Podcast: #FreePalestine (featuring Jennifer Bing & Jehad Abusalim)
#Let’sTalkAboutTheHashtag Episode 5, featuring Jennifer Bing & Jehad Abusalim
By WUSC at Ontario Tech. A monthly series where the WUSC Local Committee at OTU discuss important hashtags and how they relate to WUSC's work!
"In this podcast episode, we talked to activists Jehad Abusalim & Jennifer Bing about the #FreePalestine hashtag, the history/impacts of Israeli occupation in Palestine, their experiences in the country, and what WUSC does to support Palestinians today!"
Contributors
Jehad Abusalim is a scholar, writer, and public speaker completing his PhD in the History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies joint program at New York University. He has worked with AFSC since 2018. He contributed to other anthologies including Gaza as Metaphor (Hurst Publishers, 2016) and Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Haymarket Books, 2020).
Jennifer Bing has worked at AFSC since 1989, serving in various capacities in its programs organizing hundreds of speaking tours, conferences, workshops, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs about Palestine and the Middle East.