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Tankie Group Therapy #18: Tank you for being a friend

We're back for another round of group therapy talking about the latest developments in the Gaza genocide with a small group of Tankie therapees: Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau) and Mikey (@karaokecomputer). Sadly, our comrade Joe Emersburger was on the call but his file didn't upload so we sometimes reference his contribution. Please send your complaints to Podcastle.ai for their shitty, unstable platform. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jun 12, 20241h 5m

The End of Sport #141: Protest Politics w/Robin D. G. Kelley

[The latest episode of The End of Sport podcast co-hosted by my old friend Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, and Derek SIlva.] In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the context of the neoliberal university and racial capitalism more broadly. We also talk about the role of sport in protest politics. Robin D.G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He honestly does not need any introduction from me, but just to gesture to his impact, he is the author of books including, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012); Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination(Beacon Press, 2002); with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001); Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) [Vol. 10 of the Young Oxford History of African Americans series]; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). Very recently, he is also the author of an astounding appraisal of the events at the UCLA encampment in Boston Review. The End of Sport Podcast is a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network, your left podcast community. Find us in great company with over 60 other shows at Harbinger Media Network. As always, if you're enjoying the show, please feel free to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform and, please, leave us a five-star review as those always help us read a wider audience.

Jun 7, 20241h 21m

Tankie Group Therapy #17: An Assault on Our Minds

Our regular therapy session debriefing the events of the week. Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Alex Avina (@Alexander_Avina), Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Nora Barrows Friedman (https://x.com/norabf) all join. Hosted by Justin Podur (@justinpodur) Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jun 2, 20241h 5m

The Art of Boycott: Delinking, Zionism, and the Agrarian Question فن المقاطعة: فك الارتباط، الصهيونية والقضية الزراعية؟

**The Arabic half of the conversation begins around minute 72** Essam Elkorgle (@elkorgle) guesthosts a special dual-language episode with Tunis-based sociologist Haithem Gasmi (@HaithemGasmii) on the sociocultural dimensions of the Zionist boycott and the wider question of delinking from the neocolonial world system. Check out the short video discussed in the episode. Cover art by Suhaib Tantoush Haithem's recent articles (Arabic) "Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part One)" "Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part Two)" Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

May 31, 20242h 3m

Tankie Group Therapy #16: Apocalypse, now!

Get out your most painful traumies cause it's that time again. A smaller helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Justin, Joe, and Sina. Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

May 26, 202454 min

(Preview) World War Civ 40: How Britain Took Palestine in 1917

(A preview of the latest episode of Justin Podur's World War Civ series on his very excellent Anti-Empire Project podcast) General Allenby, Sharif Hussein and his son Feisal, and their handler TE Lawrence array the forces of the British Empire and the Arab Revolt against the Turco-German forces in Palestine. The battle starts in Gaza and ends with Allenby walking into the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem. The story of the fateful campaign that brought British imperialism to Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria…). We note that the British found Gaza to be a "fortress" from which it was impossible to dislodge the Turkish forces; Justin felt TE Lawrence was overrated, just another imperialist; and we compare admiration of the stoicism with which Allenby took news of his son's death, with an analogous situation today. https://podur.org/2024/05/13/world-war-civ-40-how-britain-took-palestine-in-1917/

May 15, 202429 min

Tankie Group Therapy #15: Segregationist Methuselah and the fading US Empire

Nora (@norabf), Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina) are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy. Watch the episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

May 14, 20241h 15m

Tankie Group Therapy #14: Too much democracy!

