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Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// Masafer Yatta// We heared updates from an 'australian' activist currently in Palestine on recent developments in the area of Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communties in the West Bank. This week's dispatch covers settler violence in Khalet a Daba, deportation of solidarity activists, bombing in Gaza, and reminders about how to support Palestinian resistance from so-called australia.// VIC Fixed Drug Testing// We heared from ''Oliver'' on the upcoming launch of the fixed drug testing facility, due to be announced next week, on what makes a service accessible, adaptable, and safe for people who use drugs. We spoke about how to reach populations that are left out from the mobile testing at music festivals, the role stigma plays, what wraparound healthcare look like, and a walk through on the ideal service experience.// Kelly Flanagan - FIGJAM// CW: discussion of suicide/suicidal ideation (general - not graphic). If you need to speak with someone for support, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Suicide Callback Service on 1300 659 467. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can also call 13 YARN (13 92 76) and Yarning Safe'n'Strong on 1800 959 563. Kelly Flanagan, a formerly incarcerated Indigenous woman and member of the Formerly Incarcerated Justice Advocates (FIGJAM) Collective, spoke to Priya this week about the appalling conditions prisoners at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre have been forced to endure under rolling lockdowns since July 2024. This crisis was revealed in a story broken by ABC News earlier this week, where 7:30 obtained data showing that the centre had been locked down at least 106 times since July 2024. FIGJAM is affiliated with Flat Out, a state-wide advocacy and support service for women, trans and gender diverse people (and their children) who have been criminalised. Donate to support their work here.// Aunty Lisa Briggs - Walk for Truth// Lastly, we heard from Aunty Lisa Briggs, a proud Gunditjmara women and Member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria, with over 40 years of experience working in public policy for Aboriginal Affairs at all levels. We're honored for Aunty Lisa to join us to discuss the Yoorrook Justice Commission's Walk For Truth, which has been running from 25 May, and finishing up on 18 June. This powerful journey aims to bring everyone together to walk toward truth, celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people, and be proud to have the oldest living culture in the world as ours. Join them on their journey at Colac, Footscray, Shrine of Rememberance and many more legs. Follow Yoorrook on Instagram for their latest updates.// Updates & Events:Justice for Ali Mohammad JooThe Kashmiri Martyr, father, and sole breadwinner of his family, who was killed by the indian occupation forces.// Justice for Kumanjayi White - Snap RallyTomorrow, Friday 6 June  - 5:30PMVictorian Parliament Steps, Spring Street, MelbourneLast week, Kumanjayi White was killed while being restrained by NT Police in a Coles supermarket in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Join us to demand justice, accountability and action from the federal government. Stand with the Warlpiri people, the Yuendumu community, and all families fighting for truth, self-determination and justice.// Song: Listen to Bawuypawuy the lastest single by Drifting Clouds, described as the most chill band from Arnhem Land. You definetely don't want to miss these infectious sounds and hynotic melodies coming from Terry Guyula. Take a listen - follow them on Instagram and buy their music on Bandcamp.//

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Gaza update Flooding in NSW mid-north coastLegal experts and advocates raise concerns about NSW police's use of firearm prohibition ordersState Library of Queensland withdraws fellowship from First Nations writer over Palestine solidaritySurges in refusals of Freedom of Information requests   Updates from an 'australian' activist in Palestine on recent developments in Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communties in the West Bank. We hear about the everyday violence of settlers encroaching on Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley, as well as our correspondent's reflections on being involved in international solidarity work providing a presence to deter these incursions.//  Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, joined us to unpack funding implications for the Aboriginal legal sector in Victoria's 2025-26 budget, which was handed down by Treasurer Jaclyn Symes this Tuesday 19 May. Nerita discussed the impacts of the Allan Government's massive funding boost for the prison system and police in the wake of this year's regressive bail reform, as well as its decision to stick to time-limited funding for Aboriginal legal services in regional Victoria. Nerita Waight is a Yorta Yorta and Narrandjeri woman with Taungurung connections.// Jalees Hyder is a fiery Kashmiri writer, teacher, poet, freedom fighter, and survivor living as a guest on Chinook Land in 'portland'. In this special 3 part series, Jalees and Inez unpack Kashmir's history, interconnected resistance and solidarity with Palestine, the importance of centering Kashmiri voices, tourism as a tool of normalising the occupation and much more. From personal stories of solidarity to what life is like under occupation, Jalees paints a picture on why Kashmiris have had enough and what actionable solidarity looks like. Today, we play part 2, we talk about how media manafacture consent for violence, supression of Kashmiri voices, tourism as normalising occupation, and india x israels relationship.Follow Jalees on Instagram, where he shares his writing and poetry as well as resources about Kashmir - support and amplify Kashmiri voices!// Song:  Sahal Kar from Ali Saffudin, a singer-songwriter from Srinagar, Kashmir. Known throughout the valley for his magnetic and captivating voice, take a listen.//  Thursday 15th of May marked the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day, commemorating the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in the fight for Palistinian liberation since 1947. This Day reminds us that Nakba, meaning catastrophe or disaster in Arabic, never ended. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land is ongoing in the form of genocide, ecocide and epistemicide - which means to 'destroy and erase sovereign knowledge'. The following audio was recorded by 3CR's Karina Aguilera at the Naarm Nakba Day Rally on Sunday last week. You will hear the voices of Noura Mansour, Nasser Mashni, Uncle Gary Foley and Uncle Robbie Thorpe.//

In September 2024, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Turkish American human rights activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi outside of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Her murder was a devastating example of a sharp uptick in military and settler violence against both Palestinian residents and the international and Israeli activists who work with them. For years, solidarity activists such as Eygi have responded to the violent reality in the West Bank by physically accompanying Palestininans in the hopes that their “protective presence” will serve as a buffer to prevent attacks. This strategy has received heightened attention thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which features Palestinians resisting colonialism in the villages of Masafer Yatta, and Israelis engaging in protective presence with them. For those engaged in solidarity work in the West Bank, this moment of increased violence has amplified ever-present moral questions: What is my responsibility to intervene when someone else is in danger? How much risk must I take upon myself to try and protect my Palestinian comrades? And to what extent must I recruit others to join me in taking that risk? In this chevruta, Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein explores these quandaries with Jewish Currents assistant editor Maya Rosen. As a long-time protective presence activist, Rosen is regularly weighing the danger that she and the activists she recruits will take on in the course of their work: How can she adequately prepare people without scaring them off? And how can she communicate the rewards of the work alongside the risks? Bernstein and Rosen discuss these questions through the lens of three texts—two Talmudic texts, and one Holocaust-era responsum—with the aim of helping those who are attempting to share the burden of serious risk find pathways to greater collective courage.This podcast is part of our chevruta column, named for the traditional method of Jewish study, in which a pair of students analyzes a religious text together. In each installment, Jewish Currents matches leftist thinkers and organizers with a rabbi or Torah scholar. The activists bring an urgent question that arises in their own work; the Torah scholar leads them in exploring their question through Jewish text. By routing contemporary political questions through traditional religious sources, we aim to address the most urgent ethical and spiritual problems confronting the left. Each column includes a written conversation, podcast, and study guide. You can find the column based on this conversation here, and a study guide here.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).” Articles Mentioned:All Jewish sources are cited in the study guide, linked above“

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Updates from GazaNationwide action for Nakba Day 2025University of Sydney students vote on controversial antisemitism definitionVictorian Government commits $727 million to prison expansion An 'australian' activist currently in Palestine shares updates from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank and an interview with Palestinian activist Hamoudi about his family's experiences of the ongoing Nakba and exercising steadfastness in the face of occupation. We also hear a short clip of some school girls in Susiya singing the song 'Aytuna Tafola' ('Give Us Our Childhood').// Dr Jamal Nabulsi is a Palestinian writer, researcher, rapper, organiser, educator on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land ''brisbane.'' Jamal joins Inez to discuss Palestinian and First Nations solidarity, resisting fragmentation, the importance of self-determined Indigenous spaces, and shared music, art, and solidarity practices. Jamal is a founding collective member of the Institute of Collaborative Race Research, and his PHD thesis ‘Affective Resistance: Feeling through everyday Palestinian struggle', which explores Palestinian hip-hop music and graffiti, was awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis on emotions in politics and international relations by the British International Studies Association. Check out Brisblackpal for resources on Blackfulla - Palestinian Solidarity. Get your tickets for the Activism for Palestine Conference 2025, running 30 May-1 June in Fortitude Valley, Magan-djin/brisbane, on Humanitix.// Jalees Hyder is a fiery Kashmiri writer, teacher, poet, freedom fighter, and survivor living as a guest on Chinook Land in 'portland'. In this special three-part series, Jalees and Inez unpack Kashmir's history, interconnected resistance and solidarity with Palestine, the importance of centering Kashmiri voices, tourism as a tool of normalising the occupation and much more. From personal stories of solidarity to what life is like under occupation, Jalees paints a picture on why Kashmiris have had enough and what actionable solidarity looks like. Today, we play part 1 of the conversation, where Jalees and Inez talk about community solidarity, the history of Kashmir, and what often gets left out of mainstream narratives on the region. Follow Jalees on Instagram, where he shares his writing and poetry as well as resources about Kashmir - support and amplify Kashmiri voices!// Lorna Munro, Wiradjuri and Gomeroi woman and multi-disciplinary artist extraordinaire, caught up with Priya to speak about anti-colonial solidarities between First Nations Peoples and Palestinians, and to situate the role of poetry in the struggle for liberation against colonial violence and occupation. Lorna also shared a beautiful poem about surviving genocide. Keep up to date with Lorna's work on Instagram.// Songs//yayayaya (prod. Atari) - Haykal// Mawtini/My Homeland  - Gaza Youth Choir//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Updates from GazaQueensland Government's decision to freeze access to hormone treatments for transgender children faces court challengeNew South Wales Department of Justice forced to release footage of officer assault on a teenage girl in custodyTasmanian Government plans to delay closure of Ashley Youth Detention CentreUpdates from Kashmir We heard updates from an 'australian' activist currently in Palestine, who shared recent developments in the area of Masafer Yatta, a collection of herding communities in the West Bank. This dispatch includes reporting on settler intimidation and land-grab attempts and the steadfastness of Palestinian herders' efforts to stay on their land.// James Godfrey from Free Gaza Australia joined us to discuss the May 2nd drone attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's ship the Conscience, which occurred just off the coast of Malta. The vessel was carrying humanitarian aid to thousands of starving people in Gaza facing famine after a total blockade on aid imposed by the state of Israel since March 2nd. Free Gaza Australia is a member of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a people-to-people solidarity movement of initiatives from all over the world, working to challenge Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza by the state of Israel using non-violent direct action.// Katrina Kiernan-Walker, one of two vice-president candidates for the Community and Public Sector Union or CPSU Victoria's A Voice for Members ticket, talked with us about the rank and file demand for a fighting union representing public sector workers. Katrina has been in the Victorian public service for five years, and has spent four of those as a CPSU Victoria delegate and health and safety representative. There are still a few tickets left for tonight's CPSU A Voice for Members Trivia Night with Tom Ballard - grab one here.// Dr Chris Taylor, Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, unpacked the state of native forest regeneration in Victoria after the end of native forest logging at scale with the closure of Vic Forests in July 2024. Chris is an environmental researcher with expertise in landscape analysis and spatial ecology, working on modelling forest conditions, disturbance regimes, and biodiversity priorities. Chris has led and co-authored studies examining forest regeneration failure, fire severity, and habitat fragmentation across Victoria. At the Fenner School, Chris is currently contributing to interdisciplinary research on forest dynamics, conservation prioritisation, and environmental policy. Chris acknowledges the First Peoples of the Countries he works on, the People of the Bunurong, Gunaikurnai, Taungurong and Wurundjeri nations and their Elders.// Kate Allingham, CEO of Economic Justice Australia, discussed a newly-released report by EJA analysing barriers to service delivery for women attempting to access and maintain social security entitlements in regional, rural, remote and very remote australia. The report is the first release in a series of three pieces of work by EJA spanning key service delivery, law and policy issues related to social security access, and making substantial recommendations for reform.//

