UNAPOLOGETIC with Ashfaaq Carim
Episodes
Episode 71 - Israel’s drawing us into an all-out war, and nobody is stopping them | Neil Quilliam | UNAPOLOGETIC
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Quilliam, who is a political analyst at Chatham House, joined the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss how Israel is plunging the USA, the GCC and Ira...
Episode 70 - Iran is playing chess, Trump doesn't know where the board is | David Hearst | UNAPOLOGETIC
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Hearst, editor in chief of Middle East Eye, appeared on the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss how Donald Trump may be losing control of the war he...
Episode 69 - Iran will ‘fight to the death’ and the USA does not get that | Foad Izadi | UNAPOLOGETIC
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Foad Izadi is a professor of communication at Tehran University. He has been making the rounds across broadcasters recently where he generally conveys...
Episode 68 - How long will the war on Iran last and who will win it | Trita Parsi | UNAPOLOGETIC
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute about how long the US-Israel war on Iran will ...
Episode 67 - Israel, The US, the Ayatallohs and the Pahlavis are all bad for Iran | Hoda Katebi | UNAPOLOGETIC
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to writer and activist Hoda Katebi about the war involving Iran, the United States and Israel, and the compl...
Episode 66: Will Iran’s ‘reckless’ response bring about its own downfall? | ANDREAS KRIEG | UNAPOLOGETIC
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gulf security expert Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at King’s College London, joined the UNAPOLOGETIC podcast to discuss Iran’s response to the ...
Episode 65: Trump’s Iran games. The state of US empire. China's rise | Tariq Ali | UNAPOLOGETIC
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to writer, historian, and lifelong anti-imperialist Tariq Ali about the state of the US empire in an increas...
Episode 64 - Retired UK major general on Israel, duplicity and past wars | Charlie Herbert | UNAPOLOGETIC
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, retired UK major general Charlie Herbert reflects on 34 years of military service, including Iraq and Afghanistan, an...
What does the Saudi-Emirati cold war mean for Israel, Trump and Iran? | Andreas Krieg |
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Krieg - a leading Gulf security expert - joined the UNAPOLOGETIC episode once again. This time, Andreas tried to unpack for us just how impact...
Episode 62 - Inside Israel’s detention of the Gaza flotilla activists | Thiago Avila | UNAPOLOGETIC
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brazilian activist and one of the organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla Thiago Avila joins UNAPOLOGETIC.He recounts his detention by Israeli forces ...
Episode 61 - The story of Omar Suleiman and why his faith compels him to speak out | UNAPOLOGETIC
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with UNAPOLOGETIC, Imam Omar Suleiman reflects on two decades of global politics, the Palestinian struggle, Islamophobia in Ameri...
Ottoman exiles, a billionaire and the plot for an Indian caliphate | Imran Mulla | UNAPOLOGETIC
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with journalist and historian Imran Mulla about his gripping new book The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans ...
Episode 59 - Israel commits genocide while demanding its neighbours demilitarise | Jeremy Scahill | UNAPOLOGETIC
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this UNAPOLOGETIC episode from the Doha Forum, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examines how Israel has carried out a campaign that many exp...
Episode 58 - For how long will Syria be able to allow Israel to continue bombing it? | Omar Ashour | UNAPOLOGETIC
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the Doha Forum, this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC is in conversation with political scientist Dr. Omar Ashour examines the shifting landscape o...
Episode 57 - The story of the Muslim Brotherhood and why they can’t be banned | Anas Altikriti | UNAPOLOGETIC
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, political strategist and CEO and founder of the Cordoba Foundation, Anas Altikriti speaks to us about the history of ...
Episode 56 - Why South Africa is taking on Trump and Israel | Ebrahim Rasool | UNAPOLOGETIC
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool sits down with Ashfaaq Carim for an unflinching conversation on power, punishment,...
Episode 55 - Not just Sudan - How the UAE have wrecked Libya, Yemen and Egypt | Andreas Krieg | UNAPOLOGETIC
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak to Dr Andreas Krieg — a leading Gulf security expert — about how the UAE has pursued an aggressive state...
Episode 54 - I got detained by ICE and learnt that America is turning against Israel | Sami Hamdi | UNAPOLOGETIC
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi was detained by ICE for 18 days. He recounts here on UNAPOLOGETIC how he was arrested after being inform...
