Palestine This Week, hosted by Nasim Ahmed, offers a weekly analytical review of the most significant developments and stories emerging from Palestine. Each episode provides in-depth commentary and context on political, social, and humanitarian issues affecting the region. The podcast aims to give listeners a clear understanding of the ongoing situation through expert analysis and informed discussion.
Episodes
AIPAC Is Losing Its Grip on Washington | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at what the US midterms mean for America’s ties with Israel. We cover Trump blaming the defeat on a “great dislike” for Israel, AIPAC’s shrinking influence, and the push to turn US aid into a lasting military partnership. We also cover the floods in Gaza, Netanyahu’s stalled Gaza plan, and settlers taking over Palestinian homes in Jericho
Israel’s ‘Preferential Democracy’: Accept Inequality or Lose Your Seat | Palestine This Week
Israel’s election has left neither camp with a majority, and unseating Benjamin Netanyahu is impossible without the 19 seats held by Palestinian parties, yet no Zionist party will govern with them. This week we ask what that deadlock reveals about a state that offers Palestinian citizens the vote but not equality, from Gadi Eisenkot’s demand that Arab parties recognise Israel as a Jewish state to
Israel Can’t Vote Its Way Out of Apartheid | Palestine This Week
In this episode, we discuss Israel’s election results and ask why Netanyahu’s opponents would rather exclude Arab parties than work with them to remove him. We examine Palestinian voter turnout, Israel’s growing isolation and World Jewish Congress president and former Netanyahu confidant Ron Lauder’s claim that Israel wants dominance, not peace. We also look at lessons from Brazil and Serbia, Iran
War Without End: How Israel Now Sees Its Future
In this episode, we unpack Israel’s new national security doctrine of permanent war, the settler attack on a Washington Post journalist and EU diplomats, and eight Israeli parties’ unanimous rejection of a Palestinian state. Plus Trump’s endorsement of Netanyahu, Israel’s grip on the Latin American right and the backlash against Obama’s Belfast remarks.
‘Peace Requires Justice’: Why Washington and Tel Aviv Want Neither | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine why Palestinian elections have been postponed again, plans for AI surveillance in Gaza’s classrooms and CNN’s findings linking a majority of hostage deaths in captivity to Israeli military actions. We also discuss the suppression of US diplomatic reports critical of Israel, the backlash against Navi Pillay, US sanctions on the ICC and a leading ra
Three Years of Genocide: What Gaza Has Exposed | Palestine This Week
On the third anniversary of 7 October, we look back on three years of the Gaza genocide. We ask what the genocide has revealed about Israel, about the Western powers that have backed it, and about the international system that has failed to stop it. We also ask what these three years mean for Palestinians and their struggle against apartheid.Mentioned in this episode:The CIA red-team report warnin
No Vote, No Representation, No State: Democracy, Israeli Style | Palestine This Week
This week’s MEMO review examines claims about Netanyahu’s advance knowledge of 7 October, his provocative UN speech and Israel’s sweeping West Bank closure. We discuss calls to free Marwan Barghouti, moves to bar Arab-led parties from Israeli elections, Trump’s rejection of Iran’s proposal and allegations of election interference involving Israeli firms.