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Even before the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli attacks on the West Bank were escalating in 2025. By Feb. 5, 70 Palestinians were reported killed this year alone. Anna Lippman, a member of Independent Jewish Voices, has traveled on numerous occasions to the West Bank from her home in Toronto, Canada, to stand with Palestinians defending their land from attacks by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers. Most recently, Lippman was in the Masafer Yatta community in the occupied West Bank as Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of the film No Other Land, was detained by Israeli forces after being attacked by armed Israeli settlers in that same community. Lippman joins The Marc Steiner Show for an in-depth discussion on her experiences on the ground in the West Bank, where attempted land grabs and expulsions of Palestinians are growing by the day.Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Alina NehlichHelp TRNN continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

Even before the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli attacks on the West Bank were escalating in 2025. By Feb. 5, 70 Palestinians were reported killed this year alone. Anna Lippman, a member of Independent Jewish Voices, has traveled on numerous occasions to the West Bank from her home in Toronto, Canada, to stand with Palestinians defending their land from attacks by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers. Most recently, Lippman was in the Masafer Yatta community in the occupied West Bank as Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of the film No Other Land, was detained by Israeli forces after being attacked by armed Israeli settlers in that same community. Lippman joins The Marc Steiner Show for an in-depth discussion on her experiences on the ground in the West Bank, where attempted land grabs and expulsions of Palestinians are growing by the day.Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: David HebdenPost-Production: Alina NehlichHelp TRNN continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with writer and activist Ali Awad about life in Masafer Yatta, the part of the West Bank where he lives, which is subject to ongoing and escalating state-backed Israeli settler attacks. Ali describes life in his rural village, Tuba, on "a good day," a day without settler attacks, and also looks at the history of Masafer Yatta under Israeli occupation, including decades of being unsettled and facing forcible transfer and the threat of continued expulsion. Ali describes the escalations in attacks and threats against these communities since October 7th, 2023, including recent attacks targeting his village and family. Looking at the multi-pronged Israeli efforts to force Palestinians out of Masafer Yatta, Ali talks about the loss of any sense of security, hope, or the possibility of a future on the land he and his families have inhabited for many generations. And he speaks about efforts to support children traumatized by settler/soldier violence, to connect with human rights activists fighting these injustices, and to achieve the security and freedom needed for more "good days" in Masafer Yatta. Ali Awad is a human rights activist and writer from Tuba in the South Hebron Hills. He has a degree in English literature. Read more of Ali's work here: Starving Palestine: Israeli colonialism and the struggle for food sovereignty in Masafer Yatta. Words by Manal Shqair. Photographs by Ali Awad. Vittles, 2/10/25: https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/starving-palestine Ali Awad: “Many West Bank Palestinians Are Being Forced Out of Their Villages. Is My Family Next?” New York Times 11/20/25: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/opinion/israel-west-bank-palestinians.html Ali's many articles on +972 Magazine: https://www.972mag.com/writer/ali-awad/ Ali Awad in Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da25-d432-a77f-df3fa13f0000 Humans of Masafer Yatta: https://humansofmasaferyatta.substack.com/ For more on the attacks in Jinba, Susya, and Tuba, see: Israeli settlers attacked Jinba — then came back in army uniform (Oren Ziv, +972 Magazine, 4/2/25): https://www.972mag.com/jinba-pogrom-israeli-settlers-soldiers/ In Masafer Yatta, we need more than awards — we need protection (Ahmad Nawajah, +972 Magazine, 4/8/25): https://www.972mag.com/susiya-masafer-yatta-oscars-protection/ On the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land and ongoing attacks in Masafer Yatta, see https://www.972mag.com/search/?q=no%20other%20land For more on Masafer Yatta: https://savemasaferyatta.com/ To watch the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land: https://nootherland.com/ Sarah Anne Minkin, PhD, is FMEP's Director of Programs & Partnerships. She is an expert on the intersection between Israeli civil society and Palestinian civil rights and human rights advocacy as well as the ways that Jewish Americans approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She leads FMEP's programming, works to deepen FMEP's relationships with existing and potential grantees, and builds relationships with new partners in the philanthropic community. A graduate of Yale University, Sarah Anne earned her doctorate at the University of California-Berkeley. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Politisk redaktör Tanvir Mansur samtalar med Anja som är följeslagare på Västbanken. Hon berättar om den israeliska ockupationen på Västbanken och hur Hamdan Ballal, en av regissörerna till den Oscarsvinnande filmen No other land, blev misshandlad av israeliska bosättare. Sedan tre månader tillbaka befinner sig Anja i området som filmen är inspelad i, Masafer Yatta. Och hon är ett vittne till våldet som bosättare och militär utsätter palestinier för. Tack för att du lyssnar på Tyckpresen! Ansvarig utgivare: Andreas Gustavsson

"No Other Land", filme vencedor do Oscar de melhor documentário, em 2025, foi produzido por um coletivo palestino-israelense e mostra a destruição do vilarejo de Masafer Yatta por soldados israelenses, na Cisjordânia ocupada. Acompanhamos também a aliança que se desenvolve entre o ativista palestino Basel e o jornalista israelense Yuval. "No Other Land", traduzido no Brasil como "Sem Chão", é um testemunho da resistência palestina diante da ocupação. Como espectadores, somos confrontados com a dura realidade de comunidades que lutam para preservar suas casas, terras e recursos naturais. Para essa conversa, convidamos Felipe Wolokita, cinegrafista e documentarista brasileiro-israelense, que desde 2015 tem trabalhado para veículos de comunicação de todo o mundo.

