Since October 7th, 2023, the world has borne witness to some of the most horrific images broadcast from Gaza, in what is perhaps the first genocide to be broadcast live across social media. Over the past thirteen months, we have all seen some of the most vile videos and imagery that have brought the brutality of Israeli apartheid in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Likewise, we have also seen a cascade of solidarity with the Palestinian people from across the globe on a level never seen before. At the forefront of this movement has been the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide as a result of the ongoing Zionist colonization and occupation.

In today's episode, we’re joined by Subrein Damanhoury, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement’s San Diego chapter who stopped by the show to discuss her experiences as a member and the movement's mission of obtaining justice and liberation which has motivated millions of young people across the diaspora to take an active role in the national struggle for the liberation of occupied Palestine.

During our interview with Subrein, we were able to discuss PYM San Diego’s involvement with the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment at UCSD last Spring, as well as the ‘Mask Off Maersk’ campaign. The Palestinian Youth Movement’s campaign to get Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies, to end shipping military cargo that facilitates Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. We also discussed how being in San Diego geographically puts the chapter in a very unique position to directly address both militarism and arms manufacturing. The region is home to the nation’s largest concentration of military personnel (over  111,000 active-duty service people stationed within the city). It is also home to a litany of manufacturers such as Northrop Grumman and the aforementioned Maersk, which are contracted out by the U.S. military to both produce and ship weaponry across the globe to places like Gaza. All of this and so much more are ahead, so with that said, we are proud to present our conversation with Subrein Damanhoury of the San Diego Palestinian Youth Movement.