The Anti-Imperialist Archive

1: Sami Al-Arian interview (2002) 2: Press Conference at the Shabazz Center in Harlem for Sami Al-Arian. His daughter asks for his release and right to return to his family. (2008) 3: If Americans Knew collaboration with the Al-Arian family / collective for his freedom (2008) 4: Democracy Now Interview with Sami - Sami Al-Arian Released After 5.5 Years in Prison After more than five-and-a-half yea...

The Beatings of Palestinians (1988): This Week Thames Television Peter Gill Gaza in 1988: Report follows how Israeli occupation forces beat to death two Palestinian teenagers, including a Christian, following Israel's dove Rabin's orders to smash the bones of native Palestinians. Bernard Mills, Director of UN Operations in Gaza in 1988: They come to people's homes ... and [Israeli soldiers] beat t...

A national speaking tour featuring a South African reverend and Palestinian lawyer started off at the Palestine Center on Monday, 10 November 2008. The tour, sponsored by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org), draws on the parallels between the South African and Israeli systems of apartheid. Apartheid, according to the International Criminal Court, refers to "an...

Documentary featuring commentary from Walid Khalidi, amongst other historians on the era leading up to the Nakba. Notes: This is missing the 6th track, so continuity does not totally track midway (35:35) timestamp, jumps from part 5 to part 7.  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social...

Leila Khaled put out a statement with the PFLP - it does come with a backing audio track that we could not totally isolate away from the speaking. Khaled is part of the PFLP international leadership council currently and resides in Jordan, released from Israeli prisons as part of a prisoner exchange. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahma...

Paul Findley, former Congressman (R-IL), spoke about the need to fundamentally remake America's Middle East policy during the next Presidential administration. He spoke at the annual Palestine Center conference, 10 October 2008 in Washington, DC. www.palestinecenter.org The second audio is from the 2015 National Press Club conference - Findley speaking on the AIPAC lobby. As always, edited by Ian...

Episode S0136, Recorded on May 15, 1974 Guests: Fayez A. (Fayez Abdullah) Sayegh, William Orbach, Lynn Greenberg, Salah Almazani As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out directly we have an...

Filmed a day after the Ted Koppel town hall meeting - Nelson Mandela speaks with Jim Lehrer on his work in America and for the ANC. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out directly we have...

Max Blumenthal, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party and Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, gives a talk at University of Liverpool for the highlight event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2015 hosted by the Liverpool University Friends of Palestine on the 25th of February 2015. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@...

1: PressTV release on the Greek blockade of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla per Israeli request 2: Democracy Now's Jihan Hafiz interviews participants of the Freedom Waves to Gaza that tried to reach Gaza from Turkey aboard the Tahrir.  3: Kathy Kelly Inteviewed by This Week in Palestine 07-17-2011. Today's show features a conversation with longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Non-...

John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani's Letter From Gaza. In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out directly we have an em...

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008; rev.ed. with Introduction by Alice Walker, 2010). He is also a well-known literary scholar, and the author of Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge, 1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago, 2003...

An October 6, 1994 panel on Palestinian Refugees with Halim Barakat Hisham Sharabi Marc Ellis Muhammad Hallaj Don Peretz Rashid Khalidi Moderated by Samih Farsoun As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would lik...

A discussion on "The importance of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the context of the global crisis" with Italian activist Luisa Morgantini and Yanis Varoufakis MP (secretary of MeRA25, co-founder of DiEM25) as speakers. This discussion took place in the context of the one-day film festival titled "In the Mirror of Palestine: Images and sounds of a quotidian struggle for dignity and free...

At a 2006 Palestine Center briefing, Dr. Ghada Hashem Talhami addressed the political status of women in Palestine and the dynamic between their identity as women and the broader nationalist struggle against occupation. Speaking in honor of International Women's Day (March 8), Talhami argued that Palestinian feminism can only be understood within the context of the Palestinian national struggle. T...

Matt Hooley is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth and his  book Against Extraction can be pre-ordered now through Duke University Press. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out directly we h...

(19 Aug 1973) RR7333A MIDDLE EAST HABASH AND THE WAR OF TERROR Israel admitted that she hijacked the Lebanese plane on August 10th 1973 hoping to capture Goerge Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. With an exclusive interivew with Habash, this report examines PFLP attitudes and the continuing hyjacking and airport attacks, as in Dubai and Athens. (19 Jan 1979) The l...

A Land Without a People is a documentary, partially narrated by Edward Said, that delves into the dispossession of Palestine through the Nakba and the history of the Palestinian people. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive...

Professor Daniel Drennan El-Awar speaks with AIA host Ian Anderson on his time in Lebanon during the 2006 war, culture and love. Daniel can be found at: Writing Jamaa Al-Yad Artists' Collective Blog 2006 war diary As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter...

WKCR student reporting on NYPD action taken at Columbia University on April 30, 2024. Recordings are time stamped 9:17pm-10:17pm, 11:30pm-12:30am, waiting for journalists to get back to the radio station, then a final sign off afterwards an hour later as everyone is recovered. Anonymous interview discussing the occupation follows, and is recorded at 10am on May 2, 2024. Covers the occupation, and...

Canada has punched below its weight on the international stage, voting with Panama and the Marshall Islands to block Palestinian statehood. Noted commentator and writer of the recent book, "The Globalization of NATO", Mahdi Nazemroya, discusses his latest article, "Not Black and White: The Chess Game Behind the recent Gaza-Israel War", including Qatar's sudden interest in Gaza: an attempt to lure...

You can buy El-Kurd's book Rifqa here Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd talks to CNN (2021) Appearance at the UN - The Palestinian Nakba — or catastrophe — happened decades ago, but the people of Palestine continue to suffer under Israeli colonialism, asserts writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd. Following the air strikes of May 2021, the people of Gaza City have had their homes destroyed or occupie...

Palestianian activists inspired by the civil rights movement in the 1960s have been arrested after catching an Israeli-operated bus in the West Bank. Fadi Quran, a nonviolent activist from Palestine, spoke to students about his participation in the 2011 Palestinian freedom rides as part of a talk held by Students For Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER) at Stanford University on April 16, 2012. Joining...

On February 7 2017, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, noted expert on Zionist ideology and history, conducted a lecture at the International Law Institute in Washington D.C., for members of the International Council for Middle East Studies, a think tank dedicated to issues pertaining to the middle east (ICMES.NET), titled "Has Zionism Hijacked Judaism?". The audience included a broad array of academics, schol...

ASWAT is the Palestinian Feminist Center for Gender and Sexual Freedoms, the first Palestinian org for lesbians. "Remember me as a revolutionary communist." The last words of Leslie Feinberg 1949-2014 We were deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of a great activist and a author and comrade Leslie Feinberg who died on November 15. Our thoughts are with her family and her partner, the poet...