"regardless of whatever was written in these books that were written thousands and thousands of years ago the fact of the matter is no one has a right to go on slaughtering people removing them from th..."

"tell me about Sheikh jarah the neighborhood in East Jerusalem where you grew up in a way a typical neighborhood despite the despite the Absurd reality the surrounds it it's a typical neighborhood in t..."

"you know we had no real pull in the courts the Israeli courts would look at the Israeli documents which we argue are falsifies and fabricated um and they would take them at face value without authenti..."

"got over 50 expulsion orders in 2009 rifle wielding settlers accompanied by police and Israeli military came over and shoved our neighbors outside of their home around 5 a.m it's like it was the most ..."

"began with uh on camera recorded we're not related but we live on the same street in the same neighborhood she was thrown out of her home her husband an elderly man also named was pronounced dead on t..."

"following decade this was I was still a child and I had broken English and I was talking to all of these diplomats and all these journalists who would you know subjugate me um to their subject me to t..."

"global success and I believe it was a global success because finally the the images on the screen matched the rhetoric that was being said it wasn't so confusing or complicated anymore all of this asy..."

"region with the evictions with the courts so first of all shakes your eyes in East Jerusalem maybe you can say what is Jerusalem where is it located what are we talking about in terms of regionally an..."

"we have no other option um we're talking we're talking about how we're talking about Jerusalem we're talking about generations and generations and generations of people who have lived there for the lo..."

"what these headlines don't tell you and even sometimes most of the time the substance doesn't tell you that Palestinians seldom ever get building permit applications um in fact recently a spokesperson..."

"cave dweller Palestinians have lived for Generations they have cultivated the land um and recently they were expelled from their homes over a thousand people were expelled from their remote small vill..."

"specifically and explicitly discriminates against them so again it's technically legal the evictions and the demolitions yeah so was Jim Crow was legal also you know when something is legal it can als..."

"that's hateful so I don't need you know confirmation this is something we see a lot actually you know um Palestinians and people who are pro-palestine and just people who want to make a difference in ..."

"don't need this because the material proof is on the ground you see it in the policies that are enacted you see it um in how the country how this regime has behaved for the past 75 years I don't need ..."

"nakba and you see it in in you see it in silangi state and Hebron and all of these people losing their homes and in many cases time and time again you know I grew up and my grandmother told me the sto..."

"it's happening and it has happened in in broad daylight um one piece of context for The Listener who doesn't who is not familiar with the knuckleberry is developer declaration which was a promise quot..."

"recommend is the 100 year the Hundred Years War on Palestine um that's the you know traces the Zionist movement oftentimes in designists own words um and so today what we're seeing is a continuation a..."

"celebration um so this is Zionism it's not even through my own words what he said to people that describe Israel as having a historical right to the land so if you stretch out across decades but acros..."

"keep an entire population of people in a cage which is what's happening to people in the West Bank who have no freedom of of movement which is what's happening in Gaza which is blockaded to water air ..."

"this is also a human story yeah and uh I feel like at the core of the situation here is um hate is or maybe inability for some group of humans to see the humanity in another group of humans and so it'..."

"most of us you know we're very hospitable um we're very hospitable even like in the early early correspondence between the mayor of Jerusalem and herzl who wrote the Jewish State you know the generosi..."

"particularly successful because it was honest to what was happening on the ground because it refused to follow the strategy that we have used in our advocacy before where we shrink ourselves and we tu..."

"who will not threaten um and who will not you know trigger the biases they have against Muslims and Arab people which Palestinians even though we're not all Muslim are racialized as Muslim um and this..."

"fuel for Action absolutely and it has been throughout throughout history it has been how much of this tension is religious in the Practical aspects of the courts and the the evictions and the demoliti..."

"anti-Semitism of course he said that do you disagree absolutely I disagree what's the gap between um anti-zionism and anti-Semitism those who are against the policies of uh Israel versus those who are..."

"it has been used as a muzzle to silence political opposition um and this stifle political advocacy for the liberation of Palestine and a lot of the time people get caught up in denouncing it and in ju..."

"training uh Department in the country where they train police and uh racial profiling and militarism the fact that they have historically and continued to have engaged in surveillance on on Black Libe..."

