Apartheid Off Podcast

The idea that we are to centre Palestinians both in our activism as well as our interpersonal relations is a fundamental organising principal for Apartheid Off Campus. In this episode, we spoke to Alex on the issue of white saviour complexes that deliberately try to place the individual above the broader community.

In this episode, we spoke to Asmaa, a Palestinian student, on the ways in which Israel uses the guise of climate change actions to 'Greenwash' the ongoing atrocities and violent committed against Palestinians today. We break down the ways Israel is guilty of Greenwashing, it's relation to global climate change movements and how a decolonial Palestinian environmentalism can provide an alternative to the situation we observe today.

In this episode, we were joined by Dr. Anne Heffernan, from the History Department of Durham University. We discussed the role of the South African Student's Organisation (SASO), the Black Consciousness Movement and what we can learn  from their activism today.

In this episode, we spoke on the significance of recording experiences through poetry, the ways in which the society has created a community that continues to empower young people and the ways that living in Gaza impacts young people as the Israeli apartheid and siege continues. It was beautiful to connect with the Society and hear the ways in which new futures are being imagined every year through the art of young people in Gaza.

In this episode, we spoke to Fay from the Tigray Youth Network on what it means to be Tigrayan, the impact of the ongoing genocide and the role of company and British complicity. This is a must-listen episode and we are confident that the energy with which Fay spoke will motivate you to be vocal and in solidarity with Tigray just as we will be.

The Palestinian diaspora stretches across the globe. In this episode, we spoke to PhD candidate Nadia Silhi-Chahin on life as a Chilean-Palestinian, the history of the community and dismantle the misconception that Palestinians exist as a homogenous group of people.

In this episode, we spoke on what it means to study in the UK, the duties we have living in the Global North and how student activism must go beyond just "woke consumerism". In being students we constantly draw on the work of others who have gone before us, but it is important to remember that we can be agents of change, and more than this, that we have a responsibility to enact change.

As we come to the end of Pride Month we have for you an episode on Pinkwashing with a student speaker. In this episode, we speak about why you can’t just erase queer Palestinians, why rainbows can’t be painted to cover up Israeli apartheid and the power of conscious-raising. We also break down many of the myths that have arisen with Westernised & Orientalist depictions of a settler-colonial state having the “Gayest city in the Middle east”.

This episode we were joined by Kieron (@decolonialcommi), to break down why a settler-colonial and apartheid framework are essential to understanding the Palestinian struggle

We're kicking the Get to Know Project off with a conversation shaped by this quote. We had the pleasure of being joined by Yara, a Palestinian student activist, to discuss gendered perspectives on Palestinian liberation.