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Understanding Israel Palestine
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.
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 heels of the film’s release, I invited Tim to reflect on the journey and the growth of the rock climbing scene in Palestine. We discussed what climbing can and cannot do for the political situation there, how climbing connects Palestinians to their land, and the process of setting up the nuts and bolts of rock climbing in Palestine, among other topics.
