Podcasts by PeaceCast
PeaceCast is a podcast produced in Washington by Americans for Peace Now, the sister-organization of Israel’s preeminent peace movement, exploring issues and trends relating to peace and security for Israel, focusing on Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians and efforts to resolve it. If you care about Israel, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, about Israel’s future as a democracy and a Jewish state, this podcast is for you. Episodes feature experts, activists, advocates and scholars whose work or passion is Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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#305: Picking Pomelos with Peace Now at Kibbutz Be'eri from 2023-12-01T21:26
Impressions from a Peace Now volunteering action at the Gaza border community that suffered the heaviest toll on October 7th.
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#304: UNRWA's Gaza Challenge with William Deere from 2023-11-30T21:04
A recording of a November 30th APN webinar.
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#303: Gaza - The Civilian Challenge with Larry Garber and Dave Harden from 2023-11-21T21:17
Dave Harden and Larry Garber are former directors of the West Bank and Gaza office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this episode, they discuss the challenges...
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#302: Eyal Lurie-Pardes on the Push to Rebuild Jewish Settlements in Gaza from 2023-11-16T00:40
Ideological settlers are seriously talking about plans to resettle the Gaza Strip, to re-establish Gush Katif and turn back the clock on the 2005 disengagement, which they perceive as...
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#301: ... Meanwhile in the West Bank with Peace Now's Hagit Ofran and Yoni Mizrachi from 2023-11-10T13:08
A recording of an APN November 9th webinar with Hagit Ofran and Yonatan Mizrachi, the co-directors of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project.
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#300: Arnon Avni, a Peace Activist on the Gaza Border from 2023-11-09T14:34:17
Arnon Avni, an Israeli cartoonist and graphic designer, is a member of kibbutz Nirim, near the Gaza border. He is a longtime peace activ...
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#299: Michael Robbins: What Gazans really think of Hamas from 2023-10-26T15:51
This episode’s guest is Dr. Michael Robbins of Princeton University. He is the co-author of an article that was published on October 26th 2023 in Foreign Affairs, ti...
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#298: The Israel-Gaza Crisis: Emergency Briefing with Yossi Alpher from 2023-10-11T20:21
Recording of an October 11th 2023 APN webinar with Strategic expert Yossi Alpher.
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#297: Amir Tibon on US-Israel Relations from 2023-09-29T02:49
Recording of a September 28th 2023 APN webinar with Haaretz's diplomatic correspondent Amir Tibon.
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296: Crooked Timber: Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin’s New Book on Israeli Democracy from 2023-09-21T20:39
Recording of a September 21st 2023 APN webinar with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin.
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#295: Oslo at 30 with Arnon Degani from 2023-09-08T19:30
Dr. Arnon Degani, a scholar who focuses on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the producer of a Hebrew language podcast on the Oslo process, comes back to PeaceCast for a deeper...
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#294: Shanda: Letty Cottin Pogrebin on Shame and Disgrace from 2023-08-31T20:22
Recording of an August 31rd APN webinar with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, discussing her new book.
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#293: Amos Guiora on Israel's Protest Movement and Criminal Complicity from 2023-08-28T19:29
Amos Guiora is a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a dual citizen of the United States ...
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#292: Shahira Shalabi on Mixed Cities in Israel from 2023-08-14T20:02
Recording of an August 14th APN webinar.
Shahira Shalabi is the Co-Deputy CEO for Programs of the Abraham Initiatives, where she runs the mixed cities ...
#291: Adam Rasgon on Profiling the PA's Hussein Al-Sheikh from 2023-08-09T14:41
Adam Rasgon, a journalist specializing in covering Palestinian affairs, is the co-author of a recent Foreign Policy profile of Hussein Al-Sheikh, the chief assistant of the Palestinian Authority...
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#290: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Israeli violations of Palestinian Human Rights from 2023-07-31T19:15
Recording of a July 31st APN webinar with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
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#289: Israel's Democracy Crisis with Susie Gellman and Hadar Susskind from 2023-07-25T14:07
A recording of a July 24th APN webinar to discuss the repercussions of the Isaeli government's assault on democracy.
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#288: Groundworking with Sally Abed and Dina Kraft from 2023-07-18T13:30
Sally Abed, a social activist, and Dina Kraft, a journalist and author, are the anchors of Groundwork, a successful podcast co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund and the Alliance for Middle East P...
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#287: Lior Amihai Updates on Settlements and Anti-Settlements Protest from 2023-07-11T00:04
A recording of a July 10th 2023 webinar with Peace Now's Executive Director Lior Amihai.
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#286: Punching the Giant - Rochelle Berman on Her Time in the West Bank from 2023-07-03T20:45
APN intern Rochelle Berman spent her gap year in the West Bank, observing occupation friction points. In this episode, she reflects on this unique experience.
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#285: US-Palestinian Relations with US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr from 2023-06-30T00:07
A recording of a June 29th 2023 APN webinar with Hady Amr, the US Special Representative for Palestinian Affairs.
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#284: Diaspora Communities and Israel-Palestine with Mira Sucharov ad Omar Dajani from 2023-06-16T16:39
A recording of a June 16th 2023 APN webinar.
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#283: Israeli Society and the Conflict with Daniel Bar-Tal from 2023-06-12T18:17
Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal is one of the world's leading experts on intractable condlicts. In his new book, Sinking into the Honey Trap - The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bar-Tal...
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#282: West Bank Settlements 56 Years into the Occupation with Hagit Ofran from 2023-06-05T20:53
A recording of a June 5th 2023 APN webinar.
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#281: Returning the Key - a Conversation with Yair Barak from 2023-06-01T15:36
On the 56th anniversary of the Six Day War, which marks the beginning of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, this episode features a small story th...
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#280: Israel's High-Tech Surveillance of Palestinians with Breaking the Silence's Ori Givati from 2023-05-17T19:41
This episode is a recording of an APN May 15th 2023 webinar with Ori Givati of Breaking the Silence on the high tech programs the Isreali military uses to surveille Palestinians.
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#279: Shikma Bressler, a Leader of Israel's Pro-Democracy Protest Movement from 2023-05-03T17:17
This episode is a recording of a May 3rd 2023 APN webinar with Dr. Shikma Bressler, one of the chief leaders of Israel's protest movement.
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#278: Understanding Israeli Withdrawals with Dr. Rob Geist Pinfold from 2023-04-18T17:15
Dr. Rob Geist Pinfold is a Lecturer at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs in the United Kingdom. His new book is titled Understanding Territorial Withdrawal -...
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#278: Palestinian Politics and Public Opinion with Dr. Khalil Shikaki from 2023-04-17T17:49
This episode is a recording of an April 17th APN webinar with Palestinian political scientist and pollster Khalil Shikaki.
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#277: Nonviolence in Palestine with Ali Abu Awwad from 2023-04-08T19:20
Ali Abu Awwad is the Co-founder & General Manager of Taghyeer (Change), a Palestinian organization that leads a national nonviolence grassroots movement in the West Bank. It...
