Occupied Thoughts
236 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 6 hours ago - ★★★★ - 118 ratingsFrom the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), Occupied Thoughts amplifies the voices of FMEP grantees and partners, offers critical framing, and promote new ideas and new angles on the many issues connected to achieving justice, security, and peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
FMEP works to defend and support Palestinian rights, end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and ensure a just and secure future for Palestinians and Israelis. FMEP advances this goal through its grants program, public programming, and research. www.fmep.org
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What Does it Mean for the US to Condition Aid to Israel?
April 25, 2024 22:03 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with analyst Seth Binder about the technicalities of U.S. aid to Israel. They discuss the ways in which U.S. aid to Israel works differently from U.S. aid to other countries, the legal requirements & questions surrounding U.S. aid to Israeli military units that commit human rights abuses, and the question of whether, and in what ways, the debate over conditioning aid to Israel is changing. Peter Beinart is a Non-Resident...
Dead, Disabled, Displaced, Detained, Orphaned: The Toll of Israel’s War on Palestinian Children
April 25, 2024 19:55 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBThis podcast is the audio recording of a webinar featuring Miranda Cleland, Defense for Children International-Palestine, & Hamdi Shaqqura, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, in conversation with 2023 FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi. To see links to the resources mentioned in the webinar, go to the landing page for this webinar: https://fmep.org/resource/dead-disabled-displaced-detained-orphaned-the-toll-of-israels-war-on-palestinian-childre/ Israel’s war in Gaza and the increased violence in the...
Mass Depopulation & Continued Violence: Gaza's Present & Future
April 16, 2024 21:24 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, political analyst Khalil Sayegh joins FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart to look at the current situation on the ground in Gaza, where Sayegh's family is located, including a discussion of the military and political dynamics of both Israel and Hamas. Looking towards the future, Sayegh discusses the ways the in which Israel has made Gaza unlivable and has no plan to make it livable again, thus creating the conditions for mass depopulation of Gaza and laying the gro...
Updates on Gaza & Looking to the Future: Mass Depopulation & Continued Violence
April 16, 2024 21:24 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, political analyst Khalil Sayegh joins FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart to look at the current situation on the ground in Gaza, where Sayegh's family is located, including a discussion of the military and political dynamics of both Israel and Hamas. Looking towards the future, Sayegh discusses the ways the in which Israel has made Gaza unlivable and has no plan to make it livable again, thus creating the conditions for mass depopulation of Gaza and laying the gro...
RESIGNED: The Former Biden Admin Officials Who Left Their Jobs Over Gaza
April 12, 2024 20:15 - 1 hour - 107 MBFMEP is honored to host Josh Paul, Tariq Habash, and Annelle Sheline for their first joint public appearance and conversation over their individual decisions to resign from their jobs in the Biden Administration over the President’s policy on Israel, Palestine, and the ongoing war in Gaza. We discuss the Biden Administration’s policy and decision-making, and the possibilities for changing course, as well as the personal stakes, choices, and costs of public protest against the U.S.’s close emb...
“Incitement, Destruction, Willful Flouting of Int'l Law”: Israel’s Assault on Al Shifa Hospital
April 05, 2024 21:19 - 40 minutes - 56 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, 2023 FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi joins FMEP's Dr. Sarah Anne Minkin to discuss Israel's March 2024 attack on Al Shifa hospital, the largest and most important medical center in Gaza, known as the heart of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. In addition to looking at the details of Israel's assault on Al Shifa and the area around it, Dr. Asi discusses the destruction of Al Shifa as part of Israel's ongoing effort to destroy the infrastructure needed to s...
Rania Batrice & Ryan Grim on the Urgency & Need for Independent Journalism
March 22, 2024 04:11 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice speaks with journalist Ryan Grim about the limitations of mainstream media's reporting on Israel's war on Gaza and the opportunities and potential for independent journalism focused on Israel & Palestine more broadly. Addressing the high stakes of U.S. politics, they also speak about repression against advocates for Palestinian life and rights and the upcoming US elections. Rania Batrice is an activist and strategist for progres...
What Comes After the Destruction of Gaza?
March 13, 2024 21:23 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with writer Ahmed Moor about a range of urgent issues, including how the conversation about post-war Gaza doesn’t include Palestinians, the ethics of not voting for Joe Biden, and in what ways the Palestine solidarity movement can change Washington. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.
