Nearly two years after being forced out of her academic posts for speaking up for Palestine, Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui remains one of the most fearless voices challenging the empire’s narrative.

In this episode of Right of Resistance, Dr. Sabreena joins host Kuros Charney to explain why being pro-Palestine isn’t enough—and why liberation begins with naming the forces that stand in its way. She connects the struggle for Palestine to the global fight against systems of oppression that reach deep into our own institutions and minds.

A scholar of criminology and sociology and a leading DEI expert, Dr. Sabreena brings both academic rigor and activist insight to expose the crimes of empire and the social conditioning that lets them endure. Together, we examine how colonial logic continues to shape Western thought—and what it truly means to decolonize your mind.

As we confront the ideologies we’ve inherited from centuries of empire, this conversation calls on all of us to unlearn, resist, and imagine freedom beyond the colonial world.

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As Israel continues to strike Gaza's hospitals with U.S. weapons, the American medical community has been largely silent. But not Dr. Rupa Marya. The UCSF physician and professor was fired for her outspoken opposition to the bombing of Gaza’s hospitals—a chilling reminder that, nearly two years into the genocide, speaking out on behalf of Palestine carries severe consequences.

Her removal was not sudden. It was the culmination of a more than year-long campaign by donors, lawyers, and a California state senator to silence her. Harassed by administrators, doxed by Canary Mission, abandoned by colleagues, and betrayed by her university, Dr. Marya nevertheless kept speaking out.

Now she joins host Kuros Charney on Right of Resistance to tell her story. She also discusses her book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice—a startling account of how capitalism, colonialism, and systemic racism can literally kill us. As the Trump administration bulldozes our healthcare system and suppresses those who speak truth to power, Dr. Marya’s book is more relevant than ever. What must we do to halt our society’s dangerous trajectory—and where will we end up if we don’t?

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More than a year after being fired from Muhlenberg College for her outspoken support of Palestinian liberation, Dr. Maura Finkelstein is still speaking out—louder than ever. She joins host Kuros Charney on the premiere episode of Right of Resistance to discuss the devastation in Gaza, the political oppression in the United States, and the frameworks that uphold both. In this urgent and unflinching conversation, Dr. Finkelstein connects the Palestinian struggle to Zionism, American empire, capitalism, higher education, and the mainstream media’s complicity in genocide. The result is a stark reminder that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

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