Gaza and the dystopian future of AI-powered war | Palestine This Week
In this week’s Palestine This Week, Nasim Ahmed and Muhammad Shehada discuss allegations that Israel is destroying evidence of war crimes in Gaza, the growing use of AI to select targets and the disturbing revelations in the documentary NAZA. They also examine genocidal rhetoric and Israeli exceptionalism, plans for Gaza’s reconstruction, state-backed settler violence in the occupied West Bank, t
9/11 at 25 — Why Israel Fuels Islamophobia | Palestine This Week
In this episode we speak to Muhammed Shehada about his clash with the Board of Peace and his concern that it is burying evidence of genocide in Gaza. We unpack revelations in the Haaretz that Benjamin Netanyahu was warned in advance of the 7 October attack. Marking twenty-five years since 9/11, we look at how the War on Terror emboldened Israel, and at the rise in Islamophobia since — fuelled by I
Israel’s Campaign Trail Runs on Cruelty Towards Palestinians | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s election campaign and how politicians are competing to run the most hateful campaign in an effort to win support from an increasingly radicalised Israeli public. We also discuss the push to expel Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israel’s efforts to win US backing for its plans, allegations of apartheid against Palestinia
Is Evidence of Genocide in Gaza Being Erased? | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine allegations that evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being removed by Trump's "Board of Peace", South Africa’s latest submission to the ICJ over Israel’s non-compliance with provisional measures and growing scrutiny of illegal settlements and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. We also look at Britain’s economic ties to
Israel Is Its Own Worst Enemy | Palestine This Week
‘The Board of Peace’ Or ‘Broker of Deceit’ | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Jared Kushner’s meetings with Hamas political leader Khalil Al-Hayya and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking what the talks mean for the future of the Gaza ceasefire.We revisit the long-debunked claim that Palestine was sparsely populated before early Jewish settlement and ask why this version of history continues to resurface. We
Israel Defies Trump as a New Regional Bloc Begins to Emerge | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Trump’s Gaza plan and the growing power of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. We also discuss the emerging Saudi-Turkiye-Pakistan security alignment, shifting Gulf politics and Israel’s efforts to manufacture evidence against Iran with the aim of inciting US bombing of the Islamic Republic. The convers
Gaza Ceasefire Falters as Trump Remains Trapped in Israel-First Agenda | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we are joined by Palestinian political analyst Muhammad Shehada to examine the major developments of the past seven days.The episode covers the latest Hamas-Israel ceasefire negotiations, the role of Gaza in exposing dark money and foreign influence in US politics, Israeli-funded efforts to “poison” AI-generated information and important legal victories prot
Israel’s War on International Law | Palestine This Week
In this week’s episode, we begin with the growing normalisation of rhetoric aimed at erasing Palestinian identity and ask how Israel’s war on Gaza could reshape the global politics of genocide. We also explore the deepening crisis within Zionism, the surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank and the future of the International Criminal Court following the removal of its chief prosecu
The Anti-Klan Law Comes for Trump’s Israel Lobby | Palestine This Week
In this episode, we examine Trump’s drastically reduced Gaza recovery plan, growing criticism within Hamas over the consequences of 7 October and Israel’s covert efforts to downplay the scale of death, starvation and destruction in Gaza. We also discuss the failure of a major pro-Israel influence campaign in the US, rising congressional resistance to military aid, Mahmoud Abbas’s proposed Palestin
Israel Loses Europe and America, Gains Somaliland
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine the EU’s new Gaza initiative, claims that Gaza’s authorities obstructed the delivery of humanitarian aid, the escalating campaign against UNRWA and Washington’s attack on the International Criminal Court. We also discuss Ro Khanna’s detention by Israeli settlers, shifting US and UK political attitudes towards Palestine, Lindsey Graham’s legacy, th
Concentration Camps Inside a Concentration Camp: Israel’s New Plan for Gaza | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Hamas’s decision to dissolve its government and the wider implications of Trump’s so called peace plan, as Israel moves ahead with proposals for “controlled humanitarian zones”.We also discuss whether Hamas remains a major threat or has become a convenient justification for continued Israeli domination, before turning to new claims about 7 October
Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel | Palestine This Week
This episode of Palestine This Week opens with Israel’s renewed push to promote the so-called “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza, asking whether ethnic cleansing is now being pursued without even the pretence of concealment. We also look at Trump’s proposed Gaza board and warnings that it could create a legal black hole for officials and contractors, before turning to the unprecedente
“The Jewish KKK” and the Catastrophe Jewish Critics Warned Was Coming | Palestine This Week
This week, we begin with Hannah Arendt, the Jewish intellectual who warned that a state built without Palestinian consent would be condemned to permanent war. Her warning now feels less like abstract history and more like a description of Israel today: a militarised society, trapped in endless war and dependent on propaganda to justify the violence needed to sustain its project.We also look at the
Is Israel Losing Its American Shield? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we examine whether Gaza features in the Iran ceasefire calculation, the crisis facing Israel’s security doctrine and its fear of US abandonment. We also discuss whether the Iran deal signals a deeper rupture in US-Israel relations, Al Jazeera’s shocking investigation into Israel’s abuse of Palestinian detainees and Israel’s strangling of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
