Owen Jones Goes To Palestine
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
I went to the West Bank, occupied Palestine.
I found a people who are suffering a hideous injustice - but who have resilience and determination.
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| 0:32.3 | So, I'm in Palestine. Probably wondering how I got in. |
| 0:35.2 | So of the Israeli authorities, as it turns out. They've revoked my visa and had a bit hassle coming in. I'll tell you about that later. In the meantime, |
| 0:42.7 | I'm here with this incredible Palestinian-Christian organisation called Sabil. And what they're doing |
| 0:47.4 | is taking an incredible group of people, a delegation around the West Bank, occupied West Bank, |
| 0:53.4 | obviously illegally occupied West Bank, occupied West Bank, obviously illegally occupied West Bank, |
| 0:56.0 | occupied by the Israeli state and Jerusalem. |
| 0:59.4 | And we're here to learn about the experiences of Palestinians who suffer apartheid, |
| 1:04.7 | their brothers and sisters, of course, suffering genocide, as far away from here as Milton Keynes is from London. |
| 1:13.9 | And what we're doing is learning about the historic injustices, obviously the NACPA, which as we're told, never ended in 1948, |
| 1:19.4 | the displacement, the mass discrimination, you know, just the utter horror and injustice |
| 1:25.5 | that Palestine's put up with every day. So I'm going to start by talking to the wonderful Omar from Sebel about where we are right now. |
| 1:32.3 | This village is called Lifta Village. |
| 1:34.3 | One among many Palestinian villages, over 531 villages that have been depopulated in 1948. |
| 1:41.3 | The indigenous people, the Palestinian people, our people, were forced by gunpoint |
| 1:48.0 | or for fear for their lives. They were driven out to either other countries or just less |
| 1:55.4 | than few miles away from here. |
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