Bonus Episode: Sitcom and Reframing Israel-Palestine Beyond Security Discourse

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Harry Potter, Books, Vanessa Zoltan, Hannah Mcgregor, Not Sorry, Tv & Film, Aubrey Gordon, Cultural Cricism, Pop Culture, Marcelle Kosman, Witch Please, Feminism, Fantasy, Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We hit our fundraising goal for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund in October and this is the bonus episode we promised as a thank you for your support. As of today, you, our listening community, have raised $8900 — and our goal was $5000! That’s incredible and we’re so grateful for your resource sharing and messages of solidarity.

This bonus episode is a conversation between Marcelle and Hannah about a paper Marcelle published in 2015 called Comic relief: the ethical intervention of 'Avodah 'Aravit (Arab Labor) in political discourses of Israel–Palestine. The text of the article available for you on our episode page at ohwitchplease.ca. You can read it by heading to our site, or just listen to Marcelle read the abstract in the opening part of the episode. Here is the direct link: https://www.ohwitchplease.ca/all-episodes/materialgirls-sitcomandreframingisraelpalestine

As a heads up, this paper was written in 2014 in response to anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism in North America. That racism wasn’t new in 2014, and it remains powerful and widespread today, amplified by the mainstream media’s dehumanizing portrayals of Palestinians in its coverage of the so-called “Israel-Hamas war.” Marcelle's conversation with Hannah is very much about that racism and that dehumanization; about the discourses that perpetuate dehumanizing stereotypes about Palestinians and Arabs. You may not have the spoons for this conversation right now, and that’s ok! It’ll be here for you when you’re ready, and you’re always welcome to pass the episode along to someone who’s looking for more information about the crisis.

Thanks again for supporting Witch, Please Productions and our collective contribution to the urgently needed financial aid for Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. The link to contribute is here: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/ohwitchplease.

We'll be back next week with an episode about pop culture.

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0:47.0	at the chafe.
0:51.0	Hey folks, Marcel here to welcome you to the bonus episode that we promised upon
0:57.6	hitting our fundraising goal for Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
1:02.6	As of this recording, you, our listening community, have raised $8,600.
1:09.7	And our goal was 5,000. That's amazing! And we are so grateful to you and your generosity and for
1:18.0	your resource sharing and messages of solidarity. This bonus episode is a conversation between me and Hannah about an
1:26.4	article of mine published back in 2015. We have the text of the article
1:31.1	available for you to read if you're interested and in a moment you'll hear me read out the abstract.
1:36.8	We had planned for me to read out the article in its entirety but it actually contains a fair bit of transliterated Arabic and Hebrew, not to mention lengthy dialogue that moves back and forth between Arabic Hebrew and awkwardly translated English. With the exception of the Baruchataz and
1:56.3	the mourner's kaddish, I don't speak Hebrew and I speak even less Arabic. We decided that it would be better to link you directly to the
2:04.7	text of the article rather than inviting you to listen to me struggle through
2:09.1	two ancient and beautiful languages. Before we jump into the episode, I want to give you an important content warning.
2:17.0	I wrote this paper in 2014, in response to anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism here in North America. That racism wasn't new in 2014
2:29.1	and it remains powerful and widespread today, almost 10 years later, amplified by the mainstream media's
2:36.3	dehumanizing portrayals of Palestinians in its coverage of the so-called Israel-Hamas war. My conversation with Hannah is very much about that racism
2:46.4	and that dehumanization. It's about the discourses that perpetuate dehumanizing stereotypes
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