler colonial state in control over a virtual open-air prison that is the Gaza strip, regularly attacking and killing Palestinians, encroaching further onto Palestinian land with growing settlements, controlling their movements at home and removing the right of return for Palestinians in the diaspora, all while giving easy access to citizenship for the Jewish diaspora, and touting a line that it is a democracy. This eruption is a new chapter in the struggle for land in the region.
Today we’re joined by two journalists who focus their work on Palestine. Yara Hawari is a Palestinian academic, writer, and Senior Analyst for Al-Shabaka – the Palestinian Policy Network. She also hosts a podcast called Rethinking Palestince. She’s joins us from Jerusalem. Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and editor at The Electronic Intifada, who is based in the Bay Area, and is also a former KPFA producer.
Follow Yara Hawari on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yarahawari
Check out the Al Shabaka website: https://al-shabaka.org/
Follow Nora Barrows-Friedman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/norabf
Check out the Electronic Intifada website: https://electronicintifada.net/
Then, a feature peom from Bay Area Palestinian activist Lubna, called In The Absence of Homeland.
We bring the conversation home to the Bay Area, in conversation with Suzanne Ali, from the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians dedicated to the liberation of our homeland and people; along with Lara Kiswani, the Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, which organizes for racial and economic justice and the dignity and liberation of our Arab, and Muslim communities here in the Bay Area. She is also Palestinian.
Check out the Palestinian Youth Movement’s website: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/
Check out the Arab Resource and Organizing Center’s website: https://araborganizing.org/
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is motorcycle-riding multidisciplinary performing artist, transsexual, dyke, and tattoo artist, Annie Danger.
Check out Annie Danger’s tattoo work on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danger_tattoos/
Check out Annie Danger’s show The Hands That Feed You at CounterPulse in San Francisco on October 13th or October 15th: https://counterpulse.org/
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