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The show is hosted by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.

The Mapping Project controversy; Samidoun supports Palestinian prisoners

We explore the controversy around the Mapping Project, a publication that sparked extensive controversy after it went live on June 3. The Mapping Project identifies and maps hundreds of policing institutions, universities, weapons manufacturers, and explicitly political Zionist organizations in the Boston area in an effort to show the interconnectedness of...

07/04/2022

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How Palestinian intellectuals after 1948 shaped national identity

Maha Nassar’s book Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World tells the story of Palestinian writers and intellectuals in Israel for two decades following the 1948 war. To overcome the isolation abruptly imposed on them by the newly established state of Israel, Palestinian intellectuals developed creative strategies...

06/28/2022

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Palestinians in Masafer Yatta face forcible transfer

In May a decades-long legal battle ended with the Israeli Supreme Court ruling that Palestinians living in an area in the south Hebron Hills in the Occupied West Bank could be forcibly expelled from their homes to make way for an Israeli firing zone. The ruling affects some 1200 Palestinians...

06/26/2022

By Margot PattersonUnderstanding Israel PalestineComments Off

Part I: Israel and apartheid Part II: Israel’s attack on USS Liberty in 1967 war

Part I (first 27 minutes). Dr. Virginia Tilley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Carbondale was co-author with Richard Falk of a 2017 report for the United Nations that concluded the international criminal law concept of apartheid correctly applies to Israel’s policies and practices toward the...

06/12/2022

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Did Israel Assassinate Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh?

Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian reporter for Al Jazeera,was shot dead May 11, 2022 as she covered an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank. Her death is regarded by Al Jazeera as an Israeli assassination. The Rev. Dr. Alex Awad, a Palestinian minister, educator...

05/28/2022

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Documentary Tantura chronicles massacre during 1948 Nakba

After the United Nations partitioned the Palestine Mandate giving 55% to the proposed Jewish state, Israel declared independence, the large-scale expulsions of Palestinians began and almost immediately violence broke out, long before the armies of neighboring Arab states became involved. This was the onset of the Nakba. The Nakba has continued...

05/11/2022

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Palestinian Art As Resistance

In this episode we interview two guests; both promote Palestinian art and cultural production as necessary for the survival of the Palestinian people. Susan Greene has been enabling communities in Palestine to create public murals since 1989. In 2000 she founded Art Forces. From the streets of San Francisco Bay...

05/06/2022

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U.N. Rapporteur Says Israel Guilty of Apartheid in Occupied Palestine

Michael Lynk, an associate professor of law at the University of Western Ontario and U.N. Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967, discusses the special report he issued at the end of March finding Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid as...

05/05/2022

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