Podcast - Understanding Israel Palestine

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.

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...

Palestinian Activists’ Use of Smartphone Video

Rebecca Stein, Associate Professor of anthropology at Duke University and author of Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine gives an overview of how cameras have been used in the Occupied Territories since 2014, from basic camcorders to smartphones. Three communities have pinned their hopes on making...

Omar Barghouti Compares Sanctions on Russia and Israel

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, discusses the aims of the BDS movement and compares its targeted sanctions against Israeli Occupation and apartheid with the indiscriminate U.S. sanctions being used against the Russian people and others around the globe. While the Russian invasion of...

Israel-Palestine in 2021

Our New Year's Eve show reviews some key events in Israel-Palestine in 2021 with clips from the past year's programs. Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, explains the role of home demolitions and land confiscation in Israel's ongoing drive to colonize Palestine and says the Zionist...

Israel Spies on U.S. Muslims; Local Churches Harassed in Jerusalem

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, recounts how CAIR recently discovered that Steven Emerson, an American journalist and anti-Muslim activist, has worked with the Israeli government to spy on CAIR and other U.S. Muslim groups for over a decade. Mitchell says the FBI response...