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#276: Exploitation of Palestinian Workers in Israel with Assaf Adiv from 2023-04-04T14:16
Assaf Adiv is a longtime activist in the field of Palestinian labor rights. He is the Executive Director of MAAN Workers Association, a nonprofit that functions as a labor union. It works to adv...
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275: The 1936-1939 Arab Revolt, then and now, with Oren Kessler from 2023-03-30T15:27
Palestine 1936 The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict is the newly published book by Oren Kessler, an Israel-based author and journalist. In this conversation, Oren ...
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#274: Netanyahu's Government and the Occupation with Peace Now's Lior Amihai from 2023-03-29T20:57
This episode is a recording of a March 29th 2023 webinar with the executive director of Israel’s Peace Now movement, Lior Amihai. Before becoming Peace Now’s executi...
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#273: New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman on the Crisis in Israel from 2023-03-01T22:19
A recording of APN's March 1st webinar with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the political crisis in Israel.
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#272: Sharing the Promised Land, with Shuli Dichter from 2023-02-17T21:21
Newly released in English, Shuli Dichter's book Sharing the Promised Land: In Pursuit of Equality Between Jewish and Arab Citizens in Israel combines personal stories with a blueprint for true e...
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#271: A Conversation with Israeli Protest Organizers from 2023-02-14T19:11
This episode is a recording of a Februry 14th 2023 APN webinar with three of the organizers of the pro-democracy Israeli protest movement: Limor Moyal, Nery Life-Choma and Offir Gutelzon.
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#270: Emil Grunzweig's Murder, 40 Years Later from 2023-02-07T03:28
Janet Aviad was among the founders of Israel's Peace Now movement. 40 years ago, she stood next to Emil Grunzweig, a leading Peace Now activist, when he was killed by a right-wing Israeli at the...
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#269: A Sobering Reality: A Young Palestinian Leader's Perspective with Yara Amayra from 2023-01-27T15:45
Yara Amayra is a young Palestinian civil society activist and opinion leader.
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#268: The Day after Abbas with INSS' Noa Shusterman from 2023-01-20T11:10
Noa Shusterman is the Israel-Palestinian Research Program Coordinator at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Israel's leading think tank. In this episode, she talks about the memo...
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#267: The Price of Criticizing Israel's Human Rights Record with Kenneth Roth from 2023-01-18T22:53
A recording of an APN January 18th 2023 webinar with Kenneth Roth.
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#266: Confronting Netanyahu's Attack on Democracy with ACRI's Noa Sattath from 2023-01-10T00:59
Recording of a January 9th 2023 webinar with Noa Sattath, the executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). Sponsored jointly by APN and the New Israel Fund.
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#265: Silenced on Twitter: Palestinian Journalist Said Arikat from 2022-12-27T18:21
Said Arikat, the Washington correspondent of the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Quds, recently learned that his Twitter account has been suspended. In this episode, Ori discusses this odd experi...
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#264: Israel's Incoming Government and Civil Society from 2022-12-22T20:48
A recording of a Decenber 22nd 2022 webinar with the leaders of three Israeli anti-occupation organizations: Shaqued Morag of Peace Now, Jessica Montell of Hamoked, and Avner Gvaryahu of Breakin...
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#264: Daniel Kurtzer - How Should Biden Respond to Israel's New Government? from 2022-12-10T02:42:23
Recording of APN's December 9th 2022 webinar with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer.
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#263: Tantura - Alon Schwarz on his new documentary from 2022-12-05T18:44
Alon Schwarz is the director of the newly released documentary film Tantura. In this episode he discussess his film and what he hopes it will accomplish. <...
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#262: We are Not One: Eric Alterman on his New Book from 2022-11-22T21:03
A recording of a November 22 webinar with Eric Alterman on his new book, We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over...
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#261: Post Israeli Election Analysis with Dahlia Scheindlin from 2022-11-04T17:49
Recording of a webinar analyzing of Israel’s November 1st Knesset elections. The webinar took place on Friday, November 4th. It featured pollster and political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin In a con...
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#260: The Other Israel Film Festival 2022 from 2022-10-28T09:23
Isaac Zablocki is the director of the Other Film Festival, which will be launched on November 3rd 2022 in New York. In this episode, he talks about several of the films that evolve around the Is...
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#259: Israel's Upcoming Elections with Haaretz's Allison Kaplan Sommer from 2022-10-26T21:15
A recording of an APN October 26th 2022 webinar with Haaretz journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer, less than a week before Israel's general elections.
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#258: Israelism - Eric Axelman's New Documentary from 2022-10-24T19:17
Eric Axelman is a film director and producer. His new documentary, Israelism, features young American Jews who were raised to defend the state of Israel, but whe...
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#257: ALLMEP's Avi Meyerstein on Funding People-to-People Programs from 2022-10-19T21:21
This episode is a recording of an October 19th 2022 webinar with the founder and president of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), Avi Meyerstein on the special congressional initiaive t...
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#256: The Jerusalem Youth Chorus with Founder Micah Hendler from 2022-10-19T17:23
Micah Hendler is the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus. In this episode, he talks about the choir and about the power of music to bring people together. On the Listen
#255: Arnon Degani's Oslo Podcast from 2022-09-30T18:14
Dr. Arnon Degani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Avraham Harman Research Center for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Research fellow at the Israeli think tank MOLAD...
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#254: Israel's Upcoming Elections with Tal Schneider from 2022-09-21T19:25:12
A recording of a September 21st 2022 webinar with Israeli journalist and political analyst Tal Schneider.
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#253: Putting the Green Line on the Map with Chen Arieli from 2022-09-12T13:45:29
Chen Arieli is the Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv. This episode is an audio recording of a September 8th 2022 webinar, in which Arieli spoke about her initiative of producing new maps for Tel Aviv pub...
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#252: The Holocaust through a Palestinian Prism with Bishara Bahbah from 2022-09-02T18:02:18
Dr. Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American scholar, journalist and actiivist, is the author of a recent Haaretz arrticle titled Listen
#251: Between Bombs and Blockade: Mental Health in Gaza from 2022-09-01T20:53:09
A recording of a September 1, 2022 webinar with Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei and Dr. Suad Lubbad, mental health practitioners in the Gaza Strip.
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#250: AIPAC vs. Democracy with Ruth Messinger and Mik Moore from 2022-08-26T01:43:54
This episode is an audio recording of an August 25 APN webinar with Ruth Messinger and Mik Moore to discuss their jointly authored article recently published by The Nation.
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#249: Occupation Bureaucracy with Breaking the Silence's Joel Carmel from 2022-08-11T20:08:35
A recording of an August 11th 2022 APN webinar featuring Joel Carmel of Breaking the Silence (BtS).
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#248: Israel's Upcoming Elections with Chemi Shalev from 2022-08-04T21:19:12
This episoed is a rcording of an August 4th APN webinar with Israeli political analyst Chemi Shalev.
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#247: The Dove - APN's Storytelling Event, in Partnership with NSL from 2022-07-27T19:30:15
The Dove is an annual storytelling event that features young Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in Washington DC for the summer program of New Story Leadership.