Ralph welcomes journalist Chris Hedges to talk about his new book "A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine." Then, Ralph speaks to David Swanson of World BEYOND War about what his organization is doing to resist this country's casual acceptance of being constantly at war. Finally, Ralph checks in with our resident constitutional scholar Bruce Fein.Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the host of The Chris Hedges Report, and he is a prolific author— his latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.We not only blocked the effort by most countries on the globe to halt the genocide or at least censure Israel to the genocide, but of course have continued to sendbillions of dollars in weapons and to shut down critics within the United States… And that sends a very, very ominous message to the global south, especiallyas the climate breaks down, that these are the kind of draconian murderous measuresthat we will employ.Chris HedgesIt's a very, very ominous chapter in the history of historic Palestine. In some ways, far worse even than the 1948 Nakba (or “Catastrophe”) that saw massacres carried out against Palestinians in their villages and 750,000 Palestinians displaced. What we're watching now is probably the worst catastrophe to ever beset the Palestinian people.Chris HedgesIt's a bit like attacking somebody for writing about Auschwitz and not giving the SS guards enough play to voice their side. We're writing about a genocide and, frankly, there isn't a lot of nuance. There's a lot of context (which is in the book). But I expect either to be blanked out or attacked because lifting up the voices of Palestinians is something at this point within American society that is considered by the dominant media platforms and those within positions of power to be unacceptable.Chris HedgesIt eventually comes down to us, the American people. And it's not just the Middle East. It's a sprawling empire with hundreds of military bases, sapping the energy of our public budgets and of our ability to relate in an empathetic and humanitarian way to the rest of the world.Ralph NaderDavid Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, radio host and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction. His books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War.The biggest scandal of the past two days in the United States is not government officials secretly discussing plans for mass killing, for war making, but how they did it on a group chat. You can imagine if they were talking about blowing up buildings in the United States, at least the victims would get a little mention in there.David SwansonThe Democrats are the least popular they've been. They're way less popular than the Republicans because some of the Republicans' supporters actually support the horrendous behavior they're engaged in. Whereas Democrats want somebody to try anything, anything at all, and you're not getting it.David SwansonYou know how many cases across the world across the decades in every hospital and health center there are of PTSD or any sort of injury from war deprivation? Not a one. Not a single one, ever. People survive just fine. And people do their damnedest to stay out of it, even in the most warmongering nations in the world. People try their very hardest to stay out of war personally, because it does great damage.David SwansonBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.If there were really an attorney general who was independent, they would advise the President, “You can't make these threats. They are the equivalent of extortion.”Bruce FeinVigorous Public Interest Law DayApril 1, 2025 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm at Harvard Law School the Harvard Plaintiffs' Law Association is hosting Vigorous Public Interest Law Day with opening remarks by Ralph Nader. The program will feature highly relevant presentations and group discussions with some of the nation's most courageous public interest lawyers including Sam Levine, Bruce Fein, Robert Weissman, Joan Claybrook, and Pete Davis, to name a few. More information here.News 3/26/251. Starting off this week with some good news, Families for Safe Streets reports the Viriginia Assembly has passed HB2096, also known as the Stop Super Speeders bill. If enacted, this bill would allow would judges to “require drivers convicted of extreme speeding offenses to install Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) technology in their vehicles, automatically limiting their speed to the posted limit.” According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA, established by Ralph Nader, speeding was responsible for 12,151 deaths in 2022 and is a contributing factor in the skyrocketing number of pedestrians killed by automobiles which hit a 40-year high in 2023, per NPR.2. In more troubling auto safety news AP reports NHTSA has ordered a new recall on nearly all Cybertrucks. This recall centers on an exterior panel that can “detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers, [and] increasing the risk of a crash.” This panel, called a “cant rail assembly,” is attached with a glue that is vulnerable to “environmental embrittlement,” per NHTSA. This is the eighth recall of the vehicles since they hit the road just one year ago.3. At the same time, the Democratic-controlled Delaware state legislature has passed a bill to “award…Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders,” reports the Lever. According to this report, written before the law passed, the bill would “set an extremely high bar for plaintiffs to obtain internal company documents, records, and communications — the core pieces of evidence needed to build a lawsuit against a company.” On the other hand, “Corporate executives and investors with a controlling stake in a firm would no longer be required to hold full shareholder votes on various transactions in which management has a direct conflict of interest.” As this piece notes, this bill was backed by a pressure campaign led by Musk and his lawyers that began with a Delaware Chancery Court ruling that jeopardized his $56 billion compensation package. In retaliation, Musk threatened to lead a mass exodus of corporations from the state. Instead of calling his bluff, the state legislature folded, likely beginning a race to the bottom among other corporate-friendly states that will strip anyone but the largest shareholders of any remaining influence on corporate decision making.4. Speaking of folding under pressure, Reuters reports Columbia University will “acquiesce” to the outrageous and unprecedented demands of the Trump administration. These include a new mask ban on campus, and placing the school's Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies department – along with the Center for Palestine Studies –under academic receivership for at least five years. By caving to these demands, the University hopes the administration will unfreeze $400 million in NIH grants they threatened to withhold. Reuters quotes historian of education, Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who decried this as “The government…using the money as a cudgel to micromanage a university,” and Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, who called the administration's demands “arguably the greatest incursion into academic freedom, freedom of speech and institutional autonomy that we've seen since the McCarthy era.”5. The authoritarianism creeping through higher education doesn't end there. Following the chilling disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration has begun deploying the same tactic against more students for increasingly minor supposed offenses. First there was Georgetown post-doc student Badar Khan Suri, originally from India, who “had been living in Virginia for nearly three years when the police knocked on his door on the evening of 17 March and arrested him,” per the BBC. His crime? Being married to the daughter of a former advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, who in 2010 left the Gaza government and “started the House of Wisdom…to encourage peace and conflict resolution in Gaza.” A court has blocked Suri's deportation. Then there is Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts who was on her way home from an Iftar dinner when she was surrounded and physically restrained by plainclothes agents on the street, CNN reports. Video of this incident has been shared widely. Secretary of State Marco Rubio supposedly “determined” that Ozturk's alleged activities would have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences and would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.” These activities? Co-writing a March 2024 op-ed in the school paper which stated “Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.” The U.S. has long decried regimes that use secret police to suppress dissident speech. Now it seems it has become one.6. Yet the Trump administration is not only using deportations as a blunt object to punish pro-Palestine speech, it is also using it to go after labor rights activists. Seattle public radio station KUOW reports “Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known…as ‘Lelo,' was taken into custody by [ICE].” A farmworker and fellow activist Rosalinda Guillén is quoted saying “[Lelo] doesn't have a criminal record…they stopped him because of his leadership, because of his activism.” She added “I think that this is a political attack.” Simultaneously, the Washington Post reports “John Clark, a Trump-appointed Labor Department official, directed the agency's Bureau of International Labor Affairs…to end all of its grants.” These cuts are “expected to end 69 programs that have allocated more than $500 million to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, and to enforce labor standards in more than 40 countries.”7. All of these moves by the Trump administration are despicable and largely unprecedented, but even they are not as brazen as the assault on the twin pillars of the American social welfare system: Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is bearing the brunt of the attacks at the moment. First, AP reported that Elon Musk's DOGE planned to cut up to 50% of the Social Security Administration staff. Then, the Washington Post reported that the administration planned to force millions of seniors to submit claims in person rather than via phone. Now the administration is announcing that they are shifting Social Security payments from paper checks to prepaid debit cards, per Axios. Nearly half a million seniors still receive their payments via physical checks. These massive disruptions in Social Security have roiled seniors across the nation, many of whom are Republican Trump supporters, and they are voicing their frustration to their Republican elected officials – who in turn are chafing at being cut out of the loop by Musk. NBC reports Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance subcommittee on Social Security, said “he had not been told ahead of time about DOGE's moves at the agency.” Senators Steve Daines and Bill Cassidy have echoed this sentiment. And, while Social Security takes center stage, Medicare is next in line. Drop Site is out with a new report on how Trump's nominee to oversee the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Dr. Oz – could shift millions of seniors from traditional Medicare to the insurer-controlled Medicare Advantage system. Medicare and Social Security have long been seen as the “third rail” of American politics, meaning politicians who try to tamper with those programs meet their political demise. This is the toughest test yet of whether that remains true.8. The impact of Oscar winning documentary No Other Land continues to reverberate, a testament to the power of its message. In Miami Beach, Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for the city to terminate its lease agreement with O Cinema, located at Old City Hall, simply for screening the film. Deadline reports however that he was forced to back down. And just this week, co-director of the film Hamdan Ballal was reportedly “lynched” by Israeli settlers in his West Bank village, according to co-director Yuval Abraham, an anti-occupation Jewish Israeli journalist. The Guardian reports “the settlers beat him in front of his home and filmed the assault…he was held at an army base, blindfolded, for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.” Another co-director, Basel Adra of Masafer Yatta, told the AP “We came back from the Oscars and every day since there is an attack on us…This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.” Stunningly, it took days for the Academy of Motion Pictures to issue a statement decrying the violence and even then, the statement was remarkably tepid with no mention of Palestine at all, only condemning “harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints.”9. In some more positive news, Zohran Mamdani – the Democratic Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City – has maxed out donations, per Gothamist. Mamdani says he has raised “more than $8 million with projected matching funds from about 18,000 donors citywide and has done so at a faster rate than any campaign in city history.” Having hit the public financing cap this early, Mamdani promised to not spend any more of the campaign raising money and instead plans to “build the single largest volunteer operation we've ever seen in the New York City's mayor's race.” Witnessing a politician asking supporters not to send more money is a truly one-of-a-kind moment. Recent polling shows Mamdani in second place, well behind disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo and well ahead of his other rivals, including incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, per CBS. However, Mamdani remains unknown to large numbers of New Yorkers, meaning his ceiling could be much higher. Plenty of time remains before the June mayoral election.10. Finally, in an extremely bizarre story, Columbia Professor Anthony Zenkus reports “Robert Ehrlich, millionaire founder of snack food giant Pirate's Booty…tried to take over the sleepy Long Island town of Sea Cliff.” Zenkus relays that Ehrlich waged a “last minute write-in campaign for mayor in which he only received 62 votes - then declared himself mayor anyway.” Though Ehrlich only received 5% of the vote, he “stormed the village hall with an entourage, declaring himself the duly-elected mayor, screaming that he was there to dissolve the entire town government and that he alone had the power to form a new government.” Ehrlich claimed the election was “rigged” and thus invalid, citing as evidence “One of my supporters voted three times. Another one voted four times…” which constitutes a confession to election fraud. Zenkus ends this story by noting that Ehrlich was “escorted out by police.” It's hard to make heads or tails of this story, but if nothing else it indicates that these petty robber barons are simply out of control – believing they can stage their own mini coup d'etats. And after all, why shouldn't they think so, when one of their ilk occupies perhaps the most powerful office in the history of the world. Bad omens all around.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Ubicada en el sur de Cisjordania, la aldea de Masafer Yatta se hizo famosa gracias a 'No Other Land', ganadora del Óscar al Mejor Largometraje Documental en 2025. La cinta, creación conjunta del cineasta palestino Basel Adra y el director israelí Yuval Abraham, relata la vida cotidiana en una región sometida a continuos ataques de colonos israelíes extremistas. Pero allí existe una singular forma de activismo entre israelíes y palestinos. 

This week on the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast… Sean and Jeff have a little fun at the expense of fragile film bros who are convinced they've somehow “ruined” Disney's Snow White — spoiler alert: they didn't. Disney's Snow White Directed by Marc Webb Starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot Disney returns to its roots with a new live-action spin on the classic Snow White. But does this 2025 musical fantasy bring anything new to the table? Or are people too busy rage-posting to notice? Locked Directed by David Yarovsky Starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins A would-be car thief becomes the target of a twisted vigilante in this claustrophobic thriller. With Hopkins at the wheel (literally), this ride is anything but smooth. No Other Land Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor A powerful and haunting documentary from a Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking collective. No Other Land chronicles the destruction of Masafer Yatta and the unlikely alliance between activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham. Classic Review: Demons (1985) Directed by Lamberto Bava, written by Dario Argento A cursed movie screening, metal music, and full-on demonic mayhem. Demons is an '80s horror gem that doesn't hold back and doesn't make sense — in the best way possible. Follow Us Everywhere: Website: I Hate Critics Facebook: Everyone is a Critic Podcast Twitter/X: @criticspod Instagram: @criticspod Patreon: Support Us Merch: TeePublic Store YouTube: Watch Us

Located in the southern West Bank, the village of Masafer Yatta was made famous by the film "No Other Land", which won the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film. The movie, the joint brainchild of Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra and Israeli director Yuval Abraham, recounts daily life in a region under continuous attack from extremist Israeli settlers. Here, a unique form of activism exists between Israelis and Palestinians. Our correspondent Claire Duhamel reports from Masafer Yatta, with Josh Vardey. Warning: some viewers might find these images distressing.

