Palestine Deep Dive

Thirteen months into the so-called ceasefire, Gaza is still being devastated. Israel has killed almost 1,600 Palestinians since the ceasefire was announced. Now, as winter arrives, families are facing another nightmare: flooded tents, freezing temperatures, collapsing buildings and a healthcare system pushed to breaking point. Four children recently died in Deir Al-Balah after heavy rain brought a...

The Green Party’s Zionism is Racism motion has unleashed a political storm in Britain and prompted fierce attacks on those behind it. But the motion and the backlash are not happening in isolation. From a changing political mood in the US to the growing electoral strength of Palestine solidarity, from the crisis within Labour to the battle for the future of the Green Party, we’re witnessing a much...

In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Irish journalist and commentator Barry Malone and American writer Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, join host Ahmed Alnaouq for a wide-ranging discussion on Zionism, anti-Zionism, media complicity and the language shaping public debate around Israel and Palestine. Drawing on the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the conversatio...

In this difficult and unflinching conversation, Jehan Alfarra and Ahmed Alnaouq are joined by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, and Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture , to examine the destruction of Gaza, the silencing of Palestinian journalists, and the growing struggle to hold those responsible to account. Francesca Albanese discusses...

Speaking up for Palestine comes at a personal and professional cost.  On this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina sit down with Nadia Sawalha, former Loose Women presenter, and her husband Mark Adderley, filmmaker and Green Party councillor, to discuss the price of speaking out, the power of the media, and the growing culture of fear surrounding Palestine in Britain. Nadi...

Green Party members in Brighton voted to adopt a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism and calling for Palestinian liberation and a single democratic state with justice and equality for all. It is the first mainstream UK party to take that position. But in almost all of the coverage that followed, one group has been strikingly absent from the conversation: Palestinians. On this episode on Pale...

In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, we sit down with Humza Yousaf, former First Minister of Scotland, for a deeply personal conversation about his latest book “Under Fire: My Family's Escape from Gaza and The Cost of Leadership”. Yousaf opens up about the experience of watching his Palestinian in-laws become trapped in Gaza during Israel’s assault, despite his position as Scotland’s First Mini...

What does it mean to grow up in England, learn to be English and then spend a lifetime finding your way back to Palestine? In this conversation, Palestinian writer, doctor and activist Ghada Karmi reflects on identity, exile, colonialism, memory and the long struggle for Palestinian liberation. Speaking to Decolonial Scholar & Content Creator Joris Lechêne, she explores her identity as a child gro...

On this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanin speak to two Palestinian theatre makers about making art under occupation and amidst the destruction of Gaza. Emile Saba, Artistic Director of ASHTAR Theatre in Ramallah, has worked on productions including Guernica: Gaza. His latest play, 2077 WHO WANTS TO SURVIVE, is being performed in London as part of the PalArt Festival this...

“The Americans, and then Europe following like sheep behind, unpicked everything that was meant to keep people safe.”Veteran journalist and author Victoria Brittain speaks to Palestine Deep Dive’s Jehan Alfarra about the long shadow of Guantánamo Bay and the so-called “War on Terror”, and what its legacy reveals about Gaza today. Brittain has spent decades reporting from Vietnam, Africa, the Middl...

If Palestinians could vote tomorrow in a presidential election, poll after poll suggests that if he ran, Marwan Barghouti—who has been imprisoned by Israel for more than 24 years and is serving multiple life sentences—would win. On today’s episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined in the studio by Arab Barghouti, Marwan’s son, and Dr Shahd Hammouri, a Palestinian lec...

In this episode of The Walk Out, Karishma Patel speaks with Melissa Muller, a former journalist at Switzerland’s Blick, about her decision to leave her newsroom. Muller explains why she originally went into journalism, what she witnessed inside her Swiss newsroom after 7 October 2023, why she became increasingly focused on Palestinian perspectives and why she ultimately decided to walk away. Mulle...

What does it mean to carry a homeland through memory? In this episode of the Deep Dive, Ahmed Alnaouq sits down with Amy Abdelnoor, author of Ever Land, for a powerful conversation about Palestine, memory, identity, belonging and resilience. Amy reflects on the inspiration for her novel, the symbolism of the cactus and the Palestinian connection to land. Drawing on Amy’s Lebanese heritage and her...

