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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.

Palestinians explain their experience in 1948 Nakba

In this our second episode of the Nakba Project we listen to more stories of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon taken from videotaped interviews in the Nakba Archive. 20 years ago the Nakba Archive was co-founded by Diana Allan, Professor at McGill University, and Mahmoud Zeidan, who conducted many of the...

01/31/2023
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Decoding Israeli Extremism

Richard Falk, international law expert and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, discusses the significance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent assertion that Israel possesses exclusive right to all of the Land of Israel. In addition...

01/17/2023
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Omar Barghouti on the BDS movement and Israeli apartheid

Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, discusses the aims of the BDS movement, U.S. support for Israeli apartheid and the double standard evident in the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's violations of international law.  While Russia's illegal invasion of...

01/09/2023
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Palestinians Finding Hope in 2023

In this our last episode of the year 2022, we reflect on harbingers of hope. On the political front, in response to Israel’s November election that added fascist elements and resulted in a near-total erasure of the parliamentary left, a new political party united around the principle of complete equality...

01/03/2023
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Finding hope for Palestinian justice

In this our last episode of the year 2022, we reflect on harbingers of hope. On the political front, in response to Israel’s November election that elected fascist elements and resulted in a near-total erasure of the parliamentary left, a new political party united around the principle of complete equality...

12/30/2022
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Christmas in Bethlehem Today

The Rev. Dr. Alex Awad talks about the realities of today's Bethlehem where, like elsewhere in the West Bank, local residents are experiencing the expropriation of their land. A  Christian Palestinian minister who grew up in Bethlehem and returned to work there as a teacher and pastor, Dr. Awad describes...

12/23/2022
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