Understanding Israel/Palestine advocates for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. The program offers multiple perspectives through interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by mainstream media.
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Sulha (from the Arabic word for "reconciliation") is a grassroots project working to bridge understanding between people in conflict around the world, with a primary focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our goal is to foster a nuanced understanding of important issues, transform the way people communicate, and inspire real-world action. Sulha is an inclusive community, we welcome people from all walks of life and all sides of the ideological spectrum.
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A podcast that explores and analyses the social, cultural and political trends that shape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Gaza - A full analysis of War Crimes, Death Toll & Civilian to Combatant Ratio
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Send us a text In this video, we review the death toll in Gaza, the civilian-to-combatant ratio, war crimes being committed & more. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Part 3 of "What is Zionism?" The Evolution of Zionism During the British Mandate for Palestine
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Send us a text Professor Arie Dubnov discusses the development of the Zionist movement during the British Mandate for Palestine. A historian who specializes in the study of Jewish nationalism, he holds the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University where he serves as director of the university's Middle East program.…
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Send us a text Dr. Sam Brody, the author of the award-winning book Martin Buber's Theopolitics, discusses the many competing strands of Zionism and how they shaped the battle for Palestine. He also describes the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Martin Buber, whose prolific writings about Zionism and Israel/Palestine have been give relatively li…
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Send us a text Dr. Sam Brody, the author of the award-winning book Martin Buber's Theopolitics, discusses the many competing strands of Zionism and how they shaped the battle for Palestine. He also describes the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Martin Buber, whose prolific writings about Zionism and Israel/Palestine have been give relatively li…
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Send us a text In the first of a new series called "What Is Zionism?" Professor Barry Trachtenberg talks to Margot Patterson about the origins of Zionism in the late 1800s. By the turn of the 20th century, Jews living in Eastern Europe had experienced two decades of rising anti-Semitism. Some sought to change the conditions of the societies they li…
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Send us a text Barry Trachtenberg, the Rubin Presidential Chair in Jewish History at Wake Forest University, continues his discussion of the origins and early development of Zionism. A minority movement within Judaism until World War II, Zionism faced opposition from many Jews who believed it transgressed religious law and tradition. It was frequen…
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Call In Show: Election Results & War in Gaza Featuring Dr. Mimi Syed
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Send us a text Tune in for an engaging call-in show hosted by Adar, where we will discuss the implications of the latest U.S. election results and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Dr. Mimi Syed, an Emergency Medicine Physician who recently volunteered for a medical mission run by JAPA and supported by Islamic Relief, will provide her perspe…
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Send us a text Swarthmore students have faced unprecedented repression in their Palestine solidarity organizing in the past year, despite using tactics embraced in earlier campus struggles. A recent graduate of Swarthmore involved in campus divestment organizing details the double standard that exists at Swarthmore for Palestine-related speech. Stu…
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Send us a text Michael Lynk, professor of law at the University of Western Ontario and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied by Israel since 1967, discusses international law, Israel's defiance of it and its recent attack on U.N. peacekeeping troops in Lebanon. He notes that undergirdi…
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A Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, Author of "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor"
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Send us a text Join us for a live conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, author of the New York Times bestseller "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor", as we explore Rabbi Menachem Froman’s groundbreaking vision for peace. Known for his efforts to unite Jewish and Palestinian communities through faith, Rabbi Froman's legacy is brought to life in the …
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Send us a text Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are tourism entrepreneurs and peace activists that have been working for peace in Palestine and Israel for years. Hamas militants killed Maoz's parents on October 7th and Israeli prison guards beat Aziz's brother so severely that he died after being released from prison. Recently, they joined forces and a…
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Yahya Sinwar Killed - What this means for Gaza
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Send us a text Yayha Sinwar, head of Hamas, was confirmed dead. In this episode we analyze what this means for Israel's operation in Gaza. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Join Adar as he critically examines Konstantin Kisin’s recent stance on Israel’s war, revealing the logical flaws and misrepresentations in his argument, exposing the gaps in Kisin's reasoning, and providing a clearer understanding of the situation. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Ret. Ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr., discusses the widening wars in the Middle East, Israel's hegemonic ambitions, and the catastrophic collapse of U.S. influence in the region as a result of the Biden administration's one-sided, ineffectual diplomacy. By arming and funding Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza and brutal war in Lebanon,…
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Israel-Palestine Call in Show
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Send us a text Welcome back for another call in show where community members can call in, ask questions, leave feedback and share their thoughts on the current situation in Israel & Palestine. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Heiko Wimmen of the International Crisis Group details the quickly changing situation in Lebanon and northern Israel after the assassination of Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's launch of ballistic missiles on Israel. We compare Israel's stated goals and tactics in Gaza with those in Lebanon. Absent a ceasefire …
