In this Episode, we unpack what it truly means to decolonize Palestine—legally, historically, and psychologically.

We explore how Zionism functions as a settler-colonial ideology, how international law has been manipulated to legitimize dispossession, and why the Palestinian struggle is fundamentally a human rights and decolonization struggle, not a religious or ethnic conflict.

We discuss:

– a bit about her personal background as a Palestinian.

– her work as a human rights lawyer.

– her work in decolonization and how we can take steps for decolonization of Palestine, both in terms of language and on the land.

-- The Islamic angle of the Palestinian struggle.

– Discussing the current cease-fire in Gaza and the situation that is still very very bad.

– Discussing hopes for the future of Palestine and how we can try to get there collectively.Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

04:30 - Her Palestinian background

11:05 - Liberation as a decolonization effort

15:43 - South Africa comparison

18:10 - The importance of language

26:05 - The Islamic connection with Palestine

28:55 - Our Moral Obligation

35:33 - Practical steps to take

37:50 - Conclusion

Guest Intro:

Tasnim Theodora Al-Rifai is a human rights lawyer with a professional focus on indigenous rights and the prevention of violence against women. Throughout her legal career she has worked at the intersection of law, power and lived reality where human rights are not theoretical but urgently contested.

She's presently working on her first book, a Handbook on Debating Zionism, which aims to provide clear, principled and historically grounded tools for critical debate in an increasingly polarized public sphere. Tasnim lives with her family in Vienna Austria.

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