Biden & Israel: What it’s Like to Make Policy in the White House
March 08, 2024 22:20 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart is joined with Steven Simon, former Director of the National Security Council in the Obama Administration. The two discuss what the conversation in the White House in regards to U.S. policy towards Israel, as it was in the Obama Administration and possibly now in the Biden Administration. For bios and resources, see: https://fmep.org/resource/biden-israel-what-its-like-to-make-policy-in-the-white-house/
Media Bias in Reporting on Sexual Assault on October 7th - Breaking Down the Damage
March 06, 2024 21:02 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice and analyst Krystal Ball look at the controversy surrounding allegations of widespread and systematic sexual assault by Hamas on October 7th. This conversation does not ask “was there or wasn’t there sexual assault on October 7?” Rather, it focuses on the harm caused by biased media reports and the absence of independent and thorough investigations. The podcast discusses how the narratives promulgated by mainstream US media - mos...
Introducing Nour Joudah, 2024 FMEP Palestinian Fellow
March 01, 2024 23:30 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with Nour Joudah, Assistant Professor at UCLA and one of FMEP’s 2024 Palestinian Non-Resident Fellows. Nour speaks of her background, her Palestinian identity, and her research that looks not only at indigenous survival but at indigenous life, knowledge, and duration. She discusses the meaning of this moment in time for Palestinians and Palestine and encourages the listener not to surrender to fatalism but instead to insist...
How the War in Gaza is Transforming Democratic Politics
March 01, 2024 18:05 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellows Rania Batrice & Peter Beinart speak about Arab American politics and why the Biden administration is out of step with Democratic Voters. They look at the political organizing around the Michigan primary this week, the Arab American political awakening, and discuss whether there is anything President Biden can do to win back progressive voters. FMEP is a 501(c)(3) organization and takes no position on elections or partisan matters. We offer t...
How Mainstream Media Collaborates with Israel’s War on Gaza
February 29, 2024 22:08 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Dr. Assal Rad. Dr. Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine...
Introducing Rania Batrice, 2024 FMEP Palestinian non-resident Fellow
February 28, 2024 20:13 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin talks to Rania Batrice, political strategist, activist, coalition builder, and one of FMEP’s 2023-2024 Palestinian Non-Resident Fellows. Rania discusses her background, the vision and values guiding her wide-ranging work, and the urgent and high-stakes political opportunities for Palestinians and their allies in this US election year. Rania Batrice is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an activist and strategist for progres...
"Famine is a Massacre in Slow Motion:" On Mass Hunger & Israel's Culpability in Gaza
February 21, 2024 05:51 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Yara Asi speaks with Alex de Waal of the World Peace Foundation and Tufts University and author of the January 21, 2024 article in the Guardian entitled “Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation.” In this discussion of widespread hunger and impending famine in Gaza, Drs. Asi & de Waal look at Gaza in relation to other cases of starvation and famine across the world, including comparing the human-made circ...
Impacts of Israel's War on Gaza - a Regional Tour d'Horizon
February 20, 2024 16:37 - 57 minutes - 78.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks to Middle East policy journalist, analyst, and author Omar Rahman about the regional impacts and implications of Israel's ongoing war on Gaza. Omar is currently a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, where he focuses on Palestine, Middle East geopolitics, and American foreign policy in the region, and he is also a non-resident fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Omar is currently working on a book a...
Promoting Risk & Undermining Rights: Morningstar’s Betrayal of Palestine & ESG (Part 2)
February 15, 2024 23:47 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks to international legal expert in business and human rights Tara Van Ho about the latest twist in the ongoing controversy involving the Chicago-based financial services company Morningstar Inc. and its subsidiary Sustainalytics, over how it deals with Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories. Specifically, the podcast explores Morningstar’s recently released (January 31, 2024) 37-page report, written by a pair of "indepen...
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza, Palestinian Refugees, and the Campaign Against UNRWA
February 13, 2024 22:18 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP non-resident fellow Peter Beinart interviews Chris Gunness, formerly the Spokesman and Director of Strategic Communications at UNRWA. They discuss the enormous humanitarian crisis in Rafah and Gaza more broadly as well as the history and function of UNRWA - the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - and the campaign against it. Original music by Jalal Yacquoub.
Israel's War on Gaza: Implications & Impacts on Saudi Policies & Politics
February 12, 2024 19:25 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Saudi researcher and analyst of Saudi foreign policy Aziz Alghashian about the impact of Israel's now more than 4-month-long war on Gaza on the political calculations and policies of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Aziz is a fellow at Sectarianism, Proxies & De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) and at the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO). He earned his PhD from the University of Essex, where ...