Tempo Dokumentärfestival invigdes med filmen Yalla Parkour om en unga män som utövar parkour på Gazas stränder, mitt bland explosioner, flyktingläger och ruiner. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Den prisade dokumentären ”Yalla Parkour” är producerad av Malmöbaserade Basel Mawlawi. P1 Kulturs Lisa Bergström har träffat regissören Areeb Zuaiter och huvudrollsinnehavaren Ahmed Matar. Träningen på de raserade husen är på liv och död i stunden men det är också träning för en möjlig framtida frihet. För honom blev parkour en väg ut ur Gaza. Numera bor han i Stockholm.HON FILMADE SINA EGNA BARN – NU FÅR ”ALEQUE & ISSAY” VÄRLDSPREMIÄRPå onsdagskvällen är det världspremiär för dokumentären ”Aleque & Issay” på Tempo dokumentärfestival i Stockholm. Där får vi följa en svensk familjs flytt till Beijing i Kina med tre små barn, varav det yngsta syskonet, endast 3-4 år, är speaker. Barnens mamma och filmens regissör, Tora Mkandawire Mårtens, är gäst i P1 Kultur.KULTURMINISTERN OCH FRAMTIDEN FÖR SVENSK FILMI veckan presenterades den nya filmutredningen, med tre huvudpunkter: Sänkt moms på biobiljetter, en lag om strömningsavgifter och en ny filmfond på 300 miljoner kronor. P1 Kulturs Nina Asarnoj tog pulsen på kulturminister Parisa Liljestrand – hur ser hon på framtiden för svensk film?NU KLIVER ”STENBECK” IN I VARDAGSRUMMEN I NY TV-SERIEPå fredag är det premiär för ”Stenbeck” på SVT – en verklighetsbaserad dramaserie om den kontroversiella finansmannen Jan Stenbeck som motvilligt tar över familjeföretaget Kinnevik och omvandlar det till ett banbrytande medieimperium. Serien är regisserad av Goran Kapetanovic efter ett manus av Alex Haridi, Helene Lindholm och Lotta Erikson, baserat på Per Anderssons biografi ”Stenbeck: en biografi över en framgångsrik affärsman”. P1 Kulturs Björn Jansson har träffat Goran Kapetanovic.OSCARSBELÖNADE ”NO OTHER LAND” KASTAR LJUS ÖVER KONFLIKTEN PÅ VÄSTBANKENDokumentärfilmen ”No other land” utspelar sig i området Masafer Yatta på Västbanken från 2019 till oktober 2023. Vi får följa en palestinsk aktivist (Basel Adra) och en israelisk journalist (Yuval Abraham) som gör motstånd med kameran som vapen, när byar jämnas med marken för att göra plats åt ett militärt övningsområdet. Filmen prisades som Bästa dokumentär på både Berlins filmfestival, på European Film Awards och nu senast på Oscarsgalan. P1 Kulturs Lisa Bergström ringde upp en av upphovsmännen, Basel Adra.ESSÄ: VÄVEN ÄR EN METAFOR FÖR TEXTEN”Tygets tyngd” heter essäserien som sänts i OBS i veckan. Serien avslutas med en essä om väven. För väven har en avgörande plats i den stora berättelsen om människan, men den kan faktiskt också ses som en del av vår litteraturhistoria. För det är inte väven som är en metafor för texten – utan precis tvärtom. Det konstaterar författaren Maria Küchen.Programledare: Lisa BergströmProducent: Henrik Arvidsson

Francesca Rudkin is back with Two Oscar nominated documentaries, both screening exclusively on the streaming service DocPlay. No Other Land - This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. Black Box Diaries - Journalist Shiori Ito conducts an investigation into her own sexual assault, aiming to bring the prominent perpetrator to justice. Her pursuit evolves into a significant legal case, revealing the antiquated judicial and societal frameworks in Japan. LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Palestinians have no right to return to Gaza: Trump "US President Donald Trump has unveiled a controversial plan for Gaza, proposing a ""real estate development for the future"" that denies Palestinians the right to return their homes. In a Fox News interview, Trump suggested relocating Gaza's population to newly built communities elsewhere. Egyptian and Jordanian leaders rushed to Washington for talks, as global criticism mounts. The American leader hinted at cutting US aid to both nations if they refuse to accept Palestinians from the Israel beseiged enclave. Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance group Hamas has postponed the planned release of Israeli captives, blaming Tel Aviv for violating the ceasefire deal. In response, Trump vowed to cancel the Gaza ceasefire deal if all hostages aren't freed. “If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday 12 o'clock ... all bets are off and let hell break out,” he said." Israel expands its assaults in West Bank, targeting Palestinians "Israeli forces continues in their attacks on occupied West Bank, storm the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, raiding Palestinian shops and neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, in Masafer Yatta, bulldozers demolished five Palestinian homes and a cave sheltering 40 people, cutting electricity and water. The raids came amid a broader Israeli offensive since January 21, leaving over 30 Palestinians dead in the region." Venezuela sends planes to bring back undocumented migrants from US "Venezuela has sent two planes to repatriate undocumented migrants from the US, following a deal with the Trump administration. It comes after President Nicolas Maduro agreed to accept deported migrants and provide transportation. Some deportees are suspected of ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. The arrangement follows a January 31 meeting between Maduro and US envoy Richard Grenell. While the specifics of the talks remain unclear, Maduro hinted at a ""new beginning"" in US-Venezuela relations." Romania's president quits to pre-empt impeachment bid "Romania's outgoing president Klaus Iohannis has resigned to avoid a political crisis amidst plans by right-wing opposition parties to impeach him. ""The request will have consequences both domestically and abroad,"" Iohannis said. His resignation came after a tumultuous election season marked by accusations of Russian interference and institutional instability. Moscow denies any involvement. Senate Speaker Ilie Bolojan will serve as interim president until elections in May. " Sam Altman rejects Musk's $97.4 billion OpenAI takeover attempt "Elon Musk is making waves again—this time with a $97.4 bid to buy OpenAI. Leading a group of investors, Musk wants to reclaim the ChatGPT maker and allegedly restore its nonprofit mission. But OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman isn't having it, responding on X with a sharp “No thank you,” and a cheeky counteroffer to buy Twitter for $9.74. Meanwhile, a legal battle rages on, with a judge questioning OpenAI's Microsoft ties and paving the way for a trial next year."

Med enkel kamera och mobilfilmer får vi följa byborna i en liten by på Västbanken där bybor fängslas och hus rivs av bulldozers. Filmaren och aktivisten Basel Adra berättar om den Oscarsnominerade dokumentären No other land. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Dokumentärfilmen ”No other land” utspelar sig i området Masafer Yatta på Västbanken från 2019 till oktober 2023. Publiken får följa en palestinsk aktivist (Basel Adra) och en israelisk journalist (Yuval Abraham) som gör motstånd med kameran som vapen, när byar jämnas med marken för att göra plats åt ett militärt övningsområdet. Filmen prisades som Bästa dokumentär på både Berlins filmfestival och på European Film Awards. Den har även Oscarsnominerats i den dokumentära kategorin. P1 Kulturs Lisa Bergström ringde upp en av upphovsmännen, Basel Adra.

Följ med till Göteborg filmfestival där Mohammad Rasoulof visar sin i Iran förbjudna film Det heliga trädets frukter. Möt även norske Dag Johan Haugerud som följer upp Sex med Kärlek och palestiniern Basel Adra som gjort No other land. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. EXIL-IRANIERN MOHAMMAD RASOULOF LANDAR I GÖTEBORGDen prisade iranska regissören Mohammad Rasoulof presenterar sin senaste film på festivalen, den i Iran förbjudna ”Det heliga trädets frukter”. Efter att ha dömts till åtta års fängelse och spöstraff tvingades Mohammad Rasoulof fly Iran strax innan filmen tävlade om Guldpalmen i Cannes i maj 2024. P1 Kulturs Emma Engström och Saman Bakhtiari rapporterar från Göteborg.EFTER ”SEX” – DAG JOHAN HAUGERUD TAR SIG AN ”KÄRLEK”Den norske regissören Dag Johan Haugerud gästar Göteborgs filmfestival med ”Kärlek” - den andra delen i en trilogi som startade med ”Sex”. Nu får vi möta Oslo-borna Marianne, en pragmatisk läkare, och Tor, en empatisk sjuksköterska, som båda valt att undvika traditionella relationer. P1 Kulturs Emma Engström intervjuar Dag Johan Haugerud på plats i Göteborg.OSCARSNOMINERADE ”NO OTHER LAND” FÅNGAR DESPERATIONEN PÅ VÄSTBANKENDokumentärfilmen ”No other land” utspelar sig i området Masafer Yatta på Västbanken från 2019 till oktober 2023. Vi får följa en palestinsk aktivist (Basel Adra) och en israelisk journalist (Yuval Abraham) som gör motstånd med kameran som vapen, när byar jämnas med marken för att göra plats åt ett militärt övningsområdet. Filmen prisades som Bästa dokumentär på både Berlins filmfestival och på European Film Awards. Den har även Oscarsnominerats i den dokumentära kategorin. P1 Kulturs Lisa Bergström ringde upp en av upphovsmännen, Basel Adra.JAKTEN PÅ SYRISKA KRIGSBROTTSLINGAR SKILDRAS I BIOAKTUELLA ”KALLT SPÅR”När Bashar Al-Assads regering föll i Syrien i början av december uppdagades många grymheter som begåtts under hans år vid makten. Men även innan regimen föll har det pågått en jakt på exil-syrier runt om i Europa som begått tortyr och andra övergrepp hemma i Syrien. Om just detta handlar den bioaktuella spionthrillern ”Kallt spår”. P1 Kulturs Emma Engström träffade filmens franska regissör Jonathan Millet, som berättar om spöken, om hämnd och hur en person som aldrig sett sin förövare gör för att identifiera den.TILL MINNE AV MARIANNE FAITHFULL (1946-2025)På torsdagskvällen kom beskedet att den brittiska sångaren och skådespelaren Marianne Faithfull gått bort, 78 år gammal. Hon gav ut 21 album under en 61 år lång karriär, men hon kallades ofta "musa" och hon skulle verkligen hatat om det är så vi minns henne. Vi ska minnas en ojämförlig röst - en brusten röst som sjöng för brustna hjärtan... När hon gav ut sitt sista studioalbum "She walks in beauty" 2021 fick P1 Kulturs Lisa Wall en intervju med henne. Programledare: Lisa BergströmProducent: Henrik Arvidsson

Desde 7 de outubro de 2023, enquanto os olhos estavam postos em Gaza, o projeto colonial sionista expandiu o seu controlo da Cisjordânia, principalmente na Área C. Em Masafer Yatta, no sul da região, colonatos cresceram em tamanho, novos postos foram ganhando forma, colonos passaram a usar uniforme militar e armas mais poderosas, os ataques, raptos e detenções tornaram-se diários e a tortura nas prisões passou a ser um pesadelo. Para Sami Huraini, residente da aldeia de Twani e membro da Popular Struggle Coordination Committee e dos Youth of Sumud, esta a realidade é o dia-a-dia. Nesta entrevista, fala da resistência popular das comunidades de Masafer Yatta contra o regime sionista, e da sua decisão comum: não abandonar a terra. Sabe mais sobre este tema na reportagem O que é normal em Masafer Yatta? Disponível na tua app de podcasts ou em www.fumaca.ptAjuda-nos a ser a primeira redação profissional de jornalismo em Portugal totalmente financiado pelas pessoas: https://fumaca.pt/contribuir/?utm_source=podcast+appSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a village under constant threat of displacement, where homes and schools are torn down and the land is slowly seized, how does one resist? For Basel, the camera is a weapon in the fight to preserve his community of Masafer Yatta. No Other Land is an unflinching documentary of settler violence, created by two Palestinians and two Israeli filmmakers. What they capture is undeniable. On this episode of Celebrating Cinema, Basel and Yuval join Elliot for a powerful conversation about living under separate laws of the same state. They discuss their role as storytellers, connecting the fractured pieces of this crime, and uncovering the emotional truth behind life under occupation. Through their lenses, they expose Israeli state policies fuelling land grabs and illegal occupation, while underscoring the urgent need to document and bear witness. Book tickets to No Other Land Book tickets CC Film Club: Juice Book tickets to The Raoul Peck Collection

For Palestinian villagers in the rural southern West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, life under the Israeli occupation is terrifying. The Israeli military can show up, without warning, waving orders to demolish your house; those resisting can be arrested or even shot. Among the Palestinians who call Masafer Yatta home is filmmaker Basel Adra. Basel's extraordinary new documentary “No Other Land” — made by a Palestinian/Israeli collective that includes Basel, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor — demonstrates how Basel, like his father before him, has relied on the power of the camera to document and protest the community's treatment under the Israeli army's orders to demolish Palestinian homes, schools and infrastructure.   Basel and Yuval join Ken on the pod to discuss the history of Masafer Yatta, the community's efforts at resistance, and the enduring on- and off-camera alliance between the two of them built over the course of making the film. Recently awarded three IDA awards, including Best Documentary and Best Directors, “No Other Land” is screening at film festivals and in select theaters.   Follow: @yuval_abraham and @baselaladraa on Instagram and @yuval_abraham on X @topdocspod on Instagram and X    The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix.

