In this episode, I’m joined by Aline Batarseh, Executive Director of Visualizing Palestine, to reflect on the past year of genocide and resistance in Palestine and beyond. We discuss the current state of the global Palestine solidarity movement, the importance of the information front in the fight against Israel's occupation and apartheid regime, and the crucial work that Visualizing Palestine is doing to combat propaganda and shed light on the truth about what’s really happening in Palestine.

Return to Bandung is hosted by Pranay Somayajula, an Indian-American writer, researcher, and organizer based in Washington, D.C. His work explores themes of diaspora, (inter)nationalism, anticolonial politics, and the many lives and afterlives of empire. You learn more about Pranay and read his writing on his website, as well as on his Substack blog, culture shock.

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Sources and helpful links:

• Aline Batarseh — Major media and the systemic silencing of Palestinians (Mondoweiss, March 2023)
• Visualizing Palestine — A System of Silencing (February 2023)
• Visualizing Palestine — Automating Genocide: Israel's Use of AI-Driven Warfare (February 2024)
• Visualizing Palestine — Stop Killer AI (May 2024)
• No Tech for Apartheid campaign
• Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2024)
• Visualizing Palestine and Law for Palestine — Intent Portal (October 2024)
• Basil Farraj — In memory of Walid Daqqah (People’s Dispatch, April 2024)

Social links:

Return to Bandung:

• Twitter: twitter.com/returntobandung
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/returntobandung/

Pranay Somayajula:

• Twitter: https://x.com/p_somayajula
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pranay.somayajula/
• Website: https://www.pranaysomayajula.com/
• Substack: https://www.culture-shock.xyz/

Visualizing Palestine:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/visualizingpal
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visualizing_palestine/
• Website: https://visualizingpalestine.org/