Matt Kennard breaks down Declassified UK's investigations into Britain's military activity towards Gaza amid Israel's ongoing genocide. He also exposes the role of the Israel Lobby in Britain and the colonial reality of Zionism. Matt Kennard is an investigative journalist and co-founder of @DeclassifiedUK. He is the author of three books: Irregular…

Chris Gunness demands the UK immediately restores all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which provides essential aid to Palestinians in Gaza. He also warns that third party states freezing aid to UNRWA at a time when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled it is ‘plausible’ that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza m…

Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Hala Abulebdeh and Ahmed Alnaouq expose the horrific tragedies Israel has inflicted on both their families in Gaza. Speaking exclusively to Palestine Deep Dive, Palestinian Pharmacist and University of Glasgow alum…

Richard Sanders is an award winning film director with over 25 years experience. He was Senior Producer on Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files, and his latest film with Al Jazeera’s Investigation Unit, October 7, has just been released. Al Jazeera says, “the I-Unit reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others who followed them thro…

Nidal Younis is the mayor of Masafer Yatta and head of the Masafer Yatta village council. He has been active in attempts to save his community since the 1990s. Interview recorded February 29 2024. Masafer Yatta is a Palestinian hamlet in the occupied West Bank, which has been fighting for its survival. Israel's occupation forces declared this area …

Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian Author, Academic and Doctor of Medicine, who was forced from her home in Jerusalem in the Nakba of 1948. Hala Hanina is a Women's Rights Activist and PhD Student from Gaza. Support 100% independent media proudly centring Palestinian voices against attempted erasure: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/support Deep Dive…

The Bomb That Killed My Family | Ahmed Alnaouq, Huda Ammori & Andrew Feinstein Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers. Huda Ammori is a British-Palestinian-Iraqi activist, campaigner and co-founder of Palestine Action. Andrew Feinstein is a Jewish ex-African National Congress MP who served under Nel…

Stephen Marks is Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Labour. He is a former county councillor and was previously elected to the Labour Party’s National Constitutional Committee. Jenny Manson is a British Jewish activist, author, former civil servant, former Labour Party councillor for Colindale on Barnet London Borough Council, and co-chair of Jewish…

Dania Abul Haj is a Palestinian lawyer from occupied Jerusalem. She is a Legal Officer for the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians. Tayab Ali is the Director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians. He is also Head of International Law at Bindmans LLP. Support our work proudly amplifying Palestinian voies: https://www.p…

Hosted by investigative journalist and co-founder of @DeclassifiedUK, Matt Kennard. Matt is the author of three books: Irregular Army, The Racket & Silent Coup. Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organiser from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. Hala Hanina is a Palestinian women's rights acti…

Prominent UK Human Rights Lawyer Daniel Machover says: - Genocide Convention MUST BE INVOKED at International Court of Justice - ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has “FAILED IN ONE OF HIS MAIN DUTIES” to create a deterrent for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians - Netanyahu CAN be arrested Daniel Machover is a leading British human rights lawyer who has …

Sir Vincent Fean is a former British diplomat and ambassador with 39 years of experience. He served as Consul-General in Jerusalem (2010-14), Ambassador to Libya (2006-10), and High Commissioner to Malta. An Arabist, he has engaged in senior policy-making, government affairs and negotiation in Whitehall, the Middle East and Western Europe. He is no…

Palestine Deep Dive and Double Down News host an emergency event, Gaza Frontline, hearing from four Palestinians from Gaza on Nov 8th at the Frontline Club, London. The discussion is chaired by investigative journalist Matt Kennard, co-founder of Declassified UK. For a month now, Israel, a nuclear-armed military superpower, has conducted its bigges…

As hostilities entered the thirteenth day, Israel's relentless bombardments on Gaza continued, resulting in an additional 307 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours (as of 17:00), according to the United Nations. This brings the cumulative fatality toll in the Gaza Strip to 3,785, including at least 1,524 children, according to the Ministry of He…

On UN World Mental Health Day, Palestine Deep Dive presents: Palestine’s Mental Health Crisis: Personal and Collective Trauma Under Israeli Occupation Dr Samah Jabr is the Director of the Mental Health Unit of Palestine’s Ministry of Health in the West Bank and is a trained psychiatrist. Her practice goes beyond clinical consultation and training, …

Picking up from where we left off in our June show “Defending the Right to Boycott: Confronting the UK’s Anti-BDS Bill”, (covered here in Al Jazeera) we’ll be learning whether the UK government has indeed been paying attention to British-Palestinians who have been voicing their deep concerns about the moral and legal legitimacy of this Bill, or whe…

This summer marks 17 years of Israel’s hermetic siege and blockade of Gaza, the longest siege of the 21st century. Israel has been placing Palestinians under a suffocating blockade, which constitutes an unprecedented form of collective punishment in a stark violation of international humanitarian law, say Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The 2.2 mill…

We speak exclusively to the “godfather of human rights” Kenneth Roth on how the international community should be responding to the realities on the ground in Palestine and Israel today. Kenneth Roth is an American attorney, human rights activist and writer. He was the executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022. Writing for Deutsche…

Andrew Whitley is founder & executive director of Geo-Political Advisory Services (GPAS) & Chair of the Balfour Project. Andrew has had an expansive career first as a journalist for the BBC & Financial Times, before serving as the New York Director of UNRWA & then as Policy Director & interim Chief Executive of The Elders. UNRWA (the United Nations…

Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air prison, where Palestinians are constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined, UN Special Rapporteur for the oPt Francesca Albanese demonstrates in a new report to the Human Rights Council. While the report finds that since 1967, over 800,000 Palest…

With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visiting China earlier this month to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first Arab President to visit China since the China-Arab States Summit of Riyadh in December 2022, commentators have suggested China may well be placing more importance on Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine as a foreign policy …

