Indigenous solidarity with Palestine w/ Uahikea Maile and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
*Editor’s note: We had some technical difficulties and lost significant portions of this episode, one of which Nick re-recorded afterward. Apologies for the at times disjointed conversation*
TRN Podcast co-hosts Nick Estes is joined by TRN comrades Uahikea Maile and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to discuss the profoundly linked struggles between Native people in Palestine and Turtle Island and the public letter signed by over 132 Native activists, artists, and intellectuals in solidarity with Palestine.
“As Indigenous peoples, we condemn the increase in anti-Palestinian, anti-Islamic, and anti-Arab violence everywhere. We condemn the increase in anti-Indigenous violence everywhere. We condemn anti-Jewish violence everywhere. We condemn punishing workers, students, artists, politicians, and academics for supporting Palestinian liberation. We recognize that Zionism is a form of racism and a colonial ideology that does not represent the views of all Jewish people throughout the world.”
Read the full public statement
https://therednation.org/statement-of-indigenous-solidarity-with-palestine/
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@AdyBar
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Shame on you! Being so inspired by one of the worst terrorist attacks in History. ISRAEL will win because it is on the right side of History! The earth is for everybody. There were wars and people got killed in the struggle for land. Focus on building and not on destroying like HAMAS ISIS terrorists.
@erikalulea3608
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Love to First Nation People and they know to well the situation Palestinians are in as their land was taken by Colonial forces as well , and they was put through a Genocide , which US have tried very hard to bury.
@shoru1064
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
😱Gosh, Leanne! 🤢🤢🤢
@tspack1
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
If you’re celebrating what happened on October 7 and looking to that as an example for native Hawaiians, are you not explicitly advocating murder and rape of innocent people?
@realshehrkhan
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
I have always felt solidarity with our nation's indeginous people so it is refreshing to see that The Red Nation is making such thought-provoking content for the Palestinian people.
@saharasarah6099
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Jews are indigenous to the Middle East. Muslims colonized the land centuries ago. It blows my mind that you guys are siding with the actual colonists.
@ramonalfaro3252
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
The Irish are very good allies!
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Anyone who thinks that October 7 was a glorious act of justice and resistance, rather than unalloyed barbarism, is cut from the same cloth as Hamas, part of the same cinematic universe.
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
This video is despicable, spreading lies and hatred against Israel. Shame on you!!!!!!!!!
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
LIARS!!!
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE REMOVED, SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
"ARRIVING TO SO CALLED TEL AVIV"?
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
LIARS!!!!!!!!!! THERE IS NO OCCUPATION AND NO APARTHEID
@adybar2138
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
"Watching what happened on October 7th was an education, when I saw breaking through that wall in Gaza and feeling those first few seconds of freedom and what was possible. it was a teaching to myself to dream bigger". So you are inspired by HAMAS-ISIS terrorists? Are you dreaming to do the same? Because I think you should be arrested for these comments. Shame on you!
@maypap13
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
You should both be sick with shame.
@maypap13
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Good to know that Indigenous people stand with terrorism.
@DW_Kiwi
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Indigenous means first occupants. Then you are for Israel eh. Get real please. Hamas are evil!!
@bloodymetalangel287
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Why did my comment get deleted? That’s not how anyone should run a comment section. I’ll just edit it then.
With that being said, I simply believe that everyone here is on the wrong side of history. Jèws and Hèbrews are indigenous to the land of Ìsrael. Civilian life is a tragedy on both ends. “Palestine” comes from the long-gone civilization of the Philistines. I don’t support genocide against Jèws. These people you are seeing that are “Palestinian” are Arab. Arabs have a homeland – it’s called Saudi Arabia. Let the Jèws have their homeland and defend it from H*mas terrorists. Release the hostages and call for a ceasefire from H*mas!
@samara6041
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Thank you for sharing 🤍✌️ let us all continue to speak truth to power! Solidarity to all those facing occupation, oppression and dehumanisation.
@Élie.est.Joyeux
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
You don't know how much this means to me as a Palestinian.
When I was in art school, I explained to one of my professors that Palestinian history was similar to that of the indigenous of Canada. He quickly told me that I would be "appropriating" the indigenous cause.
For the longest time, I felt invisible. I'm pleased that our children are finally visible to this side of the world!
