![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | This Week In Palestine: Palestinian journalist/photographer Mohammad Omer in Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
Host Sherif Fam interviews award-winning Palestinian journalist/photographer Mohammad Omer, located in Gaza. In their conversation, Omer reveals some of the suffering borne by Gazans under the brutal Israeli siege, and the lack of meaningful help from the European and even the neighboring Arab community. In parting words, Sherif mentions as a sign of hope the recent seven-ton convoy of foodstuffs and personal belongings recently delivered to Gaza as a gesture of good will by the PEOPLE of Israel...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: boat trip participant Huwaida Arraf - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
Host Sherif Fam interviews Huwaida Arraf, one of 46 activists from 14 countries who recently sailed two small wooden boats (the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty) on an epic journey to Gaza without having to go through Israel or get its permission, albeit risking being shot. They took small quantities of food and medical supplies. Read more about this trip at freegaza.org and consider donating and getting involved...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: European Parliament VP Luisa Morgantini (again) - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) summary of current news highlights for Palestine; (3) Sherif's interview with European Parliament VP Luisa Morgantini (again); (4) closing remarks.
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: European Parliament Vice President Luisa Morgantini (2-17-08) - Host Sherif Fam
Host Sherif Fam interviews her excellency Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament via transatlantic phone. They discuss Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinian community, European trade agreements and trade practices, and enforcement (or lack thereof) of their human rights provisions on trade with Israel. "This Week In Palestine" is a weekly feature of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Mustafa El-Hawa with heart-rending news from Gaza - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Sunday April 27, 2008 on Truth and Justice Radio's special weekly feature, "This Week In Palestine": TWIP host Sherif Fam interviews Dr. Mustafa El-Hawa by phone link to Gaza. Dr. El-Hawa is a Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at Al-Quds University in Gaza. The conditions in Gaza are dire and get worse with each passing day that Israel is permitted, even encouraged, to pursue its genocidal policy of bombs, bombs, and more bombs, plus "security" checkpoints, plus b...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: a very special lecture by Professor Ilan Pappé - Sherif Fam (associate producer) and the staff of "Truth and Justice Radio"
Professor Pappé gave this lecture on 5-2-08 in Montreal. He is author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." We presented it on 8-3-08 in lieu of this week's "This Week In Palestine" while our host, Sherif Fam, is taking much-deserved time off. It's an extremely important speech, in which Professor Pappé steers peace activism toward a vision of a search for normality and emphasizes the importance of remembering 10 historical facts which undergird all discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian con...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Nancy Murray on making the apartheid connections - Stan Robinson (subbing for Sherif Fam)
Part 1: A concise explanation of why ONE STATE is the only solution. Voiced by McGill University law student Dina Awad. We air this clear explanation as an antidote to current slosh-filled mainstream ruminations about striving for a "two-state solution" designed to leave the fascist Israeli government in charge of Palestine. Part 2: Israel/Palestine, South Africa, and the USA: Making the Connections...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: An intense interview of Professor Joel Kovel - Hosts Sherif Fam and John Grebe
Special one-full-hour edition. In the context of the recent damning report by the internationally respected Justice Goldstone, a self-proclaimed Zionist, and the Orwellian response of our so-called leaders in the U.S., we decided to have an in-depth interview with famed Jewish professor and author Joel Kovel. Kovel's most recent book is Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (2007)...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza |
| This Week In Palestine: Professor Adam Habib - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
Sherif presents his personal interview (phoned and recorded) with Professor Adam Habib, who was denied entry into the U.S. because of his voiced opposition to the Iraq war. Professor Habib discusses the role of social movements in the Palestinian context and lessons learned from the South African apartheid experience.
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba - Sherif Fam (associate producer) and the staff of "Truth and Justice Radio," aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at . The program's own website is . It links to our playlists, which link in turn to archived audio.
