“Everything you are about to hear is 100% real, 100% true.” These words are heard frequently in “Great Love: Gaza Monologues Revisited.” One of the many apt uses of recapitulation throughout the series, it reflects genocide as a series of repetitions, not a flat timeline but a cyclical one.

Unfortunately, Zionists have their own refrains. A common one is that the history is “too complicated.” Meant as a barrier to entry for folks newly awoken to the fight for Palestinian liberation, it implies one must have a history degree and understanding of various 20th-century treaties to be able to speak about Palestine. It is, of course, a bullshit conceit, easily debunked in the first few minutes of the first full episode of “Great Love: Gaza Monologues Revisited,” in which Ali Dajani gives the most straightforward, comprehensible — and, yes, 100% real, 100% true — breakdown of the 1948 Nakba in just a few sentences.

So often, the onus of establishing truth is placed on the resistance, rather than on the oppressor, who has the media, institutions, political leaders, and even, in some cases, the public record backing them up. “Great Love: Gaza Monologues Revisited” serves as a poignant reminder that, although the responsibility may be misplaced, transforming truth into art by challenging false narratives and untrue refrains is worthwhile.

Hosted by Kaitlin Prest and produced by her audio art studio Mermaid Palace, the podcast serves as a multitemporal archive of Israel’s genocidal war campaign in Gaza. It captures in real time the first year of the current stage of the genocide, which intensified after October 7, 2023, while also revisiting history, namely through readings of pieces from “The Gaza Mono-Logues.”