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Send us a text Today Iran shot over 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. We'll be providing live coverage and analysis of the situation. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Margot Patterson talks to Mideast scholar Juan Cole about last week’s dramatic escalation in the year-long cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel's maximalist goals in Lebanon, the history of Hezbollah and how the failure of the Biden administration’s policy on Gaza is scrambling traditional alliances in the Middle…
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As Palestinians in Egypt Remain Separated from their Families, Israel Escalates in the West Bank
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Send us a text Anna Martin is a Montana-based journalist who writes about resistance movements and politics and how the two intersect with each other. We spoke with her as she was wrapping up her recent reporting trip to Egypt and the West Bank. In Egypt, Anna spoke with families separated by the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing and their strug…
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DEBATE: Is Israel Committing Genocide w/ Zach Foster & Zach Korner
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Send us a text Anti-Zionist Jew Zach Foster debates Zionist Jew Zach Korner on the topic of is Israel committing genocide in Gaza. Tune in for an informative and engaging conversation! Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text In a 2023 Christmas Eve sermon that drew global attention, the Rev. Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem charged the Western church with complicity in genocide in Gaza. Attending that Christmas Eve service in Bethlehem was David Wildman, executive secretary for human rights and racial justice with t…
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Send us a text This week on Understanding Israel/Palestine, we're rebroadcasting an episode from Let's Talk UNRWA, entitled An American in Gaza with Scott Anderson. Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA, speaks with Scott Anderson, who is leading UNRWA's efforts in the Gaza Strip. They discuss the need for a ceasefire, the ongoing polio …
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Send us a text James Gelvin, professor of history at UCLA and author of "The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War," discusses the war in Gaza and the student protest movement it's spawned. He says there is no military solution to the war or to the century-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians other than an independent Pales…
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Send us a text Retired Col. Ann Wright of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla details the numerous ships that have attempted to break the siege of Gaza over the years. After a summer sailing to European ports to raise awareness of the Gaza genocide, the Handala will be on its way to Gaza after repairs are completed. Zane Wolfang also reports from the DNC in …
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Send us a text Terrorism is generally held to be political violence that is illegitimate, but what confers legitimacy on some acts of political violence and illegitimacy on others? Is terrorism simply the name we give to the violence we do not like or support, while finding euphemisms for the violence we do like or support? Professor of history Ric…
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Send us a text The former endowed chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College, Keene, NH, Dr. Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is the co-founder and executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. In Part II of her conversation with Margot Patterson, she discusses what the Lemkin Institute identifies as genocide not …
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Send us a text Genocide scholar Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey discusses what constitutes genocide, how and why she and international human rights lawyer Irene Victoria Massimino came to found the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention to avert it, and why the West is supporting genocide in Palestine. Dr. von Joeden-Forgey is the former Endowed Chai…
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Send us a text Dr. Emilio Dabed, a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights, discusses his recent article for 972 Magazine entitled, "By failing to stop the Gaza genocide, the ICJ is working exactly as intended." We discuss the ICJ's failure to order a ceasefire in Gaza in the South Afri…
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Send us a text Mickey Gitzin is director of the Jerusalem office of the New Israel Fund, a non-profit funding Israeli civil society groups working to promote democracy and human rights in Israel. He talks about the democratic fissures in Israeli society before and after Oct. 7, the repression of Arab Israelis' rights since the Hamas attack, the lim…
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The Relationship between Jews & Arabs in late Ottoman Palestine w/ Louis Fishman
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Send us a text On this episode we have Louis Fishman on the program for an in depth review of the relationships between Jews and Arabs in late Ottoman Palestine. Louis A. Fishman is an associate professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He works on Ottoman Palestine and has a special interest in Ottoman politics during the Young T…
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Send us a text In this episode we review the Trump assassination attempt and analyze the different conspiracy theories and assess what is most likely to have happened. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Dr. Annelle Sheline, fellow at the Quincy Institute, speaks about her resignation from the State Department in protest over the Biden administration's role in backing Israel's assault in Gaza. She's now one of a dozen US government employees who have resigned. An astute student of the region, she talks about the regional consequences…
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Send us a text Khaled Elgindy, director of the program on Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute, discusses growing concerns about war on the Israel-Lebanon border, deteriorating conditions in the West Bank, and the whack-a-mole game Israel is playing in Gaza.KKFI 90.1 FM
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Israelis Debate the war between Israel & Hamas | Shaiel Ben-Ephraim & Adar Weinreb
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Send us a text On this weeks episode we have a friendly debate between Shaiel Ben-Ephraim & Adar. They discuss the state of the war between Israel & Hamas, what ideas for how to move forward towards a lasting resolution. About Shaiel: Shaiel hosts the History of the Land of Israel podcast and the Israel Explained YouTube channel. He is a former Isr…
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Send us a text Journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, assistant manager of We Are Not Numbers, a non-profit in Gaza that pairs young Palestinian writers with professional journalists to help them tell their stories to an English-speaking audience, describes the harrowing conditions in Gaza. Mushtaha left Gaza a month ago and is now in Egypt. He discusses his…
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Was October 7th an Inside Job?
