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Makdisi Street — 116 episodes · page 1 of 2
"The loudest denialists"
Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
"The bottom is falling out in the US" w/ Ryan Grim
Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Fady Joudah
"The UK government was definitely complicit" w/ Chris Doyle
"Uncontained Malice"
"They've lost all the arguments"
"Surrender is not an option"
"Palestinians are wholly excluded from the room" w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Patron-only livestream: Latest on Iran, Lebanon and US policy
"Their appetite grows with every war" w/ Aslı Ü. Bâli
"FIFA is a racket" w/ Abdullah Al-Arian
Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Eyal Weizman
"We should not become our own worst enemy"
"Every war ends at the negotiating table" w/ Trita Parsi
"Only proper deterrence works"
"No peace and prosperity with apartheid" w/ As`ad Abukhalil
"The Zionist project is what it has always been" w/ Jehad Abusalim
"We cannot negotiate without national consensus" w/ Michael Young
"It hasn't worked": Lebanese defiance of Zionist oppression w/ Karim, Ussama and Saree Makdisi
"Palestine does matter" w/ Yousef Munayyer
"Energy is at the heart of it" w/ Laleh Khalili
"Locking in the ethnic cleansing of 1948" w/ Omar Shakir
"Now or never"
"The war in Lebanon is existential" w/ Hala Jaber
"The Israelis are not interested in peace" w/ Jad Ghosn
"Turning West Asia into a wasteland"" w/ Ali Alizadeh
"Everyone was bombing Yemen" w/ Farea Al Muslimi
"Trump isn't just President, he is a gangster and a businessman" w/ Jeremy Scahill
"Justice or Annihilation" w/ Sharif Abdel Kouddous
"My disenchantment with Zionism was a very gradual process" w/ Avi Shlaim
"Trump, Venezuela and an empire in crisis" w/ Greg Grandin
"We are not defeated" w/ Mustafa Barghouti
From Jerusalem to Cairo and Beirut w/ Jean Said Makdisi
[ARCHIVE] Christmas—and Christians—in Palestine w/ Dr. Mitri Raheb
"Pressuring schools to crack down" w/ Darryl Li
"Anti-imperialism with solidarity at home" w/ Ali Abunimah
"What did it take for so many Americans to not see" w/ Melani McAlister
"Public opinion is vastly different than the elites" w/ Mandy Turner
"At the Threshold of Genocide"
"My fear is that this is a repackaging of the genocide" w/ Diana Buttu
Return to Makdisi Street w/ Samir Makdisi
Bonus episode - To proxy or not to proxy?
"A little more than nothing is better than nothing" w/ Michael Barenboim
"This is the moment of accountability" w/ Michael Fakhri
"Is God Listening?" w/ Munther Isaac
"Palestine is getting relegated to an impermissible viewpoint" w/Christine Hong and Theresa Montano
"A free press is supposed to challenge the government" w/ Assal Rad
"The rot is very, very deep" w/ Ilan Pappé
Bonus Episode - Live at Socialism 2025
"They don't see Arabs as human" w/ Alon Mizrahi
"There was no attack by the Iranians" w/ Trita Parsi
"They literally built a concentration camp on a football stadium" w/ Bassil Mikdadi
"Israel is a dependent empire"
"Israel is synonymous with the end of the rules-based order" w/ Noura Erakat
"Zionism is an anachronism"
"We were conscripted into the Zionist project" w/ Avi Shlaim
"Law as a cudgel that you deploy selectively" w/ Sarah Leah Whitson
"The Israeli disposition is to maximize what it can get" w/ Daniel Levy
"An even worse collaboration than the one before" w/ Abdaljawad Omar
"We refuse to change our Syrian identity" w/ Wael Tarbieh
"Palestinians have the right to reject surveillance" w/ Hadeel Assali
"Nobody wants to name the traumatizer" w/ Lara Sheehi
"The West Bank is being annexed" w/ Mariam Barghouti
"Every single one of us has a role to play" w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
"The minimum we owe is solidarity" w/ Asli Bâli
"They still think we are 'savages'" w/ Wadie Said
"You can't hide the smoking gun of this genocide" w/ Sherene Seikaly and Tony Alessandrini
"Both the US and Israel are delusional" w/ Jeffrey Sachs
"The lobby is working overtime" w/ John Mearsheimer
"No one has a national interest in a unilateral declaration of Syria's future" w/ Omar S. Dahi
"The problem has always been that Israel is above the law" w/ Nimer Sultany
"Palestine will be liberated in Arabic" w/ Fady Joudah
"The beautiful thing about the truth is that it's easy" w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates
"The first foothold in a much broader liberation" w/ Tareq Baconi
"The other guy is more genocidal" w/ Mehdi Hasan
"Code 31: Arab Americans and the zone of danger" w/ Maya Berry
"One of my recurring fears is that people will move on" w/ Laila Al-Arian
"The most immoral and unethical army in the world" w/ Elijah Magnier
"President Biden is negotiating with himself" w/ Trita Parsi
"They want people to routinize the massacre of Palestinians"
"A society built on the ashes of another will always be violent" w/ Yara Hawari
"Many of us can't think about anything but Palestine" w/ Tariq Ali
"Calm before the storm"
"Camp David is a primordial document for the Egyptian political apparatus" w/ Lina Attalah
"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.2)
(Preview) "98% of the UN has been condemning what Israel has done."
"Partition was about creating a settler colonial state" w/ Abdel Razzaq Takriti (pt.1)
"Universities are complicit in Palestinian unfreedom" w/ Maya Wind
Debunking Zionist Myths #1
"Israel is becoming a burden to those who support it" w/ Mouin Rabbani
"A Special Relationship" w/ Stephen Walt
"The Gulf, the Arab metropoles and shifting patterns of power" w/ Elham Fakhro
"The process of liberation is irresistible and irreversible" w/ Vijay Prashad
"Learning how to be colonialists" w/ Rashid Khalidi
(Preview) "Distraction and Denial"
"Famine is never a natural occurrence" w/ Michael Fakhri
"Stadiums are completely ungovernable spaces, spaces of liberation" w/ Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs
"Two sides of the same coin"
"A kind of intergenerational civil war" w/ Peter Beinart