100 Days In: Palestine, Iran, and the War Remaking the Middle East | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
With the Iran war passing its 100-day mark, we take a bird's-eye view of what this war has truly revealed. From its roots in the unresolved question of Palestine, to the limits of US power, fractures in the US-Israel relationship — including reports of Israeli intelligence spying on American negotiators — and the crisis of Zionism itself, we ask whether this war has backfired on its instigato
The Iron Dome of Lies: Rape, Ruin & Plunder | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Israel’s addition to a UN blacklist over sexual violence in conflict, Dr Nick Maynard’s harrowing testimony from Gaza and the wider backlash to evidence of abuse against Palestinians.We also discuss plans to turn Gaza’s destruction into an investment opportunity, tensions between Trump and Netanyahu over Lebanon, stalled ceasefire diplomacy with I
US 'Suicidal Empathy' for Israel as Gaza Faces Apocalypse | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we discuss Mouin Rabbani’s Gaza Apocalypse, a real-time account of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the decades of policy, international complicity and failed diplomacy that preceded it. We also examine Israel’s plan for the occupied West Bank, described as a staged process of ethnic cleansing: first entrenching apartheid, then emptying rural areas, forcing Pal
Debunking The Founding Myths of Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this week’s episode, we take on some of the most persistent myths used to justify Zionism, erase Palestinian dispossession and rewrite the history of the Nakba. We begin with the claim that Arab conquest expelled Jews over the centuries, before examining how this distorted reading of history is used to present Zionism as a “return of Jews to their ancestral homeland” rather than a colonial proj
Nakba at 78: The Beginning of the End of Zionism? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we mark Nakba Day with a special discussion on the historical roots and continuing reality of Palestinian dispossession. We place the Nakba within the wider settler-colonial project that shaped Palestine from the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate through 1948, 1967, Oslo and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.The episode examines whether Gaza represents the final and most viol
Israel’s ‘Absolute Security’ Doctrine: A Recipe for Regional Insecurity | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Israel’s expanding control over Gaza through the shifting “Yellow Line” and the emergence of a clandestine “voluntary migration” programme, before turning to the occupied West Bank, where the JNF is cutting funding to settler farm outposts as Israel’s wider strategy moves from “conflict management” towards annexation.We also discuss fresh allegati
78 years on: what went wrong with Israel’s founding project? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we assess Israel 78 years after its founding, examining whether the Zionist project has reached a point of crisis. We explore competing interpretations of what “went wrong,” from claims of ideological failure to arguments that the current reality reflects the logical outcome of a settler-colonial project. Drawing on historical evidence and contemporary developments, the discussion
Gaza six months since ceasefire: the next stage of genocide | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of our weekly review, we look at Gaza six months into the ceasefire and the next stage in Israel’s genocide. We also discuss Israel’s settler-colonial “buffer zones” employed as a toll of expansion, ideological continuity in Zionism, the symbolism of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Christ and the latest on US/Israel war on Iran.1-Gaza six months into ceasefire2-Gaza’s rec
Israel’s New Gospel of Perpetual War | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we examine why the first round of Iran-US talks broke down, how Lebanon has moved to the centre of ceasefire negotiations and why Trump appears to be retreating from his earlier endorsement of Iran’s 10-point plan.We also ask whether the war on Iran now amounts to a historic strategic defeat for both Washington and Tel Aviv, before looking at the build-up to war and Netanyahu’s ro
Victory for Iran, Permanent Pariah for Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we assess where the war with Iran stands at the six-week mark, examine whether Tehran is emerging stronger from the conflict, and consider where Donald Trump’s latest deadline could lead. We also look at the murky story of the downed US pilot, Trump’s admission that Washington sent weapons to Iranian protesters, the wider regional risks for the Gulf states, the striking critique o
How Hormuz could become the US and Israel’s Suez | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we discuss the shocking abuse of toddler Karim Abu Nassar in Gaza, Israel’s proposed death penalty law for Palestinians, the rise of Kahanism and signs of internal crisis within Israel. We also examine growing anti-Zionism among US Jews, whether the Strait of Hormuz could become America’s Suez and why Israel’s tactical gains may be masking a deeper strategic defeat.Chapters:00:00
Trump, Iran and Israel’s War Without End | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Is Trump really in control? In this episode, we break down the US and Israel war on Iran, the false intelligence and bad-faith negotiations behind it, the UAE’s harder line, the plagiarised report used to sell the case for war, whether Israel’s project of regional hegemony is coming to an end, and the growing backlash to settler violence.Chapters:00:00 Introduction & Overview01:04 How is the w
The Global Cost of Israeli Domination | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we explore why Palestine remains central to understanding the region’s escalating crises, from the war on Iran and Gaza to Lebanon and the mounting pressure on Gulf states. We unpack the dangerous assumptions, political delusions and power plays driving the Middle East deeper into chaos.
