This week Lara and Michael sit down with Abdulrahim Harara, owner of Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, California. We discuss Abdulrahim's family history in Palestine and how he started Jerusalem Coffee House as a community organizing space. We cover the incident that led to Adbulrahim's cafe being targeted and subjected to lawfare by the ADL the DOJ and other powerful zionist organizations.
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"Natural Causes" with Sammy Obeid
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Palestinian American comedian Sammy Obeid. We mock the media for distorting the death toll with their wording, ie "natural causes". We chat about working in comedy as a Palestinian and Sammy shares a funny story about staying in Michael's apartment.
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Stage 5 Famine & Escalating Repression
This week Lara and Michael cover Israel's forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has reached Stage 5 for many people in the Gaza Strip, the US sanctions levied against United Nations Special Rapporteur on the oPt, Francesca Albanese, and the odd resignation of all members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the oPt in the days that followed.
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LA Uprisings and Genocide Accountability Updates
This week Lara and Michael discuss the uprisings in LA and the solidarity seen at the protests. We also cover updates around the groundbreaking lawsuit brought by Palestine Pod alum Damia Taharraoui which seeks to hold Israeli/French citizens accountable for complicity in genocide and incitement to genocide in French courts.
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Were you silent or were you silenced?
Lara and Michael sit down separately this week. Lara reads from her submission on the political economy of the Gaza Genocide prepared as part of her work for the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo session and Michael talks about being digitally disappeared from Instagram by one of Meta's main executives who used to work for the Israeli government as part of an application-wide sweep of several accounts speaking about Palestinian rights
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