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Germany holds the largest Palestinian population anywhere in Europe, yet Palestinians are officially recorded by the state as "stateless" or "undetermined." In a country deeply defensive of its own historical memory culture, the Palestinian diaspora is cast as a nuisance, and blamed for importing antisemitism.

In the inaugural episode of the HEIST Podcast, Peter Matthews and Ben Schuman-Stoler sit down with journalist Hebh Jamal to discuss her reporting on what it feels like to live as a Palestinian in Berlin. She details the dystopian reality of building infrastructure in a city that would rather pretend you don't exist.

Read Jamal’s feature for HEIST, “Parallel Lives: How It Feels to Be Palestinian in Berlin.”

This episode is part of the three-episode drop that properly kicks off the HEIST podcast. Check out our podcast feed for the other two conversations: with Yossi Bartal about a faked assassination on the U-Bahn and Ben Miller about the AfD’s abuse of queer politics.

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Music and sound by Patrick Nininger.

The HEIST podcast is coming soon. We'll launch on 2 July with three episodes at once: interviews with Ben Miller, Hebh Jamal, and Yossi Bartal. Subscribe to this feed and pass it around - help us spread the word.

Going forward, we'll be in your feed every two weeks. HEIST editors Ruthie Weissmann, Peter Matthews, Ivona Alavanja, and Ben Schuman-Stoler will be talking with the journalists and experts covering the stories that matter most for Berlin, Europe, and the world.

HEIST wants to steal the media back from the people who've bought it up. We want to speak to the new generations of workers, writers, and artists making their home here. This show will feature the people challenging Berlin and changing the city to reflect the shape of their own lives.

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Music by Patrick Nininger.