Imagine this for a moment. You live in a home that has been in your family for generations. A home built with your parents’ hands, filled with your children’s laughter, rooted in the soil where your memories grow. You plant flowers in the front yard. You tend to an olive tree in the back. You raise your family with the quiet dignity that comes from belonging to a place that belongs to you. Now imagine a stranger arrives. Someone with no connection to your land, no history in your neighborhood, no roots in your soil. They enter your home, and instead of leaving, they take it. They claim it. They move you and your family into a small corner of the basement. They control your water. Your electricity. Your movement. Your ability to live freely in the very house your ancestors built. And then imagine this: While you and your family remain confined to that basement corner, the stranger receives support, resources, and protection from powerful allies around the world. You, the original homeowner, are left with restrictions, surveillance, and the constant fear of losing even the little space you have left. Now ask yourself: Would you feel anger? Would you feel fear? Would you feel the instinct to protect your family, to reclaim your home, to stand up for your dignity? And if you tried to free yourself — if you tried to reclaim the life that was taken from you — how would the world describe your actions? Would they call it resistance? Would they call it survival? Or would they label it something else entirely? These are not abstract questions. They are questions about humanity, justice, and the right to live freely in the place you call home. If you have thoughts, I want to hear them. Email me at TWIPpodcasts@gmail.com and tell me how you see it. This is This Week in Palestine.

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Host Ali Abunimah sits down with Maha Hussaini, the head of Media and Public Engagement at Euro Med Human Rights Monitor. She tells us about their new report that exposes sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centres as a de facto state policy, used as a tool of subjugation and destruction. While Washington attempts to portray the three-week extension of the US brokered so-called ceasefire as a diplomatic breakthrough, the reality across Lebanon reveals a war that has merely shifted its form. The Electronic Intifada’s contributor Roqayah Chamseddine reports from south Lebanon. On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer breaks down the latest footage of Hizballah-built armed drones that are taking a deadly toll on the invading Israeli army.

In a race defined by a slate of uninspiring candidates, few contenders have managed to break through or consolidate meaningful support.

PT Barnum, sometimes known as the Prince of Humbug, was born in Connecticut in 1810. In many ways, he personified the American character that Frenchman Alexis De Tocqueville described in his book, “Democracy in America.” Barnum delighted in making money and telling the truth, as he saw it. Some truths were told in the political arena, where he was twice a member of the Connecticut legislature and, in the interim, Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Some of his truths were lies when they were told to other people, like the history of some of his circus performers. Other truths were told in his newspapers. PT Barnum, ‘PT’ as he liked to be called, was best known as the creator of the ‘Best Show On Earth,’ the Barnum and Bailey Circus. I spoke with PT Barnum, personified by Doug Mishler, in the studios of Radio Curious in July of 1996 when this program was originally broadcast. P.T. Barnum recommends “My Toils and Struggles,” the autobiography of PT Barnum. Doug Mishler recommends “The Culture of Complaint,” by Robert Hughes. Originally Broadcast: July 24, 1996

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. France 24, Cuba, and NHK Japan.

Chronic crises (homelessness, underfunding, food scarcity) were already impacting our communities, and the pandemic only accelerated the impact, which hasn't been solved in our post-pandemic world; But civic innovation might be. San Francisco’s trailblazers share how government, tech, and communities are collaborating to tackle old problems in bold new ways.

Dervish draws deep from the well of Irish tradition on their latest collection from The Great Irish Songbook Volume 2. Meanwhile The Ollam take trad someplace else entirely, featuring John McSherry and groovemonster Joe Dart. This hour features fresh track from Trouz Bras, North America's keepers of Breton music heritage and Newfoundland's Rum Ragged take us down The Road To Lushes Bight. Lard Tunderin', it must be Celt In A Twist!

Hope springs eternal. Spring is sprung and Angelique Kidjo drops Hope, a new album with an impressive guest list. Introducing A-100s two-tone ska, CDN guitarist Mike Murray with Ecuadorian singer Arianna Reda. Galicians Carlangas and Neboa launch new singles and Tablatronics wizard Karsh Kale is back. More musical optimism this hour from World Beat Canada Radio!

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news for the week of April 30th, 2026.

It's our "Not Quite The Beatles" special as most of the beatles songs are really not that cheezy...but we found versions that are.

Congressional candidate Elizabeth Lee is a nationally recognized nurse, board-certified patient advocate, and reproductive healthcare policy expert with over a decade of experience advancing access to care. She built a career helping thousands of patients navigate complex medical, financial, and ethical barriers—while also advising lawmakers on federal IVF and reproductive health protections. @NurseLee4AZ Today’s conversation covers Right to Dissent regulations that prevent the boycotting of the Israeli government, the ever-looming threat of Turning Point USA-backed candidates outspending Democrats in local and national elections, and where Democrats are failing to meet the calls of their constituents.

Radio Johnny and Denise interview Chance Bogan an outgoing intern at the Latah Recovery Community Center and wide receiver for the University of Idaho Vandal football team.

“Tax Day 2026” Report Finds the Average US Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 For War Last Year; Trump's Wars on Iran, Venezuela and Cuba: a ‘New Stage of US Imperialism’; Low Income Americans’ Gains of Recent Years Now Lost to Trump’s Corporate Allies.

FROM THE VAULT: On Bob Avakian's latest social media post: REVOLUTION # 114. What do you say to people who argue that there aren't really splits among the rulers, that they're "just all the same, and all no good"? Noche Diaz and Joe Veale take on bogus B.S. from Black social media "influencers" and hustlers telling Black people to stand down, and stay out of the streets during the April 5 national "Hands Off" protests. What's Behind the U.S.–Backed Genocide in Gaza?

This episode is Professor Noura Erakat speaking at Princeton University on March 26, 2026, in a talk titled “Exit and Exception.” It was the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture, given in honor of the public intellectual and literary critic Edward W. Said, who was a Princeton grad and who taught in the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University from 1963 until 2003. Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Newark, and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. The event was sponsored by the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture Fund, the Princeton Department of English, and the Princeton Committee on Palestine.