"people about that there's also uh anti-jewish anti-Semitism sentiment in the United States but also throughout human history what do you make about this kind of um fact of human nature that people see..."

"I don't know condemnable you know rotten racist horrible human being that belongs in the depths of Hell obviously that's that goes without without saying but I am allowed um analogy and I'm allowed to..."

"you know maybe Netanyahu can send me a manual he's happy with you know so you've spoken about the taking of homes the IDF uh killing civilians killing children uh what about the violence going the oth..."

"that we we should continue living these in inside these enclaves um without access to clean water without access to to the right to movement without access to building permits without our natural righ..."

"you know we sell out tickets about it we make games about it but if it's without a uniform it's if it has a thick accent if it has a beard you know that's that's condemnable that's wrong that's terror..."

"effective for the Palestinian people we've turned the other cheek uh generation after generation there is this Zionist Trope that that is used against us they say Palestinian rejectionism they say tha..."

"Visa because you have an Israeli citizenship but you know they battle National and race or they battle um crime in their own communities because of police negligence they they battle land conference l..."

"so forth who routinely get bombarded every few years um is like two hours away from my house it feels like an absolute far away planet because it's so isolated from the rest of the country so imagine ..."

"violence cracking down on refugee camps bombarding refugee camps is only going to bring about more violence so West Bank is a large region where a lot of Palestinian people live and then there are set..."

"refugee camp and um those who stood on the left side of the street were forced to board uh boats that took them to Lebanon to become refugee camps refugees there last month we saw the Israeli Army inv..."

"continue to live is is unbearable I mean in my case my grandmother was removed from her home in Haifa in 48 and then she moved from Sydney City and then in 2009 she saw half of her home taken over by ..."

"article is a little bit more uh you know careful than other than other media that came out recently about Janine I think you know I was listening to our Reuters radio show and they failed to ever ment..."

"you know the thousands of Israeli soldiers that raided the camp that day that traumatized an entire generation they think they will quell that generation they think that with such Bloodshed and such b..."

"they don't do this because you know of machismo or because of uh heroic Tendencies it's because this is about survival so the degree there's violence it's about survival absolutely absolutely I think ..."

"even need to linger on it well the double standard is glaring but I also think the glorification of violence is questionable there's a balance to be struck of course but yeah I mean I don't what I don..."

"the line it says a lot it says a lot about whose violence is normalized is accepted is institutionalized is glorified event right yeah and you walk around Tel Aviv and you see all of the plaques plast..."

"a cage that they have no access to clean water they have no access to basic rights no access to uh Imports no access to anything that they can't leave they're living in a densely populated Enclave tha..."

"a full spectrum of humanity which in includes raids which includes uh the sustain which includes happiness and joy and laughter which includes celebration which includes um all of these things but we'..."

"um again I don't think it's like the best strategy moving forward but I refuse you know to be uh you know criminalized for a little sentence but to linger on those in power so one of the criticisms to..."

"these two entities virtually have no power even Hamas um Yani there is you know the the context that Hamas is permitted through by international law uh to use armed resistance blah blah blah does that..."

"well the you know how do you do a better world they actually if you just Linger on that like what the politically speaking geopolitically you have to have representation of the people you have to have..."

"definitely definitely well if we look a little bit more short term people speak about a one-state solution a two-state solution what is your hope here for um for this part of the world do do you see a..."

"is like a possible situation for two people to live side by side let's ask two questions let's say you you lived in a house with a person your roommate you just had a roommate who constantly beat the ..."

"uptick many of them leave and I wonder I would like to see I wonder what would happen in on state solution well okay so you've spoken eloquently about the Injustice of the evictions the demolitions th..."

"anybody can just walk into my house and this is just and I'm lucky and privileged as a Palestinian journalist there are many Palestinian journalists who lose their lives this is like that's real insec..."

"we're scared of you know it's like fear-mongering what do you mean any who has the nukes some of it is fear-mongering but uh some of it is true I don't think it's true I don't think it's true I think ..."

"the Palestinian people meaning how many people are there that want Israel to be gone but what does it mean for Israel to be gone uh what it means is for people who think of Israel as an occupier who s..."

"all of this other stuff about what happens to the settlers and like uh you know we want to kill all Jews and all of this I think it's bullshit and I think it's ridiculous and I think you know um fixat..."

