Red Star Over Palestine: Oslo and After
The final episode in our series about the Palestinian left.
June 14, 2025
54 min
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June 14, 2025
Red Star Over Palestine: Oslo and After
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Summary
<p>For many years, Palestine had one of the strongest left-wing movements in the Arab world, represented by prominent figures such as Emile Habibi, Leila Khaled, and Ghassan Kanafani. At the beginning of the First Intifada in the 1980s, Palestinian left groups were still the main challengers to the hegemony of Fatah, although the Left has lost much of its influence in the period since then.</p>
<p><em>Red Star Over Palestine: Histories of the Palestinian Left</em> is a six-part series from <em>Long Reads</em> exploring radical movements and progressive organizations of the region. We examine the experience of Palestinian communism and the left-wing currents inside the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization. We also look at the outsized impact of the Left on Palestinian cultural life.</p>
<p>Our final episode examines how the Left responded to the framework of the Oslo Accords, as Hamas became the main force articulating opposition.</p>
<p><em>Red Star Over Palestine</em> is hosted by Daniel Finn and produced by Conor Gillies. Music provided by Fadi Tabbal.</p>
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