Thanks Again!
@jasonbrambach6957
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Thank you all for sharing your goals and solidarity. You all shine brightly!
@jasonbrambach6957
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Ceasefire? Bernie got a just condemnation from a former supporter, by a Jewish son son of 2 Nazi concentration camp survivors: https://youtu.be/9R49v3K29mM?si=-MhNjXdD0ykt9bWu
@nathanfrankel
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Excellent conversation! So good that it struck a nerve, and this comment thread is being immediately swarmed by those attempting to either muddy the waters or attack with lies and half truths. Commenters seem to be using common tactics, a combination of naive questions with obvious answers that would destroy their narrative or walls of text meant to distract and confuse. I do wonder if they're paid shills, or just make justifications for war crimes because it warms their hearts. Not much point in engaging in discussion with bad faith actors IMO, but it does show they're concerned about losing control of the narrative. Thanks for the important work you are doing.
@aydaher
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Thank you so much . To me I know general information I learned about the indigenous struggle .now I m learning more . Thank you sharing your knowledge and support for Palestinian .
@arimoff
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Arabs are not the endigenous people of the land of israel, Jerusalem and Judea. Arabs came to the land of israel as occupiers and conquerers and islam is the colonizer. Arabs are the opressor in the land of israel.
@ThomasMilne
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Right on!
@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
All y'all at TRN are true comrades and relatives. Don't ever stop. Fuck the haters.
@tiluriso
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Why is an 'Indigenous American' group siding w/ the invaders, the Arabs and denying the fact that Jews (the modern ancestors of ancient Israelites) are The Indigenous People of the Land of Israel? There's ample historical, ethnic, archeological, linguistic and even genetic evidence connecting modern Jews to the Ancient Levant. BTW, The use of the term “Palestinian” to refer to an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation without any historical academic credibility.
@GrandAncientOak
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
This is really a hopeless situation. Good people have 0 power in this world.
@jayleeper1512
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
As we see in America’s support for the genocide in Gaza, we see that US Government policy has changed very little from the Trail of Tears or the massacre at Wounded Knee. Or the 40,000 native Hawaiians that were killed to make way for Dole Pineapple. Israel and the United States are being shown for the criminals they are.
@theachannel5243
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Hawaii is still occupied.
@grego310
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
These people are godless and ignorant and have no clue that Arabs are not indigenous to the region of Israel/Palestine(the colonial name given to the region by the Roman’s)Thank gd most indigenous people don’t condone Islamic fascists brutally slaughtering and raping innocent Jewish women and children as acts of freedom fighting. It’s scary that they are allowed to indoctrinate our children on campuses in North America.
@pacoshuman7642
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Thank you for sharing…
@onichuan
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Facts:
– The death toll in Gaza is being reported by the Gaza Healthy Ministry CONTROLLED BY HAMAS.
– The death toll with thousands of names and IDs were somehow available within days when the IDF is bombing buildings leveling them to the ground obliterating everything to dust? It's not possible to identify that amount of people in such a short time. Israel is still trying to identify victims from the 7th October massacre, weeks after it happened.
– The death toll does not include teenage and adult Hamas terrorists, yes they brainwash children and teenagers to join Hamas!
– Hamas themselves have said to report Hamas casualties as civilians! Look it up!
– Several leaked videos of Hamas dressed as civilians, making it easier to claim them as civilian casualties.
– Many names and IDs in the document provided by the health ministry (Hamas) are most likely forged, from people who died in the past. For an example: Hassan Al-Tahrawi (id: 802837393) was listed as a casualty in 2014 but is also listed in the document of civilian deaths in this war! It's quite convenient to save some names of people dying for a situation like this.
– When the Al-Ahli hospital parking lot was bombed by a misfired rocket by PIJ, the Palestinians were quick to say the entire Hospital was bombed and blamed it on Israel and claimed 500+ people died within minutes of it happening when there was no evidence for that! They exaggerate numbers so they can portray themselves as victims!
– No unbiased reporters are allowed in Hamas-controlled Gaza!
– The Palestinians are known for fabricating and staging news, it's called Pallywood. Here's a documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDb6HyyUIw
You guys are falling for the biggest lie in modern history, it's so sad.