Ugens Radio Information handler om arrestordren på Netanyahu, om klimatopmødet i Baku og om en biografaktuel israelsk-palæstinensisk dokumentarfilm. Og så taler vi om, hvad man skal lægge i, at Trump-regeringen kommer til at bestå af en hel del medlemmer med anklager om sexovergreb i bagagen   Torsdag eftermiddag udstedte Den Internationale Straffedomstol (ICC) en arrestordre på Israels premierminister, Benjamin Netanyahu, den tidligere israelske forsvarsminister Yoav Gallant og Hamas-lederen Mohammed Deif – alle for krigsforbrydelser begået i Gazastriben, i Østjerusalem og på Vestbredden fra oktober 2023 til maj 2024. Chefredaktør Anton Geist gennemgår de potentielle juridiske, politiske og militære konsekvenser af den opsigtsvækkende udvikling. Og så er der kommet flere navne på de folk, der skal hjælpe den kommende præsident Trump med at realisere hans planer for USA. Og efterhånden er der så mange navne på ministerholdet, der har en historie med anklager om seksuelle overgreb, at det er svært ikke at se det som en anti-MeToo-reaktion. Dog måtte Matt Gaetz torsdag aften trække sit kandidatur til posten som landets justitsminister og demonstrerede dermed, at der trods alt stadig er grænser for, hvad man kan slippe afsted med i amerikansk politik. Rune Lykkeberg og Mathias Sindberg ser på ugen i Trumps overgangsteam.  Fredag slutter Klimatopmødet i Baku, men konflikterne om klimabistanden står i kø. De gamle i-lande, de nye i-lande og u-landene er uenige om, hvad det rette beløb er – og hvem der skal betale det. Jørgen Steen Nielsen forklarer. Og drømmer lidt. Og så bliver der også tid til at glæde sig forsigtigt over, at Den grønne trepart i denne uge blev gjort til politisk virkelighed. Spørgsmålet er, hvornår den kommer til at manifestere sig ude i landskabet. Dokumentarfilmen 'No Other Land' er ikke bare et vigtigt vidnesbyrd, men også en velfortalt film. Sådan skriver Lone Nikolajsen om den prisvindende dokumentarfilm, der skildrer de lokale palæstinenseres kamp for at få lov til at leve deres liv i Masafer Yatta på Vestbredden. Den er instrueret af palæstinensiske Basel Adra og  israelske Yuval Abraham og dén dobbelthed gør den mere end dobbelt så god, mener hun.   Og til sidst skal vi lige nå omkring en tilbagevendende tradition. Hvert år siden 2010 har vi nemlig på Information inviteret læsere og lyttere til at skrive med på en sang om det forgangne år – og i år gør vi det igen. Redaktionen bag læsernes julesang, Rasmus Bo Sørensen og Kristian Villesen, kigger forbi for at fortælle om konkurrencen – og spille en lille sang. 

Der palästinensisch-norwegischer Dokumentarfilm „No Other Land“ von Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham und Rachel Szor aus dem Jahr 2024 wurde bei der Berlinale als bester Dokumentarfilm ausgezeichnet. Zugleich gibt es eine hitzige Debatte über die Perspektive, die der Film einnimmt, der von Masafer Yatta, seinen Bewohnern und der israelischen Besatzung handelt. Einseitigkeit wirft man dem Film vor und möchte dabei die filmischen Mittel nicht zur Kenntnis nehmen. Übersehen wird außerdem nicht selten, wie sehr der Film eine universalistische Botschaft bereithält. Mehr dazu von Wolfgang M. Schmitt im Filmkompass!   Werbung: Das Best-Of von DIE FILMANALYSE als Buch. Mit einem Vorwort von Dominik Graf. Affiliate-Link: https://amzn.to/3NCkVHB Unser Kinderbuch „Die kleinen Holzdiebe und das Rätsel des Juggernaut“ ist erschienen! Affiliate-Link: https://amzn.to/47h1LQI Die Anthologie SELBST SCHULD! ist jetzt erschienen. Affiliate-Link: https://amzn.to/47qau3a Sie können DIE FILMANALYSE finanziell unterstützen – vielen Dank! Wolfgang M. Schmitt Betreff: DIE FILMANALYSE IBAN: DE29 5745 0120 0130 7858 43 BIC: MALADE51NWD PayPal: http://www.paypal.me/filmanalyse Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wolfgangmschmitt Wolfgang M. Schmitt auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/SchmittJunior Wolfgang M. Schmitt auf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfgangm.schmittjun/ Wolfgang M. Schmitt auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangmschmitt/ Produziert von FatboyFilm: https://www.fatboyfilm.de/ https://www.facebook.com/fatboyfilm/ https://www.instagram.com/fatboyfilm/

durée : 00:12:29 - Les Enjeux internationaux - par : Jean Leymarie - Dans les montagnes du sud de la Cisjordanie, près de la frontière militarisée séparant la Palestine d'Israël, s'étend Masafer Yatta, un ensemble de villages menacés de disparition. - réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Basel Adra activiste et journaliste palestinien, réalisateur

“We have no other land to go to," a Palestinian woman responds to Israeli soldiers seeking to displace her community from their village in the West Bank. It's one of the many moving moments captured in the documentary "No Other Land", by an Israeli and Palestinian collective of filmmakers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor. Yuval and Basel join us in the studio to discuss working together to collect evidence in the village of Masafer Yatta, where Israeli soldiers have destroyed homes, a primary school and the water supply since the zone was declared a military zone by Israeli authorities. Since the film won the Best Documentary Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Yuval tells us about the violent threats he's been subjected to from Israeli and German figures and Basel flags up the position of the international community in the face of the ongoing war in the region.

This week we're excited to present a conversation with Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, co-directors of No Other Land, a Main Slate selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival.  No Other Land opens at FLC on November 1. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/land This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military. Headed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham (also two of the film's directors), the collective commits itself to filming and protesting the demolitions of homes and schools and the resulting displacement of their inhabitants, which were carried out to make way for Israeli military training ground. In addition to the indelible footage of destruction and expulsion captured by its undaunted witnesses, No Other Land serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world. Winner of multiple awards including the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale. All NYFF62 feature documentaries are sponsored by HBO. This conversation was moderated by NYFF Main Slate selection committee member Justin Chang.

This week, Izzy and Murtada interview Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham whose documentary, No Other Land, won the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival. The film captures the reality of life in Masafer Yatta, a small group of villages in the West Bank subject to the laws of the apartheid state of Israel. The film is an urgent call to action anchored by astounding footage captured on the ground by these genuine friends who are unequal citizens. Donate to help Palestine survive: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/west-bank-gaza Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @IMPictureShow.To hear more from Izzy and Murtada check them out on social media: Izzy (Twitter: @bkrewind, IG: @bk_rewind); Murtada (Twitter: @ME_Says, IG: murtada_e).See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today on Speaking Out of Place we are honored to speak with three international volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement. They are all involved in the effort to save the Masafer Yatta region in the Occupied West Bank.While it has been a common practice of psychological warfare for the IOF to place military firing ranges near villages, neighborhoods, outside Palestinian hospitals, and prisons as a persistent reminder of its power and the possibility of lethal force in every space, the case of Masafer Yatta is exceptional--people's actual homes are bulldozed, land confiscated, livestock stolen, and people often driven to live in caves.  Palestinians face physical attacks, including indiscriminate shootings, from Israeli settlers, military police, and the Israeli Occupation Force, who each act in collusion with each other, and enjoy near immunity.ISM volunteers work under Palestinians to do what is required of them, and have suffered increasing violence, and even murder during peaceful demonstrations. Our guests explain what has led them to leave their home countries and live and stand in solidarity in Palestine. Their eye-witness accounts of various aspects of Palestinian life under Occupation are both devastating and inspiring.

