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 Process of Judaizing Has Been Completed”

Since 1948, Israel has destroyed more than 160,000 Palestinian homes. Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, says house demolitions are the essence of Israel's drive to replace an Arab state with a Jewish state through ethnic cleansing and expropriations. He reports the process of "Judaization," a...

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – “End of 2020 Show: Interview Retrospective” (12/25/20)

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls (12/25/20) "End of 2020 Show: Interview Retrospective" December 25, 2020   Jamie Jackson features her interview with Mazen Qumsiyeh. http://qumsiyeh.org/   Margot Patterson features her interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Alison Weir and Michael Merryman-Lotze. https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/phyllis-bennis/ https://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/whoweare.html https://www.afsc.org/media-kit/bios/michael-merryman-lotze   Jeremy Rothe-Kushel features his interview with Richard Silverstein. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/coronavirus-likuds-soft-coup-under-pretext-pandemic https://www.richardsilverstein.com/

2020 Interviews: Looking Back to Look Forward

The Rev. Alex Awad, formerly a United Methodist missionary in Jerusalem, laments that the existence and experience of Christian Palestinians is largely ignored by Christians in the United States. He talks about bringing his experience as a Palestinian Christian to Evangelical Christians in the U.S. whose eschatological views lead them...

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – “Cyberweaponry, Kill-Switch Diplomacy and the Technology of Occupation” (December 18, 2020)

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls - "Cyberweaponry, Kill-Switch Diplomacy and the Technology of Occupation" December 18, 2020 After the headline news, Jeremy takes on the question of recent reports about Israeli intelligence based cyberweapons from companies such as the NSO Group and Circles, 'battle-tested' in the sphere of the Israeli surveillance...

U.S.-Iran-Israel

Iran expert Trita Parsi discusses relations between Iran, Israel and the United States and examines the significance of last week's assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Barbara Slavin, director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, assesses the effect of the assassination on the 2015...

U.S.-Iran-Israel

Iran expert Trita Parsi discusses current and past relations between Iran, Israel and the United States and examines the significance of last week's assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Barbara Slavin, director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, assesses the effect of the assassination on...