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This week's episode is another collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast. As Roqayah continues to document the resistance to Israel's attempted ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon, Kumars and friend of the show Sina Rahmani reconnected with Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran after two weeks.

Navid updates us on the current mood in Iran as US-Israeli bombardment continues, sharing his experiences of the significance of Quds Day and Palestinian liberation to people in Iran, and how Iranians are responding to their country's resilience. The gang also discusses the political divisions within the Iranian establishment, the source of accusations of corruption and economic mismanagement, and what a strategic defeat for the US and Israel means for Iran and the world.

Don't miss Navid's urgent reporting and analysis for The Colony Archive on YouTube.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's "Last Week in Lebanon" column, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Kumars is off this week, so Roqayah is joined from the top of the show by war correspondent writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, producer of "Free Palestine TV" and "Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf" along with other programming at Free Palestine TV.

Hadi and Roqayah discuss the conditions that led to the Lebanese resistance entering the war against the US and Israel, including the latest attempt by the Lebanese state to disarm Hezbollah, as well as the legacy of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and what he has meant to anticolonial resistance in West Asia.

You can watch Free Palestine TV on YouTube and follow Hadi on Twitter @HadiHtt.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including bonus episodes and the revamped "Last Week in Lebanon" column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including the "Last Week in Lebanon" column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

This week's bonus episode is a collaboration with The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast. While Roqayah is documenting the lead-up to another Israeli ground invasion of south Lebanon, Kumars and friend of the show Sina Rahmani were finally able to reach fellow friend of the show Navid Zarrinnal in Tehran.

Speaking on the phone as the internet blackout continues, Navid discusses his experience of the bombardment of Tehran, the US and Israel's increasingly untargeted strikes across the country, Western media's psychological warfare against people in Iran, and how Iranians are responding to the assassination of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Sina and Kumars fill Navid in on the abysmal response to this attack in the United States, Iran's ongoing retaliation against Israel and US bases in the region, and the massive mobilization of Shia Muslims in response to the news of Khamenei's martyrdom.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back Navid Zarrinnal, Iranian historian and host of The Colony Archive, to continue the conversation about his article for BreakThrough News, "Iran's Protests Explained: A Diary from Tehran", and to discuss subsequent developments. Navid shares his perspective on the latest round of indirect talks between the US and Iran in Switzerland, the alarming US military buildup in the Persian Gulf, Iran's regional and global alliances from Hezbollah to China, what Iranians think it means to be a "normal country," and Western nostalgia for the 19th century.

Check out Navid's amazing work on The Colony Archive on Patreon. If you haven't already, read and share Navid's article from January for BreakThrough News, "Iran's Protests Explained: A Diary from Tehran."

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including bonus episodes and the revamped "Last Week in Lebanon" column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This week, Iranian historian and returning guest Navid Zarrinnal calls in to the show from Tehran via telephone amid Iran's continued internet shutdown to elaborate on his recent dispatch for BreakThrough News, "Iran's Protests Explained: A Diary from Tehran."

Navid is professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, host of The Colony Archive, and working on his first monograph, "Secularisation, Mass Literacy and Education in Modern Iran."

Navid gives us a timeline of events and shares his analysis, discussing key differences with previous waves of protest, the evidence and extent of foreign infiltration, the nature of the government's response, and what Iranians think about "regime change".

Check out Navid's amazing work on The Colony Archive on YouTube.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including the new and improved "Last Week in Lebanon" column and video blog by Roqayah and Lebanese war correspondent and our new third cohost Hadi Hoteit, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars introduce an interview with former Palestine Action UK prisoner and current Prisoners for Palestine campaigner Audrey Corno, who talks to Kumars about the criminalization of Palestine Action UK, now a proscribed terrorist organization in that country, and the rolling hunger and thirst strike undertaken by incarcerated former members still fighting the Israeli death machine.

