Understanding Israel Palestine
Understanding Israel/Palestine advocates for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. The program offers multiple perspectives through interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by mainstream media.
Podcasting since 2022 • 134 episodes
Understanding Israel Palestine
Latest Episodes
On the Ground in Gaza: An Aid Worker Describes Continuing Violence and Fear
Rasha Abouselem has been a humanitarian aid worker since 2014. In December she was in Gaza preparing a field assessment for an aid organization there. She reports on the conditions she found there, the violence Palestinians continue to live wit...
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Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls — “Blowing the whistle on ADL spying for Israel in bed with apartheid South Africa against U.S. civil society” with Jeffrey Blankfort
January 2026. We navigate a landscape where advocacy, social media, and surveillance blur into a digital haze. To face the mounting crisis, we must trace the analog patterns that first forged the cage.In July 2021, I spoke ...
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A New Policy for the United States in Israel and Palestine
Josh Paul joins the show again to discuss A New Policy, the organization that he co-founded with Tareq Habash. A New Policy is an organization dedicated to transforming American foreign policy toward Israel/Palestine to reflect American values ...
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The Pro-Palestine Movement in the United States Today
Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, speaks to Margot Patterson about the war in Gaza in 2025 and the Trump administration's efforts to repress Palestinian activism in the United States over U.S. suppo...
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We Refuse to Be Silent: Having Faith in the Truth
This is a rebroadcast of the second portion of a talk organized by Eyewitness Palestine entitled We Refuse to Be Silent: Having Faith in the Truth. This portion was given by Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and...
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