Podcast Episode
The Multifaceted Machinery of Palestinian Dispossession with Sam Avraham Stein
About this episode
On this episode of The Thin Veil, Ezra sits down with Sam Avraham Stein, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist who, over the last five years, has repeatedly traveled to Palestine to do protective presence work in the occupied West Bank. They trace Sam’s ideological journey, from growing up in a right-wing Orthodox Zionist Jewish community in the U.S., to attending university in Tel Aviv, leading Birthright Israel trips, and eventually becoming involved in activism against the Israeli occupation and publicly advocating for anti-Zionism.
Sam describes how this work—and particularly his experience living full-time in rural villages in Masafer Yatta—has shaped his understanding of Palestinian life under occupation, as well as the deep relationships he has developed along the way. He also breaks down the seemingly disparate systems through which Palestinian dispossession and violence are carried out, including Hilltop Youth settlers, the Israeli army, state law, and entrenched settlement cities. Ultimately, he reveals how these forces are not operating independently, but in conjunction as parts of a larger system of Palestinian dispossession, colonization, and ethnic cleansing.PLEASE SUPPORT SAM'S WORK AND FOLLOW HIS JOURNEYhttps://www.patreon.com/cw/Sam_Avraham/
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(00:00) - — Cold Open
(00:47) - — Introduction
(04:31) - — Growing Up Zionist
(08:06) - — The First Cracks
(10:41) - — Hearing a Palestinian Story
(15:22) - — From Liberal Zionism to Activism
(17:43) - — Dehumanization & the Great March of Return
(19:52) - — What Is Protective Presence?
(22:45) - — Living in Um Al-Khair
(24:44) - — Awdah: Friendship & Solidarity
(27:06) - — Awdah’s Killing
(30:18) - — The Machinery of Dispossession
(32:22) - — What Occupation Looks Like on the Ground
(38:25) - — How Dispossession Becomes State Policy
(39:40) - — Areas A, B & C
(43:23) - — When Settlers Become Soldiers
(44:51) - — The Hilltop Youth
(47:07) - — Settlements Aren’t “Moderate”
(50:28) - — How Sam’s Positionality Changed
(52:15) - — The World Gets Bigger When You’re Not Afraid
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