Episode 53 - Being Jewish in a time of Israel - resist or be usurped | David Adler | UNAPOLOGETIC
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Adler - a Jewish American writer, activist, and organiser - joins UNAPOLOGETIC where he reflects on what it means to be Jewish in the age of Isr...
Episode 52 - What does Zohran Mamdani's victory mean for the USA | Dr. Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unapologetic’s host Ashfaaq Carim speaks to Dr Roy Casagranda about what Zohran Mamdani's election victory means for the USA and it's political futu...
Episode 51 - Will Trump's ceasefire deal survive Netanyahu's scheming? |Gershon Baskin | UNAPOLOGETIC
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, peace negotiator Gershon Baskin takes us inside the Trump-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — from backch...
Episode 50 - How to stop a right-wing takeover of the UK | Zack Polanski | UNAPOLOGETIC
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Green Party leader Zack Polanski joins UNAPOLOGETIC to talk about his plans to stop the right wing’s rise in the UK. Just weeks after being elected ...
Episode 49 - October 7th, Two years on : “Genocide is the means, not the ends” | Norman Finkelstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition of UNAPOLOGETIC that marks two years since the October 7 Hamas-led att...
Episode 48 - Three decades on the frontlines of battling abusive governments | Kenneth Roth | UNAPOLOGETIC
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, joins UNAPOLOGETIC to discuss his new book Righting Wrongs. Part memoir, part strategy ...
Episode 47 - Netanyahu’s gamble: Build greater Israel or make it a doomed pariah | David Hearst | UNAPOLOGETIC
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“An Israel for all its citizens has disappeared, it has literally been extinguished, and it's a myth that Israel is a nice friendly state”David He...
Episode 46 - Israel’s bombing of Qatar explained | Muhammad Shehada | UNAPOLOGETIC
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palestinian writer and analyst, Muhammad Shehada joins UNAPOLOGETIC in this special episode to explain how Israel's bombing of senior Hamas leaders in...
Episode 45 - How Al Jazeera covers Gaza even when Israel kills their reporters | Salah Negm | UNAPOLOGETIC
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You have to think about people who are sitting in war rooms and plan the next bombing on civilians populations who are actually in tents in one place...
Episode 44 - Siege to Genocide: Gaza’s history from 2005–2025 | Muhammad Shahada | UNAPOLOGETIC
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Muhammad Shahada grew up in Gaza during two decades of blockade and repeated wars. His father died after being denied medical treatment outside the St...
Episode 43 - The lies and culture that made Israeli society support genocide | Orly Noy (B'Tselem) | UNAPOLOGETIC
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Orly Noy is the chairperson of B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation that has been documenting Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians ...
Episode 42 - Political Islam’s 120-year story - from anti-colonial struggle to now | John Esposito | UNAPOLOGETIC
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC Professor John Esposito — one of the world’s foremost scholars on political Islam — unpacks 120 years of modern ...
Episode 41 - The Shah, the Ayatollahs and 74 years of American bullshit in Iran | Hamid Dabashi | UNAPOLOGETIC
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Every inch of that precious city is Rome and Paris and New York put together, and these barbaric savages go, ‘Oh Isfahan, we just bombed Isfahan’...
Episode 40 - Iran, Israel, USA and World War 3 | Chris Hedges | UNAPOLOGETIC |
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us on UNAPOLOGETIC for a conversation on what the consequences could be if Israel draws the USA i...
Episode 39 - “This nightmare” was created due to Europe’s antisemitism | Ghada Karmi | UNAPOLOGETIC
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s left me with a deep and simmering anger against the western powers who imposed this nightmare on us.”Palestinian physician, author and Nak...
Episode 38 - What I’ve learnt by organising 20 months of anti-genocide protests| Ben Jamal | UNAPOLOGETIC
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, joins UNAPOLOGETIC for a wide-ranging conversation about who has been complicit for the geno...
Episode 37 - Why the Crusades occurred and what is their legacy | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What were the Crusades really about - and why do they still matter today?In this deep-dive episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, historian and political scientist ...
Episode 36 - Is China ready to lead the world? | Victor Goa | UNAPOLOGETIC
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Chinese political analyst Victor Gao joins UNAPOLOGETIC for a wide-ranging and often conflictual discussion about Chi...
