The Enduring Power of Palestinian Transnational Identity & Activism w/ MAHA NASSER & KARAM DANA

February 17, 2025/ Interviewed by David Palumbo-Liu

A Discussion with MAHA NASSER & KARAM DANA

An examination of two studies offer a fascinating account of the historical and present-day formation of transnational Palestinian identities and the way that these complex histories inform today’s struggles for Palestinian liberation and rights by both Palestinians and non-Palestinians. They talk about the importance of language, the arts, and especially poetry, as well as contemporary cultural forms. They take on the violence of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism and the importance of finding paths of solidarity while never losing sight of what is distinct about Palestine and Palestinians.

January 28, 2025

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

January 28, 2025/ Interviewed by David Palumbo-Liu

A Conversation with PETER BEINART:

Many Jews treat a Jewish state the way the Bible feared Jewish monarchs would treat themselves: as a higher power, beholden to no external standard. Again and again, we are ordered to accept a Jewish state’s ‘right to exist.’ But the language is perverse. In Jewish tradition, states have no inherent value. States are not created in the image of God; human beings are. States are mere instruments… The legitimacy of a Jewish state—like the holiness of the Jewish people—is conditional on how it behaves. It is subject to law, not a law in and of itself.