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Understanding Israel Palestine
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131 episodes
4 days ago
Send us a text 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. support for it. Abuznaid discusses changes in U.S. politics over Palestine, which he acknowledges have not so far translated into changes in U.S. policy and funding for Israel, prospects for the movement and a range of measures activists can t...
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Send us a text 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. support for it. Abuznaid discusses changes in U.S. politics over Palestine, which he acknowledges have not so far translated into changes in U.S. policy and funding for Israel, prospects for the movement and a range of measures activists can t...
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Episodes (20/131)
Understanding Israel Palestine
The Pro-Palestine Movement in the United States Today
Send us a text 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. support for it. Abuznaid discusses changes in U.S. politics over Palestine, which he acknowledges have not so far translated into changes in U.S. policy and funding for Israel, prospects for the movement and a range of measures activists can t...
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6 days ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
We Refuse to Be Silent: Having Faith in the Truth
Send us a text 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 a member of the Steering Committee of the Freedom Flotilla. The first portion of the talk was given by Amazon Labor Union Organizer Chris Smalls.
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2 weeks ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – The Oligarchs, The Spies, and The Grand Bargain that Sold Out the Palestinians and the United States
Send us a text Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond the Walls – The Oligarchs, The Spies, and The Grand Bargain that Sold Out the Palestinians and the United States Host: Jeremy Rothe-Kushel Guests: Seth Abramson (Proof), Richard Silverstein (Tikun Olam) Episode Summary: For this episode, I feature segments of 2 interviews from the last half of 2020 with public interest writers & analysts Seth Abramson and Richard Silverstein, both quite prescient in their insights into the curren...
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3 weeks ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
“All My Dreams Have Been Erased:” Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank
Send us a text Milena Ansari joins the show to share the findings of Human Rights Watch's latest report about the forced depopulation of refugee camps in the West Bank. These actions of the Israeli army in early 2025, which constitute a crime against humanity, forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, who have been prevented from returning.
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4 weeks ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Challenging Christian Complicity in Israeli Occupation, Apartheid and Genocide
Send us a text The Rev. Dr. Allison Tanner is a Baptist pastor and national coordinator of Apartheid-Free Communities. She discusses the effort to get Christian churches to pledge to become apartheid-free communities and oppose Israeli occupation and apartheid. Dr. Tanner will bring her perspective and experience to a panel discussion Sunday, Dec. 14 on “A Deafening Silence? U.S. Church Leadership in the Face of Genocide." sponsored by Voices from the Holy Land. Every month the inter-faith, i...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
“The Detonator and the Survival Kit: Recovering the Map Beyond the Wreckage” featuring Jonathan Kuttab
Send us a text “The Detonator and the Survival Kit: Recovering the Map Beyond the Wreckage” featuring Jonathan Kuttab "Welcome back to Understanding Israel Palestine, a Beyond the Walls edition. I’m Jeremy Rothe-Kushel. Today, we re-open a black box recording from a time of useful consciousness: my March 2021 conversation with long-serving Palestinian human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab. Back then, the UN, US, EU, Russia Quartet kept the 'Two-State Zombie craft' aloft—rough but steady. Pe...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Ethnic Cleansing Accelerates in the West Bank
Send us a text Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, director of Israel-Palestine Research at the non-profit DAWN (Democracy in the Arab World Now), discusses the accelerating pace of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, which is sparking fears of a new genocide. He describes the history of settler violence, the U.S. role in enabling Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide, and the need for measures that could prompt Israel to chart a different path. The author of the recently published book,"Fr...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Mamdani’s Panopticon Burden: To Inherit the Hardened and Databased Political Epistemology of the Security State(s)?
Send us a text Mamdani’s Panopticon Burden: To Inherit the Hardened and Databased Political Epistemology of the Security State(s)? By Jeremy Rothe-Kushel Host/Producer, Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond The Walls New York City is a paradox disguised as a metropolis. Above, the glass-and-steel canyons of Midtown reflect the accumulated wealth of empire—the real estate dynasties, the hedge funds, the global insurers. But beneath the asphalt, pulsing through fiber-optic cables and radiating...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Severed: the Crisis of Amputation in Palestine
Send us a text Jen Marlowe, the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects, and producer of the recent film Severed, joins the show to talk about the crisis of disability in Palestine and particularly in Gaza, where thousands of amputees struggle to get the care in the aftermath of Israel's escalated genocide and its suffocating blockade.