An extra large helping of Tankie Therapy featuring a big crowd of patients crammed together on the digital couch: Nora, Rob, Mikey, Arama, Justin, Alex, Joe, and Sina chaotically trying to host. We discussed the very irrational response on the part of the university administrators across the West to the encampments in solidarity with Palestinians sprouting up at dozens of schools. Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Apr 30, 20241h 33m

Buying Back Our Things: One Man's Mission to Reclaim Somali Material Culture w/ Aziz Faarah

Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah), independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090. Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the museum as a colonial invention and Aziz's mission to reclaim and repatriate pieces to Somalis in the Horn of Africa and across the diaspora. To read more and get a glimpse into Aziz's collection: https://africasacountry.com/2024/04/buying-back-our-things Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Apr 27, 20241h 14m

The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar

Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the BZU Museum (@bzu.museum). Abduljawad Omar (@HHamayel2) is a lecturer at Birzeit University. Check out the article, "The parallel human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian political prisoners" by Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh An archive of Walid Daqqa's writings https://shorturl.at/hyzQX Watch the video edition on our YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Apr 17, 20241h 41m

Tankie Group Therapy #13: We consider the matter closed

On Day 191 the tankie therapy group convenes (Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe), Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau), Mikey Inouye (@karaokecomputer), Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist), Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) but for an analytical discussion about Iran's missiles hitting Israeli airbases the day before. A summary of what happened, a media roundup, Jordan's role, the new equation, and more. Watch this episode on Justin's YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Apr 15, 20241h 5m

The Mass Hannibal Event of October 7th w/ William Van Wagenen

Investigative journalist William Van Wagenen (@WVanwagenen) from The Cradle returns to the podcast to discuss his deep dive into what really happened on Oct 7th. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/PP7ZBzTJFmU Check out the article, "What Really Happened on October 7?" https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-really-happened-on-october-7/?feed_id=11264&_unique_id=65d3514b9b6fe Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Apr 11, 20241h 11m

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 3

Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) PANEL 3 "Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing the Palestinians: Gaza in the British Pathé Colonial Lens" Shahd Abusalama, Lebanese American University My presentation will critically engage with the representation of the Palestine question in general and Gaza refugees in particular by British Pathé, which, as a leading media institution of the British Empire, was also a dedicated advocate of Zionist ambitions and Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine. While presenting corresponding reels, I will interrogate Pathé's discursive strategies in representing the 1947-48 Nakba (Arabic: catastrophe), the 1956-7 Israeli occupation of Gaza, and Israel's subsequent occupation of Gaza beginning in 1967, exposing its ideological framing of the Palestinian people as either "terrorists" or "helpless victims" and the glorification of the newborn state of Israel. I argue that British Pathé provided a consolidating hegemonic discourse on Palestine-Israel that prevails to this day in mainstream Western political, media, and academic discourse to shield Israel and its allies from responsibility. (25 minutes) PLENARY PANEL Art credit: "Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.

Apr 8, 20241h 27m

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 2

PANEL 2 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) "Queer Threads: Activist Fashion in Palestine" Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam In this presentation I sketch the contours of the formation of an activist fashion scene across Palestine in the face of material challenges that the infrastructures of the occupation pose to the production and circulation of clothes. I theorize the creative practices of Palestinian fashion designers and image-makers as makeshift acts of collective disidentification with the ecocidal, racist, and queerphobic Zionist enterprise, and argue that "queer decolonial fashion practices" offer a model of creative activism wherein environmental ethics, anti-racism, and queer claims are fundamentally interconnected. Conjoining Gramscian analytical categories and queer epistemologies from the South, I highlight how sartorial praxis and embodiment figure in the imagination of Palestinian youth. (25 minutes) "Laboratories of Speculation: Rethinking Jericho, 'the City of the Moon'" Ronak K. Kapadia, University of Illinois Chicago (via Zoom) Critical queer feminist study has lovingly brought renewed methodological attention to long-forgotten, once-inhabited sites, archives, geographies, and histories, which can be newly reanimated for the service of contemporary collective social life. One such instance in present-day Palestine has been the international art, writing, and research residency called el-Atlal ("The Ruins") co-founded by Karim Kattan, Victoria Dabdoub, Rebecca Topakian, Céleste Haller from 2014-2019 in the town of Jericho, the "oldest city in the world." Given its historical heritage and complex station in the local imagination, Jericho is a generative utopian site for enacting new incubatory spaces for alternative political and aesthetic possibility in the dystopian here and now. If Palestine, and the Palestinian people subject to Israeli rule, have long served as one of the foremost paradigmatic "laboratories" for the development of late modern settler security states and their fabrication of new technologies of policing, maiming, and killing perfected on Palestinians under siege, this talk explores how we might reimagine an archetypal "Palestine" instead as an experimental site of decolonial fantasy and creative freedom, one that also portends the ends of the conjoined US/Israeli settler security states and their forever wars on terror. (25 minutes) Art credit: "Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.

