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Wednesday, 20 March 2024 — The Electronic Intifada

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Please note that due to the recent time change in the US our livestream will start an hour earlier than typical for many viewers around the world. Please check the times below.

1800 Palestine time / 1900 Amman time / 1600 GMT / 1600 UK / 1700 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT

After the news briefing from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we’ll be joined by Ilan Pappé, professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK and director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies.

Pappé gained renown as one of the “new historians,” a group of Israeli scholars who in the 1980s shattered longstanding Zionist lies about the founding of Israel, and corroborated Palestinian accounts of the Nakba using Israeli archival sources.

He’s the author of many books including A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Pappé is also a regular contributor to The Electronic Intifada.

Then we’ll speak to Dr. Ben Thomson, a doctor of internal medicine and a kidney specialist from Canada.

He has been volunteering in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since 2013, and just returned from Gaza.

Dr. Thomson also worked as a medic during the Great March of Return in 2018, when Israel deployed snipers to murder and maim thousands of unarmed civilians protesting the siege of Gaza and demanding their right to return home.

He has also taught annually at the Islamic University of Gaza, now destroyed by Israeli bombing, and helped develop multiple medical education programs there.

Dr. Thomson was suspended from his job in Toronto in October, after calling out a Canadian Israel lobby group for dehumanizing and inaccurate comments regarding Palestinians.

Along with the latest news from the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank, Jon Elmer will take a look at the US military operation to build a pier in Gaza City and how that plan lines up with Israel’s ongoing construction of a highway south of Gaza City that will divide the Strip between north and south.

We’ll have a roundtable discussion with Ali Abunimah, Asa Winstanley, Jon and Nora to talk about other recent developments and stories.

Please join us live on YouTube at this link.

1800 Palestine time / 1600 GMT / 1600 UK / 1700 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT

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