@onichuan
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
The Jews are literally indigenous to Israel 3000 years back. The Arabs are one of the biggest colonizers of the world. They spread throughout the whole Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Asia by war, conquest, rape and slavery.
@tibor_szilagyi
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Let’s begin with a short history lesson.
The 7th century is the time when the Arabs began to expand their Lebensraum and colonize the world.
634–38 CE:
The Arabs and Muslims invaded and colonized the land, which later became Mandatory Palestine. They not only colonized the future territory of Mandatory Palestine but also millions of square kilometers of land that belonged to other cultures. They gradually Arabized and Islamized the conquered populations.
The Arabs and Muslims ruled over that region until 1918.
During this period, Jews and Christians had dhimmi status. Dhimmis were second- or even third-class citizens with limited rights. Dhimmis had to pay a special tax (Jizya) for their protection. It is similar to what mobsters ask their victims, like small shop owners, to protect them from unexpected accidents and deaths. (So, no, they did not live in harmony or peaceful coexistence.)
A geographical entity called Palestine did not exist during the period of Arab and Muslim rule (634-1918).
There were plenty of signs, incl. statements, made by Arab leaders shortly after WWI and up until the 47 UN partition proposal, where Arabs declared that if the effort to establish a Jewish majority state continues, it will end in unrest and wars.
Part of the territory of the British Mandate for Palestine (do not confuse it with Mandatory Palestine) was the territory of modern-day Jordan.
In 1922, the British gave the Arabs 75% of the British Mandate for Palestine. (Hint: the modern-day Jordan)
On July 24, 1922, the League of Nations issued a formal recognition of the Jewish nation's connection to the Land of Israel and approved the decision to establish a Jewish national homeland in the territory of Mandatory Palestine.
In 1937–38, the British offered them 83% of the rest of the British Mandate for Palestine, which became officially known as Mandatory Palestine. All together, if the Arabs hadn’t refused the 37–38 proposals, they could have ended up with c. 96% of British Palestine under their control.
In 1947, the UN proposed a plan for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into an Arab-majority state and a Jewish-majority state. The Arabs rejected it.
Side note: The boundaries presented in this partition proposal never became official.
May 1948:
According to the principle of international law known as Uti Possidetis Juris, the whole territory of Mandatory Palestine became Israel at the moment of the declaration of independence in May 1948. (In other words, Israel is not an occupying power.)
The Arabs invaded Israel’s territory almost immediately after the declaration of Israel's independence because they wanted to erase it from the map.
Israelis failed to fully liberate their territory from the invading armies, so Judea-Samaria and the territory that later became known as the Gaza Strip remained under illegal Jordanian and Egyptian occupation until 1967.
Side note: between 1948 and 1967, the Arabs expressed zero intention to establish an Arab majority state called Palestine in Judea-Samaria and the Gaza Strip. (e.g., see the Article 24 of the PLO Charter from 1964)
Side note: The Arabs of that time didn't self-identify as "Palestinians."
Side note: The so-called Palestinian ethnicity and the myth about the stolen Arab land of Palestine were invented by a handful of Arab leaders with some help from the USSR during the early 1960s. In other words, there's no scientific or historical evidence that supports this myth. For example, there's no archeological evidence that an ethnic group called Palestinians or a geopolitical entity (e.g., kingdom or state) with the name Palestine existed before the invention of this myth in the 1960s.
In the 1948 war, Israel acquired c. 6480 km2 of land allocated for the Arab state in the UN's partition proposal. Neither the UN nor other organizations label those territories as occupied.
Side note: The 1949 armistice lines (aka "the 1967 lines," aka "the Green Line") were neither political nor territorial boundaries (aka official borders between Israel and its neighbors).
Yes, some Arabs were expelled, while others left because their leaders promised them that after they crushed the Jews and their state, the Arabs could return.
After the Arab defeat in the 1948 war, the Arabs expelled almost 100% of Jews (c.850k) from Arab controlled territories (e.g., north Africa and Judea-Samaria).
Between 1949 and the early 2000s, Israel offered the chance to return to over 100k Arab refugees multiple times (e.g., during the 1949 Lausanne Conference). The Arabs rejected those offers.
In 1967, during the Six-Day war Israel legally captured territories from the Arabs.
Now,
Take a look at the logos of Fatah and Hamas.
