Episode Description
Germany holds the largest Palestinian population anywhere in Europe, yet Palestinians are officially recorded by the state as "stateless" or "undetermined." In a country deeply defensive of its own historical memory culture, the Palestinian diaspora is cast as a nuisance, and blamed for importing antisemitism.
In the inaugural episode of the HEIST Podcast, Peter Matthews and Ben Schuman-Stoler sit down with journalist Hebh Jamal to discuss her reporting on what it feels like to live as a Palestinian in Berlin. She details the dystopian reality of building infrastructure in a city that would rather pretend you don't exist.
Read Jamal’s feature for HEIST, “Parallel Lives: How It Feels to Be Palestinian in Berlin.”
This episode is part of the three-episode drop that properly kicks off the HEIST podcast. Check out our podcast feed for the other two conversations: with Yossi Bartal about a faked assassination on the U-Bahn and Ben Miller about the AfD’s abuse of queer politics.
Links & Resources:
- Read Hebh Jamal's full feature article at HEIST.
- Follow her on Instagram
- See her other reporting here
- Keep up with HEIST on Instagram: @heistberlin_.
- Support worker-owned Berlin journalism and subscribe to HEIST.
Music and sound by Patrick Nininger.