Sherif Fam presents this special segment on The Nakba ("catastrophe"), incorporating part of the first hour of IMEMC's 18-hour marathon broadcast on 5-15-08. For the entirety of IMEMC's marathon, go to imemc.org and click on the "Radio Free Palestine" icon (now on the left column). Or use humanrightsmedia.org/nakba.html to download individual components. Thursday, May 15th, 2008, commemorates 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: A Visit With Irish Human Rights Activist Darryl Li - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Host Sherif Fam begins this week's program with a list of local event announcements, including a talk April 2nd by the iconic, world-renowned, and much-maligned author/scholar Norman Finkelstein at MIT. We continue with selected, horrifying, news items, including yet another gravely ill Palestinian denied entry to vital Israeli medical care as a "security risk." We follow this with a few carefully chosen words of analysis...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 245 |
| This Week In Palestine: Journalist Sameh Habeeb from Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) coverage of, and comments on, Israel's murderous, illegal siege of the population of Gaza; (3) an extraordinary interview with Palestinian journalist Sameh Habeeb, IN GAZA, at that very moment being horribly devastated by Israeli bombers, tanks, and shooters; (4) closing remarks. [Due to a heavy snowstorm, Sherif conducted this edition by phone; please forgive the compromise of sound quality.]
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine 7-13-08: an interview with Lebanese bombing victim Hussein Chokr - Host Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio, aired weekly Sundays 6-10am ET
After reviewing the week's events, not the least of which were Israeli raids, Iraeli bombings, Israeli incursions, and other Israeli violations of human rights in Palestine and Lebanon, Sherif speaks by phone with Lebanese bombing victim Mr. Abu Mohammad Hussein Chokr. Chokr's wife and all but one of his children were killed during an Israeli bombing raid of his home at 7:15am on July 19th, 2006. You can read more of this story on his website: www.majzarat-al-nabysheet.org...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: the apartheid issue - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org
First, an urgent invitation to join forces with the Palestine justice community. Next, a few minutes reviewing this week's frightening news: US turning a deaf ear to injustices in Palestine while rushing to "help" the nation of Georgia; corrupt "exoneration" of Israeli troops who killed a Palestinian journalist; and Israel's spraying of chemical-laden sewage on protesters. We hear field recordings from a recent local event exposing Israel's emerging apartheid structure...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: an interview with Palestinian independent reporter, author, and Gaza resident Rami Al-Meghari - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org. The program's own website is truthandjusticeradio.org.
"This Week in Palestine" is a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media. After a summary of current happenings, which as usual are heartbreaking beyond comprehension, Sherif conducts an extensive intervie...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| CodePink activist Ridgeley Fuller plus two remarkable activists from Cardiff, Wales - Stan R (sitting in for Sherif Fam)
SUMMARY: First, a reportback from local CodePink activist Ridgeley Fuller, who helped deliver medical supplies to Gaza last June (courtesy of talknationradio.org). Then, a live interview with two remarkable activists from Cardiff, Wales. Ray Davies (elected Councillor and longtime antinuclear activist and refuser to pay fines for his activism) and his wife Wendy Lewis are the venerable directors of Côr Cochion Caerdydd (Cardiff Reds Choir)...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Abdel Rahman Tamimi - Sherif Fam
After event announcements and a brief summary of news highlights, Sherif interviews Dr. Abdel Rahman Tamimi (in Palestine) about the extremely serious water shortage being foisted on Palestinians by the Israeli powers that be. Tamimi is Director General of the Palestianian Hydrology Group, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network. He is also a member of the National Water Council and was a negotiator with Israel on water issues...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Mr. Khalid Amayreh - Sherif Fam
After event announcements and a brief summary of this week's relevant news highlights, Sherif interviews Mr. Khalid Amayreh. Amayreh, a US-educated independent journalist and author of 330+ articles and two books, has written a frightening new report on the collusion of the illegal Fatah government of the West Bank with the so-called leadership of Israel. Together they hatched a plot in which Fatah would attack Gaza's Hamas government with the intention of destroying it, or at least provoke civi...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Philip Rizk on Gaza's plight - Host Sherif Fam
This is a weekly 45-minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This week we discuss the charade of Bush's highly touted visit with the quisling "leaders" of Palestine (dismissing Gaza as part of Palestine). Sherif interviews freelance journalist Philip Rizk to discuss the devastating effects of border crossing closure, checkpoints, and denial of bas...
