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Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign.

Mark Seddon is in conversation with Jeff the night before his latest book launch with Pluto Press, "Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State".

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A DeepDive into the vaccine situation for Palestinians enduring Israel's occupation during COVID-19.

Dr Mustafa Barghouti is a physician, member of the Palestinian parliament and President of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Dr Yara Asi is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Central Florida, a Fulbright US Scholar for 2020 -21 and an Al-Shabaka Policy Member.

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Mark Seddon is live with: 

Diana Buttu | Lawyer, analyst and former spokesperson and negotiator for the PLO.

Gideon Levy | Haaretz columnist and member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Palestinian leadership in the West Bank is reportedly resuming its security coordination with Israel and has returned its previously recalled ambassadors to the UAE and Bahrain. But does Netanyahu’s reported visit to Saudi Arabia last week indicate normalisation among the Arab countries might still be accelerating? On previous episodes we’ve heard how the threat of COVID-19 is greatly enhanced for Palestinians living under siege and occupation and this week reports indicate Gaza is approaching the long-feared scenario of its health system reaching breaking point, but what is being done to respond to these conditions of crisis?

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20th November 2020: A DeepDive into the Biden administration's potential foreign policy towards Palestine/Israel, the wider Middle East and further afield. Mark Seddon is live with:

Chris Doyle is Director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu).

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Focusing on issues related to the US policy in the Middle East and the United Nations, her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She currently serves on the boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg.

Dr. Ghada Karmi is a leading Palestinian activist, academic and author of three books, the most recent of which is Return: A Palestinian memoir (2015). Dr. Karmi has practiced as a doctor of medicine, served as vice chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and was a research a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter.

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13th November 2020: We go behind the lens in collaboration with London Palestine Film Festival on its opening night.

Mark Seddon is in conversation with three leading Palestinian filmmakers discussing their latest works and the complexities and challenges facing Palestinian cinema today.

Roua Naboulsi, Festival Coordinator of London Palestine Film Festival will kick things off, introducing us to the Festival and the events lined up over the next two weeks.

Lina Al Abed is a documentary filmmaker, born in Damascus to a Palestinian father, and Egyptian mother. Her most recent film, Ibrahim: A Fate to Define (2019) took seven years to make, tracing the journey of her investigation into what happened to her father who disappeared when she was six years old in 1987 and did not return.

Najwa Najjar is a Palestinian writer and director. Since 2000, she has worked on both documentary and fiction films, and her critically acclaimed debut feature film was Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009). Her second award winning feature film, Eyes of a Thief (2014), was the Palestinian submission for the 2015 Oscars Best Foreign Film and the Golden Globe Awards. Najwa’s latest film, Between Heaven and Earth (2020), received a ten minute standing ovation at the world premiere in November at the Cairo International Film Festival, and her screenplay was subsequently the recipient of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Award.

Farah Nabulsi is a Palestinian British filmmaker and human rights advocate. She has written, directed and produced short fiction films exploring Palestine related topics that matter to her. Farah has spoken and screened her work internationally at film festivals, universities and at the United Nations. Her current film, The Present, underscores the importance of freedom of movement as a basic human right. 

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6th November 2020: Larry Wilkerson in conversation with Mark Seddon, taking your questions just a few days after the presidential election results come in.

Will Trump have secured a second term and what could this mean for the Middle East and further afield?

Or will Biden have been victorious and has there been a peaceful transition of power?

Lawrence Wilkerson is the retired US Army Colonel who served as Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002-05, renowned for his criticism of the US invasion of Iraq, the ongoing War on Terror and the 'Military Industrial Complex'. He is a distinguished visiting professor of government and public policy at the College of William and Mary and recently worked on a project assessing all scenarios if Trump refuses to leave office, if he loses in November.

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3rd November 2020: What does Jeremy Corbyn's suspension mean for the Labour Party and how are Palestinian voices & advocates being silenced globally? Mark Seddon is live with: 

Ben Jamal is Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Richard Sanders is an award winning TV producer and journalist.

He recently co-wrote "Antisemitism report: By suspending Corbyn, Starmer is tearing Labour apart" alongside Peter Oborne for Middle East Eye:  'The wrong sort of Jew': How Labour pursued complaints against elderly Jewish opponents of Israel

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30th October 2020: How are things shaping up for the U.S. election? What difference could a Biden victory make & would it have an impact on the Middle East? And what do Mark Seddon and Ian Williams, with 86 years of collective Labour Party membership between then, make of the EHRC report into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn's suspension? Catch up now!

Ian Williams is the President of the Foreign Press Association (New York), a former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association and columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

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October 17th 2020 | This urgent conversation focuses on the emergency situation of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Maher Al-Akhras described by B'Tselem on Monday as 'on the verge of death' as well as Ramzy's latest book, These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggles and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, 2020).

Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, internationally-syndicated columnist, Editor of Palestine Chronicle (1999-present), former Managing Editor of London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera online.