Understanding Israel Palestine

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Jamie Jackson

I want to promote more honest discussions about the situation in Israel-Palestine. Israel claims the right to exist as a Jewish state, a theocracy that gives legal rights to Jews while denying basic human rights to non-Jews. Israel’s viewpoint dominates US political decisions and is almost never questioned in the mainstream media. The viewpoint of Palestinians is not only ignored, it is being censored. As a Jew I feel especially called on to promote actions that can help bring about both peace and justice for all people in Israel-Palestine.

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel is a permaculturally-informed, emancipatorily-biased & public interest-based all-source/open-source intelligence analyst, documentarian & broadcaster, and a producer of futureroots & hiphop music.

He has a working background in permaculture design and implementation, and music production, performance and education.  

As a Jewish American patriot of conscience, he sees both a moral responsibility & political necessity in honestly addressing the Jewish & American roles in supporting the occupation politics that extend from within Israel Palestine to here at home in the United States.

Keith Washburn

Keith Washburn comes to KKFI with some previous radio experience, mostly in racing. He has broadcast races from I-70 Speedway on 610 AM and hosted the Quarter Mile Review on Racing Boys Network.

Margot Patterson

Margot Patterson is a writer and editor. Most of her experience has been in print journalism, frequently writing on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. In 2019 she and co-hosts Jamie Jackson and Jeremy Rothe-Kushel started “Understanding Israel-Palestine,” a now-weekly program that seeks to provide listeners with a more informed perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than is often available in the mainstream press. She is a long-time contributor to KKFI’s “Jaws of Justice” program and has interviewed a wide range of policy experts, criminologists, law enforcement officials and former inmates on topics ranging from juvenile justice detention, mass incarceration and police training to domestic extremism, human trafficking, solitary confinement and new technologies of incarceration.

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Citizens for Justice in the Middle East provided our inspiration for this show. For twenty years CJME has advocated for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy.  CJME believes an even-handed policy should recognize the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis.  An even-handed policy should work for a political solution promoting those rights.  Thus, CJME’s mission has been to educate people about the injustices created by the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories.

This show extends that mission. For anyone confused about the current impasse, we offer historical information that helps explain it.  For anyone who has been hearing only a one-sided narrative that lacks balance and context, we offer a balanced narrative.

Accordingly, we broadcast interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists who provide perspectives from both sides.  In contrast to headline news that focus on the what but not the why, our programs clarify underlying issues.  The programs reveal the counter-productive role the United States has played over the years in supporting one side over the other.

Public debate about the oppression of Palestinians continues to be stifled. For this reason, we offer these programs as a resource for those seeking truthful, uncensored information about relations between Israel, Palestine and the United States.  Furthermore, we hope these programs get people to listen, learn, and do their own research into what is and has been taking place in Israel Palestine.

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December 10, 2021 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation; Practicing Resistance in Palestine” with Lara & Stephen Sheehi (Part 2 — 12-10-21)

Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation; Practicing Resistance in Palestine" with Lara & Stephen Sheehi (Part 2 -- 12-10-21)

For this week's program, we listen to the second part of producer Jeremy Rothe-Kushel's interview with Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi, co-authors of the recently published and groundbreaking book "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation; Practicing Resistance in Palestine," about how the consciousness of Palestinian psyches by those with Palestinian psyches creates space for a psychotherapeutic commons in liberated Palestine.

Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology program. Lara is the secretary and president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology and is the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender & Sexuality and of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride.
 
Stephen Sheehi (he/him) is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary, where he is also Professor of Arabic Studies in the Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Arabic Program, and Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies Program. He is the author of a number of books including Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar), Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910, and Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity. 

https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207

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