Keywords: Palestine; Zionism; occupation; apartheid; brutality
Downloads: 197 |
| This Week In Palestine: former IDF crew commander Oded Na'aman of "Break the Silence" - Host Sherif Fam
On 1-25-02 a remarkable group of 52 soldiers and officers of the Israeli army reserves published a quarter-page letter which appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz. In this letter, they called on their comrades-in-arms to join their act of refusal to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In a manifesto published in a book in 2003 entitled "Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," they further declared: "we shall not continue...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; genocide
Downloads: 270 |
| This Week In Palestine: rebroadcast of Dori Smith's Talk Nation Radio with Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh in Bethlehem, Al Mazen Center for Human Rights in Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
Sherif could not be with us this week, but he has arranged for our rebroadcast of an excellent current edition of Dori Smith's Talk Nation Radio, which again examines the content in, and international treatment of, the Goldstone Report. For a transcript of the portion with Mazin Qumsiyeh, click on "view script" at radio4all.net/index.php/program/36092 The Goldstone Report is a subject that won't go away...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: We meet Attorney Ms. Huwaida Arraf, among those illegally kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel from the boat "Spirit of Humanity" on June 30, 2009 - Host: Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: 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. SCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine." It is Sunday, July 19th, 2009. We regret to announce that this edition will not extend to our usual 45 minutes but will be abbreviated to 30 minutes because the management of this station has decided to interpose one ...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: A visit with eminent Palestinian scholar of the Nakba, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta - Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth and Justice Radio
Sherif interviews Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on the recent history of Palestine, the Nakba, the Palestinian Refugees' Right of Return and what it means to Palestinians. Dr. Abu Sitta is a former member of the Palestine National Council on which he served for 20 years; founder and President of the Palestine Land Society of London; and Director of International Development Projects in Palestine. Forced to become a refugee at the young age of 10, Dr...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 163 |
| This Week In Palestine: Mr. Omar Barghouti - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio
First, local event announcements followed by a summary of some of this week's relevant news of continuing, frightening, devastating injustices against Palestinians. As in the past, you may need to brace yourself for this. Then in an effort to help sort it out, Sherif interviews independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst Omar Barghouti. Mr. Barghouti is also a human rights activist involved in civil struggle to end oppression and conflict in Palestine/Israel and an organizer of the Ca...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 154 |
| This Week In Palestine - Harvard Law Professor Duncan Kennedy - Host Sherif Fam
Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 25 |
| This Week In Palestine: Solidarity with the Native American community, and the BDS campaign - Host Sherif Fam
Activist Salma Abu Ayyash (sitting in for Sherif) tells of attending the annual National Day of Mourning in Plymouth MA during Thanksgiving. All or nearly all of the Native American speakers at that gathering proclaimed their solidarity with the victimized Palestinians. We air an excerpt. The gathering was dedicated to our brother in injustice, Leonard Peltier. One of our Palestinian brothers wrote a poem to honor Leonard Peltier, which was put to song...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza |
| This Week In Palestine - US psychologist Dr. Renae Grant views Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) summary of current news highlights for Palestine; (3) Sherif's interview with Dr. Renae Grant, Boston-area psychologist, in the course of her visit in Palestine; (4) closing remarks, including pledge of solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza. PROCEEDINGS: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Isra...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Eya El-Sarraj - in Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) coverage of, and comments on, Israel's murderous, illegal siege of the population of Gaza; (3) an extraordinary interview with Dr. Eya El-Sarraj, founder and director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme and Commissioner-General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights, IN GAZA; (4) closing remarks. Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, a...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Israel is controlling, squandering, and ruining the West Bank's water resources - Sherif Fam and the staff of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming at wzbc.org.