Apr 8, 20241h 23m

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine, Panel 1

Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine An In-Person and Livestreamed ConferenceWednesday, February 28, 2024 Panel 1 Introductory Remarks by Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) "The Urgency of Anti-Imperial Feminism: Lessons from Palestine" Walaa Alqaisiya, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (via Zoom) (08:30-38:30) This talk maps the epistemic, political, and moral grounds informing the urgency of anti-imperial feminism that Palestine brings into sight. Combining decolonial and Third-Worldist Marxist theoretical approaches, the first part of the talk unpacks the functionality of gender to the onto-epistemic foundations of Zionist settler colonialism under US-led imperialism. The second part discusses how the centering of the Palestinian national question redefines the moral and political parameters of feminist and queer mobilisation. In doing so, the last part shows the limitations and tensions that post-structural feminist and queer approaches carry, when dealing with the question of liberation, violence, and development in global South contexts, such as Palestine. (25 minutes) "Christian Zionism, Displacement, and the Role of Travel" Jennifer Kelly, University of California, Santa Cruz (via Zoom)(~39:00-1:03:00) A central tenet of Falwell's Moral Majority, founded in 1979, was unequivocal support for Israel and, by 1983, he began his first of many "Friendship Tours to Israel," which included meetings with government officials and tours of Israeli military installations. Today, Christian Zionism tours follow this template, pairing pilgrimage with celebrations of Israel's sustained displacement of Palestinians. At the center of displacement in Jerusalem, for example, is a biblical theme park—run by settlers—planned for Silwan that comprises a cable car, a seven-story Jewish cultural center on Wadi Hilweh land, and shopping centers and homes for settlers. And, during this current genocidal war on Gaza, Christian Zionists across the U.S. are once again eagerly seeing Israel's destruction of Gaza as a sign of end times and calling for unchecked Israeli control over all of Palestine. In this paper, I show not only how tourism is never a thing apart from colonial state violence, but also how tourism is part of the fabric of a U.S. Christian Zionism that both enables and facilitates Palestinian displacement. (25 minutes) Art credit: "Untitled 2022" by Heba Zaqout, artist and fine arts teacher, martyred 13 October 2023 with two of her children in Gaza.

Apr 8, 20241h 21m

(Preview) Bonus Episode 179 - The airing of the grievances w/ Alex Aviña and Louis Allday

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going or watch the full episode on our YouTube channel* Trying out a new live format and was joined by friends of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) and Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) for an angry deep dive into some of the terrible articles written on the Gaza genocide. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQH3uMQU3mk&ab_channel=TheEastisaPodcast Some of the "articles" we discussed https://damagemag.com/2024/03/05/seven-realities-of-israel-palestine/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21/adam-shatz/vengeful-pathologies

Apr 4, 202419 min

"We are already in the phase of barbarism" w/ Paris Yeros

Paris Yeros (@parisyeros) teaches at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. Guest host and friend of the show Bikrum Gil (@bikrumsinghgill) discuss Paris' latest article published in Agrarian South, "A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the 'Sixth Great Power" Read the article here https://www.agrariansouth.org/2023/12/16/a-polycentric-world-will-only-be-possible-by-the-intervention-of-the-sixth-great-power/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Mar 31, 20241h 23m