Israel’s Dystopian Vision: From Gaza to Iran | Palestine This Week
We begin this week’s episode with a tribute to the late Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi before turning to the stories being overshadowed by the war on Iran. Muhammed Shehada unpacks what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank while global attention shifts elsewhere, and explains why rising settler violence and deepening Israeli control should not be ignored. We also examine his report on Trump
America’s War for Greater Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode, we examine explosive new documents exposing Israel’s systematic ethnic cleansing in 1948 and trace how its unending quest for security has fuelled decades of expansion, war and regional upheaval. We unpack the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, question whether Trump torpedoed diplomacy at the very moment negotiations were gaining traction, and ask whether Tehran's bombi
Christian Zionism: the radical theology empowering an unchristian settler state | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this week’s episode, we unpack the implications of remarks made by Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, whose unapologetic defence of Israeli expansionism reflects the enduring influence of Christian Zionism on American foreign policy. We explore how this radical theological current has shaped political discourse and helped sustain Israel. The discussion also examines the latest Lancet r
‘Common enemy’: the Epstein class behind Oslo’s failure | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we ask whether the two-state solution has finally run out of graves to bury it in. As Israel tightens its grip on the occupied West Bank and rewrites the Oslo framework in real time, we examine the collapse of diplomatic illusions and the rise of raw power politics.We unpack the shifting narrative around Gaza’s death toll, Israel’s parallel aid system, Netan
The predicted 'collapse of Israel before its centenary' | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Is Israel collapsing before its centenary? In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine warnings from a former Israeli major general that the state may not exist by 2048, citing internal fracture and growing international isolation. We analyse how the language of ceasefire now functions to manage, rather than end, Palestinian death and destruction, while dismantling Israeli claims used to ju
From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the Cult of Cruelty | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Israel now admits Gaza’s death toll—but only after years of denial. Mouin Rabbani joins to explore what this shift means, and how media and political elites helped enable genocide. We look at US complicity, the BBC’s Gaza coverage collapse, and the ideology of Jewish supremacy inside Israel’s government. Plus: the Epstein files, vice as political currency, and Arab states scrambling to prevent war
'Trojan Horses' of a New Imperial Order | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This week’s episode takes apart Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace”—or as some are calling it, a board of chaos—and the move to install a National Committee to run Gaza. Is this about rebuilding, or reshaping Gaza to fit Israel’s terms? We dig into the UN’s report showing a staggering 10.6 per cent drop in Gaza’s population. In Beit Jala, we look at how Palestinian Christians are being wiped from t
Gaza: The Testing Ground for a Lawless New World Order | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week we break down a turbulent and revealing few days in regional and global politics. The conversation moves from Trump’s proposed “Gaza Board of Peace” and what it says about the push to sideline the UN and reshape global governance, to Israel’s own contradictions over Gaza’s future and the demolition of UNRWA’s headquarters in Jerusalem. We also look at a rare
The week decades happened: a crisis in Zionism and a region on the edge | Palestine This Week
From Gaza to Tehran, the region is hitting a breaking point. We expose Israel’s crackdown on humanitarian groups, the fiction of a “peace process,” the quiet Israeli exodus, and the lawfare campaign against Palestine advocates — before turning to Iran’s unrest and the new fault lines splitting the Arab worldChapters:00:00 Introduction00:48 Israel bans aid groups and silences medical witnesses10:37
From Gaza to Venezuela: How the Rules of the World Are Being Broken | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This week we talk about how the fallout from Gaza is reshaping politics far beyond Palestine. We start with Israel shutting down humanitarian groups and the growing scale of displacement in Gaza and the West Bank, then move to Venezuela and the claim that Israel played a role in pushing the US toward regime change and the capture of Nicolás Maduro.From there, the conversation widens to how power i
Can imperial Israel ever cross a red line for Arab states? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This week’s episode starts with Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians, using the No Place Under Heaven report to explain how people are being pushed from place to place while basic conditions for life are deliberately denied We then look at Israel’s wider plan in Gaza: building permanent military control, changing the geography on the ground, and trying to rule through local proxy force
