For this week’s episode we interview Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani Leila Shomali is a Palestinian PhD candidate in International Law at Maynooth University Ireland and a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. Lara Kilani is a Palestinian-American researcher, PhD student, and is also a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. We interviewed them on January 12th to talk about their recent piece “Anti-Zionism As Decolonisation” which is published in the brand new debut of Ebb Magazine. We will also link a of the article in the show notes. I will also say quickly that just recently we hosted a conversation with Louis Allday on our YouTube channel that goes over some of the other topics and analyses in that issue of Ebb Magazine. I highly recommend it and I actually bought a couple copies so that I could share it with others.  In this conversation we talk about both the terms anti-zionism and decolonization which have each faced their own forms of elite capture and distortion. Along the way we talk about settler colonialism, the Oslo Accords, NGO’s, the limits of human rights discourse and international law for Palestinians, the problems of neoliberal identity reductionism, and why as Lara and Leila write, “the caretakers of anti-zionist thought are indigenous communities resisting colonial erasure.” I very much enjoyed this discussion and encourage people to check out and the work of the which Leila and Lara are members of, and which they talk about through the conversation as well. We will link their work in the show notes. Leila and Lara reference a number of articles in their discussion and we will link those in the show notes. We do have a starting next week, where we will go over the US military Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. If you are interested in that I put a link in our show notes. It is for our supporters whether you support us on patreon on or Youtube. And if you want to stay up to date on all of our work and support our work the best way to do that is to become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at   ” (their article the episode is based on) “” by Mohammed El-Kurd Steven Salaita “” (includes their report on Regavim)  
— Read on millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/decolonization-is-not-a-discourse-it-is-a-material-process-leila-shomali-and-lara-kilani-on-anti-zionism-as-decolonization

As Taiwan makes headlines as a flashpoint for US aggression on China, this
resource unpacks China’s aspirations for national reunification and
Taiwan’s fraught status as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for Western
ideological, economic, and military power in Asia and the Pacific.
— Read on www.qiaocollective.com/education/taiwan

In this essay, Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani, two Palestinian writers,
detail what it means to be anti-zionist, laying out foundational concepts
and definitions as they explore essential strategies and tactics for a
militant decolonial movement against settler-colonialism.
— Read on www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/anti-zionism-as-decolonisation

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.
— Read on www.bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/