Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi & Mark Seddon on Labour, Palestinian rights & surviving the party's ruling National Executive Committee

Mark Seddon is live with Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, co-founder of Jewish Voice for Labour and newly elected member of the UK Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC).

Gaza is one to one million children – We DeepDive into today’s child mental health crisis there, hearing the impact of Israel’s latest attacks which killed 17 children, and illuminate the unbearable environment caused by Israel’s 15-year blockade.

Read the full show transcript with: Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei – Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, Hind Wihaidi – A 17-year-old Palestinian musician and writer living in Gaza. & Rana Shubair – Palestinian author and mother of three children.

In an interview with Palestine Deep Dive (PDD), distinguished Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud discusses the killing of the iconic Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh.

“In fact, many people are using the term assassination. I would use the same term as well.”

Speaking live on Wednesday 27th April 2022, Dr Barghouti illuminates Israel’s recent attacks on Al-Aqsa during Ramadan, from where he recently reported, and Israel’s broader violations against Palestinians’ right to worship. He also reveals how he was blocked from entering the Jerusalem last week.

“Budour, I wonder from where you are sitting, you see what's happening in eastern Ukraine and you have seen, you've been living with this occupation, but specifically with Golan Heights, which was an invasion, or occupation of territory that belongs to Syria and yet nobody's talking about sanctions against Israel, nobody ever has for doing that. Why is this? Why this inconsistency?” asks Mark Seddon.

In this week’s show, Mark Seddon speaks with Deep Dive regular, Budour Hassan, a Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), for the latest news on what's really happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah.

Examining the recent attempts to displace the Salem family of 12, including six children, from their family home of 70 years in Sheikh Jarrah Budour exposes the wider systematic regime of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians Israel wields to facilitate its demographic ambitions across Jerusalem and beyond.