Bribes and Blackmail: The Twin Pillars of Israeli Statecraft | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This episode kicks off with a discussion about how companies are profiteering from the Gaza genocide. We examine the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace” and International Stabilisation Force, revealing how these initiatives risk becoming a façade for a new phase of foreign control under a US-led security regime.Against this backdrop, we spotlight how blackmail and bribery have become central tools of I
Consolidating a New Authoritarianism in Service of Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This week we kick off with the killing of Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of an Israeli-backed militia in Gaza, before moving to CNN’s chilling investigation revealing how Israeli forces bulldozed the bodies of Palestinian civilians into unmarked graves. We break down Netanyahu’s admission that Israel’s war “can never truly end,” and the ICC’s pushback against US intimidation. Plus, we look at Trump’s e
Engineering a New Normal: Slow-Paced Genocide and State-Sanctioned Torture | Palestine This Week w/ Mouin
In this episode we unpacks a series of explosive new reports exposing the full scale of Israel’s assault on Gaza. We examine a groundbreaking study estimating more than 112,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, Amnesty International’s warning that the so-called ceasefire is creating a “dangerous illusion” while genocide continues at a slower pace, and UN findings that 69 years of development have been
Authoritarianism Without Borders: Punishing Justice to Protect Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, with Mouin Rabbani, we unpack the latest developments in Gaza and beyond. We examine the shutdown of the US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as American military contractors ramp up recruitment for new deployment. We dissect the UN’s endorsement of Trump’s Gaza plan and what it means for Palestine.We also cover a major Human Rights Watch report on
From Abu Ghraib to Sde Teiman: The Racist Ideology Behind the Abuse | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, Gaza-born analyst and human rights advocate Muhammad Shehada joins us to unpack the UN Security Council's endorsement of a US-backed resolution modelled on President Donald Trump's so-called "Peace Plan"—one that envisions international forces in Gaza and a conditional path to Palestinian statehood.We also examine:The shocking new report
Confessions of Genocide: Israel’s Media War on Truth | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week we break down the shocking confessions from Israeli soldiers detailing atrocities committed in Gaza, while Washington looks the other way. We discuss how US intelligence knew Israel’s atrocities could amount to war crimes and chose to remain silence. Meanwhile, Big Tech platforms are erasing digital evidence, censoring Palestinian voices, and rewriting the r
Blind Faith: How the West Loses Its Moral Compass on Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we unpack the West’s blind faith in Israel, a belief so entrenched it overrides law, morality, and truth itself. From The Washington Post’s exposé on how the US shields Israel from accountability to the horrific Sde Teiman prison scandal, Sudan’s genocide, and drones tested on Palestinians now policing American streets — we trace the web of complicity that s
Lawlessness Without Limits: Israel’s Parallel World Order | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this week’s episode of Palestine This Week, host Nasim Ahmed and Mouin Rabbani unpack Israel’s deepening defiance of international law, from violations of the ceasefire in Gaza to the surge in settler terrorism across the West Bank. We examine how Israel has constructed an “alternative universe” of lawlessness and impunity.We also discuss the ICJ’s ruling against Isarel reaffirming UNRWA’s man
The Ceasefire Illusion: Deaths, Denials and Diplomatic Spin | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s ongoing violations of the Gaza ceasefire, with more than 80 breaches and dozens of Palestinians killed. We break down the events in Rafah and the shifting US position, as Washington moves to provide legal and political cover for continued Israeli attacks.We also examine growing fears of internal conflict in Gaza, the proposed Egypt-led st
Confession of a US President: Israel Lobby Runs the Show | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This episode of Palestine This Week begins with the ceasefire agreement signed in Egypt. We analyse the political spectacle surrounding the signing. We discuss President Trump’s speech in the Israeli Knesset and his public admission of the influence of the Zionist lobby in American politics. The episode also covers the murder of Saleh Aljafarawi by Israeli-backed armed gangs, the media’s double st
Two years into genocide — Israel’s pillars are crumbling | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Two years into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, nearly 70,000 Palestinians are dead, most of them civilians. Despite the unprecedented destruction, Israel has failed to defeat Hamas or secure the release of hostages — the very goals it claimed justified its campaign. As negotiations take place in Cairo, this episode asks: why has Israel’s war dragged on, and what has it really achieved?From cru
Trump’s Gaza Plan: A High-Tech Experiment in Global Serfdom | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbanid Episode
