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• Who Gets to Keep Their Name?

  Your name is the one thing they still cannot take.Every empire tried to catalogue us. Israel’s the first to try to delete us. This episode looks at how Palestinian names carry proof when everything else is gone: houses, land, photos, documents. Hiba walks through how language, law, and paperwork are used to erase a people, and why a last name like Al-Nabulsi or Majdalawi says more than any document. She also sits with what it means to name a child after someone who was killed, and why that turns memory into something that breathes.In This Episode: The fundamental difference between Arabic naming (recognition) and colonial naming (possession)How Palestinian geographic names directly contradict the "empty land" mythWhy names like Saffuri and Lyddawi are evidence that Palestinians did not just appear in 1948The weaponization of bureaucratic systems to distort and erase Palestinian namesThe weight carried by children named after martyrs and the impossible choices families makeRemember What They Want ForgottenLearn the original Palestinian names of places, not their made-up Hebrew versionsRecord elders telling your family stories before they're goneResourcesHumanize Gaza: Submit and read stories of those killedB'Tselem: Documentation on Palestinian children denied registrationAdalah: Legal work against residency revocation through paperwork"Your forgetting was never my responsibility." — Hiba"You name your child after a martyr because you're betting that their name carrying that history is worth the weight that it puts on them, that it's better for your kid to carry a name that still hurts than for that name to be forgotten completely." — Hiba

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• Who Gets To Be a Child?

  Childhood is constructed, protected, and in Palestine, deliberately destroyed. This episode traces how Palestinian children are stripped of the word “child” before the bullet lands: through media framing, military law, biometric surveillance, and bureaucratic erasure. From cortisol in the hair to frozen trauma on school grounds, Hiba shows how childhood becomes a criminal and what it means to remember, name, and protect it anyway.Take ActionMedia Accountability• DCIP Media Toolkit: Learn how to identify and challenge headlines that erase Palestinian children and obscure Israeli violence• Visualizing Palestine Language Guide: Tools to call out framing that dehumanizes or criminalizes kidsLegal Defense & Documentation• Defense for Children International – Palestine: Defends detained minors and documents Israeli violations in military courts• Al-Haq: Legal analysis and international advocacy for Palestinian children under occupationMemory & Narrative Protection• BADIL Resource Center: Archives children’s stories, displacement histories, and art—what the occupation tries to delete• Share names, photos, and stories while they’re alive. The state wants memory to start at martyrdom. Don’t let it.Sources ReferencedPalestinian Children's Rights Organizations:• Defense for Children International-Palestine• Addameer Prisoner Support• Al-Haq• BADIL Resource CenterMental Health & Research:• Gaza Mental Health Foundation• UNICEF - Children in Armed Conflict• UN OCHASubscribe to the Humanize Gaza Newsletter.See more martyr stories, here."If you remove the word child, suddenly there's no contradiction between protecting children and shooting them." -Hiba

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• White on Paper, Invisible by Design

  White on Paper, Invisible by DesignAbout This Episode: In this solo episode, Habuba breaks down how bureaucratic erasure becomes physical violence against Palestinians and Arabs in America. From census forms to FBI databases, hospital records to immigration files, she reveals the deliberate system designed to make us vanish—not by accident, but by architecture.In This Episode: Habuba takes you through:Why that "White" checkbox on forms is about more than paperwork—it's about who lives and who diesThe century-long legal manipulation of Arab "whiteness," shifting whenever it served American interestsHow the FBI deliberately erased anti-Arab hate crimes from official records for 23 years while violence skyrocketedWhy Palestinian Americans like Shireen Abu Akleh and Wadea al-Fayoume receive no justice, even in deathThe direct connection between campus surveillance from the 1970s to today's repression of Palestinian studentsHow being classified as "white" leads Arab women to die in childbirth and communities to miss critical health resourcesThe brutal truth about conditional solidarity and which communities benefit from Palestinian erasureWhat actual implementation of the MENA category must look like beyond symbolic recognitionTake Action:Check if your local agencies have implemented the 2024 OMB MENA classification changeAsk your city's police department if they code and track anti-Arab hate crimesSupport organizations like ACCESS, Arab American Institute, and ADC who are fighting for accurate dataDemand your representatives advocate for investigations into Palestinian American deaths abroadResources:Office of Management and Budget 2024 MENA Classification StandardsArab American Institute Foundation Report: Underreported, Under ThreatACCESS Health Justice ProgramPalestine Legal's Resources for Students and FacultySubscribe to the Humanize Gaza Newsletter.See more martyr stories, here. "They didn't make us white to make us safe. They made us white to make us quiet." – Habuba"

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• God Is A “Man”: How Judaism Became a Weapon

  In this episode, Habuba examines how religion in Israel isn’t just about belief—it’s infrastructure. From military operations named after biblical events to laws that erase Arabic place names, this is a system where theology becomes policy. Palestinian existence is framed not as a people with rights, but as a theological violation in need of correction. Genocide becomes sacred. Reproduction becomes nationalized. Language, geography, and bodies are regulated through a framework that transforms elimination into divine mandate.This isn’t religion gone wrong. This is how it was designed to work when fused with state power.Support: humanizegaza.orgSubscribe to the newsletter.

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• The Laboratory: How to Disappear a People through Science

  This episode examines the use of Palestinian bodies—living and dead—as test subjects in a wide range of Israeli military, pharmaceutical, and psychological experiments. From psychotropic drug testing in prisons to the deliberate flooding of Gaza with synthetic opioids, we investigate how addiction, trauma, and medical deprivation have been engineered as tools of control.We analyze the systemic withholding of medical care, the destruction of hospitals, the role of pharmaceutical firms, and the Israeli research infrastructure that turns human suffering into data. This isn’t neglect. It’s methodology. And the results are being exported.Palestine is not just a site of occupation—it is a laboratory. And the refusal to be a clean result is itself a form of resistance.

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