Hello, you are listening to Red Menace. My name is Allison and I am here with my co-host

Brett. This month we are doing an episode that is a little bit different. Normally we alternate

back and forth between kind of doing a theoretical overview of the text and doing current events. But

for this month we decided that we were going to do something that combines a little bit of both

of those. So for today's episode we want to talk about the crisis in Palestine that we've seen

very acutely over the last month. What's going on there and kind of go back and forth on that a

little bit before giving some analysis on why we think settler colonialism is a useful lens for

understanding this crisis, what settler colonialism is, how it relates to countries like Israel but also

countries like the United States where we're recording this right now. And then also thinking about

how imperialism ties into all this before finally wrapping up with the discussion of how some of the

authors that we've read who are critics of colonialism and imperialism can help us understand sort

of what we're seeing playing out right now. So things are a little bit different today but we hope that

this will be a useful interjection into sort of the discussions that are going on here. When we

proposed this idea the current ceasefire had not yet been reached but obviously when you are listening

to this episode and we're recording it that has been and despite that I think it's really important

for us to continue to talk about this issue because that ceasefire does not mean the end of the

violence against Palestinian people and we need to continue to be vigilant about standing in solidarity.

So hopefully this episode can provide you with some of the tools that you need to think about this

issue in a complex way that doesn't morally equivocate but that stands in solidarity would

call a nice people around the world including in Palestine. Yeah absolutely well said and I

actually am really excited about this episode in the structure of it kind of combining a

current events with a theory episode and looking back over our catalog so far and you know I'm

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