Palestine Deep Dive

Game Design in the Shadow of Genocide | Rasheed Abueideh

Rasheed Abueideh is a Palestinian game designer from a village near Nablus in the West Bank. He gained international recognition with his game "Liyla and the Shadows of War", which tells the story of a young girl and her father navigating a decimated Gaza during the Israeli aggression of 2014.
Despite initial attempts from Apple to censor the game, Rasheed and supporters of his art fought for its inclusion which was eventually successful.
In this audio podcast for Palestine Deep Dive, composer and sound designer Sami El-Enany learns about Rasheed’s latest project, "Dreams On A Pillow”, a stealth game set during the ethnic cleansing and violent displacement of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba. The game follows the story of a Palestinian woman who carries a pillow instead of her child by mistake after fleeing an Israeli massacre. Set in multiple timelines, the game aims to preserve the memory of pre-Zionist Palestine and highlight the trauma endured by Palestinians.
Sami El-Enany is a composer and sound designer. Through his practice and research, Sami is delving into the sonics of solidarity, exploring sound as resonance for union.
The game has entered the final days of its crowdfunding campaign which can be found at: dreamsonapillow.com
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Genocide in Gaza: Western Moral Collapse in the Age of Hyper-Imperialism | Vijay Prashad

“This is not just an Israeli genocide - this is an Israeli, European and US genocide!”
Vijay Prashad exposes the moral decline of the global north in the age of hyper-Imperialism and its continued war against “defiance” found in the global south.
In a recent report published by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research titled Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage, Prashad argues the global north has heightened its reliance upon force to insist on obedience. 
Read the report: https://thetricontinental.org/studies...
Interview recorded 11th November 2024.
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Vijay is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. He is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi).
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

Zionism, Settler Colonialism & Imperialism: The Roots of Israel's Genocide on Gaza | Dr Sai Englert

"This is what it means to destroy a people!" Dr Sai Englert unpacks the root causes of Israel's decades of continuous violence wielded against Palestinians amid its ongoing genocide on Gaza, with a special focus on Zionism, Settler Colonialism and Imperialism.
Dr Sai Englert is a lecturer in political economy of the Middle East at Leiden University. He is the author of Settler Colonialism: an Introduction (2022, Pluto Press).
His research focusses on the consequences of neoliberalism on the labour movement in Israel. He also works on settler colonialism, the transformation of work, and anti-Semitism. He is a member of the editorial board of both the Historical Materialism journal and Notes from Below. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
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Re-reading Ghassan Kanafani in the Struggle Against Genocide | Hazem Jamjoum

“Between the Sword and the Neck” Educator and editor Hazem Jamjoum offers a fresh reading of the work of Ghassan Kanafani amid Israel’s ongoing genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.
Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) is widely known as one of the great Arab novelists of the 20th century. His ability to use simple, almost mundane stories to speak to the human experience of colonialism and freedom in novels like ‘Men in the Sun’ and ‘Returning to Haifa’ continue to teach those who read them.
But Kanafani was more than a novelist, he was also a key political thinker, strategist and revolutionary whose analysis of Zionism and imperialism continues to inform and shape anti-colonial thought across the globe today.
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Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian educator and an editor with the recently-established publishing house Maqam Editions. His translation of Ghassan Kanafani's The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Press in 2023, and his translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat's No One Knows their Blood Type was released by the CSU Poetry Center in October 2024. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
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EXPOSED: How the UN Has FAILED to Stop Israel's Genocide on Gaza | Mark Seddon

Mark Seddon exposes how for over a year now the UN has been effectively powerless at stopping Israel's genocide on Gaza, illuminating the limitations of António Guterres' leadership as Secretary General and also highlighting the UN's weak attempts to get aid into Gaza.
He also exposes Israel's ongoing war against UNRWA and explains the process of how Israel could well be expelled from the UN while offering his perspective on whether the UN is indeed a dying institution.
Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune magazine. He has also worked as a Speechwriter for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He is now director of UN Studies at the University of Buckingham.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.

“We WILL Be Heard!” Asserting the Centrality & Demands of Palestinians in Britain | Dr Sara Husseini

Dr Sara Husseini is the director of the British Palestinian Committee, an independent organisation bringing together an array of Palestinian experts to enhance the impact of Palestinian voices within parliament and beyond.
In a new report launched this week in UK parliament, BPC demands the British government radically changes its policy towards Palestine at this crucial hour amid Israel's unfolding genocide on Gaza.
The report titled, Justice, Freedom & International Law: A New Policy Framework for the UK Government on Palestine, demands the rights of the Palestinian people be finally upheld and also demands the rights of the Palestinian people be defended in the public realm and protected in Britain.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Read more about BPC and subscribe to their mailing list: https://britpalcommittee.co.uk/contact

Wanted for War Crimes: ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant | Tayab Ali

“This is the most significant international humanitarian law ruling in human history!"
Tayab Ali exposes the importance of today's International Criminal Court ruling issuing the arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Tayab Ali is Head of International Law at Bindmans and Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.
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Erasing Palestinian Life in Gaza: Israel’s Genocide EXPOSED | Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman

“Israel aims to cancel and erase Palestinian life!” UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, and director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, expose the mechanics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Speaking to Palestinian journalist from Gaza, Ahmed Alnaouq, Francesca references her new UN report titled “Genocide as Colonial Erasure”, which documents how Israel is wielding its genocide as part of a broader, systematic and intentional state-organised forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.
A new 800 page report published by Forensic Architecture titled “A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023”, uses innovative digital technology to illustrate Israel’s wholesale destruction of the Gaza Strip which has left “no safe place” for Palestinians under siege and bombardment, according director Eyal Weizman.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

"They Identified Themselves!" Israeli Forces Proudly Exhibit Their War Crimes | Richard Sanders

A ground breaking new Al Jazeera documentary exposes the horrific war crimes and sadistic activities carried out by Israeli soldiers during its ongoing genocide in Gaza over the last year and reveals the identities of the perpetrators.
But director Richard Sanders says finding information about the soldiers was not difficult because “they identified themselves” - many of the the soldiers had actually uploaded the footage to their personal social media pages and sometimes even to their online dating profiles.
Richard Sanders is a British journalist and award-winning filmmaker who also directed Al Jazeera's The Labour Files and October 7 documentaries.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
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Can the ICJ Survive Israel's Genocide on Gaza? | Dr Noura Erakat

Palestinian-American legal scholar and attorney Dr Noura Erakat grants this is indeed a horrifying moment of despair for Palestinians everywhere but says giving up is not an option:
“Yes nothing has worked to stop this genocide and to liberate Palestinians, but does the opposite of that mean that we give up? Or does the opposite of that mean that we act with greater strategic acumen and foresight and try to think to ourselves, how do we do this differently? How do we do this better?”
Noura argues that the legitimacy of institutions such as the ICJ rest upon their responses to Israel’s genocide on Gaza,
“we already know this is a genocide, so it’s a way in which Palestine has inverted the lens. It doesn't matter what you say about Palestine at this point, it matters what Palestine says about your legitimacy and your institution.”
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