In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Eid Suleiman, a resident of the village of Umm al Khair in Masafer Yatta in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Andrey X, a journalist and solidarity activist who is an Israeli citizen. They discuss settlers attacks and expansionism, who the so-called Hilltop Youth are, and the fact that the settler apparatus for dispossessing Palestinian people and confiscating their land operates as Israeli state policy. They also discuss Palestinian efforts to sustain their families and communities, the solidarity activists who offer support, and the concrete differences in how Palestinians and non-Palestinian solidarity activists are treated by the Israeli army and Israeli police.

Eid Suleman is a human rights activist, an artist, and member of the Umm al Khair community in the Israeli-occupied southern West Bank.

Andrey X is a journalist and solidarity activist. You can follow him in these places: https://www.instagram.com/the.andrey.x/ or https://x.com/the_andrey_x.

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a Fellow at FMEP.  You can follow Ahmed on Substack at: https://ahmedmoor.substack.com and on X at @AhmedMoor.