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#246: PIN Update on Masafer Yatta from 2022-07-15T18:48:36
This episode is a recording of a July 14th 2022 webinar, sponsored by organizations that comprise the Progressive Israel Network (PIN), focusing on the ongoing crisis at the South Hebron Hills P...
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#245: A New Online Palestinian Encyclopedia with Prof. Alex Winder from 2022-07-06T21:19:21
Alexander (Alex) Winder, is a professor at Brown University focusing on Palestinian history, and the co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly, published by the Instit...
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#244: Israeli Politics and the Occupation with Dana Mills from 2022-07-06T16:56:52
This is an audio recording of a July 6th 2022 webinar with Dana Mills, the acting executive director of Israel's Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) movement.
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#243: Young Progressive Jewish Americans on Israel, Palestine, and the Conflict from 2022-06-23T20:20:57
This is a recording of a June 23rd 2022 webinar with the young members of APN's team to explore the ways in which young progressive American Jews are thinking, talking, and acting about Israel a...
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#242: New Israeli Restrictions on Foreign Nationals in the West Bank from 2022-06-15T18:27:27
This is a recording of a June 15th, 2022 webinar featuring Jessica Montell, the executive director of the Israel human rights organization Hamoked to discuss the new set of regulations issued by...
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#241: Yossi Alpher on Israel's Chief Strategic Challenges from 2022-06-08T18:15:49
This episode is a recording of a June 7th 2022 in-person event in Washington DC with strategic affairs analyst Yossi Alpher regarding Israel’s existential challenges.
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#240: Billboard Brouhaha with Eran Nissan from 2022-06-03T14:43:43
The Israeli progressive organization Mehazkim put up billboards throughout Israel showing the Israeli and Palestinian flags and saying, "We were Meant to Live Together." One of them, ne...
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#239: Journalism under Occupation from 2022-05-26T19:31
Recording of a webinar with veteran Palestinian journalists Daoud Kuttab and Mohammed Daraghmeh on the challenges of covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a Palestinian journalist.
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#238: Settlements Update with Dana Mills from 2022-05-24T18:23:46
This episode is a recoring of a May 19th 2022 webinar with Dr. Dana Mills, the acting director of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) on the Israeli peace movement currenrt efforts to curtail Israeli set...
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#237: Palestinian Municipal Elections with Larry Garber from 2022-05-02T14:51:13
Larry Garber is back from the West Bank, where he spent a month documenting the second round of the Palestinian municipal elections as a member of a Carter Center expert team.
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#236: Jerusalem in Crisis: Webinar Featuring Daniel Seidemann from 2022-04-25T13:40:49
Recording of an April 21st APN webinar with Jerusalem expert Danny Seidemann on the tension in Jerusalem and beyond.
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#235: "I Refuse to Give Up My Optimism" - In Memory of Sid Topol from 2022-04-06T00:07:47
This episode is a tribute to longtime APN Board member Sidney (Sid) Topol, who passed away on March 30th, 2022. Sid was an icon of the US pro-Israel pro-peace movement.
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#234: The Changing Pro-Israel Politics on Capitol Hill from 2022-04-05T20:34:19
Recording of an April 5th, 2022 webinar with Stacy Burdett and Dan Kalik.
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#233: Death Tango - Yossi Alpher on his New Book from 2022-03-31T19:23:01
This episode discusses the dramatic events of March 2002 and the violence of March 2022 and the twenty years that separate them. Our guest is Yossi Alpher, the Israeli strategic affairs expert, a p...
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#232: Standing Together from 2022-03-30T13:34:23
An in-person conversation with Alon-Lee Green and Sally Abed of the progressive Israeli Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together.
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231: Al-Walaja under Threat of Demolitions from 2022-03-29T20:35:33
A recording of a March 29th 2022 webinar with activists Mark Zivin and Aviv Tatarsky to discuss their efforts to stop the mass demolition of Palestinian homes in the village of Al-Walaja, East J...
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#230: New Confederation Plan with Hiba Husseini and Yossi Beilin from 2022-03-21T19:43:12
Recording of an APN March 21 2022 webinar with Dr. Hiba Husseini and Dr. Yossi Beilin, the co-authors of a new plan for a Palestinian-Israeli confederation, title...
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#229: Ambassador Thomas Nides on Israelis, Palestinians, and Peace from 2022-03-16T14:41:42
This episode is a recording of a March 15th 2022 webinar with the US Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, co-moderated by APN Board member and the President of the American Federation of Teachers, R...
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#228: Let the Flag Fly from 2022-03-12T13:16:27
Palestinian flags are not outlawed in Israel. So why do Israeli police officers in East Jerusalem and elsewhere systematically confiscate Palestinian flags, and w...
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#227: Everyday Voices Podcast on Settler Violence with Ori Nir from 2022-02-28T18:34:40
This episode is an edited version of a conversation Ori had on February 21st 2022 with Andrew Hirsh and Ezzeldeen Masri of OneVoice, for their podcast, Everyday Voices.
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#226: A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism with Rabbi Jill Jacobs from 2022-02-24T19:48:45
A recording of a February 24th 2022 webinar to discuss a new publication by Truah, A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism. A conversation on this topic between the CEOs of T’ruah and APN, Rabbi Jill...
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#225: The Dark Side of the Blue Box: JNF and the Occupation from 2022-02-15T20:53:27
This episode is an edited version of an APN webinar with Maya Rosen and Daniel Roth, the co-authors of a new report on the ways in which the work of a huge...
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#224: Shabak on Facebook with Prof. Hillel Cohen from 2022-02-11T01:02:13
This episode of PeaceCast features Professor Hillel Cohen, an exceptionally creative Hebrew University scholar studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His current article in Israel Studies Ma...
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#223: Rabbis for Human Rights with Michael Marmur from 2022-02-08T14:19:01
Rabbi Dr. Michael Marmur is the Chair of the Board of the Israeli human rights organization Rabbis for Human Rights. He is also an Associate Professor of Jewish Theology at Hebrew Union College ...
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#222: Trump's Peace with Barak Ravid from 2022-01-27T21:50:41
A recording of a January 27th 2022 webinar with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid on his new book.
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#221: Visa Waiver for Israel&Palestinian-Americans' Travel Rights from 2022-01-18T21:34:57
The governments of the US and Israel are negotiating terms for including Israel in the US Visa Waiver Program. Will these terms address Israel's restrictions on travel into and through Israel fo...
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#220: Meet Dana Mills, Peace Now's Acting Director from 2022-01-18T15:26:34
Dana Mills is the acting Executive Director of Israel's peace movement Shalom Achshav, Peace Now. She is also a scholar, a professor, an author and a dancer, and a longtime peace activist.
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#219: Exploring "The Hope" with Uri Ashi from 2022-01-10T19:18:32
Uri Ashi is the author of a newly published Hebrew book, The Hope, an Illustrated Guide to Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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#218: Settler Violence and the IDF with Ori Givati from 2022-01-05T14:06:46
Ori Givati is the advocacy director of Breaking the Silence. He is discussing a new BTS report, a collection of IDF soldiers' testimonies on settler violence.
