The Palestine Pod Podcast
1) How Zionism stole Jewish Identity with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
This week Lara and Michael sit down with acclaimed Rabbi, author, and rabbinical scholar, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro to discuss what it actually means to be Jewish. He dives deep into Jewish history and sho...Show More
2) Eyewitness to Genocide with Dr. Mimi Syed
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Dr. Mimi Syed a brave medical professional who went on two medical missions to Gaza before being banned by Israel on her third attempt. During her time in Gaza...Show More
3) What Would the Ancestors Say with Amanda Seales
This week Lara and Michael reconnect with artistic intellectual Amanda Seales to talk about the release of her book What Would the Ancestors Say. We dive into the attempts to cancel Amanda from perfor...Show More
4) Internet is not forever with Omar Zahzah
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Omar Zahzah the author of the recent book on big tech censorship called, Terms of Servitude Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Pal...Show More
5) Airbnb & the economy of genocide
This week Lara and Michael sit down with Jenin, the Palestine representative of CODEPINK to discuss Francesca Albanese's report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide." We talk about how A...Show More
6) The Heart of Gaza with Jerusalem Coffee House
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 Cof...Show More
7) "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 co...Show More
8) Stage 5 Famine & Escalating Repression
This week Lara and Michael cover Israel's forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza. PEOPLE ARE BEING EXTERMINATED FROM LACK OF ACCESS TO FOOD AND WATER, a Stage 5 famine. We cover the sanct...Show More
9) 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 pod alum Damia Taharraoui which seeks...Show More
10) Were you silent or were you silenced?
This week Lara and Michael sit down separately, Lara reads from her testimony at the Gaza Genocide Tribunal from Bosnia and Michael talks about being digitally disappeared from Instagram by one of Met...Show More