Today, we turn our attention not to headlines, but to the human question of neighborliness. Too often, Palestinians are spoken of as if they are unworthy reduced to caricatures, painted as “bad neighbors,” or dismissed as a threat. Cities like Dearborn, Michigan, with its vibrant Arab and Palestinian community, are stigmatized as places of hostility rather than celebrated as centers of resilience and care.

But what does it truly mean to have a Palestinian as a neighbor? Would they throw trash at your door, scratch your car, or break your windows? Or would they do what Palestinians have done for centuries—offer hospitality, share food, and treat the neighbor, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, with dignity?

To challenge the myths, we bring you a clip titled “Jewish Rabbi Gives an Islamic History Lesson.” In it, Rabbi Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta reminds us of a deeper truth: that Jewish and Muslim communities lived side by side for generations, often in peace, often in solidarity. He recalls how Jews found refuge in Muslim lands after being expelled from Europe, and how coexistence—not suspicion—defined centuries of shared history.

So today, we ask not whether Palestinians can be good neighbors, but why the world has been taught to believe otherwise. And we listen to voices—like Rabbi Weiss—that remind us of the dignity, hospitality, and humanity that Palestinians have always carried with them.

Stay with us.
This is This Week in Palestine.
And this is where the silence ends.

Sixty Flags Over Gaza: The Global Complicity in Genocide

Today, we begin with a question that refuses to die:
Why has the world ganged up on Palestine?
Why have more than sixty countries—powerful, wealthy, and self-proclaimed defenders of human rights—lined up behind Israel as it wages a campaign of annihilation against a besieged, stateless people?

This is not just war.
This is genocide.

And it is not being committed in isolation.
It is being funded, armed, and politically shielded by a global coalition of complicity.

According to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s report, over 60 member states have contributed to Israel’s assault on Gaza—through weapons, surveillance tech, military aid, and diplomatic cover. These include the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, and Australia. But also Arab states like Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE, who enforce the blockade, normalize relations, and offer logistical support.

Together, they have enabled the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, water systems, and entire families.
Together, they have tried to erase Gaza from the map.
And together, they have failed.

Because the people remain.
Holding on to every grain of sand.
Holding on to the name: Palestine.

We demand answers.
Why does the world help Zionists steal the land from its rightful inhabitants?
Why do they reward apartheid with trade deals, arms contracts, and diplomatic immunity?
Why do they silence the truth, criminalize solidarity, and punish resistance?

This is not just about Palestine.
It’s about the moral collapse of the international order.
It’s about the Genocide Convention being shredded in real time.
It’s about the cost of silence—and the price of complicity.

So today, we name the countries.
We trace the weapons.
We follow the money.
And we ask the question that history will not forgive us for ignoring:

Why did the world choose genocide over justice?

Stay with us.
This is This Week in Palestine.
And this is where the silence ends.

Before we begin today’s episode of This Week in Palestine, we must pause to mark a political moment that reverberates far beyond city limits. Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City—a victory that defies precedent, expectation, and the machinery of power itself.

He didn’t just win an election.
He dismantled a narrative.

Mamdani defeated billionaires, lobbyists, and even the sitting president’s preferred candidate. He did so not by softening his stance, but by sharpening it. He refused to be silent on Palestine. He refused to visit Israel. He refused to play the game of appeasement. And for that, he was smeared, accused, and targeted. But the people of New York chose principle over propaganda. They chose clarity over compromise.

His victory is more than symbolic. It signals a shift in American political discourse—a shift that centers justice, affordability, and international accountability. It tells us that being pro-Palestine is no longer political suicide. It is political courage.

And that courage brings us to the heart of today’s episode.

We turn now to a clip titled “Professor Exposes Secret Origins of the Israel Project,” featuring Dr. Yakov M. Rabkin—a historian whose work challenges the very foundation of Zionism. Rabkin, professor emeritus at the University of Montreal, argues that Zionism was not born in the Holy Land, but imported from Europe as a colonial ideology.

He writes that Zionism is “a radical break from Jewish tradition,” rooted not in theology but in 19th-century European nationalism.
He reveals how early Zionists formed alliances with antisemites—not out of shared values, but shared goals: to remove Jews from Europe.
And he documents how traditional Jewish communities overwhelmingly rejected Zionism, seeing it as a betrayal of spiritual identity and ethical responsibility.

Rabkin’s critique is not anti-Jewish. It is deeply Jewish.
It is rooted in exile, humility, and the belief that justice cannot be built on dispossession.

So as we reflect on Mamdani’s win—a mayor who centers Palestine in his politics—we also reflect on the deeper history that brought us here.
A history of ideas imported from Europe.
A history of resistance erased.
A history that demands to be retold.