Today on Palestine Deep Dive, we bring together two perspectives on Gaza: what is happening on the ground and how the political decisions shaping that reality have been made behind closed doors in Washington. Dr James Smith, British emergency physician and UCL lecturer, joins us after returning from his third medical mission to Gaza, where he witnessed the devastating reality facing Gaza’s healthc...

Who controls the story about Palestine? In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, we are joined by NewsCord founder Nima Akram and Declassified UK Investigative Journalist Hamza Yusuf as we go behind the headlines to examine how Palestine and Gaza are being reported, and what gets lost, omitted or reframed along the way. We also discuss the UK sanctions against Israeli settlements announced by Forei...

In this episode of Occupied Tech, former Apple employee and founder of Apples Against Apartheid Tariq Ra’ouf speaks to Paul Biggar of Tech for Palestine about Apple’s relationship with Israel, allegations of discrimination and retaliation against employees speaking out for Palestine, and the campaign challenging one of the world’s most powerful companies. After working at Apple for ten years, Tari...

Why has global public opinion shifted so dramatically while government policy has failed to follow? Have protest, boycott and moral persuasion reached their limits? In the first episode of our second season of the Palestine Deep Dive Chat Show, Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined by two leading voices at the centre of the Palestine solidarity movement: BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti and incomi...

In this episode of Falasteeniya, we examine the systematic use of sexualised and gendered violence against Palestinians and its relationship to settler colonialism and genocide. Palestinian organiser, writer and member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective Tara Al-Alami joins Palestine Deep Dive’s Hala Hanina to discuss the collective’s new report, A Predatory State: Israeli Systematic, Sexualise...

Ana Maria Monjardino left CNN in October 2023, after deciding she could no longer reconcile her ethics with the organisation’s coverage of Israel and Palestine. In this episode of The Walkout, Ana Maria reflects on her time inside CNN, the challenges of platforming Palestinian voices in mainstream media, why she ultimately resigned, and what she learned about journalism after leaving one of the wo...

Susan Abulhawa joins Ahmed Alnaouq for a conversation about Gaza, literature, censorship and the power of storytelling. The internationally bestselling Palestinian-American novelist and author of Mornings in Jenin discusses her experience travelling to Gaza in 2024, bringing supplies and medicine, and mentoring young Palestinian writers whose lives had been shattered under the weight of a genocide...

When it was launched in June 2025, millions of users joined UpScrolled in just a few weeks making it the fastest growing social media platform to date. In this episode of Occupied Tech, UpScrolled’s Palestinian founder Issam Hijazi joins Paul Biggar of Tech for Palestine to discuss his journey of building an ethical alternative to Big Tech that rejects surveillance capitalism, and why the future o...

In the first episode of a brand-new Palestine Deep Dive series, Karishma Patel sits down with Ahmed Alnaouq to discuss why she left the BBC after five years as a journalist and newsreader.  The conversation offers a rare insider perspective on one of the most consequential debates in journalism today as Karishma shares her journey from aspiring public service journalist to becoming one of the BBC&...

Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined by broadcaster and former England footballing legend Gary Lineker and journalist and writer Afua Hirsch for a wide-ranging conversation on Palestine, Israel, football, media narratives, free speech and why sport can never truly be separated from politics and the world around it. 👉 Support us by becoming a paid subscriber from as littl...

Palestine Deep Dive's Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined by Palestinian poet and writer Mohammed El-Kurd, and British MP and chair of the Gaza Tribunal Jeremy Corbyn. Together, they discuss the relationship between material complicity in genocide and narrative dehumanisation of Palestinians, the Gaza tribunal, politics of appeal and the changing political debate in Britain and the United Sta...

Gaza has long been recognised as one of the most educated and highly literate societies in the region, despite decades of Israeli occupation, blockade, repeated military assaults, and displacement. Palestinians, including those in Gaza, have often been described as among the world’s most highly educated refugee populations. In this episode of Falasteeniya, Palestine Deep Dive’s Hala Hanina is join...