[THIS WEEK'S EDITION IS 20 MINUTES IN DURATION, AN EXCEPTION.] Sherif begins with one event announcement and another ever more frightening weekly report on the ongoing Israeli strangulation of Palestine's population. Our topic today concerns the Palestinian water resources in the West Bank; Israel's chokehold on them, preventing Palestinian access to their own water resources; and the Palestinians' desperate need for water...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr Moussa El-Haddad in Gaza Under Siege - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) summary of current news highlights for Palestine; (3) Sherif's interview with Dr Moussa El-Haddad in Gaza, currently under a ferocious Israeli siege; (4) closing remarks. Welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 39 |
| This Week In Palestine: Professor Ilan Pappé explains why "two-state" can never be a "solution" - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: First a dramatic clip from Al Jazeera English. Second, Sherif's summary of and comments on the continuing bad news. Not least, this includes an affirmation 8/5/09 by U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman (supposed crusader for the public interest) asserting that “everybody agrees” [in Congress] that Israel’s illegal settlements "will" be permanently annexed as part of Israel. Finally, a detailed interview with our very special returning guest, the distinguished Professor Ilan Pappé (webs...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Jerome Segal - Host Sherif Fam
Host Sherif Fam reviews the current state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of the population of Gaza. Then ensues an interview with Segal, an Israeli peace activist since 1982. Discussion includes an assessment of Israel's degree of good faith (if any) in today's attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement which Israel would honor. SCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the P...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; AIPAC
Downloads: 90 |
| This Week In Palestine:The Zionist-Nazi connection: part 2 of our conversation with Jewish historian Lenni Brenner - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Introduction. Reflection on recent news, especially Israel's further tightening of its serpentine visa and checkpoint system for visitor travel in the West Bank. Finally the second half of our recent interview with Mr. Lenni Brenner, prominent Jewish author, historian, and civil rights activist. The focus of discussion is the sordid history of Zionist cooperation and collaboration with the Nazi empire...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza; Zionist; Nazi
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| This Week In Palestine: Bir Zeit University Professor Naser Abdel Karim - Sherif Fam
It is Sunday, October 19, 2008. We begin with one announcement and a brief summary of news highlights. Following that is our interview with Bir Zeit University Professor Naser Abdel Karim. The Boston Chapter of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund will be holding a fundraising dinner featuring keynote speaker Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, co-author of the book: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a very important book which has stimulated much needed public discussion about the role pl...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Year 2008 In Review - Host Sherif Fam
A 2008 retrospective. Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
Downloads: 12 |
| This Week In Palestine: Heartless Siege of Gaza; Israel's Dummy City - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) coverage of Israel's murderous, illegal siege of the population of Gaza; (3) revelation of "dummy city" Israel constructed secretly in order to practice its siege tactics; (4) closing remarks. Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of the...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Uri Davis - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) coverage of, and comments on, Israel's murderous illegal siege of the population of Gaza; (3) interview with Professor Uri Davis; (4) closing remarks. ROUGH TRANSCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: BDS campaign discussion with Ahmed Shokr and Maria Lewis - Host Sherif Fam
After current event announcements and a summary of news, today's discussion includes Israeli apartheid and the international BDS campaign. ABRIDGED TRANSCRIPT: It is Sunday, March 1st, 2009. ... This week of March 1st to March 8th is Israel Apartheid Week. Events focused on the systems of Apartheid Israel has imposed on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and within Israel itself will take place in college campuses in 27 countries around the world, including the U.S...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Israel's ever-increasing oppressive abuses and restrictions on Palestinians' mobility - Host Sherif Fam and the staff of WZBC's Truth & Justice Radio
OUTLINE: Summary of this week's continuing shocking, awful news, including Israeli assassinations of women and children doing as they are ordered while carrying white flags. Then 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...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: we meet Mr. Hazem Kawasmi - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Opening statement; brief summary of current news highlights with some pertinent commentary; and finally, an in-depth phoned interview with today's special guest, Mr. Hazem Kawasmi. SCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid - Discussion with Chief Research Specialist Virginia Tilley in Cape Town, South Africa - Host Sherif Fam