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#217: Christmas in Bethlehem 2021 with Vera Baboun from 2021-12-21T21:56:08
Vera Baboun is the former mayor of Bethlehem. She was mayor between 2012 and 2017, the first woman elected for mayor in Bethlehem, and throughout her adult life has been a peace advocate.
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#216: Dana Mills on Peace Now's New Settler Violence Report from 2021-12-16T21:57:30
A recording of a December 16th, 2021 webinar with Peace Now's Dana Mills on a new Peace Now report analyzing the relationship between West Bank illegal outposts and anti-Palestinian violent acts...
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#215: The PLO’s Film Archive with Karnit Mandel from 2021-12-13T14:55:53
Karnit Mandel, a documentarian who specializes in archival work, talks about her new film, “Shalal: A Reel War,” which was recently aired on aired on Israel’s Hot 8 cable TV channel which co-pro...
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#214: Upside-Down Love with Sari Bashi from 2021-12-09T20:38:56
The recording of a December 9th 2021 webinar with Sari Bashi, an Israeli human rights lawyer and the co-founder of Gisha. Bashi recently published a Hebrew-language book, “Maqluba: Upside-Down L...
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#213: Masafer Yatta Faces the Occupation from 2021-12-01T15:54:01
Ali Awad is a Palestinian activist and resident of Tuba, a village in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Maya Rosen is a Jerusalem-based activist with All That’s Left, an anti-Occupation c...
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#212: Rep. Andy Levin on his Two-State Solution Act from 2021-11-29T19:51:52
Congressman Andy Levin recently (D-MI) introduced groundbreaking legislation intended to re-define the United States’ role as a catalyst for Israeli-Palestinian peace. By implementing tangible s...
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#211: Encountering Palestinians with Leah Solomon from 2021-11-12T12:16:23
Encountering Palestinians with Leah Solomon
Leah Solomon is the Chief Education Officer of Encounter, an organization that focuses on introducing US Jewish community leaders to West Bank ...
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#210: Michael Sfard on Terrorist Designation of Palestinian NGOs from 2021-11-08T19:32:37
This episode is a recording of an APN November 8th 2021 webinar with leading Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on the Israeli government's designation of six West Bank-based Palestinian ...
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#209: Settler Violence with Hagit Ofran and Lior Amihai from 2021-10-15T14:19:54
Hagit Ofran of Israel's Peace Now movement and Lior Amihai, the executive director of the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din analyze what is behind the current uptick in Wesst Bank settl...
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#208: Farewell to Marcia Freedman from 2021-09-23T02:28:29
A tribute to Marcia Freedman, an American-Israeli social justice activist, a feminist, and a peace activist who passed away on September 21st. It is an edited down conversation between Freedman ...
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#207: DeLee and Pressberg Retrospective from 2021-09-14T01:53:19
This episode is the second in a two-part series, featuring past leaders of Americans for Peace Now as the organization marks its 40th anniversary. This conversation is with Debra DeLee and Gail ...
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#206: Rosenblum Retrospect: APN's Early Years from 2021-09-10T01:21:16
Americans for Peace Now is this year marking its 40th anniversary. The organization was founded in 1981, and its first director was Mark Rosenblum.
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#205: MachsomWatch from 2021-09-03T20:46:13
MachsomWatch was founded in 2001, when three Jewish women from Jerusalem first saw a military checkpoint in the West Bank. Today, it is comprised of some 200 Isra...
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#204: Israel-Palestine in US Public Opinion with Shibley Telhami from 2021-09-02T18:26:58
American public attitudes toward Israel and Palestine have dramatically shifted in the past few years. In this webinar, Dr. Telhami analyzed the recent developments and the overarching trends on...
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#203: Extend with Sam Sussman from 2021-08-19T20:35:11
Sam Sussman is the co-founder and director of Extend, a nonprofit organization which seeks to introduce young American Jews to Palestinian and Israeli human righ...
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#202: Screaming about Ice Cream from 2021-08-17T01:56:35
A recording of an August 16th 2021 APN webinar, in partnership with Just Vision and Jewish Currents, hosting Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and the company's Chair of the Board Anuradha Mitt...
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#201: Introducing Groundwork from 2021-08-11T20:13:35
This episode features the hosts of Groundwork, a new podcast about Palestinian and Jewish Israelis refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change. Sally Abed is a Palestinian ...
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#200: Two Hundred Episodes - Looking Back and Forward from 2021-08-03T13:35:49
More than four and a half years ago, we launched PeaceCast, Americans for Peace Now’s podcast. Since then, we recorded 200 episodes. This celebratory episode features a conversation between Ori ...
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#199: Peace Process Now with Yossi Beilin and Daniel Kurtzer from 2021-07-29T18:26:38
After the Trump administration made a mockery of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, came the Biden administration with a policy that does not presume to relaunch ...
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#198: Ecology, Water, and Peace with Gidon Bromberg from 2021-07-20T20:54:44
This episode is a recording of an APN July 20th webinar with Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Pal...
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#197: Palestinian Public Opinion Update with Khalil Shikaki from 2021-07-08T18:44:40
This episode is the audio of a July 8th 2021 APN Webinar. Leading Palestinian political pollster and political analyst Khalil Shikaki analyzes Palestinian public opinion as the events of this su...
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#196: Gender Perspective on Jerusalem with Adi Granot from 2021-07-02T13:31:26
Adi Granot is the research project manager of Zulat, an Israeli think tank that focuses on equality and human rights. Her recently published report addresses the status of Palestinian women in E...
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#195: The Left Flank of Israel's New Coalition with Mossi Raz from 2021-06-29T20:23:41
A recording of a June 29th 2021 APN webinar with MK Mossi Raz, a former director of Peace Now and a longtime peace activist, who represents Meretz in the Knesset. Raz recognizes the limits of pu...
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#194: Norbert Goldfield Heals Across the Divides from 2021-06-20T18:58:53
Dr. Norbert Goldfield is founder/ CEO of Healing Across the Divides (www.healingdivides.org ) focusing on peace-building through health in the Israe...
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#193: Supporting Peace - Conditioning Aid from 2021-06-18T01:52:01
APN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind and our Director of Government Relations Madeleine Cereghino explain the new policy that APN adopted in support of conditioning US aid to Israel. A recordi...
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#192: Israel's Political Earthquake with Tal Schneider from 2021-06-10T21:39:45
A recording of a June 10th 2021 APN webinar with Israeli political analyst Tal Schneider on Israel’s new “change coalition.”
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#191: Kafka in Silwan with Jawad Siam and Hagit Ofran from 2021-06-10T03:01:22
Jawad Siam is a resident of East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood. A settler organization pushed out his family members from a portion of his home by establishing ownership in court. Now the sett...
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#190: After the Storm - Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel from 2021-06-03T20:47:35
A conversation with two leading Israeli activists with many years of experience building bridges between Arabs and Jews.
Shalom (Shuli) Dichter is the author of Tensi...