In this episode, we dive into Donald Trump’s so-called Gaza “Peace Plan,” a proposal that, beneath the surface, looks less like a path to peace and more like a high-tech experiment in subjugation. Gaza has long been treated as a testing ground, from weapons that are later marketed as “battle-tested” to political experiments imposed from the outside. Now, with Trump’s plan and the Jared Kushner-Ton
Recognising Palestine, Enabling Genocide: The Duplicity of Global Powers | Palestine This Week w/ Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we unpack a flurry of diplomatic, military and geopolitical developments shaping Palestine and the wider region. Host Nasim Ahmed is joined once again by analyst Mouin Rabbani to explore the wave of state recognitions of Palestine—why it’s happening now, and what it might mean in practice. The conversation also dissects Israel’s furious reaction to this reco
Israel and Islamophobia: Twin Engines Driving the Gaza Genocide | Palestine This Weekisode
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we unpack the findings of a new United Nations report which concludes that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Led by the former chief judge of the Rwanda tribunal, the report’s findings places renewed pressure on international institutions to act. We also look at the fallout from Israel’s unprovoked strike on Doha. With reports
From Gaza to Qatar: Dezionisation Is the Only Path to Regional Peace | Palestine This Week
This episode of Palestine This Week begins with Israel’s latest unprovoked escalation: a bombing in Qatar targeting Hamas’s negotiating team. Nasim Ahmed and Mouin Rabbani assess the implications of this unprecedented strike, reportedly carried out with the approval of US President Donald Trump. The discussion explores what the attack reveals about Israel’s approach to diplomacy, the credibility o
The ‘GREAT’ Plot to Monetise Gaza Genocide | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
With details of President Donald Trump’s post-genocide vision for Gaza leaked, we begin this episode of Palestine This Week by examining the grotesquely named "GREAT Trust"—the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust. A $100 billion scheme devised by figures like Tony Blair and Jared Kushner, the plan proposes to lease over 30 per cent of Gaza’s public land to
Israeli-Manufactured Famine: Deliberate, Systematic, Genocidal | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with the IPC’s declaration of famine in parts of Gaza—only the fifth time in history such a designation has been made. We examine how Israel has sought to discredit the finding while continuing to block aid and target food infrastructure. The episode also covers leaked Israeli military data showing that 83 per cent of those killed in Gaza are civil
End-Times Theology Meets Israeli Terror in Palestine | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, host Nasim Ahmed and analyst Mouin Rabbani examine Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for a “Greater Israel” and the role of Christian Zionism in sustaining Israel’s project of dispossession and genocide. The conversation unpacks how end-times theology and religious fanaticism, from Balfour to present-day judges at the International Court of Justice, have shaped Isra
The Sinking Ship of Israel | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Benjamin Netanyahu plan to “take control” of Gaza, We also discuss the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists, including Anas al-Sharif, in a drone strike outside al-Shifa Hospital. More than 270 journalists have been killed since the war began, more than in several major wars combined.We go through the new report by Doctors Without Borders, “T
Who Really Killed the Two-State Solution? | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This episode of Palestine This Week begins with Hamas’s latest statement that it will not disarm unless a Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital. The response came after claims that Hamas had agreed to disarm unconditionally. From there, we take a closer look at Hamas’s position on the two-state solution and how it has changed over time. We also explore the broader history
As Gaza starves, Israel’s Hasbara reaches ‘Comic Ali’ levels | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Palestine This Week begins with the grim announcement from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC): famine is now officially under way in Gaza. As the UN body confirms the worst-case scenario, we examine Israel’s shifting narrative including placing blame on the UN. We also explore how international backlash is shaping Israel’s starvation policy, with expert insight from Alex de Wa
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is Against Christians Too | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s recent attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church, the same one the late Pope Francis was calling daily since the start of Israel’s genocide. Three people were killed in the strike, which many have condemned, but questions remain about why the world stayed silent when over a thousand mosques were destroyed before this. We also cover a settler
“Israelisation of America” | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this week’s episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with the so-called “Humanitarian City”, which is now clearly emerging as a strategy to build concentration camps in Israel’s plan to ethnic cleansing Gaza. We examine how Israel is enforcing depopulation zones through forced starvation and lethal drone attacks. Drawing on chilling investigations by +972 Magazine and Forensic Architecture, we