"the least of my concerns do you want the low hanging fruit the obvious injustices to end yeah but still the long-term vision of existential survival of a of Israel which is the concern of its governme..."

"again Israeli military has no business being there or jurisdiction whatsoever he was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier who was trigger happy because again again they have this like um Siege mental..."

"Palestinians be it you know legalizing and upholding the withholding of slain Palestinian bodies who were killed by the Israeli military to be used as bargaining trips with Israeli militaries be it ma..."

"Israeli Supreme Court so they're like the real the the real tension that exists is the lack of diversity on the Israeli political spectrum that makes the vision for a future so limited because those o..."

"Jerusalem looks like with a peaceful coexistence of people you know as it looked like before before the Israeli State emerged I mean we should be reading our history here um when you read like Europea..."

"Hundred Years War on Palestine it's it's really an excellent synopsis of the history but this whole idea that this is like some kind of war between two religions is so misleading because what's happen..."

"theory I know it sounds absurd and and you know anytime I like look at my my life from a bird's eye view I think what a circus but it's but it's real and it's it's verifiable Yanni call the fact sucke..."

"um and that sounds great on the surface but then you look at Israeli law you look at Israeli courts you look at ownership and you see that oh Israelis refuse to authenticate or take into consideration..."

"fact that they just refuse to look at land ownership documents what is the process of the fighting this in the course look like if you can maybe just comment on it so there's I always make a joke with..."

"our case in our case it was the International Community but in our case also it wasn't just the International Community it was like the hundreds of thousands of people in Palestine and abroad who are ..."

"I think it's so impressive you know that we were able to do this without any media backing without any institutional backing without any training without without any budget nothing you mentioned the U..."

"are politicians who care more about maintaining a relationship with the Israeli regime that they care about their own districts you've tweeted that 49 years ago gassan kind of funny you can maybe corr..."

"and also could you comment on him as a person yeah I mean what's the kind of funny is a brilliant uh brilliant brilliant writer and uh he was prolific he's authored so much books even though he was as..."

"you know a shift in global stance and also in achieving you know an Awakening in the Palestinian generation as well you know there's a very famous uh famous interview of his where he's talking to uh I..."

"normalization deals that have emerged in recent years the abrahamic Accords have been talked about as though they're like groundbreaking new um phenomenon but many Arab countries have normalized relat..."

"also believe that literature culture the public sphere changing the public opinion changing the narrative is important to affecting policy to affecting change affecting material change you know I'm no..."

"um in the American public and more and more American people are concerned where their tax money is going or concerned what their politicians are invested in more and more American people are saying no..."

"I don't you know I saw Cornell West on CNN I don't think you know I don't know if he's Gonna Go Far with his campaign Cornelius is running with the green party and I don't think he's going to achieve ..."

"accompany someone and I I wanted to write about displacement in a way that was beyond what we read about in English poetry has a medium I don't know if I have much faith in it anymore to be honest may..."

"express uh large ideas in a simplistic way and you know the best example I could give you is one of my favorite poets uh when when the Israeli authorities decided to do the land the land law which cla..."

"role of poetry that I try to to achieve so poetry ultimately prizes The Power of Words And So It the medium the power of the media of poetry transfers nicely to the any medium that celebrates words so..."

"speak in English so somebody that cares about the craftsmanship of words in both English and Arabic what can you say about your process uh it's a lot more neat than like this conversation it's like I ..."

"explanations and that's that's heartbreaking and people ought to do better people are ought to you know do better this is not it's not it's not what my uh literature should be limited to it's not what..."

"Hospital bombing um a lot of things that a lot of a lot of them are Sinister I have many friends many journalists friends and I've seen many journalists online speak about their experiences when talki..."

"contemplate many things many things not just suicide but many many many things and if and if people were to put themselves in our shoes for just one day they would understand um where all of the raids..."

"people and it's just my obligation I have to do it what gives you hope about the future of Palestine what gives me hope about what the future of Boston is taking a look at history and understanding th..."

"Justice what do you love most about Palestine what are like maybe little things that you remember from your childhood from your life there in each Jerusalem and elsewhere they you just brings a smile ..."

"these people are eager to like have sex with 70 virgins in heaven and so on and so forth but that's not the case the whole idea of the occupation when they are killing our children the whole idea is t..."