Dana AlKurd (Dana Al-Kurd) — episode contributor on Palestine

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Behind the Bastards · It Could Happen Here Weekly 240 · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And that matters.

Not because a football tournament, a soccer tournament is going to solve anything.

It doesn't.

Palestinian families don't get their homes back because people flew a flag in a stadium.

But movements build over time and through moments of visibility, through the accumulation of pressure, and through the refusal to let the issue disappear into a manufactured consensus that was never real to begin with.

And today, in 2026, this is not specific to Arab publics.

Even Western publics have seen their governments ignore genocide, have seen their rights recede as their government's ally to protect genocide in a variety of ways.

Now, I'll end with something a little more personal.

When I watched those World Cup crowds back in 2022, when I saw all these different Arabs, Moroccans and Tunisians and Saudis, people from countries that have varying and complicated relationships with this issue, all waving the Palestinian flag,

I felt a kind of hope.

And it's not naive.

It's not the hope that this will be resolved soon or easily, but the hope that says Palestinians are not alone and the cause is not forgotten.

And the silence that has been imposed on this question, attempted silence top down for so long, is not the consent it pretends to be.

Governments can sign accords, but they can't erase what people know, and they cannot sign away what people feel when they watch a team lose and a flag goes up in a stadium and thousands of people start chanting.

Palestine keeps showing up, uninvited, at every table that tries to exclude it.

And I think it will keep doing that.

Thank you so much for listening to It Could Happen Here.

I'm Dana Alkert.

And their friends are welcome here.

We're immigrants.

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