Episode 35 - The West Is collapsing under its own lies | Yanis Varoufakis | UNAPOLOGETIC
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“A mixture of stupidity and nastiness… The liberal establishment is primarily responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians.” In this episod...
Episode 34: Unpacking Sudan’s civil war and genocide case against the UAE | Sudan’s ambassador | UNAPOLOGETIC
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Sudan’s ambassador to the UK, Babiker al-Siddig Mohamed al-Amin, about the Sudanese government's case...
Episode 33 - The Holocaust survivor who leads pro-Palestine protests | Stephen Kapos | UNAPOLOGETIC
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Kapos survived the Holocaust as a child in Nazi-occupied Hungary. In this candid interview, he recalls his time in a Jewish refugee home—hid...
Episode 32 - What the slave trade can teach us about Trump and US decline | Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, historian Rudolph “Butch” Ware joins us for a conversation about the global system slavery built — and how its legacy still sha...
Episode 31 - Architecture of violence - how Israel engineered genocide in Gaza | Eyal Weizman | UNAPOLOGETIC
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Eyal Weizman, architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture — a research agency that uses ...
Episode 30 - Understanding Hamas and why it matters | Helena Cobban | UNAPOLOGETIC |
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Helena Cobban is a journalist who has covered events in the Middle East for more than four decades. Through her reporting, she has interviewed senior ...
Episode 29 - Inside the nuts and bolts of the BBC’s “Orwellian” coverage of Gaza | Karishma Patel | UNAPOLOGETIC
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We have not even scratched the surface of the crimes Israel has truly committed”Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel left the BBC because of what...
Episode 28 - My life, covering Israeli war crimes for decades | Gideon Levy | UNAPOLOGETIC
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Gideon Levy, one of Israel’s most outspoken and controversial journalists. A longtime Haaretz journa...
Episode 27: This is why Israel as an ethno-nationalist state, won’t last beyond the 2030s | Iyad el-Baghdadi | UNAPOLOGETIC (Full)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author, thinker and activist Iyad el-Baghdadi joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to break down the impact of Israel’s war in Gaza and its wide...
Episode 26: How has Israel's war in Gaza weakened Sisi's rule? | Hossam el-Hamalawy | UNAPOLOGETIC
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Egyptian activist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy joins us on this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC to speak about how Egypt has changed under Abdel Fattah el-S...
Episode 25: Palestinians defiantly would “die here and not leave”| Mustafa Barghouti | UNAPOLOGETIC
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this extended interview, Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, reacts to the statements and plans and remark...
Episode 24: "Israel's masterplan…to ethnically cleanse Gaza" | Norman Finkelstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an extended interview, Norman Finkelstein, the political analyst and author who has studied Palestine and Israel for decades, speaks to us about th...
Episode 23 - How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes | Anat Matar | UNAPOLOGETIC
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anat Matar is an Israeli academic and philosopher who is leading an open call from Israelis to have sanctions imposed on their own country.Since Israe...
Epiosde 22 - What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war | Gamal Mansour | UNAPOLOGETIC
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gamal Mansour is a Syrian-Palestinian who was forced to move to Canada in 2012, as the Syrian uprising was turning into a civil war.Mansour is also a ...
Episode 21 - Is Israel descending into a ‘fully fledged fascist dictatorship’? | Israeli MP Offer Cassif | UNAPOLOGETIC
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“In Israel they are either bigots, fanatics, sometimes murderous ones… and they are cowards… and unfortunately there is no brave figure that I c...
Episode 20 - 100-year history of US meddling, coups and wars in the Middle East | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Roy Casagranda is an expert in history and political science.He has hosted a series of lectures that are available on YouTube explaining the...
Episode 19 - The global fight to isolate Israel as a “pariah state” | South Africa’s Naledi Pandor | UNAPOLOGETIC
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa’s former minister of international relations, Naledi Pandor, speaks to us about the why South Africa took Israel to court for genocide....
Episode 18 - The problem with "whiteness" and how its unleashed all types or racisms | Rachel Shabi | UNAPOLOGETIC
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Fighting racism in silos that was invented by racism doesn’t make any sense.”Rachel Shabi is an author, journalist and commentator, and she has...