Tankie Group Therapy #12: Fear and Impatience

Tankie therapy session as we watch the newest atrocities unfolding at al-Shifa, make historical parallels with the Argentine Dirty War and the 1857 War in India, the Battle of Algiers and the film Downfall... with Nora (@norabf), Matteo (@capassomat) , Mikey (@karaokecomputer), Sina (@UrOrientalist), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina). Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Mar 26, 20241h 18m

Palestine and the Global South w/ Vijay Prasad and Frances Hasso

Vijay Prasad (@vijayprashad) in conversation with friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya). Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities, Departments of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and of Communication, and the Curriculums in Global Studies and in Peace, War, & Defense. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Mar 21, 20241h 37m

Walking among giants: An eyewitness report from Rafah w/ Dr. Yipeng Ge

Ottawa-based Physician Dr. Yipeng Ge (@yipengGe) reflects on being attacked by the Zionist lobby for speaking out on the Gaza genocide and his subsequent trip to Rafah as part of a medical delegation. Watch the episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Mar 21, 20241h 22m

Tankie Group Therapy #11: Hope is a discipline

The crew is back on the couch at the therapist's office with Alex (@Alexander_Avina), Nora (@norabf), Sina (@urorientalist) and two new guests: Mikey (@karaokecomputer) and Arama. Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Mar 4, 20241h 41m

Sifting through the ashes of Oslo w/ Abdaljawad Omar

Abdaljawad Omar is a PhD student and part-time lecturer in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/tDkaO2lmD4o Check out his articles on Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/author/abdaljawad-omar/ Listen to his episodes on Millenials are Killing Capitalism https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/turning-grief-into-defiance-abdaljawad-omar-on-resistance-possibility-in-palestine Interview with Louis Allday https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/an-unyielding-will-to-continue Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 29, 20241h 37m

Palestine Seminar #3 : Jumana Manna

Duke Professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviews visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna for the third episode of her Palestine Seminar. https://www.jumanamanna.com/ Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access. Live stream link https://duke.zoom.us/j/93556167414 Detailed schedule available here https://tickets.duke.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=concreteimaginings&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= From the syllabus: "My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching." Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf

Feb 26, 20241h 11m

(Preview) Bonus Episode 178 - Palestine's Great Flood w/ Max Ajl

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going or watch the full episode on our YouTube channel* Friend of the podcast Max Ajl returns to the show to discuss his latest article, "Palestines's Great Flood: Part 1." Download the article here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378147524_Palestine%27s_Great_Flood_Part_I Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 19, 202428 min

Tankie Group Therapy #10: Gaza War Day 135

Justin Podur hosts another seesion of Tankie Group Therapy marking Day 135 of the war with Matteo, Alex, and Nora. Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 19, 202450 min

The Palestine Seminar #2: Ilan Pappé

Duke Professor France Hasso (@nasawiyya) in conversation with University of Exeter professor of History Ilan Pappe as part of her Palestine Seminar. Professor Hasso will be convening a conference titled, "Concrete Imaginings: Building a Liberated Palestine" on Feb 28th, 2024. It will be livestreamed and open access. Live stream link https://duke.zoom.us/j/93556167414 Detailed schedule available here https://tickets.duke.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=concreteimaginings&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= From the syllabus: "My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching." Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf Course listing https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/palestine-seminar-gsf-648 Donate https://linktr.ee/palestine.donation.suggestions Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 15, 20241h 7m

(Preview) Bonus Episode 177 - What the hell is wrong with Canada?? w/ Rob Rousseau

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going or watch the full episode on our YouTube channel* Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) returns to the podcast to answer the age-old question that has stumped generations of thinkers: what the hell is wrong with Canada? Check out his Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel

Feb 15, 202418 min

The Palestine Seminar #1: Louis Allday

Duke professor Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) guest hosts a conversation with Louis Allday, founding editor of LiberatedTexts.com, as part of her Spring 2024 course. The pair discuss the significance, relevance, and insight of three books highlighted by Liberated Texts previously; "Zionist Colonialism in Palestine" by Fayez Sayegh, "On Zionist Literature" by Ghassan Kanafani and "Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany" by Faris Glubb. They also discuss these articles by Louis: "What existence is worth": The Martyrdom of Refaat Alareer https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-existence-worth-martyrdom-refaat-alareer/42491 "A Race Against Time": The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/a-race-against-time-the-life-and-death-of-ghassan-kanafani/ From the syllabus: "My initial goal was to give a platform to Palestinian artists and intellectuals working in Palestine but with limited opportunities to work or share their work outside of a permanent crisis mode produced by the myriad forms of violence attached to Israeli colonization. This violence regularly reaches university campuses and touches every dimension of life. The syllabus is idiosyncratic in the sense that it represents my intellectual and pedagogical interests for this seminar. I encourage people to use it as an educational resource and to take parts for their own teaching." Download syllabus https://franceshasso.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/the-palestine-seminar-sp-2024-syllabus.pdf Course listing https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/palestine-seminar-gsf-648 Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 12, 20241h 21m

Panic at the border w/ Alex Aviña

Longtime friend of the show Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss the latest round of US border panic. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Feb 8, 20241h 8m

Russophobia, think tanks, and the Eurasian future w/ Glenn Diesen (pt.1)

*Note: This is the first part of a two-part episode. You can listen to the second half of the episode by becoming a patron of the show at the $5 level or you can watch the entire episode on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel* Friend of the podcast Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) is joined by guest host Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker Elkorghli (@elkorgle) in a conversation with Norwegian scholar of Russia Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) His latest work is The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order (2024) https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-ukraine-war-the-eurasian-world-order/ Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jan 27, 20241h 3m

ICJ Rules for South Africa: a defeat for Israel?

Quick reaction to today's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on provisional measures at South Africa's request that the court take urgent action to prevent Israel from committing genocide in Gaza. Watch the video edition on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jan 26, 202448 min

ICJ interim ruling on genocide case against Israel

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - Request for the indication of provisional measures - The Court to deliver its Order on Friday, 26 January 2024, Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRsprNTNiNM&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

Jan 26, 202447 min

Tankie Group Therapy #9: Gaza War day 106

The Tankie Group Therapy team--Nora, Justin, Alex, and Sina--is back on the couch and joined by our newest member, Tamara Nassar from The Electronic Intifada Consider support the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jan 22, 20241h 4m

Losurdo reads Stalin w/ Henry Hakamäki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro (pt.1)

Friend of the podcast Henry Hakamäki (@Huck1995) from Guerrilla History Podcast and professor Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro translated Dominico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008) (Note: This is part one of a two-part conversation. The second half is only available to $5 Patrons of The East is a Podcast or watch the entire episode on our YouTube channel) Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jan 12, 20241h 17m

South Africa presents its case against Israel at the ICJ

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8&ab_channel=SABCNews

Jan 11, 20242h 54m

Water, Palestine, and settler colonialism w/ Matt Hooley

Matt Hooley is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth and his book Against Extraction can be pre-ordered now through Duke University Press. Guest hosted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Jan 2, 202451 min

Solidarity is a weapon: Yemen fights for Gaza w/ Isa Blumi

Isa Blumi is Docent/Associate Professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of among other works Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World (2018) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 30, 20231h 5m

Tankie Group Therapy #8 on Gaza War Day 78

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War but this time we're joined by Lara Sheehi, an actual therapist, who guides us through as we try to understand where things stand on Day 78 of the war. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 24, 202329 min

Lebanon, Culture, Love and Hope w/ Daniel Drennan El-Awar

Interview with Daniel was conducted by Ian Anderson (of the Anti-Imperialist Archive) Daniel can be found at: Writing Jamaa Al-Yad Artists' Collective Blog 2006 war diary Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 23, 20231h 21m

(Preview) Bonus Episode 176 - You shall not pass: Yemenis besiege Israel w/ Nasser Arrabyee

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* (Note: Apologies for my sound quality; selected the wrong mic like a noob!) Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) returns to the show to talk about the closure of the Bab el Mandab strait to Israeli-linked vessels by Yemen in solidarity with Gaza.

