Vegans For Palestine Podcast
Podcast Description
Vegans for Palestine Podcast is the first of its kind. It is a podcast by vegan Palestinians about all things both vegan and Palestinian. The Vegans for Palestine Podcast is dedicated to empowering Palestinian veganism and raises the voices of vegans across the Arab world. This podcast will be in English so our English speaking audience can learn about the aspirations and experiences of Palestinian vegans and our allies. The Vegans for Palestine Podcast emerged from a community of the same name. This community is an intersectional, anticolonial, antiracist global vegan movement dedicated to the liberation of human and non-human animals across historical Palestine.
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Content Themes
The podcast concentrates on the intersection of veganism and Palestinian identity, exploring themes such as historical events affecting Palestinian life, ethical consumption, and global vegan activism. Specific episodes, like 'The Great Explosion: Edward Said & The Naksa of 1967' and 'Al Nakba (The Catastrophe)' examine pivotal moments in Palestinian history with a vegan perspective.
Vegans for Palestine Podcast is the first of its kind. It is a podcast by vegan Palestinians about all things both vegan and Palestinian. This podcast is dedicated to empowering Palestinian veganism and raises the voices of vegan supporters of Palestine across the world. Also, this podcast will be in English so our English speaking audience can learn about the aspirations and experiences of Palestinian vegans and our allies. The Vegans for Palestine Podcast emerged from a community of the same name. This community is an intersectional, anticolonial, antiracist global vegan movement dedicated to the liberation of human and non-human animals across historical Palestine.
Find out more about Vegans for Palestine here https://linktr.ee/vegansforpalestine
In this episode, Dalal shares her journey to veganism, deeply rooted in Palestinian culture and her upbringing in a felahi community. Her blog ”Vegan on Budget / Za’atar Queen” emerged from a desire to document her plant-based lifestyle while highlighting Palestinian culinary heritage, especially the cultural and political significance of za’atar. She explains how za’atar is not 'a seasoning' but a symbol of identity, resistance, and heritage for Palestinians. Also, Dalal reflects on growing up with fresh, homegrown vegetables and how veganism for her is a continuation of Felahi traditions. She critiques mainstream veganism's consumerist focus and emphasizes the need for Arabic-language vegan resources, leading her to create the podcast What the Bateekh. Through conversations with Arab vegans, she explored how veganism intersects with anti-colonial struggle, memory, and identity. Olive harvesting, za’atar preparation, and food sharing are presented as acts of cultural resilience and resistance to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation. For Dalal, veganism in Palestine has emerged as a political and cultural expression of survival, memory, and Palestinian liberation.
Captioned version for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people available here.
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The Palestinian artists featured in this episode include:
Dalal Abu Amneh (Palestinian Singer, Producer and Neuroscientist from Nazareth) – Follow Dalal here and check out Dalal's website here.
Mariam Tamari (Palestinian-Japanese Soprano currently living in Paris) – Follow Mariam here. Check out this interview with Mariam here. Also check out Mariam's website here.
The Vegans for Palestine Podcast Team are so proud of Dalal and Mariam's amazing talent.
Free Palestine.
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