Both of them show the silhouette map of "Palestine" (which they want to liberate). It is quite odd that it resembles the silhouette map of Mandatory Palestine. In other words, both Fatah and Hamas would love to erase Israel from the map and replace it with an Arab and Muslim majority state.
As I said before, the Arabs had many opportunities for establishing an Arab state called Palestine. Instead of focusing their efforts to hinder the Jews from establishing and maintaining the only Jewish-majority state, the Arabs could have turned that energy into creating a peaceful Arab state, something like Singapore 2.0.
Conclusion:
The Arab/Muslim-Israeli/Jewish conflict exists because the Arab/Muslim ego cannot accept the reality that they lost to Jews (their former dhimmis) a tiny piece (c.0.22%) of their colonized territories.
The Arabs and Muslims rejected even the idea of an independent Jewish majority state.
Between 1937 and the first two decades of the 2000s, the Arabs and Muslims rejected every offer to establish an independent Arab state called, e.g., "Palestine." (Here's an example: Check out the YouTube video with the title "Olmert offered Abbas 20 sq.km more than size of West Bank, according to PLO Chief Negotiator.")
In other words, the goal of the Jews is to have a state, while the goal of the Arabs is not to allow the existence of that Jewish state.
Historical facts prove that the only ones that make the lives of the Arab people miserable are those (e.g., Arab leaders, Arab states, the EU and its members, the UN, and various NGOs that made a lucrative business model out of it) who perpetuate this conflict, those (e.g., UNRWA) who teach hatred towards Israel and Jews to Arab people, not Israel. Again, the Arabs could have built a Singapore 2.0 if they truly wanted a better life.
Fun fact:
According to an Arab (pcpsr dot org) survey from 2022, 51% of Arabs in Arab-controlled territories in Judea and Samaria and in the Gaza Strip (61% Gazans) want to wage war with Israel, while 21% support negotiations.
(text by @t77szilagyi, 2023)
@janettucker3196
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Why aren't you in solidarity with all of the millions of civilian victims of all the Muslim civil wars that have been waging in Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, Russia and China. Why don't you care about them? Why is it only when the Jews are involved that you get all emotional. Why do you not condemn Hamas that (1) started the war, (2) massacred 1400 individual civilians in the most brutal way possible, (3) took 240 hostages, including babies and the elderly, and (4) continually shoot rockets at Israelis civilian populations, and (5) is using its own civilian population as human shields? Why do you ignore the fact that Hamas is a proxy for Iran that wants to dominate the Middle East? Why do you not give the Israelis credit for doing everything it can to save Gazan civilian lives, including giving them 20 days to vacate the area of the war? Why do you still listen to Hamas after it was proven they lied about the hospital? Could it be that you basically just hate the Jews?
@LordEriolTolkien
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Why would you ally with either side in this millennia old ethno-religious war of which you are neither ethnic or religious party to the conflict? Why stick your nose in another mans fight? Men, I would hasten to point out, that would kill you in a heartbeat if you said the wrong thing? Why fans the flames of someone else's war? Your support will do Nothing because the crux of the dispute does not involve you.
@rayislan9392
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
We as Muslim Americans welcome this. The Great Spirit willing, Muslims of the World will work with you to restore your rights (dignity and self-determination) that you have been seeking for centuries.
@davidr3815
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Funny thing is, it's the Jews who are indigenous to the land. Arabs are the colonisers.
@TellingStewart
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
🌱 Im Subscribed now 🍃
@pauldiffenderfer
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
thank you Sir! thank you for your work!
@wjumeau
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Who broke the ceasefire?
Who committed asks of genocide on that day?
Who still has the hostages?
Zero respect for Palestinians and Islam right now.
How can you reason with the unreasonable?
No ceasefire, hostages first then sit at the table to talk about peace.
The Quran clearly states the land of Israel belongs to the children of Moses.
Zero hostages = War
@TellingStewart
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
🌱 I'm indigenous Mulatto American.. we are a Human Family One-Love ❤💯🍃
@berryNtoast32
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
Land back!
@arthurhartwick7974
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 pm
It's funny how much the population of Palestine has grown the last 20 years considering the "genocide".
I'm surprised native Americans don't have more solidarity with the Israelis. They are a population that has suffered true genocide and displacement from their traditional lands. Much more so than the "Palestinians"
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