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#189: Sulaiman Khatib, Combatant for Peace from 2021-05-29T16:47:18
An edited version of an online event organized by American Friends of Combatants for Peace and co-sponsored by many pro-peace organizations, including APN.
The event featured Combatants f...
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#188: Amplifying Arab Voices - Noa Landau on Haaretz 21 from 2021-05-27T17:43:51
Noa Landau is a senior writer and editor at Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. She manages a new Haaretz initiative to amplify and empower voices of Arab citizens of Israel.
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#187: Assessing the Recent Round of Violence with Yossi Alpher and Shaqued Morag from 2021-05-24T19:09:27
In conversation with APN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind, one of Israel's leading strategic analysts and one of its leading peace activists analyze the recent hostilities and their impact.
#186: New Israel-Palestine Dynamics in Washington with Hadar Susskind from 2021-05-20T16:27:39
The current flareup of violence between Israel and Hamas has exposed an unprecedented dynamic in Washington in relation to Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians.
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#185: The Nakba - A Living Experience with Carol Daniel Kasbari from 2021-05-14T02:40:42
May 15th is the anniversary of the most traumatic experience that the Palestinian people suffered in its history, the devastation in the 1948 war, which Israeli Jews call the War of Independence...
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#184: Israel and Gaza on Fire - American Jewish Webinar from 2021-05-12T21:19:14
Recent violence in Jerusalem triggered a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and widespread Jewish-Arab inter-communal hostilities throughout Israel. This episode is an audio recording of a we...
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#183: Human Rights Watch's New Report with Omar Shakir and Eric Goldstein from 2021-05-04T20:43:55
This episode is a recording of an APN webinar with Omar Shakir and Eric Goldstein of Human Rights Watch, discussing HRW's new report on Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.
Oma...
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#183: Human Rights Watch's New Report with Omar Shakir and Eric Goldstein from 2021-05-04T20:43:55
This episode is a recording of an APN webinar with Omar Shakir and Eric Goldstein of Human Rights Watch, discussing HRW's new report on Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.
Oma...
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#182: U.S. Evangelicals' Support for Settlements from 2021-04-30T01:50:05
What are the theological motives and political manifestations of American Evangelicals' support of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? Rev. Dr. Mae Cannon, the executive dir...
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#181: Tensions in Jerusalem with Daniel Seidemann from 2021-04-26T18:18:13
Daniel Seidemann is an Israeli attorney specializing in Israeli-Palestinian relations in Jerusalem. He is widely considered as the leading expert on Jerusalem-related matters as...
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#180: Israel-Palestine on Capitol Hill with Rep. Mark Pocan from 2021-04-21T20:20:03
The dynamics and politics of working on Israeli-Palestinian affairs on Capitol Hill have changed over time, as have the dynamics of advancing progressive sensibilities in Congress.
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#179: Palestinian Elections with Daoud Kuttab from 2021-04-16T21:17:06
The upcoming May 22nd Palestinian parliamentary elections are a landmark event, which both indicates and enhances the vitality of Palestinian public life. This episode is an edited version of an...
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#178: Do Not Settle: Hagit Ofran on a New Peace Now Report from 2021-04-13T20:56:16
The co-director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project commenting on Do Not Settle, a new report that urges policy makers not to settle for a differentiation between "more damaging" an...
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#177: Antisemitism: Competing Definitions from 2021-04-09T19:16:10
The definition of antisemitism, which many consider to be intuitive, has recently become controversial. Now, there are three definitions trending. In addition to the International Holocaust Reme...
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#176: Teens for Peace from 2021-03-29T02:03:41
When you listen to Maxwell (Max) Hyman, you have to remind yourself that he is only 16. This talented teen started an initiative, Teens for Peace in the Middle East, to bridge the gap of alienat...
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#175: Israeli Election Analysis with Dahlia Scheindlin from 2021-03-25T17:04:51
A recording or a March 25th 2021 webinar with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, one of Israel's leading pollsters and political analysts on the general elections of March 23rd.
#174: A Case for Confederation with Sam Bahour and Bernard Avishai from 2021-03-04T20:05:02
This episode is a recording of an APN webinar with Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour, the co-authors of a recent New York Times article laying out the benefits of an Israeli-Palestinian confederati...
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#173: MK Merav Michaeli on Israeli Elections and the Left from 2021-02-25T20:46:19
This episode is a recording of a February 25th 2021 APN webinar with Knesset Member Merav Michaeli, the new leader of Israel's Labor Party.
#172: Prosecuting the Occupation? Michael Sfard on the ICC from 2021-02-23T18:33:19
The international Criminal Court (ICC) recently ruled that it has jurisdiction over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip — territories under Israeli occupation since 1967. This opens...
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#171: Shira Efron&Daniel Egel on Future Outcomes for Israelis&Palestinians from 2021-02-18T00:59:31
Shira Efron and Daniel Egel are co-authors of a unique Rand Corporation report analyzing the attitudes of Israelis and Palestinians toward five different possible outcomes of the Israeli-Palesti...
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#170: Israeli Elections with Dahlia Scheindlin from 2021-02-08T21:03
Israelis are going to the polls. Again. For the fourth time in two years.
Political analyst and pollster Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin Analyzes Israel's political scene as the March 23rd election...
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#169: Palestinian Politics Update with Zaha Hassan from 2021-02-03T20:08:46
A recording of a webinar on the current state of Palestinian politics with three rounds of elections on the horizon. Our guest was Zaha Hassan, a visiting fellow, at the Carnegie Endowment for I...
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#168: Military Invasions of Palestinian Homes from 2021-01-29T15:52:21
This episode, in collaboration with the New Israel Fund, is a slightly edited recording of a January 28th 2021 panel discussion introducing a report by three ...
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#167: When Did They Start Calling Themselves Palestinians? from 2021-01-16T13:31:55
Dr. Zachary Foster is a scholar whose PhD dissertation analyzes and explains why people began to think of themselves as Palestinian in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He surveyed t...
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#166: Israeli Elections Round 4 with Tal Schneider from 2021-01-11T21:48:02
Tal Schneider is an award-winning Israeli political correspondent and analyst - one of Israel’s leading journalists. Currently with The Times of Israel – she just started there last week -- and ...
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#165: Daniel Levy on Biden's Israel-Palestine Challenges from 2021-01-08T02:59:11
APN webinar with Daniel Levy -- another in a series on the impact on Israel-Palestine of the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden-Harris administration. Levy is the President of...
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#164: Jerusalem First? With Eliezer Yaari from 2021-01-04T21:51:31
Veteran Israeli journalist and social activist Eliezer (Gezer) Yaari talks about his efforts to Make East Jerusalem's Palestinian population accessible to Israeli Jews, and speculates that Israe...
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#163: ALLMEP's $250 Million Achievement from 2020-12-29T18:53:49
John Lyndon is the executive director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) and Kevin Rachlin is ALLMEP's US director.
In this episode they talk about ALLMEP’s recent success: pa...
