One day in the past, long before borders were drawn and flags were raised, there was a place called Palestine. A land of villages and orchards, of markets and minarets, of families who traced their roots back centuries. A land with its own rhythm, its own language, its own stories, its own soul.
And then, strangers arrived.
They came from the West. They came from Europe. They came from places that had never tasted the dust of Jerusalem or smelled the sea of Jaffa. They came with maps, with plans, with foreign ideologies, with promises whispered in diplomatic rooms thousands of miles away.
They came not to visit. They came to take.
Piece by piece, they stole the land. Piece by piece, they erased the history. Piece by piece, they claimed the culture as their own. They renamed the hills. They renamed the rivers. They renamed the villages. They renamed the ancient allies who had lived side by side for generations.
And the world watched.
The world saw the theft. The world saw the displacement. The world saw the uprooted olive trees, the emptied homes, the families forced into exile. The world saw it all, and still decided to believe the lie.
The lie became the new fact. The occupier became the victim. The native became the threat. And Palestine, the real Palestine, began to vanish from global memory.
Palestinians were ignored. Their testimonies dismissed. Their stories labeled exaggerations. Their history treated as myth. Their suffering treated as background noise.
I am talking about the real stories. The stories of grandparents who walked out of their homes with only the clothes on their backs. The stories of farmers who watched their orchards burn. The stories of children who grew up in refugee camps holding keys to houses they would never see again. Stories that were repeated, documented, shouted, whispered, carried across continents.
But nobody listened.
For a hundred years, Palestinians tried to tell the world what was happening. For a hundred years, they tried to explain what was taken from them. For a hundred years, they tried to show the truth.
And then came October 7th.
A day that shattered the silence. A day that cracked open the narrative. A day that forced the world to look directly at the story it had ignored for generations.
Suddenly, people began to ask questions. Suddenly, people began to doubt the official version. Suddenly, people began to see the footage, the testimonies, the contradictions. Suddenly, the world realized that Palestinians had been telling the truth all along.
The truth that was dismissed. The truth that was buried. The truth that was mocked. The truth that was labeled propaganda.
The truth that is now undeniable.
October 7th did not create the Palestinian story. It revealed it. It exposed what had been hidden. It forced the world to confront the reality that Palestinians have been trying to explain for a century.
And as the world finally opened its eyes, Gaza continued to burn.
Even after ceasefire agreements were announced, the genocide did not stop. Bombs still fell. Homes still collapsed. Children still died. Aid still struggled to enter. The siege still suffocated an entire population.
Ceasefire in name. Destruction in reality.
And while Gaza endured relentless devastation, the West Bank lived under a different kind of terror.
Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank face attacks from settlers who roam the hills armed and emboldened. Every day, families wake up wondering if today will be the day their home is burned, their land stolen, their children threatened. Every day, villages are raided, farms destroyed, lives shattered.
This is the story the world ignored. This is the story Palestinians carried alone. This is the story that October 7th forced into the global spotlight.
And now, the world cannot unsee it.
Today, we begin with that truth. We begin with the land that once was. We begin with the theft that followed. We begin with the silence that lasted a century. And we begin with the moment the world finally woke up.
This is This Week in Palestine. This is where truth stands unfiltered. This is where history speaks. This is where courage rises. And this is where we begin.
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A new investigation found that between July 2025 and February 2026, United Airlines carried more than 2,700 shipments of military cargo to Israel on its passenger flights, bound for Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin Israel, the Israeli military and the Nevatim airbase, home to Israel’s F-35 fleet. Belal Elsiesy of People’s Embargo for Palestine and Shatha Mahmoud of Arms Embargo Now Canada, both campaigners with the Palestinian Youth Movement, join Nora Barrows-Friedman to discuss the findings and their call for a people’s arms embargo.