In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liutalks with three international volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement. They are all involved in the effort to save the Masafer Yatta region in the Occupied West Bank.While it has been a common practice of psychological warfare for the IOF to place military firing ranges near villages, neighborhoods, outside Palestinian hospitals, and prisons as a persistent reminder of its power and the possibility of lethal force in every space, the case of Masafer Yatta is exceptional--people's actual homes are bulldozed, land confiscated, livestock stolen, and people often driven to live in caves. Palestinians face physical attacks, including indiscriminate shootings, from Israeli settlers, military police, and the Israeli Occupation Force, who each act in collusion with each other, and enjoy near immunity.ISM volunteers work under Palestinians to do what is required of them, and have suffered increasing violence, and even murder during peaceful demonstrations. Our guests explain what has led them to leave their home countries and live and stand in solidarity in Palestine. Their eye-witness accounts of various aspects of Palestinian life under Occupation are both devastating and inspiring.www.palumbo-liu.comhttps://speakingoutofplace.comhttps://twitter.com/palumboliu?s=20www.instagram.com/speaking_out_of_place

It's News Day Tuesday! Sam and Emma speak with Jasper Nathaniel, writer of the Infinite Jaz newsletter on SubStack, to discuss his recent reporting from the West Bank. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Day 1 of the DNC (and the protests it was met with), Blinken's pseudo-ceasefire, Dems' economic agenda, Elon's Twitter flop, the legal woes of Bob Menendez and George Santos, and Mexico's judiciary, before parsing through Shawn Fain's fantastic performance at the DNC, and the stark differences between AOC's disappointing “reference” to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Warnock's willingness to call out (even with both-sidesism) the mass deaths. Jasper Nathaniel then joins, diving right into how the complete appropriation of the Genocide in Gaza for domestic culture war purposes in the US pushed him to go to the West Bank for a more grounded approach to covering this one-sided conflict, tackling his level of understanding about Israeli apartheid and settler violence before his arrival, and how that was sharply upended when he was met with a constant and totalistic pervasion of cruelty and terror, be it from soldier or settler, enacted upon the Palestinian populations in the West Bank. Expanding on this, Nathaniel contextualizes his time in Masafer Yatta within the villages' history as a supposed “military training zone,” something Israel enacted in the 1980s with the explicit intention to eventually claim said land themselves, something they advanced with decades of allowing settler gangs to roam uninhibited by law and unaccountable for their violence, culminating in Netanyahu's recent decision to completely hand over West Bank rule to settler rule under Smotrich. Next, Jasper walks Sam and Emma through a devastating, first-hand recounting of the violence he witnessed in Masafer Yatta, with a settler's shooting of unarmed teenager Zakaria al-Adra, and the active obstruction and inaction from the Israeli regime in charge of holding said settler accountable, before wrapping up the interview by emphasizing the pervasiveness and extremity of the settler terror regime. And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma parse through some more highlights from Night 1 of the DNC, including Gov. Hochul's tough crowd work, the stronger elements of AOC's speech (and what it tells us about her future), and the importance of Biden acknowledging his ideological break with the Dem's neoliberal ideology. John from San Antonio dives into the biggest obstacles to a Harris presidency, and Charlie Kirk gets schooled by the very demographic he's supposed to appeal to. Lucas from Delaware on platforming Lina Khan, Drew from Wisconsin on Harris' LGBTQ+ policy, and Mike from Vancouver on Harris' theoretical support for UNRWA. CNBC Squawks in support of price gouging, Tim Pool agrees that Trump and Elon are scabs (and it's a good thing), and the MR Crew unpacks another pseudo-ceasefire deal, plus, your calls and IMs! 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Nidal Younis is the mayor of Masafer Yatta and head of the Masafer Yatta village council. He has been active in attempts to save his community since the 1990s. Interview recorded February 29 2024. Masafer Yatta is a Palestinian hamlet in the occupied West Bank, which has been fighting for its survival. Israel's occupation forces declared this area made up of 12 Palestinian villages a firing zone in the 1980s. By 1999, the Israeli army had rounded up more than 700 Palestinian residents into trucks and expelled them to other villages. In 2022, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition against the eviction of more than 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants from the area. Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/sup... Deep Dive Daily. Your Palestine & Israel news roundup, straight to your inbox. Subscribe now: https://palestinedeepdive.us4.list-ma...

Við byrjum í bakgarðinum hjá líkamsræktarfrömuðinum Guðmundi Emil sem hefur vakið athygli fyrir áhugaverð myndbönd á samfélagsmiðlum. Og þar höldum við áfram að velta fyrir okkur víkingum og tilhneigingu ungs fólks til að líta til fortíðar eftir svörum við vandamálum nútímans. Pálmi Freyr Hauksson var staddur á ferðalagi í Marokkó og átti í stökustu vandræðum með að sjá kvikmyndina Poor Things til að geta fjallað um hana í Óskarsyfirferð Lestarinnar. Nú hefur hann hins vegar séð myndina, og í dag fer hann yfir flokkinn Besta leikkona í aðalhlutverki. No Other Land nefnist ný heimildarmynd sem var frumsýnd á Berlinale kvikmyndahátíðinni núna í febrúar. Hún er framleidd af palestínskum og ísraelskum kvikmyndagerðarmönnum, og fjallar um hernumið fjallaþorp á Masafer Yatta svæðinu á Vesturbakkanum. Myndin hefur vakið mikið umtal í kjölfar frumsýningarinnar, ekki síst vegna ræðu sem aðstandendur hennar fluttu þegar þeir tóku á móti verðlaunum fyrir bestu heimildarmynd á hátíðinni en myndskeið af þessari ræðu hefur farið mikinn á samfélagsmiðlum nýverið.

This week, we're featuring a conversation with Mohammad Hureini (twitter / instagram), a young activist from Masafer Yatta, an area in the hills south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. Mohammad is a member of a non-violent group called Youth of Sumud that struggles to hold on to the sites and lives of Palestinian villages despite displacement by the Israeli military occupation as well as the illegal zionist settlements (like the neighboring Havat Ma'on) and their routine violence and impunity. For the hour, Mohammad speaks about the work of Youth of Sumud, their recent report co-published with The Good Shepherd on increased settler violence entitled Indigenous Erasure: How the zionist movement is using state sanctioned violence to eliminate the Palestinian communities of the West Bank, the South African genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice and other topics. A transcript of this interview will be available soon, a podcast version of this is available at our website. Al-Addameer's recent publication on prisons and repression of Palestinians since October 7th, 2023: https://addameer.org/media/5262 Organizations Mohammad names doing on the ground support: Defund Racism (https://defundracism.org/): follows NGO connections to settler projects recently published a report on Regavim, a pro-settler organization that pulls funding from the US, Canada and elsewhere to displace Palestinians Operation Dove /Operazione Colomba from Italy (https://www.operazionecolomba.it/) International Solidarity Movement (https://palsolidarity.org/) Community Peacemaker Teams (https://cpt.org/) Recent interviews about the conflict in Palestine Yuval Dag, Israeli anarchist military refuser Joey Ayoub on the War in Gaza Jewish anti-zionist Anarchist in Israel Announcements B(A)D News #75 is out! Check out the January 2024 episode featuring updates on support for antifascists facing charges in Budapest from February 11, 2023; reflections from an Autonomist on the '80s-'90s journal "Radikal"; a portion of our interview with Israeli refuser Yuval Dag; and an interview from Solidarity Zones on the case of accused Russian war sabateur, Ruslan Siddiqui . ... . .. Featured Track: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt by DJ Shadow from Entroducing....

The Balfour Project and Sadaka, the Ireland Palestine Alliance, jointly presented this timely webinar. While the world's attention is on the Gaza war, very bad things are happening fast in the West Bank. Susan Power, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy at Al-Haq in Ramallah, analysed the Israeli lockdown of the West Bank and the licence given to settler violence and forced displacement of Palestinians from their lands. Mr Owda Hathaleen gave an eye witness account of the pressures being brought to bear on the villagers of Masafer Yatta to abandon their homes and livelihoods. They recommended actions to safeguard lives and people's futures. Owda Hathaleen, from Umm Al-Khair village, Masafer Yatta, a human rights activist, writer and an English teacher. Dr. Susan Power is Head of Legal Research and Advocacy at Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man. 

In this episode, Michael is joined by Palestinian journalist and activist Basel Adra, and Daniel Roth of the Centre for Jewish Nonviolence, to discuss Israel's plans to expel more than 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta. We hear about what is happening on the ground, and discuss the role of journalism and international solidarity in challenging dispossession and apartheid. Links from this podcast:Basel Adra on TwitterBasel Adra in +972 Magazine: “I was handcuffed and blindfolded for reporting on settler violence”Daniel Roth on TwitterThe Centre for Jewish NonviolenceCJPME factsheet on Masafer Yatta (2021)Subscribe to this podcast, and donate to CJPME to support the work that we do.If you can, rate us and write a nice review if you like what you hear. It helps other people find our podcast and learn about the issues. Here are the instructions on how to find, rate, review and share the podcast on eight different platforms: Apple, Spotify, Google, TuneIn, Deezer, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, and iHeartRadio. 

Greg Abbott's cruelty at the border knows no end. Matt & David talk about the brutal revelations that Texas security forces have been instructed to push children into the Rio Grande. Then journalist & Palestinian Basel Adra joins David to talk about what could be the worst mass expulsion in Palestine since 1967 in Masafer Yatta: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/masafer-yatta-destruction-palestine-israel/

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with journalists Basel Adraa and Yuval Abraham about the conditions of life in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, and how things have changed - and gotten far worse - since the May 2022 Israeli Supreme Court decision that authorized the IDF to expel communities in Masafer Yatta. Basel and Yuval co-authored "The Destruction of This Palestinian Community Was Green-Lighted by Israel's Supreme Court," the cover article in last week's The Nation magazine (July 10, 2023 edition). In the article, Basel and Yuval write “The mass expulsion of Masafer Yatta's residents has not yet been carried out, but the lives of all the people of these villages have changed beyond recognition in the months since the ruling. Soldiers have begun detaining children at impromptu checkpoints they've erected in the middle of the desert under the cover of night; families watch as bulldozers raze their homes with increasing frequency; and, right next to the villages designated for expulsion and demolition, soldiers are already training with live fire, racing tanks, and detonating mines.” Their article is a joint project of The Nation, +972 Magazine, and Local Call/Sikha Mekomit. Original music by Jalal Yacquoub.

