Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.
In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiographical work that details the lived realities, emotions, connections and contradictions of growing up in Gaza. Dr. Alijila remarks on the changing of academia, once the vanguard of progressive thought and action becoming ever more muted and intellectually impoverished. He speaks on the unending question of humanity, including how social media distorts our view, and the problem of dehumanizing by pedestaling what the occupation has buried beneath subhuman propaganda. Next up, co-founder of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Jimmy Dunson comes back on the program to offer up a perspective you wont hear on corporate media: how the Israeli Defense Forces target Jewish and Hebrew-speaking people. Jimmy shares his own experiences with this as well as the experiences of a colleague on a Mutual Aid Disaster Relief boat that sailed with the Gaza Flotilla. Jimmy discusses how his Jewish faith leads him to actively oppose genocide, how we can better be in solidarity with Palestinians and with one another while connecting our struggles as well as our efforts to build a better world.
Notes:
Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla is a Palestinian Swedish social and political scientist and science advocate. He is the author of Trust in Divided Societies: State, Institutions and Governance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine and the forthcoming book, which were here to talk about today: Fearful in Gaza. His main research interests are divided societies, Social Cohesion, Rebel Governance, Social Capital, Middle East Studies, and Comparative Politics.
Jimmy Dunson is a mystic, magic, warrior, healer, poet in love with all existence, cofounder of mutual aid disaster relief, and a volunteer with the international solidarity movement and ta'ayush in Palestine
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