Palestine Deep Dive

Ahmed Alnaouq hears Eman Alhaj Ali's powerful story of surviving displacement, bombardment and assault under Israeli genocide, and how she is adapting to life in Ireland having recently left Gaza.

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Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian freelance journalist, writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza. She is currently based in Ireland, completing her postgraduate studies.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers.

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Mark Seddon is joined by the authors of a Palestinian-led initiative which offers an alternative way forward for Gaza to Trump and Netanyahu's proposal.

The working paper is titled, “A Palestinian Armistice Plan, Charting a Rights-Based Transition for Palestinian-Israeli Peace.”

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Read the paper which was published in June 2025: https://cambridgepeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Palestinian-Armistice-Plan.pdf

The paper lays out “a pragmatic, rights-based plan for both a permanent ceasefire in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Israel and for the temporary transition period until a just, durable, and comprehensive settlement is reached to end the occupation and resolve all outstanding issues between Palestinians and Israelis.”

The paper recommends terms and mechanisms for Palestinian national reconciliation and political renewal to enable effective Palestinian governance, as well as a principled approach for facilitating humanitarian relief, early recovery, and reconstruction in Gaza.

Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr. Jamal Nusseibeh is a former Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and co-author of the Palestinian Armistice.

Dr. Wesam Amer is a visiting professor and CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics) fellow at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University in Palestine. 

Mark Seddon is a former UN Speechwriter for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera. He now directs the Centre for UN Studies at the University of Buckingham.

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Celebrated historian Avi Shlaim, once a committed Zionist, reveals the personal and historical journey that led him to reject the ideology.

From his childhood as an Arab Jew in Iraq to his response to the genocide in Gaza, Shlaim dismantles long-held myths about Israel’s creation.

He also exposes how he has been largely excluded from interviews on the mainstream media throughout the duration of the genocide. Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is published by The Irish Pages Press. The book can be ordered directly at the publisher’s website.

In the discussion about the media in Britain, Avi stated that he has not been interviewed by the BBC. He was referring to the BBC in mainland Britain, but would like to clarify that BBC Northern Ireland interviewed him in 2025 for the Radio Ulster TalkBack programme with William Crawley.

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Avi Shlaim is an historian and author, and is a Emeritus Fellow of St Antonys College and a Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.

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Palestinian political commentator Kieran Andrieu speaks to Ahmed Alnaouq directly from an aid ship bound for Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
 
He calls on Gary Lineker and Sally Rooney to join the next aid flotilla heading for Gaza.
 
Kieran Andrieu is a Palestinian political commentator and contributor to Novara Media, Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
 
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Lowkey investigates Donald Trump's links to Jeffrey Epstein and assesses the extent of Israel’s foreign influence in Britain and across the world today.

He also discusses media bias and why Piers Morgan called for his arrest, the limits of recognising Palestine as a state, the challenges facing Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s in the UK new party and more.

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Episode 2. of Occupied Tech deep dives into the world of digital rights, surveillance and the escalating cyber warfare against Palestinians.

From Israel’s systemic digital apartheid to what experts now call “digital genocide,” this conversation sheds light on how tech is weaponised as a tool of oppression.

Host Paul Biggar is joined by Eric Sype, national organiser at 7amleh https://7amleh.org/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.

Together, they unpack how Israel routinely disrupts Palestinian ICT infrastructure with a “kill switch,” how Big Tech enables censorship and mass surveillance and how digital repression plays out on platforms like Meta, Google and PayPal.

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Occupied Tech is a podcast by Tech for Palestine in collaboration with Palestine Deep Dive. Each episode explores how the global tech industry fuels Israel’s apartheid, occupation, and genocide, while also highlighting the brave individuals and organisations working to dismantle this system of oppression.

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Speaking to investigative journalist Matt Kennard, retired Major General Charlie Herbert who served in the British Army for more than three decades, expresses his disgust and dismay at Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza.

He says “I suspect I would have resigned" over this had he still been serving in the British Army given Britain’s high level of complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide, and questions why we haven’t seen more resignations.

They discuss British complicity and participation through spy flights from RAF Akrotiri, the role of the Zionist Lobby in Britain, the recent proscription of Palestine Action and the shattering of Western credibility in the international arena.

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In the first episode of Occupied Tech, a new podcast brought to you by Tech for Palestine in collaboration with Palestine Deep Dive, Paul Biggar speaks to Hossam Nasr – a former Microsoft employee who was fired in 2024 after organising a vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza.

