B-SIDE: Two State Dilution - why Palestine needs your voice
5/22/202640 min
Welcome to our first ever B-SIDE, a bonus for our fans when the midweek and Sunday episodes simply aren't enough :-) This week, Naomi, Alex and Kenny are talking with Lib Dem MP Layla Moran – the first MP of Palestinian descent, the first pansexual MP and a new-ish mum as well. The Palestinian crisis is personal for Layla, and she's the perfect guest to help us get under the skin of what's actually going on in Gaza and the West Bank right now. Settlements, two-state solution shenanigans and the need for Britain to properly acknowledge its historical role in the crisis ... all are touched upon, as is Layla's personal journey when it comes to campaigning for a just and peaceful end to all of this. SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD • The Philadelphia (green) story – Grin And Share It! • Find out more about Standing Together, working to build a majority within Israeli society that supports peace, equality and justice • What is Israel's E1 settlement? • Urge your MP to ban trade with illegal settlements • Watch Palestine 36 on Apple or Amazon • Get Policy of Deceit from our bookshop • Get A Line In The Sand from our bookshop • We have put together a brand new BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there. • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com. • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAlex Andreou· Host0:00
Listeners, we have a small but exciting format change to tell you about. We kept noticing the same problem. We'd get into a genuinely brilliant conversation with a guest and then face an impossible edit cutting out quality content that, in all honesty, would be an upgrade to most other politics podcasts [laughs] just to squeeze everything into one non-intimidating one-hour episode.
Naomi Smith· Host0:25
And we know from your feedback at our editorial meetings that the deep dive topics are exactly what you want more of, not less. So we've just decided to stop fighting it. We're giving in to you. And from now on, when we have a guest, we're gonna split the show in two, so your newsy section will land on Thursday as usual, and then the full uncut deep dive will follow on Friday morning.
Alex Andreou· Host0:47
Same week, same guests, nothing left on the cutting room floor. You get two commute episodes and, of course, Sunday School. We hope you enjoy getting even more Quiet Riot for your buck, and we reserve the right to play around with the days and duration of the shows as they go out to get it bang on. But we'll give you a fair warning of any other changes.
Naomi Smith· Host1:08
So this week we're talking about that HS2 report and the seeming failure of modern British governments to effectively project manage any infrastructure build-out. And then tomorrow we're gonna be covering all the latest from Palestine, including a look back to the Balfour Declaration, the two-state solution,