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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.

The 2021 Israeli-Hamas War

Khalid Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and director of its program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs, discusses the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May that killed 12 Israelis and 242 Palestinians. Elgindy describes the politics of the war in Jerusalem, Gaza and Washington and...

06/03/2021
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Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “The Israel Lobby and the Iraq War” with Greg McCarron and Jeremy Rothe-Kushel from The AnteDote (4/9/21)

In commemoration of the recent 18th anniversary of the launch of the Iraq War, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel curates and plays an excerpt of a live recording from March 20, 2021 by the co-hosts of The AnteDote (Greg McCarron & Jeremy Rothe-Kushel), from an AnteDote DeepCore: Texts room on Clubhouse where part...

04/20/2021
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Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “Solutionary Ideas Beyond the Two State Solution” with Jonathan Kuttab (3/19/21)

For this week's program, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel interviews international human rights attorney and long-time Palestinian legal and civil society advocate Jonathan Kuttab about his solutionary ideas put forth upon the release of his book "Beyond the Two State Solution."   https://jonathankuttab.org https://www.fosna.org/content/kuttab-jonathan https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/beyond_2_states_webinar https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/beyond2states

04/19/2021
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The Palestine Exception

Mitchell Plitnick, author of the recently published book Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, discusses how concern for Palestinian human rights is often excluded from the  progressive political agenda in this country. Drawing on his years of experience working for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Plitnick...

04/19/2021
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Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – “Epstein/Wexner/MEGA, Maxwell/Microsoft, NSA/Neuberger & the Compromising Intent of Israeli Cyber Espionage” w/ Whitney Webb (2/5/21) Copy

This week's show, a compilation of interview segments with journalist Whitney Webb put together by Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, focuses on the intent of Israeli cyber espionage & the networks of power behind the Israeli military intelligence-sponsored Epstein Maxwell compromise operation, hoping to further "Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls."   https://unlimitedhangout.com/epstein/ https://unlimitedhangout.com/the-maxwell-family-business/ https://unlimitedhangout.com/cybereason/  

04/18/2021
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Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – “Epstein/Wexner/MEGA, Maxwell/Microsoft, NSA/Neuberger & the Compromising Intent of Israeli Cyber Espionage” w/ Whitney Webb (2/5/21)

This week's show, a compilation of interview segments with journalist Whitney Webb put together by Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, focuses on the intent of Israeli cyber espionage & the networks of power behind the Israeli military intelligence-sponsored Epstein Maxwell compromise operation, hoping to further "Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls."   https://unlimitedhangout.com/epstein/ https://unlimitedhangout.com/the-maxwell-family-business/ https://unlimitedhangout.com/cybereason/  

04/17/2021
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We Are Not Numbers in Gaza

Issam Adwan is project manager of We Are Not Numbers, a program in the Gaza Strip that seeks to help young writers in Gaza develop their writing skills in English and bring their diverse perspectives and experiences to an international audience. Too often, Adwan says, people outside the Gaza Strip...

03/30/2021
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“Facebook, We Need to Talk”

Facebook is under pressure to include criticism of Israel in its hate-speech policy. After more than 100 Jewish organizations around the world pressed Facebook to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism in its entirety, including examples seen as controversial, 55 groups joined in a coalition to combat...

03/14/2021
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