Nasr exposes the company’s major role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid and discusses efforts to organise workers and activists to resist its complicity.

No Azure for Apartheid (Noaa) is a worker-led group of tech workers within Microsoft, co-founded by Nasr. Its members are committed to exposing the complicity of specific technologies, including Microsoft's AI software Azure. _________________________

Occupied Tech In each episode, Paul Biggar introduces a new guest to break down the mechanics of the tech industry and how it powers Israel’s genocide, apartheid and occupation – looking at the companies, investors and individuals behind it. And most importantly, spotlighting the people resisting this oppression. _________________________

Episode 1. Microsoft: Powering Israel’s Genocide? Nasr exposes the company’s major role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid and discusses efforts to organise workers and activists to resist its complicity through the organisation he co-founded No Azure for Apartheid (Noaa).

Noaa is a worker-led group of tech workers within Microsoft. Its members are committed to exposing the complicity of specific technologies, including Microsoft's AI software Azure.

More than just a profit-seeking organisation, Nasr identifies Microsoft as a genocidal digital weapons manufacturer – as the most trusted tech provider for the Israeli government and military, Nasr explains how Microsoft aids Israel’s combat and intelligence activities, storing illegally collected data to surveil Palestinians and more.

Episode 1. was recorded back in June 2025, but new revelations reported recently in The Guardian also expose how Microsoft Azure servers in Europe have been storing ‘a million calls an hour’ in an expansive Israeli surveillance operation against Palestinians – data used by Israel to conduct lethal strikes in its ongoing genocide on Gaza.

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Hossam Nasr is an Egyptian software engineer and an alumnus of Harvard’s Computer Science programme. He is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of No Azure for Apartheid, a movement of Microsoft workers demanding that Microsoft end its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide. https://www.noazureforapartheid.com

Paul Biggar is the founder of Tech For Palestine, a coalition of thousands of founders, engineers, product marketers, investors and other professionals who are working in support of Palestinian liberation. He is an Irish software engineer who founded the unicorn company CircleCI in 2011, before being fired from its board in 2023 for support of Palestine. https://www.techforpalestine.org

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“If I don’t cover this, who will?” In the second episode of Falasteeniya, a new podcast series spotlighting the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of Palestinian women and exploring the gendered dynamic of Israel's oppression, host Hala Hanina welcomes Journalist and Emmy award-winner Shrouq Al Aila speaking directly from inside the Gaza Strip.

A witness, survivor, and documenter of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Shrouq Al Aila is a Palestinian journalist, producer, and researcher who has been reporting from inside Gaza throughout the ongoing genocide.

She is the director of Ain Media, an independent production company co-founded by her husband, Rushdi Sarraj, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on October 22, 2023.

In this episode, Shrouq speaks about her return to Gaza after the genocide began, the day she lost her husband, the assassination of her colleagues at Ain Media, and the daily toll of famine, grief, and survival.

She also reflects on the Western feminist silence around the femicide in Gaza, and the Emmy award she recently received for her work, a recognition dedicated to those who gave everything to tell the truth.

“Rushdi gave me a press vest, thinking it would protect me. But here, that vest marks you as a target.” Despite repeated displacement, personal loss, and ongoing danger, Shrouq has remained in Gaza to continue reporting the truth from the ground.

Her work not only exposes Israel’s war crimes and the Western media’s complicity but also stands as a frontline act of resistance, ensuring that Palestinian stories are told, and that memory is not erased.  

Rushdi Sarraj (1992 – 2023) was a 31-year-old Palestinian filmmaker and co-founder of Ain Media – a Gaza-based Independent media production company.  

Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology, focusing on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.

 

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Hala Hanina speaks with two exceptional Palestinian scholars who are trapped starving and under Israeli fire in Gaza awaiting permission to be allowed to enter the UK.

Israa Saleh and Malak AlSweirki are two of more than 80 Palestinians students in Gaza who are unable to travel to the UK because they cannot obtain biometric data required for visas as facilities there remain closed.

Israa Saleh is a medical doctor, Chevening alumna and expert in sexual and reproductive health. She was awarded a fully funded PhD by the UK’s prestigious Medical Research Council.

Malak AlSweirki, one of Gaza’s top students at just 20 years-old, chose to study at Cambridge University despite also receiving full offers from Harvard, Yale among others.

Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza. She is currently completing a PhD in politics and sociology, focusing on Palestinian women at the intersection of colonial and patriarchal violence.

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