Separation, Dehumanization, Theft of Time: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
February 08, 2024 00:34 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi speaks with Nathan Thrall, author of the recently-released A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, about the systems of separation and dehumanization in Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israeli state violence, and what has and hasn't changed in Israel/Palestine over the last four months. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub
'Dehumanization of Palestinians in real time with no condemnation'-On resigning from the Biden Admin
January 26, 2024 21:46 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBFMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Tariq Habash, a Palestinian American who was a political appointee in the Biden Administration's Department of Education. Habash resigned from his position in early January in opposition to the Biden Administration's approach to Israel's war in Gaza. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.
Israel's War on Gaza: Implications & Possibilities for Regional Escalation
January 10, 2024 16:11 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBIn this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Middle East foreign policy/national security expert Jasmine El-Gamal about Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, US policy and national security, implications for international law and peace/security mor broadly, and prospects for regional escalation.
“The story of Attiya Nabaheen reveals the system that devalues Palestinian life”
December 19, 2023 22:07 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks with Sarah Anne Minkin, FMEP's Director of Programs & Partnerships, about his former client Attiya Nabaheen, a Palestinian teenager from Gaza who sued the Israeli Ministry of Defense for compensation for injuries caused by Israeli soldiers while he was walking, unarmed, on his family's land in late 2014, during a time of ceasefire, or "status quo." Deciding against Attiya, the Israeli Supreme Court "set a chilling preced...
Repression in the Shadow of Israel’s War on Gaza Pt 2: Israel’s Criminalization of Palestinian Life
November 21, 2023 19:59 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBFeaturing Hassan Jabarin (Adalah) and Ghousoon Bisharat (+972) in conversation with Peter Beinart (FMEP) While waging war on Gaza, the Israeli government has simultaneously moved to criminalize criticism of Israel’s war or identification with Palestinians. New legislation, incitement, and arrests are creating a climate of fear and silencing. Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jewish Israelis who advocate for Palestinians face threats, intimidation, and severe restrictions on freedom of speec...
International Law & Israel/Palestine: A Primer
November 20, 2023 20:37 - 1 hour - 151 MBFMEP Non-Resident Fellows Dr. Yara Asi and Rabea Eghbariah are joined by Dr. Ardi Imseis (Assistant Professor and Academic Director, International Law Programs at Queen’s University Law School) to talk about international law - how it applies in the current crisis, the obligations it imposes on Israel, Hamas, and the international community, and how it can be used to envision and shape next steps.
Repression in the Shadow of Israel’s War on Gaza Pt 1: 5 Israeli Human Rights Groups Sound the Alarm
November 17, 2023 03:20 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBFeaturing Yahav Erez, Yesh Din; Anat Litvin, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI); Jessica Montell, HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual; Tamara Newman, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI); and Tal Steiner, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) FMEP is pleased to host representatives from five of Israel’s leading human rights groups for a collective call to examine the widespread violation of Palestinian ri...
From Israel's Blockade to the Siege on Al Shifa Hospital: Public Health in Gaza
November 15, 2023 03:14 - 29 minutes - 41 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with 2023 FMEP Palestinian Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Yara Asi about public health in Gaza. The conversation addresses the deficiencies in public health infrastructure due to Israel's blockade before the current war as well as the the current total public health catastrophe, including the bombardments, displacement, collapse of hospitals, and threats to the population in the absence of food, water, fuel, and electricity. Orig...
The UN Tried to Silence Craig Mokhiber, He Resigned
November 10, 2023 19:12 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts" FMEP non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Craig Mokhiber, who recently resigned from his post as a Director at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Mr. Mokhiber talks about the culture of the UN and how powerful member states operate to shield Israel from criticism, and if/how international laws against genocide should be applied to Israel and Hamas.
Biden's "Full Tilt" Embrace of Israel & Its War on Gaza
November 07, 2023 21:43 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBFMEP Non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart talks to Ben Rhodes (Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States) about the Biden Administration's response to the October 7th Hamas massacre and Israel's subsequent war on Gaza.
Gaza, Israel and the 2023 War: Are There Any "Red Lines"?
