Weekend Listen: Critical Perspectives on the Two-State Solution

This weekend, we're highlighting two essential podcasts from Good Shepherd Collective members that are vital resources for deepening anti-Zionist and decolonial praxis. As we continue to find ways to intervene in the ongoing violence and dispossession, education remains one of our most powerful tools for resistance and solidarity.

Featured Episodes

1. Palestinian Authority: Corruption, Collusion, Complicity

REBEL Recap | Listen on Spotify

Bana Abu Zuluf delivers a devastating analysis of how the Palestinian Authority has become an enforcement mechanism for Zionist settler colonialism in the West Bank. Since the Oslo Accords, what was marketed as a pathway to Palestinian sovereignty has instead facilitated settlement expansion while the PA provides security coordination that protects the occupier. This episode exposes how this liberal framework has normalized the colonization of historical Palestine by creating a subcontractor relationship where Palestinian leaders police their own people on behalf of the zionist movement, all while settlements continue to fragment and devour Palestinian land.

2. The Two State Solution or the Two State Illusion?

Fredshetsarna with Ameed Faleh | Listen on Spotify

Ameed Faleh dismantles the mythology of the two-state solution, revealing it as a diplomatic facade that has accelerated rather than halted the colonization of Palestine. Drawing from on-the-ground realities in the West Bank, Faleh explains how Oslo's promise of eventual statehood has provided international cover for Israel's systematic theft of Palestinian land while creating the illusion of a "peace process." He interrogates whose interests are truly served by maintaining this fiction—especially after genocide—and exposes how the two-state framework has transformed from a supposed solution into a tool for normalizing permanent occupation and ethnic cleansing.

Why This Matters

These conversations aren't just academic—they're urgent interventions in understanding the colonial dynamics that perpetuate Palestinian oppression. Anti-Zionist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist organizing starts with education. Here are two ways to stay engaged this weekend.