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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.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Rock the Boat

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement was launched in 2006 after a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) proposed chartering a boat to sail from New York to Gaza to break the siege which Israel had imposed. The roster of volunteers for the fledgling flotilla movement quickly burgeoned; financial...

09/22/2023

By Jamie JacksonComments Off

Water Apartheid in Israel-Palestine

Eyal Hareuveni of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem discusses how and why Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank face a chronic shortage of water. He is the author of a new study by B'Tselem called "Parched: Israel's Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank," which examines Israel's discriminatory...

09/08/2023

By Margot PattersonComments Off

Mutual Aid and Palestinian Sumud: the HIRN Model

In this episode Hamed Qawasmeh describes the work of the Hebron International Resource Network (HIRN), a collective coordinated by him that helps Palestinians facing threats from the Israeli occupation such as land confiscation, home demolitions, and difficulty crossing checkpoints. Our discussion turned to the challenges of responding quickly to people's...

09/01/2023

By Eamon OrmsethComments Off

Palestinians Face Desperate Choices

Writer, anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, talks about the conpletion of the conquest of Palestine, the dire choices facing Palestinians, now restricted to non-contiguous bantustans on 15 percent of the Occupied West Bank, and the irony in Jewish Israelis demonstrating en masse...

08/25/2023

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Breaking the Siege of Gaza: Freedom Flotillas since 2008

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement began with a 2006 email from a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement sent to other volunteers struggling with how to bring to the attention of the world that Israel, while attacking Lebanon, was imprisoning Gaza. The email proposed chartering a big boat to sail...

08/18/2023

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Israel’s Identity Crisis; Palestinians’ Predicament

Yousef Munayyer, Senior Fellow and head of the Palestine/Israel Program at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., discusses the complexity of Israel's internal fissures, changing battlefield dynamics between Israelis and Palestinians, the waning power of the Palestinian Authority and the rise of Palestinian armed resistance.

08/11/2023

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Rock Climbing as a Revolutionary Act: Resistance Climbing in the Occupied West Bank

In 2014, American Tim Bruns moved to Palestine with his friend Will hoping to set up a climbing gym in Ramallah. Almost ten years (and hundreds of sends) later, the film Resistance Climbing, about the burgeoning rock climbing community in Palestine, premiered at the Reel Rock Film Festival. On the...

08/04/2023

By Eamon OrmsethComments Off

The Crisis in Israel : Observations of the Peace Camp

A day after the Israeli Parliament's passage of a highly contested bill to limit the power of the Supreme Court, two members of the peace camp there speak to its significance. Mickey Gitzin is director of the New Israel Fund, a non-profit in Jerusalem that works to advance liberal democracy...

07/31/2023

By Margot PattersonComments Off