Welcome to another episode of the Willoughby Hills podcast!
On today’s episode, I speak with writer and poet Amanda Gelender, an American Jewish woman currently based in the Netherlands.
Amanda was raised in a progressive Jewish community, yet she was still only taught some of the truth about Israel and Palestine. It wasn’t until college that Amanda began to deconstruct what she had been taught and question her Zionist education.
Amanda became active in the Palestinian liberation movement in 2006 and is active on Twitter/X and Instagram.
I hope this conversation will help you begin to question some of the narratives spread by the media and religious groups and that it can lead to your own path of deconstruction.
For more learning and information from today’s conversation, Amanda provided these additional links:
Abdaljawad Omar's talk entitled, "Germany, Zionism, and the Politics of Debt"
Susan Abulhawa’s piece on the number of people killed in Gaza
Lancet report on killed in Gaza
Israeli tree-planting as colonization in occupied Palestine
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128. Writer Amanda Gelender Deconstructs Zionism