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Send us a text There's still immense of uncertainly around Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7th. Many think it was an inside job, while others see it as a mastermind operation by Hamas and/or a military failure by Israel. In this episode we give a full review and analysis. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Rana Salman and Eszter Koranyi of the Israeli-Palestinian NGO Combatants for Peace joined the show this week to discuss their work over the years and its challenges in the wake of October 7. Combatants for Peace espouses mutual understanding of each others' sides, nonviolent resistance as a tool for change, and joint struggle to end …
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Israelis Debate Israel & Palestine
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Send us a text Israelis Adar Weinreb & Jess Seaton respectfully debate the Israel Palestine conflict. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Khaled Hroub talked to Margot Patterson about the evolution of Hamas, the Oct. 7th attack on Israel, and the ceasefire plan proposed by President Biden to end the war in Gaza. A professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar, Hroub has studied and written about Hamas for 25 years. His essay about the Oct. 7th…
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Send us a text Yesterday the IDF rescued 4 Israeli hostages from Gaza. In this stream we discuss the bittersweet nature of the hostage rescue operation. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Israel Palestine Call in Show!
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Send us a text In this episode community members can call in, ask questions and share their thoughts on the war between Israel & Gaza. Support the showAdar Weinreb
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Send us a text Dr. Shira Klein, Associate Professor and Chair of History at Chapman University, discusses Israel's turn toward fascism in the wake of the National Union of Israeli Students proposing a new law that would require universities to fire all academics who express dissent, including tenured professors. An Israeli by birth, Dr. Klein is an…
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Send us a text Margot Patterson talks to Neve Gordon, a professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London. Gordon discusses the significance of the International Criminal Court’s decision on May 20th to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders (Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismael Haniyeh) and Israeli Prime Mi…
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Send us a text Now a political analyst in Washington, D.C. focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Khalil Sayegh grew up as a Palestinian Christian in Gaza, home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Sayegh speaks of the Christian role in Gaza, the recent loss of family members there, the diverse responses of Christian chur…
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Send us a text Sometimes called the Arab Gandhi, Palestinian peace activist Mubarak Awad talks to Margot Patterson about how he came to embrace the principles of non-violence, his views of the war in Gaza and the future of the Palestinian movement. Expelled from Israel in 1988 for leading non-violent resistance during the First Intifada, Awad is th…
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Send us a text This week we speak with Robert Bletcher, Director of the Future of Conflict program at International Crisis Group (ICG). He was the lead author of the ICG's recent report Stopping Famine in Gaza. We discuss how famine is defined and measured in the realm of international politics and the key axes to consider when attempting to mitiga…
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Send us a text Rutgers University law professor Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick, president of Rethinking Foreign Policy, discuss student protests of Israel’s war in Gaza, the growing threat to free speech on college campuses, and how pervasive anti-Muslim bias in U.S. society and U.S. foreign policy perpetuates a one-sided view of the Israeli-Pale…
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Send us a text The Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement began with a 2006 email from a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement sent to other volunteers struggling with how to bring to the attention of the world that Israel, while attacking Lebanon, was imprisoning Gaza. The email proposed chartering a big boat to sail from New York to Gaza, …
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Send us a text In the last part of a series on the Israel lobby in the United States, Margot Patterson talks to Alison Weir, founder and executive director of If Americans Knew, a non-profit established more than 20 years ago to educate Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Weir discusses some of the many groups and individuals that com…
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Send us a text Dr. Sam Brody, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Kansas, discusses the history of the Anti-Defamation League (or the ADL) and the role it plays as a part of the Israel lobby. Dr. Brody contends that the ADL’s stance that anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism is wrong-headed, cynical, and ahistorical. He ar…
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