Palestine Deep Dive

The Biden Administration: Re-engaging the World and the Middle East? with Dr. Ghada Karmi, Phyllis Bennis & Chris Doyle

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20th November 2020: A DeepDive into the Biden administration's potential foreign policy towards Palestine/Israel, the wider Middle East and further afield. Mark Seddon is live with:
Chris Doyle is Director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu).
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Focusing on issues related to the US policy in the Middle East and the United Nations, her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She currently serves on the boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg.
Dr. Ghada Karmi is a leading Palestinian activist, academic and author of three books, the most recent of which is Return: A Palestinian memoir (2015). Dr. Karmi has practiced as a doctor of medicine, served as vice chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and was a research a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter.

Behind the Lens with Palestinian Filmmakers: Farah Nabulsi, Najwar Najjar & Lina Al-Abed

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13th November 2020: We go behind the lens in collaboration with London Palestine Film Festival on its opening night.
Mark Seddon is in conversation with three leading Palestinian filmmakers discussing their latest works and the complexities and challenges facing Palestinian cinema today.
Roua Naboulsi, Festival Coordinator of London Palestine Film Festival will kick things off, introducing us to the Festival and the events lined up over the next two weeks.
Lina Al Abed is a documentary filmmaker, born in Damascus to a Palestinian father, and Egyptian mother. Her most recent film, Ibrahim: A Fate to Define (2019) took seven years to make, tracing the journey of her investigation into what happened to her father who disappeared when she was six years old in 1987 and did not return.
Najwa Najjar is a Palestinian writer and director. Since 2000, she has worked on both documentary and fiction films, and her critically acclaimed debut feature film was Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009). Her second award winning feature film, Eyes of a Thief (2014), was the Palestinian submission for the 2015 Oscars Best Foreign Film and the Golden Globe Awards. Najwa’s latest film, Between Heaven and Earth (2020), received a ten minute standing ovation at the world premiere in November at the Cairo International Film Festival, and her screenplay was subsequently the recipient of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Award.
Farah Nabulsi is a Palestinian British filmmaker and human rights advocate. She has written, directed and produced short fiction films exploring Palestine related topics that matter to her. Farah has spoken and screened her work internationally at film festivals, universities and at the United Nations. Her current film, The Present, underscores the importance of freedom of movement as a basic human right. 

Post-Presidential Election Special: Live with Larry Wilkerson

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6th November 2020: Larry Wilkerson in conversation with Mark Seddon, taking your questions just a few days after the presidential election results come in.
Will Trump have secured a second term and what could this mean for the Middle East and further afield?
Or will Biden have been victorious and has there been a peaceful transition of power?
Lawrence Wilkerson is the retired US Army Colonel who served as Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002-05, renowned for his criticism of the US invasion of Iraq, the ongoing War on Terror and the 'Military Industrial Complex'. He is a distinguished visiting professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary and recently worked on a project assessing all scenarios if Trump refuses to leave office, if he loses in November.

Closing the Door on Corbyn: Free Speech & the Silencing of Palestinian Voices with Ben Jamal & Richard Saunders

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3rd November 2020: What does Jeremy Corbyn's suspension mean for the Labour Party and how are Palestinian voices & advocates being silenced globally? Mark Seddon is live with: 
Ben Jamal is Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Richard Sanders is an award winning TV producer and journalist.
He recently co-wrote "Antisemitism report: By suspending Corbyn, Starmer is tearing Labour apart" alongside Peter Oborne for Middle East Eye:  'The wrong sort of Jew': How Labour pursued complaints against elderly Jewish opponents of Israel

Pre-US Election 2020 Special with Ian Williams | Palestine Deep Dive

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30th October 2020: How are things shaping up for the U.S. election? What difference could a Biden victory make & would it have an impact on the Middle East? And what do Mark Seddon and Ian Williams, with 86 years of collective Labour Party membership between then, make of the EHRC report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn's suspension? Catch up now!
Ian Williams is the President of the Foreign Press Association (New York), a former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association and columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

These Chains Will Be Broken: Ramzy Baroud on Palestinian Prisoners

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October 17th 2020 | This urgent conversation focuses on the emergency situation of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Maher Al-Akhras described by B'Tselem on Monday as 'on the verge of death' as well as Ramzy's latest book, These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggles and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, 2020).
Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.

Centre Stage with Roger Waters: Israel-Palestine, the Corporate Media & UN Declaration of Human Rights

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9th October 2020: Learn more about Roger's voyage of discovery on Palestine and hear his thoughts on the most important issues of our time.
Roger Waters is one of the most important musicians of our time. A founding member of legendary progressive rock band Pink Floyd, he has also had a prolific solo career since leaving the band in 1985.
Roger is a revolutionary musician in every sense, as noted recently by Vijay Prashad, he is “both a person who revolutionised music, but as well, a revolutionary who happens to be a musician.”
Having had a lifelong commitment to social and global justice causes, Roger has taken up all the major issues of our time, including the Palestinian cause. Roger is a leading voice in the global solidarity movement for Palestinian human rights, advocating for the civil society Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement.

Israeli Annexation of the West Bank, Palestine, on Hold? Gideon Levy & Chris Doyle

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July 1st 2020: "Annexation on hold? Where now for Netanyahu's Greater Israel ambitions?"
Discussing the news:
Gideon Levy: Columnist, Haaretz
Chris Doyle: Director, Caabu
Mark Seddon: Journalist and former UN adviser

COVID, Trump & ‘Greater Israel’ with Marwan Bishara

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16th June 2020: Mark Seddon spoke with author, columnist and Al-Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst, Marwan Bishara.
Topics covered include: The ‘Annexation Government’; Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’; ‘Greater Israel and the One State Solution’; The Cover of COVID-19; Palestinian unity – a chimera?; Can a settler state ultimately survive; The EU blows hot and cold; looking to the future...

Palestine and the UN with Richard Kozul Wright & Mahmoud Elkahfif

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3rd June 2020: A DeepDive into Palestine and the UN
Richard Kozul Wright, Director of Globalisation and Trade at UNCTAD Geneva.
Mahmoud Elkhafif, Coordinator, Assistance to the Palestinian People Unit, UNCTAD Geneva.
Mark Seddon, journalist and former adviser to the UN, was our host.