November 03, 2023 17:12 - 1 hour - 116 MBFeaturing: Jamil Dakwar (speaking in his personal capacity), Katherine Gallagher (Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional rights), Dr. Raz Segal (Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide, Stockton University) in conversation with Khaled Elgindy (MEI) and Lara Friedman (FMEP). For resources and bios see: https://fmep.org/resource/gaza-israel-and-the-2023-war-are-there-any-red-lines/
Catastrophe in Gaza: What's Next? Part 2
November 01, 2023 22:26 - 1 hour - 106 MBft. Sari Bashi (Human Rights Watch), Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine) & Lara Friedman (FMEP) In the wake of Hamas’s massacres of citizens & residents of Israel on October 7th, Israeli leadership has articulated its aim of destroying the “human animals” in Gaza, leading many to sound the alarm that Israeli intentions are genocidal. Coming in the context of 16 years of a brutal Israeli blockade, and targeting a population a large percentage of which is present in Gaza as a direct result of the Nakb...
Catastrophe in Gaza: What’s Next? Part 1
October 31, 2023 18:28 - 1 hour - 104 MBft. Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy), Fadi Quran (Avaaz), & Lara Friedman (FMEP) In the wake of Hamas’s massacres of citizens & residents of Israel on October 7th, Israeli leadership has articulated its aim of destroying the “human animals” in Gaza, leading many to sound the alarm that Israeli intentions are genocidal. Coming in the context of 16 years of a brutal Israeli blockade, and targeting a population a large percentage of which is present in Gaza as a direc...
The Situation in Gaza: A Briefing
October 17, 2023 16:10 - 1 hour - 119 MBTania Hary (Gisha) Nour Odeh (Political Activist) Omar Shakir (Human Rights Watch) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) For resources and bios, please visit: https://fmep.org/event/the-situation-in-gaza-a-briefing/
Free Speech, IHRA, & Palestinian Freedom - A Conversation with Rebecca Ruth Gould
September 28, 2023 21:44 - 39 minutes - 54 MBIn this episode of the Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP president Lara Friedman speaks with Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould, author of the newly published book, Erasing Palestine: Free Speech & Palestinian Freedom. The discussion digs into Professor Gould's own experience being attacked for an article she authored on Israel/Palestine, and more broadly into the ongoing campaign using the IHRA definition of antisemitism as a weapon to delegitimize and suppress criticism of Israel/Zionism, Palestini...
Forcible Transfer is a War Crime: West Bank Pogroms are Working
September 12, 2023 22:31 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBfeaturing Kareem Jubran (B’Tselem) & Sarit Michaeli (B’Tselem) with Dr. Yara Asi (FMEP). Forcible transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank is a reality. The Israeli government, its security forces, and Israeli settlers are actively targeting Palestinian communities through a growing matrix of tools geared towards making their lives so economically untenable, functionally unbearable, and fundamentally unsafe that they are compelled to abandon their homes and lands, disperse their communities...
Human Rights Work under Apartheid: “To show reality, to shed light…to create hope in the struggle”
September 03, 2023 22:48 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBFMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with the new Executive Director of B'Tselem, Yuli Novak, about the opportunities and challenges for human rights protection in an apartheid regime, as well as the relationship between personal and political change. Podcast landing page: https://fmep.org/resource/human-rights-work-under-apartheid-to-show-reality-to-shed-lightto-create-hope-in-the-struggle/ Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.
Hebron (Al-Khalil)Through Palestinian Eyes
August 23, 2023 16:17 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks with Abdullah (last name withheld), a tour guide from Hebron (Al-Khalil). The conversation touches on the history of Hebron, the development of the Israeli settlement project in the city post its 1967 occupation, and the division of the city into H1/H2 zones following the Oslo Accords. We also hear from Abdullah about the dystopian reality of living under hyper-militarization and the pervasive surveil...
Has Israel Annexed the West Bank?
August 07, 2023 13:25 - 56 minutes - 77 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Kristin McCarthy talks to Shira Livne (ACRI/Association for Civil Rights in Israel) about all things annexation. Including, how is annexation related to the current judicial reforms? What has annexation looked like previous to the current government? How significant are the changes in governance that the current government have taken? Should we consider the West Bank, or perhaps only Area C, annexed? For bios and resources, please visit: https://f...
Blockade, Bombings, and Continuing Trauma: Assessing Mental Health in Gaza
August 02, 2023 20:06 - 1 hour - 118 MBMore than 15 years into Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, and after rounds of devastating Israeli bombing campaigns, life in Gaza continues to become more difficult and traumatic for the two million Palestinians who live there. What is it like to live under such conditions, with no end or reprieve in sight? Join FMEP for a conversation among experts about the current state of mental health in the Gaza Strip, and what it might mean for the future of Gaza’s residents. We will look at the fin...
