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.

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...

International law on Russia in Ukraine and on Israel in Palestine

Richard A. Falk, professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since1967, discusses international law as it applies to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the contrast between the vigorous response of the...

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “From the Architects of Repression to Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home & Abroad” with Walter Hixson (3-4-22)

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “From the Architects of Repression to Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home & Abroad” with Walter Hixson (3-4-22) For this week's episode, producer Jeremy Rothe-Kushel speaks with diplomatic & cultural historian, Walter Hixson about his book "Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby...

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “From Imperialism & War to Architects of Repression: Settler Colonialism & the US-Israel Special Relationship” with Walter Hixson (12-17-21)

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “From Imperialism & War to Architects of Repression: Settler Colonialism & the US-Israel Special Relationship” with Walter Hixson (12-17-21) For this week's episode, producer Jeremy Rothe-Kushel speaks with cultural historian and author Walter Hixson about his recently published books "Architects of Repression: How Israel...

Criticizing Israel out of love

Madeleine Cereghino, director of government relations for  Americans for Peace Now, a non-partisan non-profit that defines itself as a Jewish pro-peace organization, talks about settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and why APN is now calling for the United States to condition aid to Israel on Israeli...

Growing up in Hebron Lubna Alzaroo explains

Lubna Alzaroo grew up in Hebron, possibly the most violent city in the West Bank. How do the 800 Israeli settlers make life hell for the 150,000 Palestinians in Hebron? How do Israeli soldiers protect the settlers but not the Palestinians? How do everyday  Palestinians resist by filming incidents?