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Palestinian voters could decide Israel’s election, yet their representatives remain excluded from political power. Historian Leena Dallasheh joins The +972 Podcast to explore the limits of Palestinian citizenship, the roots of today’s political divisions, and why the struggle to remain on one’s land has often demanded difficult compromises.
The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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For the first six months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mhawish reported from the ground for +972 Magazine and other outlets. In April 2024, he and his family fled Gaza, but he continued documenting what was happening to his home from afar.
In this episode of The +972 podcast, exactly three years after the Hamas-led Oct 7 attack on southern Israel and the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mhawhish reflects on survival and exile, the burden carried by Palestinian journalists, and what it means to remember Gaza as a place of culture beyond the war and destruction.
Additional reading:
Mohammed Mhawish archive on +972 Magazine https://www.972mag.com/writer/mohammed-r-mhawish/
Bearing witness to Gaza as a place of life https://www.972mag.com/daybreak-in-gaza-book-palestinian-life/
A year ago, an Israeli airstrike buried me alive. I’m still clawing my way out https://www.972mag.com/israeli-airstrike-buried-alive-gaza/
In memory of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, Gaza City’s voice to the world https://www.972mag.com/ismail-al-ghoul-journalist-gaza/
Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/treating-gazas-collective-trauma
The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
Theme music by Ghassan Birumi
This episode was edited by Abed Abou Shhadeh
An epidemic of criminal violence is devastating Palestinian communities inside Israel, with this year’s death toll reaching 168 at the time of recording. But the numbers tell only part of the story: Mafia networks have penetrated almost every aspect of life — from local governance to education, welfare, banking, and waste collection.
On this episode of The +972 Podcast, anthropologist Eilat Maoz examines how this epidemic of organized crime became so deeply entrenched in Palestinian society amid economic liberalization, social fragmentation, and state repression at the turn of the century. Drawing on examples of Palestinian cities in Israel from Arraba to Nazareth, and extending her analysis to the West Bank and Gaza, Maoz shows how the Israeli state relies on violent middlemen to maintain control — ever-present when it comes to political repression, yet deliberately passive when it comes to confronting criminal networks.
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How organized crime took over Israel’s Palestinian communities
Why Palestinians in Israel believe crime is a ‘strategic project of the state’
How weapons from the Gaza war are killing Palestinians on Israel’s streets
Abandoned by the state, Palestinian citizens of Israel face record crime wave
Under Israel’s watch, Palestinian gangs are sowing chaos in the West Bank
First Israel silenced Palestinian citizens. Now it turns to their leaders
In first, Israel convicts Palestinian citizens for chanting slogans
Theme music by Ghassan Birumi
This episode was edited by Abed Abou Shhadeh
In the wake of Israel’s obliteration of Gaza, it is easy to conclude that international law has failed. But Israeli scholar Neve Gordon argues that the problem runs deeper: states can wield the language and principles of international law not only to evade accountability, but to justify mass violence itself. On this episode of The +972 Podcast, Gordon traces how Israel has used legal concepts to construct a rationale for its assault on Gaza, how human rights advocacy has shifted from political struggle toward an increasingly professionalized field of lawyers and experts, and how the language of human rights can be co-opted to advance the very forms of domination it was meant to challenge. What, then, can international law actually offer a struggle for Palestinian liberation?
Watch the episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/hUQ3nqrstro
The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
Edited by Abed Abou Shhadeh
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Israel’s abuse of Palestinian prisoners and detainees has reached new heights since October 7, particularly for those arrested in Gaza. But what does this incarceration regime actually look like? Human rights lawyer Sahar Francis knows it better than most. She has spent decades advocating for Palestinian prisoners, and she tells +972 that the past three years are the worst she’s ever seen — even though conditions before the war had long been characterized by arbitrary cruelty. She describes how Israel has weaponized the legal system to hold detainees in inhumane conditions without charge or trial, and calls for international pressure in order to end it.
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Produced by Jennifer Cutler, edited by Abed Abou Shhadeh.
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As Israel prepares for elections on Oct. 27, the past four years demand a reckoning: what has prolonged far-right rule changed in law, policy, and political culture? And what does it reveal about the ability of Israeli institutions and civil society to protect rights during a time of acute crisis? Noa Sattath, Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) — one of the country's oldest and most prominent civil and human rights organizations — offers a behind the scenes look at what it means to fight for rights through institutions that have been complicit in horrific state violence, yet remain among the few arenas where that violence can still be challenged.
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The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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In 2011, social media helped topple dictators. Today, platforms deprioritize political content across the board. But for Palestinians, the problem goes deeper than algorithms — it's systematic. A new report from 7amleh, the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement, documents more than 3,000 cases of Meta restricting Palestinian content over five years. 7amleh's executive director Nadim Nashif joins us to break down the mechanisms behind this digital erasure — and why Meta is just the clearest example of a digital ecosystem stacked against Palestinians.
Right now, we’re running a fundraising campaign with a goal of welcoming 200 new members. +972 Magazine is fiercely independent, and that’s only possible because of listeners and readers like you. Head over to 972mag.com to learn more and support our journalism by becoming a member today.
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The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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On July 1, Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on confiscated Palestinian property. Among the descendants of the Palestinian families who own the site is historian Rashid Khalidi. He details his family’s nearly 30 year legal battle against the planned embassy — and reflects on whether the hundred-year war on Palestine may finally be entering a new chapter, given historic shifts in global public opinion.
Right now, we’re running a one-month fundraising campaign with a goal of welcoming 200 new members. +972 Magazine is fiercely independent, and that’s only possible because of listeners and readers like you. Head over to 972mag.com to learn more and support our journalism by becoming a member today.
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The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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Since October 2023, much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble. But architect and Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman argues that destruction alone does not capture what is taking place. Drawing on his new book, “Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,” he describes a process that goes beyond erasure: the “rubbing out of any trace of existence” aimed at expelling the Palestinian population and permanently preventing their return.
Right now, we’re running a one-month fundraising campaign with a goal of welcoming 200 new members. +972 Magazine is fiercely independent, and that’s only possible because of listeners and readers like you. Head over to 972mag.com to learn more and support our journalism by becoming a member today.
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The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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The global movement for Palestinian justice has achieved real gains — in international courts, in diplomatic shifts, in a transformation of public opinion. Yet the official Palestinian leadership remains deeply fractured, ill-equipped to meet the moment. Omar Rahman, fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, makes the case that the Palestinian leadership crisis is a national emergency: those in power prioritize their own survival over any coherent response to Israel’s genocide, leaving Palestinians without a national vision and strategy at the moment they need it most.
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The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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