Defending Palestine Free Speech: The Case of Fatima Mohammed
August 02, 2023 19:54 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP's Lara Friedman speaks to Amal Thabateh, who is the Michael Ratner Justice Fellow at Palestine Legal, about the stunning attacks that have taken place targeting Fatima Mohamed for her May 12th commencement speech at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law’s graduation ceremony and the broader context of the fight to defend free speech and activism in support of Palestinian rights.
The Palestine Laboratory - A Conversation with Antony Loewenstein
August 02, 2023 14:46 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP's Lara Friedman speaks to journalist, filmmaker, and author Antony Loewenstein, about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, published by Verso books in May 2023.
"We Can't Afford to Leave": A Conversation about Jaffa w/ Abed Abu Shehadeh
July 21, 2023 13:22 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to Abed Abu Shehadeh, a political and community organizer from Jaffa who is also an elected city council member in Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s municipality. The conversation explores the historical trajectory of Jaffa and its transformation from a major Palestinian city before the Nakba to a de-developed city annexed to Tel Aviv. We hear from Abu Shehadeh on the major challenges that Jaffa's Palestinian communit...
The Destruction of Masafer Yatta with Basel Adraa & Yuval Abraham
July 19, 2023 21:54 - 59 minutes - 82.6 MBIn this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with journalists Basel Adraa and Yuval Abraham about the conditions of life in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, and how things have changed - and gotten far worse - since the May 2022 Israeli Supreme Court decision that authorized the IDF to expel communities in Masafer Yatta. Basel and Yuval co-authored "The Destruction of This Palestinian Community Was Green-Lighted by Israel’s Supreme Court," the...
"A Landscape of a Shrinking Space": Nazareth & the Baladna Youth Center
July 06, 2023 18:38 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to Maria Zreik, a street photographer and political organizer from Nazareth who is coordinating the Baladna Youth Center, a Palestinian cooperative in Nazareth's Old City. The conversation delves into the challenges that Palestinians in Nazareth are facing today, how the city's landscape has shifted, and what a youth center in the city can offer to help.
"Now it is Happening to My Family": The Dispossession of Palestinians from the Old City of Jerusalem
June 30, 2023 16:07 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to Raafat Sub Laban, a Palestinian human rights attorney from the Old City of Jerusalem whose family is under the threat of imminent dispossession from their home. Raafat explains how the dispossession of Palestinians in Jerusalem is enabled by Israeli law and settler organizations who work together to "Judaize" the city and drive Palestinians out. Raafat also shares updates about the Sub Laban family...
A Conversation with Anti-Zionist Activist Jonathan Pollak on Solidarity & His Impending Trial
June 28, 2023 18:45 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP non resident fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli anti-Zionist activist and solidarity organizer who has been repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by Israel for his involvement in Palestine solidarity protests in the West Bank. Jonathan is currently facing two charges, and is expected to demand his trial take place in Israel's West Bank military court system, rather than in Israeli domestic courts. Peter explores the history a...
The Nakba is Our Framework: Framing and Understanding Palestine with Mohammed El-Kurd
June 25, 2023 17:14 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this episode of "Occupied Thoughts," FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to award-winning writer and journalist Mohammed El Kurd about the importance of developing an understanding of Palestine rooted in the experiences and realities of Palestinians on the ground. Who gets the permission to narrate the situation in Palestine? What frameworks do we use and does language really matter? How can Palestinians share and maintain a sense of unity in a deepening state of fragmenta...
How IHRA Antisemitism Definition Suppresses Palestinian Rights Advocacy in EU/UK: Insight from ELSC
June 12, 2023 15:45 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBIn this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) director Giovanni Fassini and ELSC manager of communication and advocacy strategies and campaigns Alice Garcia about ELSC's groundbreaking new report, “Suppressing Palestinian Rights Advocacy through the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism – Violating the Rights to Freedom of Expression and Assembly in the European Union and the UK." This report is the first ca...
Palestinian Rights, the IHRA Definition, & the Battle Around Biden's Antisemitism Strategy
June 05, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBIn this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center Washington DC) & Emma Saltzberg (Diaspora Alliance), in the context of the newly-release US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism (released by the White House May 25, 2023) and the its implications for both the fight against antisemitism and the ongoing, related fight against the use of antisemitism accusations to delegitimize criticism of the state of Israel and its ...
Israel's new anti-NGO legislation: An Effort to Eradicate Opponents of Illiberalism
May 25, 2023 15:36 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBIn this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with two formidable experts on human rights and civil society about pending Israeli legislation targeting civil society organizations and, in particular, the human rights sector: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967; and Jessica Montell, Executive Director of the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked and formerly ...