To help us unpick the relationship between Western foreign policy and media our guest this week is Hamza Yusuf is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist whose work focuses on Palestine. He has reported on daily life under occupation for Palestinians, including home demolitions and forced expulsion and the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. He is an investigative journalist at Declassified amongst other publications.

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Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

2:00 – Feelings?

2:45 – How did you start?

10:00 – Challenges faced

13:55 – The Team

17:50 – How Gaza changed everything

22:10 – Non-Muslim guests?

26:10 – How do you choose guests

29:56 – Pushing back

33:21 – UK elections and Gaza

38:08 – The election strategy

40:12 – Attacks from media

4215 – How invested are you in this system?

46:16 – University scene

49:20 – US elections

51:25 – Why visit the US

53:22 – US Muslims are different

58:16 – Anti- Harris campaign

1:00:07 – Young Muslims

1:01:34 – US empire?

1:03:40 – The left and right

1:10:13 – Islamic alternative

1:14:50 – Unity of Muslims

1:16:40 – Post-Gaza

1:18:40 – Guest selection

1:21:18 – Infantilising young Muslims

1:25:47 Book recommendation

1:28:59 – Dr Aafia Siqqiqui.

1:31:28 – Future of TM

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