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This show is inspired 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.
Sometimes called the Arab Gandhi, Palestinian peace activist Mubarak Awad was deported from Israel in 1988 for leading non-violent resistance to the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. In this episode, he talks to Margot Patterson about his childhood in Jerusalem, how he came to embrace the principles of non-violence, his views of the war in Gaza and the future of the Palestinian movement. Awad is the founder of Nonviolence International, a NGO in Washington D.C. that advocates for creative nonviolence in the struggle for justice and liberation of oppressed peoples around the world.
