Showing up for Palestine with Samar Alkhdour
- Author
- New Internationalist
- Published
- Tue 17 Dec 2024
- Episode Link
- https://rss.com/podcasts/the-world-unspun/1805615
For this week’s #TheWorldUnspun, we met with Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian activist in Montreal whose campaign against the obstructive and discriminatory Canadian immigration system has been met with nothing but police repression and silence from the government.
#NI554 Palestine: From Occupation to Uprising
#NI546 Surveillance: Spying on Dissent
Host: Paula Lacey
Credits: Paula Lacey (Producer, Editorial Assistant), Maxine Betteridge-Moes, Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media Consultant)
Guest: Samar Alkhdour
00:00 Samar and her story
4:11 Jenna's murder - Motivation for Samar’s sit in
5:20 The flaws on the TRV system
6:54 Barriers in the Canadian immigration system
9:58 Amnesty International on the Canadian immigration system
10:10 A report by the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
11:25 Samar’s supporters
14:30 Samar on complicity in genocide
16:44 Canada's student protests
18:00 Canada's dehumanisation of Palestinians and Palestine Activists
19: 40 Mark Miller’s failure and student protests
24:59 Small gestures are powerful in the West
Further reading:
Long waits for Canadian visas leave Gazans in limbo by Anna Mehler Paperny (Reuters)
Coalition for No Over Policing Palestine/Police Pas la Palestine
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