Dec 16, 202312 min

Tankie Group Therapy #7: In honor of Refaat Alareer

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War, this time we all share some words about literature prof, teacher, poet and hero Refaat Alareer, assassinated by Israel a couple of days ago. Some discussion of military tactics and strategies as always. Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive episode dedicated to Refaat to hear him in his own words. Consider support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 11, 20231h 27m

(Preview) AIA Memorial Episode for Refaat Alareer

Link to the Anti Imperialist Archive episode Anti Imperialist Archive is edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Their Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive. Subscribe via this RSS feed

Dec 9, 202322 min

The anachronism of Zionism w/ Ussama Makdisi

Dr. Ussama Makdisi (@UssamaMakdisi) is Professor of History and Chancellor's Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-host of the newly-launched podcast, Makidisi Street, Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 8, 20231h 1m

(Preview) "I just look for the day there will be justice" w/ Francesca Albanese

*A preview of the latest episode of Makdisi Street, a new podcast hosted by Saree, Ussama, and Karim Makdisi* The Makdisi brothers welcome Francesca Albanese (@FranceskAlbs), the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to the podcast. The discussion covers international humanitarian law, the concept of self-defense as it is understood in international law, the right to resist military occupation, the specificities of settler colonial occupation, and the question of justice given the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Follow us on X: @MakdisiStreet Follow us on YouTube: @MakdisiStreet Music by Hadiiiiii

Dec 8, 202317 min

Tankie Group Therapy #6: The Al-Nasr Premature Babies, Violence resumes after pause

Nora, Matteo, Rania, and Alex are gathered to talk about what we're seeing and trying to make sense of on Israel's War on Gaza after 8 weeks, a couple of days after the end of the "humanitarian pause". We open with a discussion of the five premature babies left to die in Al-Nasr hospital when doctors and parents were forced out of the hospital at gunpoint by the Israeli military. We conclude with a discussion of what wars of resistance and guerrilla wars have looked like in history. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 3, 20231h 18m

Tankie Group Therapy #5: October 7th was a prison break

Lie down on the couch and prepare yourself for another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring friend of the podcast Bikrum Gill (@bikrumsinghgill) and hosted by Matteo "Super Mario" Capasso (@capassomat). Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 1, 202350 min

An attack on life itself w/ Mary Turfah and Adam Horowitz

This is only 65% of the conversation. Subscribe to the East is a Podcast on Patreon to listen to the rest of the episode.) Mary Turfah (@maryturfah) is a physician and writer. Check out her amazing piece on Mondoweiss, "Before the light goes out" Adam Horowitz (@mondowitz) is the Executive Editor at @Mondoweiss Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Nov 27, 202357 min

Demystifying Gaza w/ Palestinian Youth Movement

Miriam and Naye from the Palestinian Youth Movement do a deep dive into the modern history of Gaza and what role it plays in the Palestinian people's liberation struggle. Check out their teach-in at the People's Forum in NYC Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Nov 21, 20231h 12m

Tankie Group Therapy #4: Whose side is time on?

The alliance between the East is a Podcast, the Brief, and the Anti-Empire Project continues as we discuss the Gaza War six weeks in (since October 7, 2023). Structured as group therapy (the fourth in the series) we cover some of the news, the dynamic of aggression and resistance, military analysis of guerrilla war, the painful search for historical analogies to help us understand the moment, and more. Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Nov 20, 20231h 26m

Bonus Episode 173 - War is a racket w/ Ali Kadri

*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. The conversation continued for another 45 minutes in which Ali discusses the current war in Gaza and its significance to global capitalism. Please subscribe to the show for as little as $5 a month to get access to this and hundreds of hours of great bonus content.* Ali Kadri is the author of numerous books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment (2014), The Unmaking of Arab Socialism (2016), The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World (2019), and co-editor (with Linda Matar) of Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War (2019) Guest hosted by friend of the show Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Nov 18, 202342 min