I had the profound honour of sitting down with Kieran Andrieu, a journalist with Novara Media and an academic with a background in macroeconomics and politics. Kieran recently returned from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, where his vessel was illegally intercepted and he was detained in an Israeli prison.
Kieran, who is half-Palestinian, shared his deeply personal connection to the struggle for liberation and the immense emotional shift of witnessing a huge increase in mainstream solidarity compared to his childhood.
We discuss:
The Power of Visibility and Solidarity
Confronting Moral Injury
Israeli Ideological Isolation
Defiance Against Political Theatre
Direct Action is Crucial Now
08:55 The profound tectonic shift in public sentiment and discourse around the Palestinian struggle.
14:38 The incredibly emotional experience of watching people across all identities unite to wave the Flotilla off from Barcelona.
26:50 Kieran recounts the surreal moment of kneeling in the port and seeing far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir arrive with an entourage for political theatre.
37:09 The shocking discovery that Israeli functionaries were completely intellectually uncurious and surprisingly ignorant, with one not even knowing what Norway was.
47:11 The harrowing realisation that the prison he was taken to, Ketziot, was the same one where his younger brother was imprisoned and tortured as a boy.
54:33 Discussing the BBC's debasement of its reputation by siding with the Israeli line, such as suggesting a drone attack was a "cigarette fire".
01:03:07 The long-term strategy for Palestinian freedom: focusing on the internal collapse of Israel as a Zionist ethno-supremacist project, accelerated by international pressure.
Kieran Andrieu is a journalist with Novara Media, and an academic by trade, who has recently been on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
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Novara Media Downstream Episode: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military (Kieran's blow-by-blow account of the interception)
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