PalCast - One World, One Struggle

Dec 05 2024 65 ep. 42 mins 30

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Welcome to Palcast, your twice weekly podcast, hosted by Palestinian refugee Dr Yousef Aljamal and his longtime collaborator and friend Helena Cobban, herself an activist and author of great renown. This series will discuss the ongoing crisis, the geopolitics at play, the place of Palestine in the world and the global demand for better that is summed up in the mantra 'One World, One Struggle.'
One World, One Struggle is been used with the permission of the Blood Sunday Families.
Music is Sabreen (West Bank 1987)
PalCast, a collaboration between Just World Educational and the tortoise shack.

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41. Gaza Latest and Remembering Refaat

Dec 05 2024 41 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The situation in Gaza is getting worse. Three women were crushed to death by men who lined up to get aid in Central Gaza. Israel continues to expand the Netzarim Corridor and attack family homes full of displaced people. More people are getting hungrier each day. At this year’s conference on Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya, Pales

40 Gaza – Hungry, Displaced and Still Under Fire

Nov 21 2024 39 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Aid trucks are looted in Gaza. People are desperate. But is all as it seems? A Washington Post article revealed that looters coordinate with the Israeli army and stay close to them! 109 aid trucks for UNRWA were looted and this week the Hamas police killed 22 looters. Meanwhile in the north of Gaza, Israel killed 74 people from the same f

39. A More Democratic Genocide with Ahmed Masoud

Nov 16 2024 47 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmed Masoud is a Palestinian novelist and writer who grew up in Jabalyia refugee camp. He joins us to speak about his family in Jabalyia, a brother who was killed by Israel, and a sister who was under siege in the refugee camp for 40 days. Ahmad shares his thoughts on the importance of literature, writing, storytelling during this critic

38. Gaza – Medics Under Fire

Nov 07 2024 48 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner who has witnessed the atrocities in Gaza firsthand as a humanitarian medical volunteer. He shares with the PalCast co-hosts his experience of being in Gaza as a medical worker during the ongoing genocide. He tells us how hungry people were so kind to him and his coll

37. Lebanon, Iran and Israel’s Bloodiest Month

Oct 31 2024 41 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast we talk to Executive Director of the International Forum for Justice in Palestine, Nabil Hallak, who is currently in Lebanon and is witnessing firsthand the Israeli war there. They discuss the recent events in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, as well as Nabil’s recent trip to South Africa, whose government has taken the case agai

36. ‘Our Hope is a Reflection of Your Hope’ – Abubaker Abed in Gaza

Oct 23 2024 39 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Abubaker Abed is a sports journalist in Gaza but since October last year he had to change his scope to cover an ongoing genocide by Israel in the Gaza Strip. He opens up to PalCast hosts about the trials and tribulations of existing in Gaza today. He says, despite the unbearable atrocities has he seen, he has not lost hope because he insi

35. The Palestine Laboratory and Ethnic Cleansing via Algorithm

Oct 18 2024 42 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Nour Naim holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. In this episode of PalCast she talks about the use of AI techniques during the genocide in Gaza by Israel. Naim notes that what is lethally dangerous about Israel’s use of AI in Gaza which started in 2019, long before October 7th, and how AI has turned into a marketable killing machi

34. Gaza – One Year On

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It has been a year since October 7th. The world has changed, but the world of Palestinians has changed beyond imagination during this fateful year. Much of Gaza has been destroyed, 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, 10,000 others are still under the rubble of their homes. Their bodies unburied as a cruel reminder of the ongoing war on

33. The Israeli-American War Expands

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ayah Arafat has been organizing for Palestine in the Washington DC Metropolitan area for over 7 years. She has been organizing with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Students for Justice in Palestine. She joins PalCast co-hosts to talk about how the organizing landscape works but also changes in the US in light of regional developments i

32. Keeping Gaza Alive

Sep 29 2024 46 mins

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Asem Alnabih is an engineer and a PhD candidate from Gaza. He currently serves as a member of the emergency committee, the spokesperson and the Director of Public Relations and Media at Gaza Municipality. He speaks to PalCast about the role the Gaza municipality plays during the genocide, his close relationship and last moments with Dr. R