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#162: Israel-Palestine Blueprint for Biden from 2020-12-28T19:42:19
Tamara Cofman Wittes is a co-author of a new report, a blueprint for a new policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Biden administration
To view and download the Center for a N...
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#161: Europe, Biden, and Israel-Palestine from 2020-12-22T21:53:14
A recording of a December 22nd 2020 webinar with Anders Persson, a professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden, an expert on the European Union's policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Perss...
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#160: On Christmas - Message of Peace from Bethlehem from 2020-12-16T00:09:21
A conversation with Vera Baboun, the former mayor of Bethlehem (2012-2017) about the challenges facing her town this Christmas season, and about peace: the yearning for peace, and the prospects ...
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#159: Hanan Ashrawi on Trump, Biden, and the Palestinians from 2020-12-09T18:43:26
Dr. Ashrawi discusses the Palestinian perspective on the transition and examined the state of US-Palestinian relations after Donald Trump’s four years in the White House. She commented on the Pa...
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#158: West Bank Settlements Between Trump and Biden from 2020-12-07T22:53:36
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch Project, is one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. In this webinar, she examined the Trump administration’s legacy regarding settlements a...
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#157: Israel and the Biden Administration from 2020-11-24T21:00:39
A recording of a webinar with Yossi Alper, one of Israel’s leading strategic affairs analysts, addressing how the transition from Trump to Biden is viewed in Israel, how dealing with a Biden adm...
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#156: What Should We Know About Settlements? from 2020-11-23T22:42:38
Dahlia Scheindlin is an Israel-based public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer.
She is also a podcaster. Her latest ...
#155: Joe Biden and Palestinian Politics from 2020-11-20T19:58:40
Palestinians don’t see Joe Biden as a savior. Far from it. But the end of the demise of the Trump administration, the worse period ever in US-Palestinian relations, is viewed by many Palestinian...
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#154: Re-Fund UNRWA from 2020-11-12T19:00:10
Elizabeth Campbell is director of UNRWA’s Representative Office in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining UNRWA, Campbell was the senior humanitarian policy advisor in the Bureau of Internation...
#153: Middle East Policy Under Joe Biden and the Dems from 2020-11-06T20:11:01
An APN webinar featuring Mira Resnick and Ilan Goldenberg to analyze the general election results and what they mean for America's Middle East policy.
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#152: Ami Kaufman's Otherwise Occupied from 2020-10-22T21:13:58
Veteran journalist Ami Kaufman has a new podcast.
Check it out here: Amikaufman.com
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#151: Tag Meir - Gadi Gvaryahu Shines Hope from 2020-10-14T22:22:23
Gadi Gvaryahu is the founder and Chairman of Tag Meir.
His organization's web site: https://www.tag-meir.org.il/en/
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#150: Who Started the Second Intifada? from 2020-10-02T19:39:18
Shortly after the eruption of the second intifada, a veteran senior Israeli intelligence officer, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Ben-Ari, was appointed to examine whether PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had...
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#149: Israeli Memory of the 1948 Palestinian Refugee Problem from 2020-09-23T20:15:50
Rafi Nets-Zehngut’s new book (currently in Hebrew only) focuses on the collective memory among Israeli Jews of the question of the Palestinian exodus from Palestine during the 1948 war, the war ...
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#148: Eran Singer on How Israeli Jews Learn Arabic from 2020-08-30T02:20:18
Eran Singer covers Arab affairs for Israel Television Channel 11 and for Israel Radio Kan Reshet Bet, Israel’s public broadcast services.
His most recent project was a TV news series on t...
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#147: Daoud Kuttab on the Palestinians and the Israel-UAE Deal from 2020-08-28T13:12:09
This is a slightly edited version of an August 27th 2020 APN webinar.
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a media activist, a leading independent analyst and commentator on curre...
#146: Yossi Alpher on the Israel-UAE Agreement from 2020-08-20T19:01:28
Yossi alpher is the author of Hard Questions, Tough Answers, APN’s weekly analysis of political and strategic affairs. Now an independent security analyst, Alpher is the former director of the J...
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#145: Jessica Montell on Israel's House Demolition Policy from 2020-08-14T02:41:30
In a rare decision, Israel's Supreme Court accepted the petition of a Palestinian family against an IDF order to punitively demolish its West Bank home. Jessica Montell, the executive director o...
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#144: The Occupation as Apartheid - With Michael Sfard from 2020-08-10T19:16:28
Michael Sfard is one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers and the legal counsel of Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) and of the organization Yesh Din.
Yesh Din recently commissioned Sfard to...
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#143: Israel's Protest Movement and the Peace Agenda from 2020-08-04T19:38:35
Eran Nissan is a key orgnizer and activist in the current Anti-Netanyahu, anti-corruption and pro-democracy protest movement in Isreal. He is a former staff member of Peace Now, and currently wo...
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#142: David Pollock Analyzes a Decade of Palestinian Attitudes from 2020-07-31T20:19:58
David Pollock’s new book, A Nation Divided – Palestinian Views on War and Peace with Israel is an analysis of many years of surveying Palestinians' attitudes regarding their relationshi...
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#141: Hagit Ofran on Absentee Property and Annexation from 2020-07-24T17:06:29
This episode is an edited version of a July 23rd 2020 webinar with Peace Now's Hagit Ofran, one of the leading authorities on West Bank settlements and on settlements in East Jerusalem.
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#140: NSL Goes Virtual from 2020-07-13T17:24:40
New Story Leadership is a program that every summer brings to Washington five Israelis and five Palestinians for a program aimed at empowering young leaders who will advance mutual Israeli-Pales...
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#139: Peter Beinart Pivots from 2020-07-11T11:17:51
An APN July 10th 2020 webinar with Peter Beinart on his pivoting away from the two-state paradigm.
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#138: Opposing Annexation: Lara Friedman and Daniel Seidemann from 2020-07-03T01:19:05
An edited version of a webinar with Lara Friedman and Danny Seidemann on West Bank annexation.
Lara Friedman is the president of the Foundation for Middle Eas...
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#137: Zehava Galon Returns to Civil Society from 2020-07-02T13:28:52
After 16 years in the Knesset, including six years as chairperson of Israel’s Meretz party, Zehava Galon is back to human rights activism as the President of Zulat for Equality and Human Rights,...
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#136: Annexation and US-Israel Relations with Dan Shapiro from 2020-06-29T20:47:41
This webinar is one in a series of APN briefings on West Bank annexation. It features Ambassador Daniel Shapiro, the United States’ former ambassador to Israel and currently a distinguished visi...
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#135: Annexation: Khalil Shikaki on Palestinian Policy and Public Opinion from 2020-06-26T20:38:39
This is an edited version of an APN webinar, one in a series of briefings on West Bank annexation. It features Khalil Shikaki, the leading Palestinian pollster and political analyst. Shikaki acc...
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#134: Virtual Dove: Gideon Levy's Story - Collateral Maria from 2020-06-22T18:43:33
This story by Gideon Levy is part of APN’s Virtual Dove series, a collection of stories told by practitioners in the field of Israeli-Palestinian relations, stories that highlight the human and ...