It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma talk to Bill McKibben, contributing writer at The New Yorker and founder of ThirdAct.org, to discuss the recent climate disasters across the country. Then, they are joined by Palestinian journalist and activist Basel Adra to discuss his recent piece in The Nation entitled "The Destruction of Masafer Yatta," co-authored with Yuval Abraham. Check out Bill's most recent piece in The New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-it-hot-enough-yet-for-politicians-to-take-real-action Check out Basel's piece in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/masafer-yatta-destruction-palestine-israel/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Check out today's sponsors: Rhone: Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use MAJORITYREPORT to save 20% at  https://www.rhone.com/MAJORITYREPORT ZBiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/MAJORITY to get 15% off your first order when you use MAJORITY  at checkout. You can also sign up for a subscription using my code - so you can stay prepared no matter the time or occasion. ZBiotics is backed with 100% money back guarantee so if you're unsatisfied for any reason, they'll refund your money, no questions asked. Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

From May 13-25th, Jewish Diasporist Co-host, Ben Yanowitz, joined the Center for Jewish Non-violence's (CJNV)'s annual delegation to Israel-Palestine. While this podcast is not directly about the CJNV delegation, we seek to share stories from different participants and showcase the crucial networking between Jews and Palestinians, both on the ground and in Diaspora, that CJNV facilitates.3:05-22:39 Louisa Kornblatt Interview22:50-35:23 Discourse on Apartheid35:34-51:51 Sam Stein Interview53:37-1:03:47 Live from Masafer YattaJewish Currents: The Plight of Masafer Yatta: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-nose/id1573983987?i=1000616154586Check out the Center for Jewish Nonviolence: https://cjnv.org/Aly Halpert's Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5ilJZ0nHG41CYddwNuP3f6?si=MQUxPonHRy-xPScK6cKT_w

Today on the show, we had the privilege of hosting Basel Adra, a distinguished journalist and resident of Masafer Yatta, located in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. Basel shed light on the longstanding issue of ethnic cleansing and forcible expulsion faced by the community at the hands of the Israeli army and illegal settlers.During our conversation, Basel delved into the historical background of Masafer Yatta, emphasizing its geographic significance and the decades long struggle against the Israeli army that designated more than 12 of Masafer Yatta privately owned Palestinian lands, as fire zone areas to undergo miltiary exercises as a means to illegal confiscate more land that is given to the settlers to build and expand their illegal settlments and build farms on Palestinian lands. Settler numbers continue to increase and physcial assaults against the Palestinian residents and school children is a daily occurence.He highlighted and exposed the daily war crimes committed by the Israeli army and settlers, such as the demolition of homes and schools, as well as the relentless attacks on the residents' properties and livelihoods including the regular demolition of schools denying children their universal right to an education.We delved into the distressing reality faced by the inhabitants of Masafer Yatta, who endure constant assaults and trauma as their homes and schools are forcefully displaced and demolished. In the face of this daily onslaught, we explored how the community manages to survive and endure.Our discussion also touched upon grassroots and global activism, exploring ways in which we can unite to provide support to the community of Masafer Yatta.Basel provided personal accounts as both a resident and a journalist, recounting his efforts to document and report on the struggles faced by the residents. Through his lens, he revealed the Israeli army's daily war crimes, shedding light on their impact.For a firsthand account of the ethnic cleansing and forcible expulsion faced by the residents of Masafer Yatta, follow Basel Adra on Instagram: @basilaladraa.Remember to rate, share, and subscribe to @freepalestinepod. You can also follow us on Instagram and YouTube: @freepalestinepod, @cravingpalestine, @palestinelobby, @lamabazzari, and @linahadid.

In May 2022, Israel's Supreme Court rejected a petition against the forced transfer of more than 1,000 Palestinians who live in Masafer Yatta, a region of rural hamlets in the south of the occupied West Bank. Israel had previously designated a large swath of Masafer Yatta as a military “firing zone,” and argued to the court that it needed to forcibly displace these residents because they were illegally living in a military training area. As a result of the ruling, Israel's army can move forward with their plans at any time. But for now, Masafer Yatta's residents remain, even in the face of an escalated campaign of military demolitions, training exercises, and harassment. On this week's episode of On the Nose, senior reporter Alex Kane speaks with Basel Adra, a Palestinian journalist and activist from the Masafer Yatta village of al-Tuwani, about life in the region, Israel's campaign of violence against its residents, and what might stop the state from following through on its plans of mass displacement. Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).” ARTICLES MENTIONED AND FURTHER READING:“Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones' built to give land to settlers,” Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine“I filmed a settler pogrom. Now the Israeli media is smearing me,” Basel Adraa, +972 Magazine“Largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms after Israeli court ruling,” Henriette Chacar, Reuters“They Want To Kick Us Out of This Land,” Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents

On March 7th, Cassandra Dixon, a peace activist from Wisconsin, was attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting and volunteering in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank. She was […] The post Rising Violence in the West Bank: a Conversation with Cassandra Dixon ... appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Today on the show, we welcome the well-recognized Palestinian human rights defender and activist Issa Amro who joins from the heart of the old city of Al Khalil, Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Issa is also the Founder of Youth Against Settlements. We discussed the situation on the ground in occupied Hebron, the Huwara pogrom, Masafer Yatta and how activists in the diaspora can support these communities facing daily harrassment, apartheid and ethnic cleansing by the occupation army and armed Israeli settlers. We discussed the pogrom committed in Huwara that led to Israeli settlers burning farms, vehicles and over 30 homes  and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of families.Issa updated us his recent visit to the US and visits to occupied Hebron by local and foreign activists and groups, including guided tours organized by Breaking the Silence Israel.Follow @issaamro on Instagram and twitter for daily updates on occupied Hebron and living under a brutal occupation and apartheid.     

En este episodio de Punto de Fuga nos acercamos a conocer la realidad de Masafer Yatta, en el sur de Cisjordania, donde el ejército de Israel realiza incursiones durante la noche y sus habitantes están sometidos a la incertidumbre de no saber cuándo van a ser derribadas sus casas.También repasamos el impacto de las lluvias torrenciales en Somalia, las excusas del vicepresidente italiano Matteo Salvini para justificar la política contra los migrantes en Italia e iremos hasta Estados Unidos, donde el Estado de Idaho ha aprobado las medidas más restrictivas contra el derecho al aborto en ese país.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with Ali Awad, writer & activist from Tuba in Masafer Yatta, and Cassandra Dixon, a carpenter from Wisconsin. On March 7th, Cassandra was present on Ali's grandfather's land in Tuba when Israeli settlers attacked. One of them hit Cassandra with a stick and fractured her skull, giving her a concussion. In this podcast, Ali and Cassandra discuss the attack and its aftermath, including appeals to the Israeli authorities to hold the perpetrators accountable, and put this attack into the context of an overall escalation of state-backed settler violence in Masafer Yatta. For more: https://fmep.org/resource/25844/ Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Lara Friedman speaks to Francesca Albanese -- international legal expert and the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 -- on ongoing and escalating actions by Israel to forcibly eject more than 1200 Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank region known as Masafer Yatta, located in the South Hebron Hills. For resources related to this podcast, see: https://fmep.org/resource/a-war-crime-in-the-making-the-uns-francesca-albanese-on-ethnic-cleansing-in-the-south-hebron-hills/

This week Lara and Michael cover the martyrs murdered by the occupation in the first week of January. We discuss the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta, as well as the irony of the settlers in 48' protesting this new government as if it's actually different from previous governments (it's literally Bibi, again). We cover the phenomena of zionists online endorsing BDS and talk about Netanyahu's fascist decree about an unquestionable, and exclusive right to settlement. Finally, we cover the story of the former Executive Director, Ken Roth at Human Rights Watch who had his fellowship rescinded by the Dean of Harvard Kennedy School. 

Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, the West Bank, Pakistan, the US and the Faroe Islands. Jeremy Bowen was in Kherson in Ukraine shortly after the Russians retreated, but he found that occupation and liberation can lead to suspicion and division. There is unease among Palestinians living in the hamlets of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank as the new Israeli government takes shape. Yolande Knell spoke to villagers there, who found out earlier this year about the Israeli Supreme Court decision to recognise a military training zone around their homes. Samira Hussain attends one of the rallies of former PM Imran Khan on his March to Islamabad and meets him again after an assassination attempt a fortnight later - wounded but determined to continue his political fight. In New York, there's a population explosion - of rats. The mayor has a plan to tackle the problem but requiring residents to put their refuse out after 8pm each night. But there's more to the expanding rat population than meets the eye, finds Laura Trevelyan. And in the Faroe Islands, Tim Ecott is in amidst a sheep mustering where he learns about the local meat-eating tradition, and the desire to be self-sustainable amid the threat of European recession, inflation and the energy crisis. Producers: Caroline Bayley and Serena Tarling Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond

We hear from Palestinian land rights defender Hafez Huraini, a farmer from at-Tuwani village in Masafer Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territory. He speaks about the context of Masafer Yatta, and his most recent experience being brutally assaulted and harassed by settlers and Israeli authorities on his own land.

Em maio, o Supremo Tribunal israelita deu luz verde ao que, efetivando-se, será uma das maiores expulsões de pessoas palestinianas de suas terras nas últimas décadas. Os jornalistas Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro e Rafaela Cortez foram até Masafer Yatta, na Palestina, perceber o que aconteceu.   Lê mais sobre este tema em https://fumaca.pt/Ajuda-nos a ser a primeira redação profissional de jornalismo em Portugal totalmente financiado pelas pessoas: https://fumaca.pt/contribuir/?utm_source=podcast+appSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Em maio, o Supremo Tribunal israelita deu luz verde ao que, efetivando-se, será uma das maiores expulsões de pessoas palestinianas de suas terras nas últimas décadas. Os jornalistas Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro e Rafaela Cortez foram até Masafer Yatta, na Palestina, perceber o que aconteceu.   Lê mais sobre este tema em https://fumaca.pt/Ajuda-nos a ser a primeira redação profissional de jornalismo em Portugal totalmente financiado pelas pessoas: https://fumaca.pt/contribuir/?utm_source=podcast+appSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, journalist and human rights activist Basel Adraa joins FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin to discuss the acceleration of threats and violence from the Israeli army and settlers in Masafer Yatta, both inside of Firing Zone 918, which is under special unique threat of expulsion and forced population transfer, and outside of it, including in A-Twani, Basel's village. See www.fmep.org for resources on the many incidents and developments Basel discussed.  Basel Adraa is an activist, journalist, and photographer from the village of A'Twani who publishes on +972 and Humans of Masafer Yatta on Instagram and Substack. Basel's Twitter: @basel_adra Sarah Anne Minkin, PhD is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at FMEP. Her Twitter: @saminkin. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Journalist Basel Adra talks about resisting attacks by Israeli soldiers, settlers.

This episode is a recording of a July 14th 2022 webinar, sponsored by organizations that comprise the Progressive Israel Network (PIN), focusing on the ongoing crisis at the South Hebron Hills Palestinian villages of Masafer Yatta. Disussants are Israeli human rights activists.   

We're live with Francesca Albanese, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt). Mark Seddon hears just what such a role entails at the UN and what powers are granted to it. We also hear the latest on ongoing cases including the search for justice for the incarcerated Ahmad Manasra, the latest on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh as well as hearing the international legal perspective on Israel's ongoing colonisation of Masafer Yatta.

FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with Ali Awad about Masafer Yatta and particularly Firing Zone 918 and what has changed there since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in May authorizing the Israeli military to expel the Palestinian residents of the firing zone. Ali's most recent article on +972,"'They're not arriving with trucks to deport us, but the goal is the same'," was published on June 29, 2022. Ali Awad is journalist and activist from the village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta. He is co-founder of the new media project Humans of Masafer Yatta. Sarah Anne Minkin is Director of Programs & Partnerships at FMEP. Resources mentioned in this podcast: Humans of Masafer Yatta on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansofmasaferyatta/ Humans of Masafer Yatta on Substack: https://humansofmasaferyatta.substack.com/ #SaveMasaferYatta campaign: https://savemasaferyatta.com/en/ Youth of Sumud on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youthofsumud/?hl=en Youth of Sumud on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youthofsumud/ Ali Awad on Twitter: @Ali_awad1998 Ali Awad's archives on +972 Magazine: https://www.972mag.com/writer/ali-awad/ Ali's newest article on +972, "'They're not arriving with trucks to deport us, but the goal is the same'" FMEP's recent podcast with Sameeha Hureini, activist with Youth of Sumud and resident of A'Twani village, "'It's our responsibility to turn on the light': Masafer Yatta, Apartheid, and Youth Activism": https://fmep.org/resource/its-our-responsibility-to-turn-on-the-light-masafer-yatta-apartheid-and-youth-activism/ Original Music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 27th June 2021: We're live with for a DeepDive illuminating the situation on the ground in Masafer Yatta, where thousands of Palestinians are facing imminent expulsion. In the early 1980s the IDF declared the area a firing zone (“Firing Zone 918”), an action viewed by experts as a violation of international law and one clearly undertaken with the objective of forcibly displacing the Palestinian residents of the area to take control of the land. Last month, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the residents' claims to the land in favour of the military, declaring the region a closed-off training area following the two-decade legal battle.  Residents fear expulsion and are already at the mercy of Israeli home demolitions and property confiscations while also facing regular harassment and violence from both the Israeli army and Israeli settlers. We're live with Basil Al-Adraa, a local resident, activist & journalist, and Yuval Abraham, a Jerusalem-based journalist and activist.

This week Lara and Michael sit down with language teacher, musician, and Jewish anti-zionist activist Nur. She relives the event which brought her onto our radar where she was attacked by Zionist settlers in Masafer Yatta while picking up her friends from a protest. The settlers threw a rock through her car window, injuring her, and then the occupation forces followed by an assault on her and her friend. The settler who attacked Nur and her friends was not even held for questioning. We discuss the plight of the people of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Unlike many of the other stories in Palestine, people are not really aware, and the location is so remote that a protective presence has dwindled. The settlers are getting ever more violent, and the occupation military is facilitating this process. Nur tells us that everyone inside 48' must go through a mental transformation that allows them to connect with their hearts and not their minds, or nothing will ever change. 

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with Sameeha Hureini, an activist and university student from A-Twani village in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Sameeha is one of the founders of Youth of Sumud and, together with her brother Sami, was recognized with the 2021 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

After decades trying to resist eviction, the Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta have lost their case in the Israeli supreme court. Bethan McKernan on the controversial decision and the people determined to stay in their homes. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

After decades trying to resist eviction, the Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta have lost their case in the Israeli supreme court. Bethan McKernan on the controversial decision and the people determined to stay in their homes

After decades trying to resist eviction, the Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta have lost their case in the Israeli supreme court. Bethan McKernan on the controversial decision and the people determined to stay in their homes. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that over 1,000 Palestinians can be forcibly evicted from their homes in Masafer Yatta, a community in the South Hebron Hills. Write to the Government to help stop this flagrant eviction of people from their home. Enter your postcode and see the letter – send it to your MP in one click! Becca Strober is a former soldier originally from Philadelphia. She is the Director of Education at Breaking the Silence

Die deutsche Verfassung ist „völkerrechtsfreundlich“. Doch was heißt das eigentlich genau? Isabel erklärt, wie das Völkerrecht in Deutschland Wirkung entfaltet und was der Unterschied zwischen Monismus und Dualismus ist. Erik hat mit Mehrdad Payandeh über die verfassungs- und völkerrechtlichen Voraussetzungen für Auslandseinsätze gesprochen und inwiefern es sinnvoll ist, die (verfassungs-)gerichtliche Kontrolle für Einsätze oder konkrete Handlungen der Bundeswehr zu intensivieren. Wir freuen uns über Lob, Anmerkungen und Kritik an podcast@voelkerrechtsblog.org. Abonniert unseren Podcast via RSS, über Spotify oder überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt. Hintergrundinformationen: Bundesverfassungsgericht, Entscheidung vom 12. Juli 1994 (Parlamentsvorbehalt) Bundesverfassungsgericht, Entscheidung vom 23. September 2015 (Evakuierungseinsätze der Bundeswehr) Bundesverfassungsgericht, Entscheidung vom 12. Februar 2016 (Treaty Override) Helmut Aust/Claus Kreß, Evakuierungen ohne Rechtsgrundlage?, FAZ Einspruch, 07. September 2021 (€) Eliav Lieblich, Wrong to the Core: The Supreme Court of Israel's Ruling on Masafer Yatta, Verfassungsblog, 08. Mai 2022 Moderation: Erik Tuchtfeld & Sophie Schuberth Grundlagen: Isabel Lischewski Interview: Prof. Mehrdad Payandeh & Erik Tuchtfeld Schnitt: Daniela Rau Credits: Deutscher Bundestag, Maika Friemann-Jennert, 07. Mai 2021

An Israeli court decision could allow the government to evict around 1,200 Palestinians from the Masafer Yatta area in the southern West Bank. The May 4 High Court of Justice ruling rejected the prior appeals against eviction orders issued to residents of the area, which Israel declared a military firing zone in the 1980s. Palestinians say they have a right to remain on the land and have lived there for generations, but Israel argues they are squatting and do not have the right to establish permanent residence in the firing zone. The decision is being criticized by some legal experts in Israel, and the United Nations said in a statement that by upholding the eviction orders, the judicial system has given "carte blanche to the Israeli government to perpetuate the practice of systematic oppression against Palestinians." We speak to Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about how the land of Masafer Yatta became a legal and physical battleground and check in with Palestinian journalist Basel Adra about his experiences of reporting on the 20-year-long land dispute. Featuring: Basel Adra, Palestinian journalist Michael Sfard, Israeli human rights lawyer

La coordinación en las investigaciones sobre los crímenes de guerra en Ucrania es “de suma importancia”, dice relator de la ONU. Expertos en derechos humanos pidió a Israel detener los desalojos forzosos de las comunidades palestinas de Masafer Yatta, en Cisjordania ocupada.Una conferencia internacional intenta frenar el aumento del trabajo infantil Se reanudan los vuelos comerciales desde Yemen después de seis años.

Last week, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued an opinion that could lead to one of the largest population transfers in recent history. After a decades-long legal battle, the court gave the Israeli military a green light to evacuate the residents of eight villages in Masafer Yatta — Palestinians who have lived for generations on land the state now claims as a “military firing zone.”A few weeks ago, we published an interview with activist Ali Awad about the campaign to save Masafer Yatta. Unsettled producer Max Freedman spoke to Ali again to get his reaction to the court's new ruling.This episode was produced by Ilana Levinson. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.

On March 15, Israel's High Court of Justice heard a case that could lead to one of the largest forced population transfers in recent history. For more than 20 years, Israel has been trying to expel the residents of 12 Palestinian villages in a part of the West Bank called Masafer Yatta. The state claims they need the land for a military firing zone. If the court agrees, 1,300 Palestinians might be removed from their homes.In this episode, producer Max Freedman speaks to Ali Awad and Maya Rosen about this decades-long legal battle and what's at stake. Ali and Maya are both organizers of the Save Masafer Yatta campaign, which aims to stop this eviction by turning Masafer Yatta into a household name.Unsettled is produced by Emily Bell, Asaf Calderon, Max Freedman, and Ilana Levinson. Music by Nat Rosenzweig and Blue Dot Sessions. Photo credit: Yahel Gazit.Save Masafer YattaTo exact ‘revenge,' Israeli settlers wreaked havoc in my village (Ali Awad, +972 Magazine, 4/4/22)Explainer: The threat of mass expulsion in Masafer Yatta (+972 Magazine, 3/14/22)Maya Rosen & Daniel Roth: KKL-JNF (Unsettled, 3/23/22)

On March 15, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court is expected to render a decision on whether the state of Israel will be permitted to carry out a large expulsion of Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinians in question live in an area of the South Hebron Hills called Masafer Yatta, residing for many generations in small, shepherding-based villages. In the early 1980s, in violation of international law, the IDF declared the area a firing zone (“Firing Zone 918”) -- an action viewed by experts as taken with the clear Israeli objective  of displacing the Palestinian residents of the area and taking control of the land. Consistent with that analysis, for decades, Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta have faced constant threat of expulsion, home demolitions, confiscation of their property, harassment and violence at the hands of both the Israeli army and Israeli settlers.  Ali Awad, a writer and activist from Tuba - one of the villages slated in Masafer Yatta - and Maya Rosen, a Jerusalem-based Palestine solidarity activist, will join FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin for a discussion of how Palestinians in Masafer Yatta continue to build their lives despite the constant existential threat they are under such threat, what they expect from the Israeli Supreme Court, and the international campaign they have launched to save their villages. We'll also discuss the role of the Israeli judiciary in enabling Israeli apartheid and Israel's  use of the “firing zone” designation as a means of confiscating Palestinian land.  Original music by Jalal Yaquoub

Palestinians face a growing matrix of mechanisms geared towards removing them from their land, dispersing their communities, and threatening their livelihoods. Join FMEP and B'Tselem to discuss the situation on the ground: what Palestinians in Area C (and increasingly in Area B) are facing and how they live under the shadow of dispossession, at the hands of the Israeli government, its security forces, its courts, and its private citizens. Panelists This webinar featured two Palestinians from Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron hills, an area in Area C whose residents are under particularly heightened threats and regular attacks, as well as video interviews with additional Palestinians living under threat. Basil al-Adraa is an activist, journalist, and photographer from the village of A'Twani. Twitter: @basel_adra Eid is a photographer. In addition, Sarit Michaeli (@saritm0) and Eyal Hareuveni of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories -- joined the webinar and speak about B'Tselem's recent report, “State Business: Israel's misappropriation of land in the West Bank through settler violence.”FMEP President Lara Friedman (@larafriedmanDC) moderated the discussion.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with activist and author Ali Awad about the threats of dispossession and state-backed settler violence facing Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area of the South Hebron Hills. Ali's most recent article, co-authored with Awdah Hathaleen, describes extreme violence against a village elder in a non-violent protest in Masafer Yatta: "Israeli police shattered this Palestinian elder's bones — and drove away."  Bios Ali Awad is an activist from the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills. Sarah Anne Minkin, PhD, is FMEP's Director of Programs & Partnerships. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub

Ali Awad is a Palestinian activist and resident of Tuba, a village in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Maya Rosen is a Jerusalem-based activist with All That's Left, an anti-Occupation collective. Together they discuss the challenges facing the Palestinian residents of this southern part of the West Bank. For a transcript of this episode: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=38978#.YaeV4fHMIq0 For more information and ways to support Masafer Yatta: www.savemasaferyatta.com To contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org To donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate  

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