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The Palestine Pod
A Palestinian-American Lawyer & Jewish-American comedian break down the latest Palestine-related news with commentary & interviews every week.
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Airbnb & the economy of genocide
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Jenin, the Palestine representative of CODEPINK to discuss Francesca Albanese's report "From economy of occup...
The Heart of Gaza with Jerusalem Coffee House
This week, Lara and Michael sit down with Abdulrahim Harara, owner of Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, California. They explore Abdulrahim’s family...
"Natural Causes" with Sammy Obeid
This week, Lara and Michael speak with Palestinian-American comedian Sammy Obeid. They discuss the ups and downs of working in comedy as a Palestinian...
Stage 5 Famine & Escalating Repression
This week Lara and Michael cover Israel's forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has reached Stage 5 for many people in the besieg...
LA Uprisings and Genocide Accountability Updates
This week Lara and Michael discuss the uprisings in LA and the solidarity seen at the protests. They also cover updates around the groundbreaking laws...
Were you silent or were you silenced?
Lara and Michael sit down separately this week. Lara reads from her submission on the political economy of the Gaza Genocide prepared as part of her w...
Israel is starving Gaza
This week Lara and Michael cover the Israeli continued forced starvation campaign against the Palestinian people for the last two months which serves...
End of the Empire with Professor Maura Finkelstein
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Professor Maura Finkelstein, a formerly tenured professor who was one of the first people targeted in academi...
Eid Massacres and State Disappearances
This week Lara and Michael discuss the unilateral breakdown of the ceasefire by the zionist entity. We cover the Israeli massacres on the Palestinian...
Return is inevitable with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta
This week Lara and Michael sit down with the acclaimed Palestinian researcher, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, a Nakba survivor who has dedicated his life to th...
Netanyahu tapes and a fake ceasefire
This week, we discuss the bizarre declaration by Milekowsky (aka Netanyahu) that he is proudly committing war crimes by imposing a total siege on the...
Reparations and Restitution with Lena El-Malak
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Lena El-Malak a Palestinian-British author and lawyer to discuss her new book, Stolen Nation.
Release Dr. Abu Safiya
This week, Lara and Michael do a deep dive into the kidnapping and torture of Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Edwan Hospital, and a Pediatrici...
Close Guantanamo with Mansoor Adayfi 441
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Mansoor Adayfi, a Yemeni citizen who was wrongfully kidnapped at the age of 18, sold to the CIA, and spent 15...
Suing the US government for violating the Leahy Law
This week Lara and Michael cover the new lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans and DAWN against the U.S. State Department under the Administrative...
The Legacy of MOVE with Mike Africa Jr.
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Mike Africa Jr., author and Legacy Director of MOVE, a Philadelphia-based activist collective and liberation...
Accountability for Complicity with Genocide with Damia Taharraoui
This week, Lara and Michael sit down with Damia Taharraoui, a lawyer at the Paris bar, who recently filed a criminal complaint for complicity with gen...
Live from Beirut with Rania Khalek
This week, Lara and Michael sit down with acclaimed Lebanese-American journalist, Rania Khalek. Reporting from Beirut, Rania comments on Israel’s use...
The Announcement of the Nakba
This week Lara and Michael cover the formal announcement by Apartheid Israel of the plan to not allow for the return of Palestinians to the Northern p...
Breaking the Siege on Gaza with Huwaida Arraf
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Huwaida Arraf, Palestinian activist and lawyer who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement. We discu...
Real Art Disrupts with Amanda Seales
This week Lara and Michael sit down with the one and only Amanda Seales. Amanda shares her path to learning about and speaking up for Palestine as an...
Batman Origin Story
This week Lara and Michael discuss Israel's expansion of its Nakba and ongoing genocide into Lebanon, with a word on the pager terrorist attacks, and...
Murder Capital of the World with Dr. Mark Perlmutter
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a hand surgeon and recent humanitarian volunteer in Gaza during the genocide. He describ...
Israel's Economic Collapse
This week Lara and Michael discuss Israel's latest scheme to recruit African asylum seekers to the genocide effort and the frozen death toll in Gaza i...
NYT Killed Medo Halimy
This week on the Palestine Pod, Lara and Michael cover the ongoing genocide in Palestine with updates from on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank inc...
The End of Zionism with Amanda Gelender
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Jewish anti-Zionist activist and writer Amanda Gelender. Amanda argues that the Jewish community has a fascis...
Guns, Germs, and Steal
This week Lara and Michael discuss the hysteria surrounding Washington's reception of Benjamin Netanyahu, the genocidaire overseeing Israel's current...
The limits of international law with Dr. Ardi Imseis
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Associate Professor of Law at Queens University, Dr. Ardi Imseis. Dr. Imseis is the author of the UN and the...
Gaslighting the Death Toll
This week Lara and Michael discuss two recent reports challenging the stagnant death toll in Gaza: a recent article by Palestinian-American author Sus...
Divesting from Genocide at UCSB with Jwan Haddadd
This week Lara and Michael sit down with the former President of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at University of California Santa Barbara (UC...
The Writing is on the Apartheid Wall
This week Lara and Michael cover Israeli massacres in Jabalia and Jenin. Lara covers how the last two functioning hospitals in Gaza are being besieged...
Genocide on the Ballot with Dr. Jill Stein
This week, Lara and Michael play a recorded interview with UCLA students from their student encampment and sit down with Presidential candidate for th...
The US is lying to you
This week Lara and Michael cover the Pro-Publica report that internal State Department recommendations advise sanctioning and cutting military funding...
The Massacre at Al Shifa
This week Lara and Michael cover the details emerging around the massacre at Al Shifa Hospital, predicting that this massacre will be remembered in th...
Medical Mission to Gaza with Dr. Mohammad Subeh
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Palestinian-American ER physician, Dr. Mohammad Subeh. Dr. Subeh came to the US as a Palestinian refugee duri...
The Torture Files
This week Lara and Michael cover the ongoing deliberate starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza by the Zionist regime in violation of internation...
Gaza the Phoenix with Hala Hanina
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Hala Hanina a Palestinian dentist, PhD researcher in sociology, and 4th-generation Palestinian refugee from G...
Why are we not like other children?
This week Lara and Michael discuss the Zionists’ genocidal assault on Rafah during the evening of the Super Bowl, targeting at least two mosques conta...
Where is Hind?
This week Lara and Michael cover the story of the missing 6-year-old child by the name of Hind whose terrified phone calls circulated worldwide and th...
Briefcase and the shotgun: Sorting out the ICJ ruling
This week Lara and Michael (mostly Lara) break down the significance of the ICJ ruling in the Genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel fro...