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#133: Virtual Dove: Anat Saragusti - Befriending a Bomber-Turned-Peacenik from 2020-06-21T21:14:58
This story by Anat Saragusti is a part of APN’s Virtual Dove series, a collection of stories told by practitioners in the field of Israeli-Palestinian relations, stories that highlight the human...
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#132: Virtual Dove: Oren Cohen Chauffeuring in Gaza from 2020-06-20T19:44:56
This story by Oren Cohen, the former Palestinian affairs correspondent of the daily newspaper Hadashot, is a part of APN’s Virtual Dove series, a collection of stories told by practitioners in t...
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#131: Amira Hass on Covering the Palestinians from 2020-06-17T14:49:25
This conversation with award-winning Haaretz journalist Amira Hass serves as an introduction to the second installment of our Virtual Dove series of stories about Israeli-Palestinian relations t...
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#130: Annexation - A View from the Knesset from 2020-06-12T01:47:22
This episode is an edited version of an APN briefing call held on June 11th 2020 with Israeli Knesset Member Merav Michaeli of the Labor Party. The briefing call is one in a series on the Israel...
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# 129: Annexation and Refugees from 2020-06-01T19:52:34
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin. Dahlia is a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer. In this episode, she talks about Israeli publ...
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#128: Annexation: Official Palestinian Reaction from 2020-05-22T23:58:16
An edited version of a May 22, 2020 briefing call with Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the PLO’s Executive Committee, and one of the Palestinian leadership’s chief diplomats. For years, Dr...
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#127: Annexation: A View from Europe from 2020-05-15T13:12:06
An edited version of a May 14, 2020 briefing call with John Lyndon, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP).
Based in Paris, John is an expert on Europe's po...
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#126: Jordan and Annexation - Marwan Muasher from 2020-05-08T00:24:54
This episode is an edited version of a May 7th briefing call, the third in APN’s series of briefing calls focusing on the Israeli government’s intention to annex parts of the West Bank.
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#125: The Russian Paradox from 2020-05-03T01:23:20
Arkady Mazin is an expert on the Russian-speaking public in Israel. He is currently working on a book that among other topics examines attitudes among Israeli Russian speaking Jews toward the Is...
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#124: Coalition Agreement and Annexation from 2020-04-30T23:51:29
An edited version of a briefing call with Yossi Alpher on the coalition agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. The focus is on the West Bank a...
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#123: Ambassador Storytellers - Part 2 from 2020-04-28T18:05:35
This is the second part of our first “Virtual Dove” episode, featuring stories by former ambassadors to Israel. Our first part featured stories by former US Jerusalem consul generals Jake Walles...
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#122: Virtual Dove: The Ambassadors (1) from 2020-04-24T16:42:41
This special episode of PaceCast is our first “Virtual Dove” episode, featuring personal, human stories, vignettes, anecdotes, and experiences that underscore positivity in and around the Israel...
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#121: From Settlements to Annexation from 2020-04-13T21:54:07
This episode, recorded on April 13th 2020, is an edited version of a briefing call with Shaqued Morag and Brian Reeves of Israel’s Peace Now movement. Shaqued Morag is the Executive Director of ...
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#120: COVID-19 And West Bank Settlements from 2020-04-07T20:33:01
This episode is an edited version of the audio from a webinar co-sponsored by the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and Americans for Peace Now. The webinar featured Brian Reeves, the dire...
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#119: Settler Violence under Coronavirus from 2020-04-03T16:08:52
Hagar Shezaf is the new West Bank correspondent of Haaretz. In this episode she discusses her current reportage on the spike in violent attacks by West Bank settlers against Palestinians.
# 118: Israeli Politics under COVID-19 from 2020-04-01T01:17:48
Haaretz Columnist Bradley Burston talks about recent developments and future prospects in Israel's political arena as the Coronavirus creates a new reality.
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#117: COVID-19 and Israeli-Palestinian Rapprochement from 2020-03-27T20:40:33
Could Israeli-Palestinian cooperation around Coronavirus be extended beyond the realm of public health? Could it bring about much needed rapprochement? Could it, at the very least, put Israeli a...
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#116: COVID-19 Across the Green Line from 2020-03-22T21:05:32
Jabob Magid covers the West Bank for the Times of Israel. In this episode he talks about how Israel and the Palestinian Authority cooperate in the fight against the Coronavirus, about COVID-19 i...
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#115: Settlement Activity in 2019 from 2020-03-19T20:12:52
This episode features a new report by Israel’s Peace Now movement, reviewing Israel’s West Bank settlement activity in 2019.
Presenting the report is Brian Reeves, Peace Now’s director of...
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#114: From Bereavement to Peace from 2020-03-08T01:04:28
This episode is based on a live recording of a March 6th 2020 talk with Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan of the Parents Circle. The two are the protagonists of Apeirogon, the new novel, by Colum M...
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#113: Israeli Elections (Round 3) Analysis from 2020-03-04T13:46:40
An edited version of APN's March 3, 2020 briefing call with strategic affairs analyst Yossi Alpher.
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#112: Developing Palestinian High-Tech from 2020-03-02T15:12:57
A conversation with Yadin Kaufmann, an Israeli technology investor, social entrepreneur and writer. A veteran venture capitalist, Kaufmann works to stimulate a Palestinian high-tech industry. Listen
#111: Contiguity Denied from 2020-02-29T03:27:36
This episode is an edited version that Americans for Peace Now held with Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann on February 28th, 2020.
Danny is the director of T...
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#110: Democracy Built on Sand from 2020-02-20T15:53:56
This episode features a talk by Arye (Arik) Carmon, the founder and former director of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
#108: Reading the Cards from Europe from 2020-02-13T21:07:10
John Lyndon is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), an umbrella that brings together over 100 organizations in Israel and the West Bank to assist them with fund...
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#107: Is Trump's Plan Reversible? from 2020-02-12T17:28:53
During his term as US ambassador to Israel between 2001 and 2005, Daniel (Dan) Kurtzer spent time trying (and failing) to devise ground rules for limiting West Bank settlement construction. His ...
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#106: Annexation as Poison Pill from 2020-01-31T17:11:37
Joel Singer was the Israeli legal architect of the Oslo Agreements. He is an expert on annexation and what it means for Israel and prospects for peace.
His full biography is available on ...
#105: Trump's Deal - Palestinian Perspective from 2020-01-30T01:27:14
This episode features a conversation with Daoud Kuttab, a veteran Palestinian journalist who splits his time between the West Bank and Amman, Jordan. He is the Director-General of the Listen
#104: Voting Peace at the WZO from 2020-01-22T17:52:31
Hadar Susskind is a longtime activist and Jewish nonprofit professional. Currently, he is the campaign director for Hatikvah Slate, a slate that several progressive Jewish organizations – includ...
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#103: Omar Shakir on HRW's New Report from 2020-01-13T19:02:09
This episode features a conversation with Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. Shakir investigates and documents human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, an...