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
The Gaza Peace Plan's Uncertain Terms and Prospects
Send us a text The project director on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, an independent non-profit focused on preventing and resolving deadly conflict, Max Rodenbeck discusses the Crisis Group's recent report on the Gaza Peace Plan advanced by President Trump. He describes how Trump's 20-point plan developed, its unavoidable ambiguity, the many questions about the ceasefire's terms and prospects. He notes sustained engagement by other countries, and above all by...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
A Return to the Deep Politics of October 2023 – The Obfuscated Israeli Circumstances, Pretext and Intent of ‘Israel’s 9/11’
Send us a text This is Understanding Israel Palestine: A Beyond the Walls edition. I’m Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, public interest producer, deep political analyst & Jewish American patriot of conscience. Here in late October 2025, a tentative alleged Gaza so-called peace deal is roughly unfolding—almost exactly two years after the initiation of the October 7th attacks & the subsequent genocidal response. But as American allies have recognized an apparently not yet existent & likel...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Armenian Jerusalemites Resist Judaization of their Old City Home
Send us a text In the fall of 2023, a shady land deal signed a few years earlier between the Armenian Patriarchate and an Australian-Israeli businessman came to light. Despite the Patriarchate's cancellation of the deal on Nov. 1, 2023, Israeli surveyors and settlers pushed ahead with their plans to develop the property into a luxury hotel and permanently alter the character and demography of the Old City's Armenian Quarter. In this episode we speak with Armenian peacebuilder Christopher Huth...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
“Cyberweaponry, Kill-Switch Diplomacy and the Technology of Occupation”
Send us a text In anticipation of Voices from the Holy Land's upcoming October 19th online film salon "The Israel Occupation Tech Lab," we will hear a segment Jeremy Rothe-Kushel produced in December 2020 and then remixed for August 2021 titled "Cyberweaponry, Kill-Switch Diplomacy and the Technology of Occupation." To find out about and register for Voices from the Holy Land's October 19th "Israel Occupation Tech Lab" film salon, you can go to voicesfromtheholyland.org or Tinyurl.com/V...
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3 months ago
27 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Richard Falk on Dubious Diplomacy over Gaza
Send us a text Jurist Richard Falk discusses the double game being played by some of the European countries recently recognizing Palestine as a state in a show of concern over Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza. Their condemnation of Israel is largely symbolic, with many states continuing to do business as usual with Israel. With Western countries failing to uphold international law, Falk says civic activism is necessary to hold leaders to account. He notes the two-state solution has long s...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo
Send us a text From the People's Conference for Palestine 2025: Over the past year, we have seen a shift in public consciousness: from demanding an immediate ceasefire to demanding a full arms embargo on Israel. Mass protests have erupted in the ports of Morocco, French dockworkers have refused to handle military cargo destined to Israel, and Spain has passed a policy to enact an arms embargo against Israel. This panel brings together speakers from across different geographies to discuss the ...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
A Burning World Made of Erasure & Elimination Echoes from the Rubble: From the Antisemitic Dream of a 'New Jew' to the Genocidal Nightmare of a Desolated Palestine; with Zachary Foster
Send us a text Amidst the flames, ruin & human destruction currently being escalated by the Israeli military in Gaza City and the UN's finally emergent declaratory analysis of genocide, a more than century-old haunting logic has destructively unfolded. In the US, the political fallout from the cloaking & cloaked wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk has accelerated Executive & Legislative moves to crush dissent, providing a stark domestic backdrop to the massive moral crisis s...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Zionism's Growing Threat to Americans' Freedom
Send us a text Emmaia Gelman, director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, discusses Zionism's relationship to racism and colonialism, the threat to Americans' First Amendment rights posed by the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism which the Anti-Defamation League and other Zionist groups are promoting, and how Zionism is evolving into an arm of American fascism under the Trump administration.
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
The Struggle Continues: The Fight for Palestine in North America
Send us a text For this week’s episode, we are excerpting portions of a panel entitled The Struggle Continues: The Fight for Palestine in North America held on Aug 30, 2025 at the second annual People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit. We are excerpting PYM organizer Mohammed Nabulsi’s responses to questions posed by the moderator Loubna Qatami. In response to the last two years of Zionist genocide in Gaza, a powerful mass movement has erupted. From the streets to the workplace, from univ...
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4 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Israel Advances 'Doomsday" Settlement Seen as Fatal to the Two-State Solution
Send us a text Hadar Susskind, president and CEO of New Jewish Narrative, talks about Israel's decision to advance a controversial, long-planned and long-delayed settlement regarded as a death knell for an independent Palestinian state. The E1 settlement would add 3,400 new settlement units east of Jerusalem and split the Occupied West Bank in two. Susskind was previously head of Americans for Peace Now, a peace group that tracked the growth of Jewish settlements in the Occupied W...
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4 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
The Azure Unit 8200 Dragnet: Cloud, Code & Complicity Inside Microsoft & Israeli Military Intelligence’s Mass Palestinian Surveillance Machine
Send us a text On this Beyond the Walls edition of Understanding Israel Palestine, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel proposes an evolving Beyond the Walls edition mission statement, covers the news and speaks with Harry Davies — Guardian investigations correspondent — about his investigations along with colleagues like Yuval Abraham — at +972 & Local Call — into the major project & contract by Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200 with Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Servers in Europe to bulk collect Pal...
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4 months ago
28 minutes

Understanding Israel Palestine
Send us a text 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. support for it. Abuznaid discusses changes in U.S. politics over Palestine, which he acknowledges have not so far translated into changes in U.S. policy and funding for Israel, prospects for the movement and a range of measures activists can t...