Israel’s “Genocide-Industrial Complex” | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we unpack Israel’s latest scheme for Gaza: a so-called “humanitarian city” that critics say is a cover for mass internment and forced transfer. Far from offering safety, the plan is seen as part of Israel’s long-standing effort to remove Palestinians from their land. We examine explosive revelations about the involvement of the Boston Consulting Group and st
“Quiet Pogrom in West Bank” | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Palestine This Week opens with a close look at Gaza, where talk of a ceasefire deal is gaining traction. Reports suggest that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon travel to Washington to finalise an agreement. But behind the diplomatic theatre lies a deeper concern: has anything really changed on the ground? As Israeli attacks continue, the episode asks what purpose this ceasefire w
America Gets Played by Israel—Once Again | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
As the dramatic ceasefire places a temporary pause to the latest hostilities between Israel and Iran, we break down how and why this fragile agreement came together, what each side hoped to gain, and who ultimately walked away with the upper hand. President Donald Trump’s intervention has exposed deep divisions within US policy circles. “America Firsters” clashed with “Israeli Firsters”—and once a
The Global Cost of Israeli Impunity | Palestine This Week With Mouin Rabbani
On this episode of Palestine This Week, we dive into the rapidly escalating war between Israel and Iran. Mouin Rabbani joins Nasim Ahmed to unpack the timing, motives, and wider implications of Israel’s unprovoked strike, launched even as Iranian officials were engaged in negotiations with the US. Meanwhile in Gaza, another mass casualty event unfolded as starving civilians were killed while queui
Genocide, Sanctions and Smokescreens | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
This week’s episode opens with the news of sanctions imposed by the UK on Israel’s far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. The UK joined a small bloc of Western states attempting to pressure Israel over its Gaza genocide. But does targeting two of the most extreme figures in the government of Benjamin Netanyahu signal genuine attempt to hold Israel to account, or is it diplomatic
Israel’s Dystopian Aid Trap | Palestine This Week With Mouin Rabbani
This week’s show opens with a discussion on “Israel’s dystopian aid trap,” as Nasim Ahmed and Mouin Rabbani examine the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—an initiative critics say is less about aid and more about engineering chaos, displacement, and colonial domination. The episode highlights the recent killing of over 30 Palestinians near an aid distribution site in Rafah and growing evidence that Isr
Israel’s PR Campaign for Genocide Collapses | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani is your uncompromising weekly deep dive into the brutality of Israeli occupation and the political theatre that attempts to mask it all. As Western governments scramble to whitewash their role and clean their blood-soaked hands, this show strips away the spin to reveal the uncomfortable truth: there is no way to run a successful PR campaign for genocide.This
Israeli Hubris: Fuel for Genocide | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
The situation in Gaza is beyond anything we can imagine. There was a chilling warning issued by the UN emergency relief chief today of 14,000 babies dying in the next 48 hours unless aid reaches them. Ceasefire talks in Doha have stalled in Doha because of because of “fundamental differences,” that’s according to Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani. Israel’s latest military of
America Turns Its Back on Israel? Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
As global outrage over Israel’s genocide in Gaza intensifies, this week’s episode of Palestine This Week explores a pivotal shift in regional politics: Is Israel’s strategic value to its Western allies diminishing? President Donald Trump’s latest Middle East tour has sparked speculation that Washington is preparing for a post-Israel regional order. With major powers recalibrating their approach, s
Gaza’s New Concentration Camps | Palestine This Week with Mouin
Israel’s new offensive in Gaza, legal showdowns at the ICJ, and drone strikes in international waters — this week’s MEMO Review returns with a powerful analysis of the region’s biggest developments.Host Nasim Ahmed is joined by analyst Mouin Rabbani to unpack the collapse of the ceasefire and Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, which includes carving the Strip into isolated zones and placing humanita
No international law here please, we're Israeli! Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani
The Israeli supreme court has given the government the right to ignore International law and starve Gaza. This week on the MEMO Review, host Nasim Ahmed is joined by Mouin Rabbani to unpack a week of major developments from across the region. At the centre of the discussion is the Israeli Supreme Court’s shocking decision that it has no obligation to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza—a ruling that
