This Week In Palestine

• TWIP-251207 Skyscrapers Over Rubble: Trump’s Gaza Vision and the Voices That Refuse Silence

  As always, we turn our gaze to Gaza. not only to the bombs that fell, not only to the ceasefire that never came, but to the plans whispered in Washington and echoed by Donald Trump.Trump’s vision for Gaza is not peace. It is profit. It is reconstruction for investors, skyscrapers rising over rubble, contracts signed over graves.And he is not alone. He is supported by guarantor states that remained silent, by senators like Ted Cruz who cloak Zionism in scripture, by leaders who normalize relations while hospitals burn. They stand with him— not with the people.But against this agenda, we honor the voices who refused silence. We honor Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh, Issam Abdallah. We honor doctors like Ghassan Abu Sitta and Mona El‑Farra, who healed under fire. We honor students from Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, and Boston College, who marched, who occupied, who spoke. We honor Americans like Angela Davis, Cornel West, Chris Hedges, and Jewish voices of conscience—Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappé— who exposed the myths and defended the dignity of Palestinians.These are the names, the lives, the legacies that stand against Trump’s Gaza vision. They remind us that Gaza is not a blank canvas for empire. It is a home. It is a people. It is a struggle for truth.So tonight, as Trump and his allies dream of skyscrapers over rubble, we remember the fallen, we honor the resistors, and we declare: Palestine is not for sale. Palestine is not for profit. Palestine is for its people. Stay with us. This is This Week in Palestine. And this is where the silence ends. 

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• TWIP-251130 Stolen Lands, Living Resistance: Indigenous Peoples and Palestinians in Solidarity.

  The 56th Annual National Day of Mourning – Plymouth, MAThe 56th Annual National Day of Mourning was held on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025, at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since 1970, Indigenous people and allies have gathered here each year to mourn ancestors lost to colonization and to challenge the myth of Pilgrims and Native harmony. The tradition began when Wamsutta Frank James of the Wampanoag Nation was prevented from delivering a speech that told the truth about genocide and land theft. In response, he and others created a day of remembrance and protest that has continued for more than half a century, organized by the United American Indians of New England.This year’s gathering drew hundreds despite the cold weather. The atmosphere was solemn yet defiant, filled with drumming, prayers, and speeches that reminded participants that Thanksgiving is not a simple holiday of gratitude but a day that must confront the truth of colonization. Speakers described the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of land, and the erasure of cultures. They called for Land Back, climate justice, and resistance to racism, sexism, homophobia, and the destruction of the Earth introduced by colonization.A powerful theme of the 56th Day of Mourning was solidarity with Palestinians. Speakers declared that from Turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime. They emphasized that both Indigenous Americans and Palestinians face settler colonialism, displacement, and attempts at erasure, and that their struggles are interconnected. Calls were made to stand with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, linking the Thanksgiving myth to the propaganda that obscures Palestinian dispossession.The gathering was both a remembrance and a rallying cry. It affirmed Indigenous survival despite centuries of violence and underscored the importance of truth-telling and solidarity. By explicitly connecting Indigenous resistance with Palestinian liberation, the Day of Mourning revealed a profound truth: from Plymouth Rock to Gaza, the struggle against settler colonialism is shared, and the fight for justice is global.

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• TWIP-251123 Neighbors, Narratives, and the Truth of Palestine

  Today, we turn our attention not to headlines, but to the human question of neighborliness. Too often, Palestinians are spoken of as if they are unworthy reduced to caricatures, painted as “bad neighbors,” or dismissed as a threat. Cities like Dearborn, Michigan, with its vibrant Arab and Palestinian community, are stigmatized as places of hostility rather than celebrated as centers of resilience and care.But what does it truly mean to have a Palestinian as a neighbor? Would they throw trash at your door, scratch your car, or break your windows? Or would they do what Palestinians have done for centuries—offer hospitality, share food, and treat the neighbor, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, with dignity?To challenge the myths, we bring you a clip titled “Jewish Rabbi Gives an Islamic History Lesson.” In it, Rabbi Haim Sofer of Neturei Karta reminds us of a deeper truth: that Jewish and Muslim communities lived side by side for generations, often in peace, often in solidarity. He recalls how Jews found refuge in Muslim lands after being expelled from Europe, and how coexistence—not suspicion—defined centuries of shared history.So today, we ask not whether Palestinians can be good neighbors, but why the world has been taught to believe otherwise. And we listen to voices—like Rabbi Sofer—that remind us of the dignity, hospitality, and humanity that Palestinians have always carried with them.Stay with us. This is This Week in Palestine. And this is where the silence ends.