Audrey and Kumars also discuss the movement's success in shutting down Elbit Systems factories in the United Kingdom as well as another recent victory by the imprisoned organizers, many of whom ended their hunger strikes after the UK government canceled a proposed contract with Elbit. Audrey asks listeners in the UK and in the US to put pressure on the British government to agree to a meeting with the last remaining hunger striker, Umer Khalid, as he prepares to begin a thirst strike in protest of their refusal to do so.

Find out more about how you can support Prisoners for Palestine and continue the movement by organizing for direct action at prisonersforpalestine.org as well as directaction.org (if you're in the UK) and global.palestineaction.org (if you're not).

For those located in the US, the phone number for the British Embassy in Washington is (202) 588-6500. Call and demand that the UK government meet with Umer!

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including bonus episodes and the revamped "Last Week in Lebanon" column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including the "Last Week in Lebanon" column by Roqayah and our newest contributor Hadi Hoteit, by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Nick Estes. Nick is a member of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate nation, Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, the author of the book Our History is the Future and coauthor of Red Nation Rising, cofounder of The Red Nation, lead editor at Red Media, and purveyor of nickestes.substack.com.

Nick breaks down the federal assault on Minneapolis, its precedents in the brutal settler-colonial history of Minnesota, and the inadequacy of the response from the liberal establishment. The gang also discuss the Lebanese Foreign Minister giving Israel permission to bomb Lebanon, the resilience of the Bolivarian Revolution after the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, the recent wave of protests and riots in Iran, and more.

For those interested, here is that clip of Palestinian martyr Nizar Banat.

Follow Nick on Twitter @nickwestes.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña for an emergency update on the US attack against Venezuela, including the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and what could happen next. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, and a founding member of the Anti-Imperial Scholars Collective (AISC).

Alex, Roqayah, and Kumars break down the latest escalation by the Trump administration, the response from US media and Democrats, the outpouring of international solidarity with Venezuela from Cuba to Palestine, acting president Delcy Rodriguez's commitment to the Bolivarian Revolution, and why Trump is right about Maria Corina Machado.

Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina (not @Alex_Avina, who is someone else).

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including the new and improved "Last Week in Lebanon" column and video blog courtesy of Lebanese war correspondent and our new third cohost Hadi Hoteit, you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's "Last Week in Lebanon" column, by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by writer, organizer, poet, and returning guest Rasha Abdulhadi, author of several books including The Countermonuments (2024).

Rasha and Kumars look back on the year since their last conversation and discuss the lessons for organizers going forward including the death of Dick Cheney, the election of Zohran Mamdani, the "12-Day War" on Iran, and those Somali settler memes. Rasha also shares their thoughts on the problem with prescribing a secular, democratic "one-state solution" in Palestine, why questioning empire abroad is sometimes easier than questioning colonial relations at home, and why people are referring to the genocide, like COVID, in the past tense.

Follow Rasha on Twitter @rashaabdulhadi.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by returning guest-host Nora Barrows-Friedman and first-time guest Omar Zahzah to discuss Omar's new book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, out now from the Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.

Omar is a writer, poet, organizer, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University. He has organized with Palestinian Youth Movement and the US Campaign for the Cultural and Academic Boycott of Israel, among other groups, and his journalism has appeared in the Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Palestine in America, and other outlets.

Nora is associate editor at the Electronic Intifada, author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine and cohost of the Electronic Intifada daily news roundup livestream on YouTube.

Omar, Nora, and Kumars discuss their experiences with union organizing and BDS, why academics should be freelance journalists, how Silicon Valley's digital repression has escalated since Oct. 7, how Palestinian content creators are successfully navigating it, the end of Israel's self-styled image as the "start-up nation," and what Palestine reveals about the tech industry's relationship to our world.

Follow Omar on Twitter @dromarzahzah, Nora @norabf and don't forget to pick up a print or digital copy of Terms of Servitude from Seven Stories Press!

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!