The UK government has announced that it will press ahead to pass its long-anticipated ‘Anti-BDS Bill’ which has drawn strong condemnation from campaigners across the UK and beyond. The Economic Activity of Public Bodies bill, if enacted, will prevent public bodies (eg universities and local councils) from divesting from companies and organisations …

Palestine Deep Dive continues its UK event series, opening up space for Palestinians to be heard articulating their own discourse, this time hosting esteemed Palestinian author Dr Ghada Karmi to celebrate the launch of her latest book with Pluto Press, One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel. In April, PDD hosted Mohammed El-Kurd…

Streamed live at 2pm ET | 7pm UK | 9pm Palestine on Wednesday 10th May: Dr Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, internationally-syndicated columnist and Founding-Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. Rana Shubair is a Palestinian author, mother and language trainer from Gaza. She specializes in English language training,…

Mark Seddon speaks to multi award-winning Palestinian photographers Najib Joe Hakim & Ahmad Al-Bazz about frontline photojournalism under apartheid & the power of cultural resistance in the diaspora. Najib Joe Hakim is an award winning Palestinian-American documentary photographer and artist based in San Francisco, CA. He is the recipient of the 20…

Mark Seddon is live with Richard Burden, a former Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield (1992 to 2019). He also chaired the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group (2001 and 2019). He is a Trustee of the Balfour Project and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East. He also served for 10 years scrutinising government as a …

Ambassador Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom speaks to Palestine Deep Dive’s Mark Seddon. The ambassador illuminates the U.K.'s century of broken promises and missed opportunities towards Palestine, including the lack of leadership of the British government for continuing to refuse to recognise the State of Palesti…

Mark Seddon is live with Diana Buttu and Omar Baddar for a Deep Dive illuminating the latest iteration of Israel's evermore extreme right wing government. We'll be exploring the Netanyahu-led government's rhetoric and actions which have already included explicit calls for more land grabs across the West Bank and the expulsion of more Palestinians f…

Mark Seddon speaks with Kenneth Stern: Is Free Speech on Israel Under Attack? Kenneth Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. He is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremi…

Palestine Deep Dive and the Foreign Press Association (New York) are live with the ‘the Godfather of Human Rights’ Kenneth Roth, for a DeepDive into Harvard’s reported decision to block him from taking up a fellowship over his organisation’s criticism of Israel’s human rights record. The Harvard Kennedy School has allegedly bowed to pressure, accor…

Mark Seddon is live with Andrew Whitley, founder & executive director of Geo-Political Advisory Services (GPAS) & Chair of the Balfour Project. Andrew has had an expansive career first as a journalist for the BBC & Financial Times, before serving as the New York Director of UNRWA & then as Policy Director & interim Chief Executive of The Elders. Tu…

This podcast was produced on Monday 28th November. On Wednesday 30th November, Leah Tsemel, Hammouri's lawyer, was informed that Israel intends to deport Salah Hammouri, resident of occupied East Jerusalem, to France on Sunday 4th December. Mark Seddon, former speech writer for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon & Al Jazeera English’s first UN Corres…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Palestine & Israel straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Mark Seddon is live with Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association, New York & Columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'. They discuss Benjamin Netanyahu's lead …

Leaks, Lies & Spies: The Scandal the UK Media REFUSED to Touch. An Exclusive Conversation with the Makers of Al Jazeera's the Labour Files Since the mainstream media won’t do its job, we'll do it for them! Mark Seddon is conversation with makers of Al Jazeera's The Labour Files exclusively for Palestine Deep Dive. Richard Sanders is an award winnin…

We'll be taking a closer look at the challenges of protecting Palestinian heritage sites and antiquities under Israel’s occupation and will be illuminating Israel's attempts to appropriate the past, often in violation of international law according to archaeologists and UN officials, in order to deepen its control over the land. We're live with two…

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). Naomi topped Jeremy Corbyn's list of recommended …

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 23rd June 2021: Currently working together on a new publication, "Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out", t…

We're live for a vital DeepDive focusing on the impact of Israel's latest bombardment of Gaza, as well as the 15 years of siege and destruction it has imposed, on Palestinian children in particular. At least 45 Palestinians have been killed, including 16 children, in Israel's latest aggression on Gaza. Half of Gaza's two million population are chil…

We're live with Francesca Albanese, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt). Mark Seddon hears just what such a role entails at the UN and what powers are granted to it. We also hear the latest on ongoing cases including the search for justice for the incarcerated Ahmad Manasra, the latest on the killi…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 27th June 2021: We're live with for a DeepDive illuminating the situation on the ground in Masafer Yatta, where thousands of Palestinians are facing i…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE June 15th 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza whose personal story was the inspiration behind the creation of We Are Not Numbers, a youth group devoted…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram June 8th 2022: Palestine Deep Dive celebrates the book launch of Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out (Cla…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 16th May 2022: We’re live with Gaza youth one year on since Israel’s devastating aggressions on the besieged enclave which killed over 240 Palestinian…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 11th May 2022: Today we DeepDive into Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists. This morning, veteran Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, …

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 5th May 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Palestinian digital rights defender, Mona Shtaya, for a DeepDive on all things related to the surveillance and …

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 27th April 2022: We're live with distinguished Palestinian politician, activist and physician, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, to hear the latest on what's rea…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 6th April 2022: Aram Abu Saleh is Syrian writer, activist and graduate student from Majdal Shams, occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Aram is currently fin…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 31st March 2022: Mark Seddon is live with Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association – New York City. They DeepDive further into the iss…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 16th March 2022: Mark Seddon is in conversation with distinguished Palestinian journalist and author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, to understand just what it's l…

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram 23rd February 2022: We're live with Budour Hassan, Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), …