Tag Archives: #Palestine

April 26th, 2024: Israel & the Guatemalan Genocide

With growing support on college campuses for Palestine as the Israeli military assault on Gaza continues, the LMC spends the hour with Mark Lewis Taylor, Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, to discuss the history of Israeli involvement in the Mayan Genocide in Guatemala and why it should serve as a crucial frame of reference today.

February 8th, 2019: The Palestinian Diaspora In Latin America

The Palestinian diaspora in Latin America goes back to the late 1800’s at the beginning of the end of the Ottoman empire. Predating the modern-day Palestine/Israel conflict, predating the Nakba, predating WW I & II. Cecilia Baeza, a lecturer at the institute of political science in Paris, speaks with the LMC about the complicated & complex history of the half-million people of Palestinian descent throughout Latin America, one of the largest outside the Arab world.