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• TWIP-251116 Sixty Flags Over Gaza: The Global Complicity in Genocide

  Sixty Flags Over Gaza: The Global Complicity in GenocideToday, we begin with a question that refuses to die:Why has the world ganged up on Palestine? Why have more than sixty countries—powerful, wealthy, and self-proclaimed defenders of human rights—lined up behind Israel as it wages a campaign of annihilation against a besieged, stateless people?This is not just war.This is genocide.And it is not being committed in isolation.It is being funded, armed, and politically shielded by a global coalition of complicity.According to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s report, over 60 member states have contributed to Israel’s assault on Gaza—through weapons, surveillance tech, military aid, and diplomatic cover. These include the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, and Australia. But also Arab states like Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE, who enforce the blockade, normalize relations, and offer logistical support.Together, they have enabled the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, water systems, and entire families.Together, they have tried to erase Gaza from the map.And together, they have failed.Because the people remain.Holding on to every grain of sand.Holding on to the name: Palestine.We demand answers.Why does the world help Zionists steal the land from its rightful inhabitants?Why do they reward apartheid with trade deals, arms contracts, and diplomatic immunity?Why do they silence the truth, criminalize solidarity, and punish resistance?This is not just about Palestine.It’s about the moral collapse of the international order.It’s about the Genocide Convention being shredded in real time.It’s about the cost of silence—and the price of complicity.So today, we name the countries.We trace the weapons.We follow the money.And we ask the question that history will not forgive us for ignoring:Why did the world choose genocide over justice?Stay with us.This is This Week in Palestine. And this is where the silence ends.

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• TWIP-251109 From New York to Palestine: A Shift in Power, A Reckoning with History

  Before we begin today’s episode of This Week in Palestine, we must pause to mark a political moment that reverberates far beyond city limits. Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City—a victory that defies precedent, expectation, and the machinery of power itself.He didn’t just win an election. He dismantled a narrative.Mamdani defeated billionaires, lobbyists, and even the sitting president’s preferred candidate. He did so not by softening his stance, but by sharpening it. He refused to be silent on Palestine. He refused to visit Israel. He refused to play the game of appeasement. And for that, he was smeared, accused, and targeted. But the people of New York chose principle over propaganda. They chose clarity over compromise.His victory is more than symbolic. It signals a shift in American political discourse—a shift that centers justice, affordability, and international accountability. It tells us that being pro-Palestine is no longer political suicide. It is political courage.And that courage brings us to the heart of today’s episode.We turn now to a clip titled “Professor Exposes Secret Origins of the Israel Project,” featuring Dr. Yakov M. Rabkin—a historian whose work challenges the very foundation of Zionism. Rabkin, professor emeritus at the University of Montreal, argues that Zionism was not born in the Holy Land, but imported from Europe as a colonial ideology.He writes that Zionism is “a radical break from Jewish tradition,” rooted not in theology but in 19th-century European nationalism. He reveals how early Zionists formed alliances with antisemites—not out of shared values, but shared goals: to remove Jews from Europe. And he documents how traditional Jewish communities overwhelmingly rejected Zionism, seeing it as a betrayal of spiritual identity and ethical responsibility.Rabkin’s critique is not anti-Jewish. It is deeply Jewish. It is rooted in exile, humility, and the belief that justice cannot be built on dispossession.So as we reflect on Mamdani’s win—a mayor who centers Palestine in his politics—we also reflect on the deeper history that brought us here. A history of ideas imported from Europe. A history of resistance erased. A history that demands to be retold. 

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