Good morning everyone, and welcome to “This Week in Palestine,” a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom from Israel’s brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. This program presents news and analysis from the Palestinian perspective, a perspective we do not get from the mainstream media...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
Downloads: 87 |
| This Week In Palestine: with Dennis Fox on Gaza - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) summary of current news highlights for Palestine; and (3) Sherif's interview with Dennis Fox, psychologist, on Israel's blocking of a conference of psychologists in Palestine. PROCEEDINGS: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military occupation and colonization of their h...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: meet Mr. Aswad Simmons, just back from Gaza visit - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Five local event announcements; several news items of special concern; and our interview with today's special guest, Mr. Aswad Simmons, just back from his visit to Gaza. It is Sunday, April 19th, 2009. We have five event announcements: On Thursday, April 23rd, the Harvard School of Public Health will host a discussion on "Health in the Palestinian Territories: The Obstacles of Occupation" from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm at the Kresge Auditorium, Room G2...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Attorney Gerard Horton discusses chilling Israeli treatment of Palestinian children - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Opening statement; brief summary of current news highlights with some pertinent commentary; and finally, an in-depth phoned interview with today's special guest, Australian attorney and Defence for Children International officer Gerard Horton, reporting to us from Palestine. SCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Isr...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: A conversation with Jewish civil rights activist Lenni Brenner - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Introduction. 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. SCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from ...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Professor Dalit Baum (whoprofits.org) - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: (1) challenge to get involved; (2) coverage of, and comments on, Israel's murderous illegal siege of the population of Gaza; (3) interview with Professor Baum; (4) closing remarks. ROUGH TRANSCRIPT: Good morning everyone, and welcome to "This Week in Palestine," a weekly forty-five minute segment of news from Palestine, and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide
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| This Week In Palestine: Boston-area activist Jeff Klein tells about his experiences on the U.S. Viva Palestina Convoy - Host Sherif Fam
OUTLINE: Greeting; current news including comments on Obama's supposed campaign for a freeze on settlements; finally, a detailed interview with Boston-area activist Jeff Klein. He returned last week after participating in the U.S. Viva Palestina Convoy, the largest single US solidarity delegation to Palestine, which succeeded in temporarily cracking the Israeli/Egyptian/U.S. blockade to bring medical and humanitarian relief supplies into Gaza...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Mr. Ziad Abbas - Host Sherif Fam
After current event announcements and a summary of news, today's interview is with Mr. Ziad Abbas, native Palestinian refugee from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Ultimate subject: the right of return. ABRIDGED TRANSCRIPT: It is Sunday, March 8th, 2009. We have two event announcements: The Trans Arab Research Institute, an independent American think tank registered in the state of Massachusetts, and the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences of the Univers...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: Dr. Ismael Mehr of the Anerican Medical Mission to Gaza (AMMGAZA) - Host Sherif Fam
After current event announcements and a summary of news, today's discussion includes an interview with physician Ismael Mehr, just back from an extraordinary volunteer stint with the American Medical Mission for Gaza (ammgaza.com). He describes the devastation he saw. ABRIDGED TRANSCRIPT: It is Sunday, March 15th, 2009. We have four event announcements: On Wednesday, March 25th, 2009, a talk on Understanding Palestine and Israel: Why History Matters will be given by Dr...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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| This Week In Palestine: News plus an interview with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark - Host Sherif Fam
We ask our listeners as we do every week: were you involved last week in the Palestine-Israel peace movement and the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's savage military attacks against them to force them out of their homes and annex their properties into Israel? Did you speak out on the atrocities Israel is committing every day in Gaza and the West Bank? If not, why not? What is your reason not to? It is Sunday, April 5th, 2009...
Keywords: Palestine; occupation; brutality; apartheid; genocide; Gaza
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