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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Rana Zaman struggles for universal human rights and peace globally. Why is she being attacked?
Description: In the wake of October 7, two political modalities have emerged: one is an imperialist one that seeks to forcefully normalize the retaliatory genocidal violence Israel has inflicted on Palestine, the other is an anticolonial one that refuses the racial domination of people rendered disposable by the imperial machine. A primary effect of the so-called "Palestine exception" -- where one can protest, petition and pressure government to stand up to monstrous violations of human rights, so long as they do not try to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against humanity -- is that people like Rana, who speak the...