On October 4th, members of the Green Party of England and Wales voted 1,022 to 813 for a motion declaring the party anti-Zionist. The motion calls Zionism racism, backs one state with equal rights for all, supports boycott, divestment and sanctions, and calls for Palestine Action to be unbanned. Lubna Speitan, an artist and activist with Greens for Palestine, the group that drafted the motion and campaigned for it, joins the Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley to discuss the backlash from party leader Zack Polanski, former leader Caroline Lucas and four of the party’s five MPs, and why she says the members’ democratic decision must stand.
Three years of Israeli genocide have given Gaza’s youth more reasons to seek liberation, whatever form their struggle takes. Nora Barrows-Friedman reads from Khaled El-Hissy’s article “Why Palestinians will continue to resist.”
Sonic Café—kicking off with a bluesy twist on AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” The catch? It’s all-fake. As in, AI-made from top to bottom. I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 501 a thing we’re calling: It’s All-Fake—because, well… it is. Everything you’ll hear this time, except my lovely human voice, was created with artificial intelligence.
We’re serving AI covers of songs you know by heart: a moody, blues-drenched take on Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” a soulful spin on Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” swamp-blues swagger on the Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil,” a funky “Seven Nation Army,” and—even wilder—a full-on Motown makeover of the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”All that plus many more.
In between, you’ll hear how a British TV audience discovered their entire newscast was AI-generated, plus a couple of AI comedy shorts that suggest comedians can sleep just fine… at least for now. And a big Sonic Café shout-out to our newest sponsor: The Most Washington Man in the World—very funny, very on-the-nose, and totally AI.
So let’s lean into it. Enjoy the illusions, and curiosities as we present: It’s All-Fake from that little coastal radio café way out here in the Pacific Northwest here’s a soulful AI cover of the Stone Temple Pilots—here’s “Interstate Love Song.” And we’re the Sonic Café.
Until the mid-1990s, the Redwood Industry dominated much of North Coast economy. In the mid-1990s, due to a number of circumstances particularly involving Pacific Lumber Company and Charles Hurwitz, industry advocates collided with environmentalists in a final hurrah. Few figures among the environmentalists carry as much name-recognition and power as did Judi Bari. In this program, recorded in March of 1995 at the height of the conflict, Judi Bari and I discussed the position of Earth First!
Judi Bari recommends “J. Edgar Hoover,” by Kurt Gentry.
Originally Broadcast: March 27, 1995
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, Japan, and Cuba.
Breaking new Celtic creativity is what we do at Celt In A Twist! Join Patricia this week for Shovel Dance Collective, an envelope-pushing 9 piece from London, mixing classical contemporary with free improv on Everything In Readiness, fiddle music from Paisos Catalans by Coloma Bertran PLUS the sublime O Carolan’s Farewell from Celtic Ground by Peter Thomas and Stevon Russell, a tribute to Ireland’s greatest harpist!
We talk Autumn birthdays and welcome a bouncing baby mix of global sweetness. Ezra Collective start with Only Love, new to our family of Canadian worldbeaters, Flacco Slimm and JER, an Arab double shoutout to dark beauty from Samir LanGus and Acid Arab, Balthvs drive us through the In-N-Out, and where else will you hear island grooves from Rapa Nui? World Beat Canada Radio of course!
The Dadicorns take the center spotlight this week, while a Banjo Band brings on the Beatles and a classic 70s loungy song gets the Limburger Lounge treatment
The so-called International Criminal Court touted by Navi Pillay is not a UN court, it is a mutation, a coalition of neo-colonial NGO cabal trying to place their "values" above the UN Charter (after 20 years they have convicted a handful of Africans). Pillay's Nobel is a feeble attempt to keep the ICC in business.
We present an hour-long conversation with Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o about the first volume of his memoirs, “Dreams in a Time of War." A rare and moving insight into all that went into shaping one of the most beloved progressive writers in the world today, a testament to the power of storytelling and dreams in human life and the striving to birth a new and better world. Plus a brief musical tribute to the great jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln.
If Democrats Win Midterm Election, Will Republicans Refuse to Cede Control of Congress? After Recent Electoral Victories, What’s Next for Democratic Socialists of America? Global Summit Aims to Phase Out Fossil Fuels Through International Cooperation.