Episode 17: "The more the US interfere, the more they are hated" | Wadah Khanfar | UNAPOLOGETIC
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I think the Arab leaders are going to be the victims of this genocide in Gaza.”Wadah Khanfar is the founder and executive director of the Al-Shar...
Episode 16: Has Israel immortalised the memory of Yahya Sinwar ? | Dr. Azzam Tamimi | UNAPOLOGETIC
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation with Dr. Azzam Tamimi - who is a scholar of political science and has written books on the history of Hamas - we discuss the legacy ...
Episode 15 - How Israel functions as an extension of US Imperial interests | Joseph Massad | UNAPOLOGETIC
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s not just that the US is complicit in this genocide, the US itself is responsible for this genocide”.A year after the events of 7 October, ...
Episode 14: The woman trying to upend the U.S political system | Jill Stein | UNAPOLOGETIC
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saying it is antisemitic to oppose genocide is the most antisemitic statement of all"Who is Jill Stein?In this extended interview, Jill Stein speaks a...
Episode 13: The life and thoughts of Dr Cornel West | UNAPOLOGETIC
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“That’s part of an empire that has grown rich and grown powerful but refuses to grow up” - Cornel West.In an impassioned and lengthy conversatio...
Episode 12 - The anti-apartheid activist who could stop the UK’s likely next PM | Andrew Feinstein | UNAPOLOGETIC
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Feinstein was born in South Africa in the 1960s, during the era of grand apartheid. He joined the struggle for a free South Africa, and was dep...
Episode 11: The doctor who’s witnessed Israel’s wars on Palestinians since 1982 | Mads Gilbert | UNAPOLOGETIC
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There shall be no trace of Palestinian society, culture, history because they going to be wiped out… This is I think the plan for the Zionists.”...
Episode 10: The Israeli MP standing against his own country’s ‘genocide’ | Ofer Cassif | UNAPOLOGETIC
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ofer Cassif represents the Hadash Party in the Israeli Knesset and he has been openly calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a ‘genocide’.In this exte...
Episode 9 - The decline of the US empire and what replaces it | Hamid Dabashi | UNAPOLOGETIC
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American professor at Columbia University. He has authored more than 20 books and has expertise in subject areas including...
Episode 8 - Malcolm X, Resistance, Palestine and dismantling white supremacy | Prof. Rudolph Ware | UNAPOLOGETIC
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You (the coloniser) must punish them (the colonised) with a scale of violence that mocks the resistance”Professor Rudolph Ware, also known as But...
Episode 7 - Miko Peled: The Israeli dissident whose family was the "who's who of Zionism" | UNAPOLOGETIC
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miko Peled is the son of a decorated Israeli general. His grandfather was one of 37 Israelis who signed Israel’s declaration of independence.His m...
Episode 6: So.Informed - The Instagram account with 3.1 million followers and why it supports Palestine | UNAPOLOGETIC
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“It became almost part of American values, post 9/11, to demonise the Middle East.”Jess Natale created the Instagram account So.Informed in 2020 s...
Episode 5: The story of the orthodox Jews that oppose Israel | Rabbi Elhanan Beck | UNAPOLOGETIC
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Elhanan Beck has lived outside of Israel since he was three years old, this is despite the fact that his family lineage in what he calls “Pale...
Episode 4: Youmna El Sayed’s harrowing journalistic account of what is unfolding in Gaza | UNAPOLOGETIC
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed’s harrowing, nearly three hour account of all that she witnessed while covering Gaza.Youmna El Sayed has repo...
Episode 3: Mustafa Barghouti - how his life changed in 1967, how he was short in the arm and the "terrible racism" he has faced in the media about Gaza | UNAPOLOGETIC
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of a lengthy discussion, Mustafa Barghouti recollects his life from growing up as a child in Ramallah, which was then controlled by Jo...
Episode 2: Ilan Pappe - how he became an Israeli dissident and on why Zionism will fail soon | UNAPOLOGETIC
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I saw evidence that really challenged everything that I knew”Ilan Pappe shares how he came across historical documents back in 1978 that debunked...
Episode 1: Munther Isaac: Palestinian pastor speaks about his life, Gaza, Christian Zionism, Palestinian Christians, and the future | UNAPOLOGETIC
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘I mean from October we were saying this is ethnic cleansing and these are war crimes… If you follow the statements from Israeli leaders and the i...