150 Years of Palestinian Dispossession with Zachary Foster

In this episode, historian Zachary Foster joins us to discuss the Zionist colonial project aimed at driving out indigenous Palestinians, starting with the infiltration of Palestine in the late 1800s.

Tracing how Palestinians have been pushed out, occupied, terrorized, and denied the right to return, we examine the late Ottoman period; the 1917 Balfour Declaration and British colonial rule; the Nakba of 1948; the expulsions and occupation following the 1967 war; the resistance of the First Intifada and the reality of Oslo; and the genocide in Gaza.

If you want to dismantle the Zionist myths that continue to prop up Israel today and get a deeper understanding of the origins of Palestinian ethnic cleansing, this episode is an important starting point.

For background reading, check out Zach's research on Palestine Nexus:

• ⁠Was there conflict between Jews and Palestinians before Zionism?⁠

• Origins of Ethnic Cleansing 1880-1914

• Origins of Ethnic Cleansing 1920-1947

• Ethnic Cleansing 1949-1965

• Ethnic Cleansing 1967

• Ethnic Cleansing 1968-1993

• ⁠The 8 Tiers of Israeli Apartheid⁠