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#102: The Occupation and the Crisis of Israeli Liberalism from 2019-12-30T21:10:46
Professor Menachem Mautner is a Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law. In this episode he explains why he wrote two recently-published ...
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#101: Seeing Both the Duck and the Rabbit from 2019-12-25T13:00:10
Professor Nurit Shnabel is a psychologist at Tel Aviv University, who researches the way in which empathy can diminish the sense of exclusive victimhood that each side feels in the conflict betw...
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#100: Accentuating the Positive with Dina Kraft from 2019-12-20T14:03:57
Our one hundredth episode(!) coincides with the end-of-year holidays, a time of positivity and hope. To talk about positivity and hope in the context of Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish-...
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#99: Khalil Shikaki on Trends in Palestinian Public Opinion from 2019-11-19T06:56:27
This episode, an edited recording of a conversation with Palestinian pollster and social scientist Khalil Shikaki is another recording from APN’s 2019 study tour to Israel and the West Bank.
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#98: East Bank, West Bank & Beyond - In Amman with Marwan Muasher from 2019-11-06T16:27:15
Dr. Marwan Muasher, currently the Amman-based Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was Jordan's foreign minister, deputy prime minister, information mini...
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#97: Avner Gvaryahu on Breaking the Silence from 2019-10-31T14:34:40
Avner Gvaryahu is the executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have take...
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#96: Annexation 101: APN's Panel at J Street 2019 from 2019-10-29T17:05:49
This episode features the panel discussion that Americans for Peace Now sponsored at the J Street National conference in Washington DC on October 27th, 2019.
Included are the full present...
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#95: Annexation or Peace? Shalom Achshav's Shaqued Morag and Brian Reeves from 2019-10-26T20:26:15
An edited down recording of a panel that we held on Capitol Hill on October 26th 2019, featuring two representatives of our Israeli sister organization, Peace Now (Shalom Achshav), Israel’s peac...
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#94: Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership from 2019-10-18T02:21:13
This episode features a conversation with Menachem Klein, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Bar Ilan University, who specializes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is the author of ...
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#93: A Modicum of Optimism from 2019-10-08T01:49:05
When I heard Yuli Tamir, one of the icons and the leading intellectuals of Israel’s moderate left, expressing optimism at a panel discussion in Washington, I rushed to her with a record...
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#92: From Zero-Sum to Peace: Dual Narratives from 2019-09-23T16:41:22
This episode features a presentation that Nizar Farsakh and Ori Nir gave at Ithaca College on September 17th. The talk was an attempt to make the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more accessible to ...
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#91: Hosted by Bill Press from 2019-09-03T07:00
In this special episode of PeaceCast, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir are the interviewees rather than the interviewers on the Bill Press Pod. A co-production.
With any comments or quest...
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#90: Stand-up in Ramallah -- Comedy as Resistance from 2019-08-20T01:42:59
Amer Zahr is a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian, who for the fourth year in a row is producing One Thousand and One Laughs, a stand-up comedy festival in the West Bank joins PeaceCast from...
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#89: Housing Rather than Ideology from 2019-08-05T01:37:46
Erez Maggor, an Israeli social scientist who specializes in the history and the political economics of the West Bank settlement, says that the impetus for the West Bank settlement policies of th...
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#88: Duplicity: Netanyahu and the Two-State Solution from 2019-08-01T16:18:37
On June 14th 2009, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a major policy speech at Bar Ilan University, in which he endorsed the two-state solution.
On its face, it was a revolu...
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#87: The Dove 2019 from 2019-07-23T18:35:46
This episode features our annual The Dove event, an evening of stories that inspire hope for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Americans for Peace Now partners with New Story Leadership t...
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#86: Undermining Peace in Jerusalem from 2019-07-12T12:56:53
What are the settlers doing in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan? How do their actions and the policy of the Netanyahu government impact the Palestinians living there? What is the impact of t...
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#85: From Soldier to Peace Activist from 2019-06-28T12:35:27
Eran Nissan is the Project Coordinator at Israel's Peace Now movement, the Israeli sister-organization of Americans for Peace Now. This summer, he is one of eight fellows participating in the an...
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#84: DC's New Palestinian Museum from 2019-06-23T21:52:43
This special episode features a visit to the newly launched Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington DC.
I was joined by my daughter Noa Nir, who participated in interviewing Nizar ...
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#83: Attainable Alliances from 2019-06-20T15:00:41
Ameer Fakhouri, a Palestinian citizen of Israel is active in efforts to generate a closer Jewish-Arab political partnership in Israel going into the September elections and beyond.
A lawy...
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#82: Rabbinic Prism from 2019-06-10T17:32:30
This special episode of PeaceCast is produced in partnership with T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
It features six stories told by rabbinical students at a recent story telling...
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#81: Near Consensus from 2019-05-30T16:36:45
Non-Israelis often find it surprising or counter-intuitive that Israel’s top brass, its senior security officials are consistently more dovish than its political leadership. For years, Israeli s...
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#80: The Fallen, Humanity, and Peace from 2019-05-08T18:43:53
A speech I gave at the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony in Washington on May 7th.
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#79: What Everyone Needs to Know about the Conflict from 2019-05-02T03:26:50
Dov Waxman is a Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies and the Director of the Middle East Studies program at Northeastern University.
On the day of it...
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#78: Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians from 2019-04-12T16:58:14
This episode’s guest is Khaled Elgindy, a scholar at the Brookings institution who specializes in Palestinian affairs. He is the author of a new book Listen
#77: Tribute to Amos Oz from 2019-04-09T16:05:34
This episode features three speeches delivered at a March 31 commemorative event at Washington’s Temple Sinai, to honor Israeli novelist Amos Oz, an icon of Israel’s peace movement. Oz died last...
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#76: Israeli Public Opinion on the Eve of Elections from 2019-04-04T15:15:18
This episode was recorded at a live event that Americans for Peace Now co-sponsored with the New Israel Fund at our joint office in Washington on April 3rd, just six days before the Israeli elec...
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#75: 40 Years to the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty from 2019-03-26T15:42:24
On the fortieth anniversary of the White House signing ceremony of Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt, Israel’s peace movement Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) launched a campaign to remind Israelis of ...
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#74: Advocating for Gazans' Freedom of Movement from 2019-03-23T22:18:38
Tania Hary is the Executive Director of Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially residents of the Gaza Strip.
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#73: Covering the Conflict from DC from 2019-03-19T20:44:21
This is a special episode of PeaceCast.
For the first time, we recorded PeaceCast before a live audience in Washington DC. We partnered with one of Israel’s most popular English language ...
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#72: Political Horizon in the Absence of Negotiations from 2019-02-17T03:55:53
Gilead (Gili) Sher is an Israeli lawyer, scholar, expert on, and practitioner of, Israeli negotiations with the Palestinians. He was Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s chief negotiator between...
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#71: The Anatomy of ATCA from 2019-02-08T03:56:04
This show features two experts on Washington Middle East policy and legislative affairs: Debra Shushan, APN’s Policy and Government Relations Director, and Lara Friedman, who preceded her in thi...
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