Ep. 27 - Stories from Jenin with Jon Elmer
A Palestinian-American Lawyer & Jewish-American comedian break down the latest Palestine-related news with commentary & interviews every week.
This week Lara and Michael speak with Jon Elmer, Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported extensively from the occupied Palestinian West Bank and Gaza - specifically based in occupied Jenin, Bethlehem, and Gaza City. He has covered the al-Aqsa intifada, the so-called Israeli "disengagement" of Gaza which was followed by the imposition of a siege on Gaza as well as factional strife in Gaza. His work appears in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, and The Progressive. He is also the co-host of an amazing podcast called “The Brief” with Nora Barrows Friedman, a dear friend of the Palestine Pod. In light of the recent 21st anniversary of the Second Intifada, Jon speaks to us about his time reporting on the Second Intifada while he was in Palestine. With first-hand accounts from occupied Jenin, to analysis on the tactics used by Palestinians to resist Israeli colonial violence as well as the impact of the Second Intifada on Palestinian life until today, Jon paints a complex, layered picture of life in occupied Palestine, the cost of resistance to daily life, and the bravery and heroism of Palestinians fighting for their freedom. Lara reminds us that Palestinians are in a rights-based struggle and Michael recalls that Jews of the Warsaw ghetto used similar tactics of resistance as Palestinians, calling anyone who supports the former but not the latter fundamentally inconsistent in their approach to the right to freedom.
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Wow , I absolutly loved listening to Jon so much that I was so suprised when the podcast ended! I wanted it to last longer 😁 Another great episode, yet again 😘 thank you Lara and Mike 😘
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!! About 50 min more with Jon on our Patreon! www.patreon.com/palestinepod
@joanie-king
2 жыл бұрын
@@ThePalestinePod good to know, thank you so much 😘
Thank you so much for covering the various issues that you are and providing the context that is needed and so lacking in other coverage of Palestine. I always look forward to your next podcast. Keep up the amazing work you are doing.
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Thank you so much to everyone who listens, likes, and subscribes to the page!!
Amazing guest!! I didn’t know Jon before . Super entertaining episode guys
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
The guests on this show are incredible… so well spoken… so intelligent… and just good hearted people. This podcast never ceases to amaze me 💕
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Just heard his “The Brief Podcast” with Noura Barrows Freedman (from the “Electronic Intifada podcast “) and it was dope. They just had Max Blumenthal on too. Love you Mike and Lara !
Good work guys, next time try get people like Ilan Pappe , Norman finkelstein or Israeli activists..
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
We've had Miko Peled, and Hadar Cohen. Thanks for the recommendations!
@ThePalestinePod
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidsheriff9274 I dunno I think Duke would prolly get along better with a guy named Sheriff
With each episode I gain a wealth of new info. I certainly never knew the role played by Chapters / Indigo with the IOF!! It was also so refreshing to hear Jon speak. It’s a sad reality that our inner hope clings on to people ( Jews) like him who see Zionism for what it really is and who are also logical and base their support for Palestinians on facts observed by his own two eyes!!
Good