Unsettled
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsUnsettled is a podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. We're here to provide a space for the difficult conversations and diverse viewpoints that are all too rare in institutional American Jewish communities.
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'Ayeka': a new song from Aly Halpert
February 20, 2024 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBFor this episode of Unsettled, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: premiering a new song. Aly Halpert makes music used in synagogues and Jewish song circles. If you listened to our last episode featuring Rabbi Miriam Grossman, you heard Aly’s tune for the prayer 'Ashrei' as part of a service led by Rabbis for Ceasefire. Today, Aly is releasing a new song called 'Ayeka': the first time she has used her music to directly respond to the violence in Israel-Palestine. Aly spoke to U...
Rabbi Miriam Grossman: “We act and we do not wait for hope”
February 13, 2024 21:06 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBSince the start of the Israel-Hamas war, grief and rage have brought thousands of people to the streets to demand a ceasefire. One of the many groups that have mobilized in the U.S. is Rabbis for Ceasefire. One of these rabbis is Miriam Grossman, who led until recently the congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, New York. Unsettled producer Ilana Levinson recently sat down with Rabbi Miriam to ask her what it means to be a rabbi for ceasefire, especially when so many rabbis and other Jewis...
An update from Isam Hamad
January 23, 2024 13:36 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThe last time we featured Isam Hamad on Unsettled was a few days after the October 7th attacks, when Israel had just begun its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. At the time, Isam and his family — including his 93-year old father and a son with cerebral palsy — were still in their home in Gaza City. But a few days later, they were forced to evacuate south to the city of Rafah, near the Egyptian border. Before this war, the population of Rafah was about 250,000. Now, it’s over a million, with ma...
Talking to Our Families
December 12, 2023 15:01 - 57 minutes - 53 MBJust before Thanksgiving, we asked listeners to call in and tell us about how they’re navigating conversations with their families, friends, and communities in this moment—as Israel responds to the October 7th attacks with unprecedented destruction in Gaza. What has worked in getting through to loved ones, and what hasn’t? How are people are managing these relationships, or coping with their feelings about them? On this episode—a collaboration between Unsettled and Jewish Currents magazine'...
Milena Ansari: “Detention without trial or charge”
November 30, 2023 16:52 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBAs of Thursday, November 30th, a temporary ceasefire is in place between Israel and Hamas. The truce allows for an exchange of hostages who have been held in Gaza by Hamas since October 7th for Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel, and for desperately needed humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. At this point, 69 hostages have been released by Hamas and 150 Palestinian detainees have been released by Israel. Palestinian prisoners being released have been called terrorists, with an I...
Noam Shuster-Eliassi: “We are broken”
November 13, 2023 16:28 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBIt's hard to find anyone in Israel who isn't shaken to the core by the magnitude of Hamas' attack on October 7. For many in Israel, their pain and shock has translated into support for bombing Gaza. But despite public pressure, some Israelis do voice opposition to the war - even people who have deep personal connections to the victims of October 7. One of these dissenting voices has been the comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi. Since October 7, Noam has dedicated her social media platform not to ...
“The worst it’s ever been”: the South Hebron Hills after October 7
November 06, 2023 23:59 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBIt’s been a month since October 7, when Hamas fighters killed 1,400 Israelis and captured more than 200 hostages. It’s also been a month of Israel's retaliation: air raids and ground operations in the Gaza Strip that have killed almost 10,000 Palestinians, destroyed infrastructure, and limited access to basic necessities. For the past month, Palestinians in the West Bank have also faced increased violence from settler-soldier militias. In this episode, we hear from the villages of Susiya and...
Shahd Safi: "We need electricity, we need fuel, we need flour, we need bread"
October 31, 2023 14:10 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBOn Friday, October 27th, Israel cut off internet in the Gaza Strip for 36-hours, as it expanded its ground operations. This total internet blackout left Gaza without the ability to communicate, both internally and with the outside world. Human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch warned that without the internet, their ability to document war crimes and other abuses had become increasingly difficult. The internet was restored on Sunday October 29th. Unsettled spoke with...
A Painful Week for the AbuRakia-Einhorns
October 27, 2023 15:06 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBThe AbuRakia-Einhorns are Jewish, Muslim, American, Palestinian citizens of Israel living in the United States. At the beginning of this week, previous Unsettled guest Becca AbuRakia-Einhorn faced painful questions about how to raise young kids who could be subjected to discrimination for being who they are, as the violence in Israel-Palestine continues. Then, on Tuesday October 24th, her husband Waseem received a note under his office door at American University with the words "death to all...
Arie Hasit: "Everybody has opened a situation room"
October 19, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBLast week, Producer Ilana Levinson talked to Arie Hasit at his home in Israel, in the midst of a deadly war. Arie and his family, including two small kids, have been spending much of their time in bomb shelters. After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing more than 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilians, and taking 199 Israeli hostages, Israel responded by declaring war. Since then, the Israeli Defense Forces have been heavily bombing the Gaza Strip, cutting off access to ...
Matt Duss: "This is not a moment where people are making good policy"
October 17, 2023 15:36 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThe United States has always been Israel’s strongest ally, and President Biden has pledged his steadfast support for Israel since Hamas's surprise attack over the Gaza border on October 7. Many American supporters of Israel and even Israeli officials have celebrated President Biden for his “moral clarity” in this moment. But others have heard something else from Biden: a "carte blanche" for Israel to respond with overwhelming force. To better understand the U.S. role in this war, Unsettled ...
Isam Hamad: "What sort of a life is this?"
October 16, 2023 14:07 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBOn Saturday, October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack across the Gaza border, killing more than 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilians, and taking at least 150 Israeli hostages, most of whom are still captive in the Gaza Strip. Israel responded to the attack by declaring war and cutting off food, water, and electricity to the Gaza Strip. On Friday, October 13, Israel ordered 1.1 million people in the northern part of the Gaza Strip to evacuate as it prepares for a ground invasion, and Israeli a...
Tareq Baconi: "There's no going back"
October 13, 2023 20:36 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBOver the next few days, Unsettled is going to bring you the voices of many different people who have been affected by this week's devastating escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. We’re starting with an episode about Hamas, whose surprise attack across the Gaza border on October 7th "completely ruptured the reality we thought we were operating in," says Tareq Baconi. Tareq Baconi is the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, billed as "the first...
A note from Unsettled producers
October 07, 2023 23:33 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBEarlier today Hamas launched an attack on Israeli towns near the Gaza border, and has also been launching rockets towards Israeli population centers as north as Tel Aviv. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians are dead and dozens have been taken captive. The fact that Hamas has been able to breach Israeli defenses and launch an attack of this magnitude inside of Israel has stunned the Israeli public. Events are developing rapidly. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared war and I...
Groundwork: Three Bullets
July 20, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBFor more resources on the topics discussed in this episode: Women Wage Peace Women of the Sun AChord Abraham Initiatives To hear more from Groundwork: https://groundworkpodcast.com/. Credits Groundwork is hosted by Sally Abed and Dina Kraft and produced by Yoshi Fields. Today’s story is by Maria Rashed and scored by Joel Shupack. Art and design by Nick Acosta. Groundwork is a joint production of New Israel Fund and the Alliance for Middle East Peace.
Amjad Iraqi: The Myth of Israeli Democracy
March 31, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBIsrael is often called "the only Democracy in the Middle East,” with activists, politicians, and even journalists pointing to Israel's Supreme Court as a prime example. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to weaken the Israeli judiciary, sending Israeli Jews into the streets en masse to protest. For months, Israelis have been engaged in marches, strikes, and even boycotts to stop what many are calling a judicial coup. But for millions of Palestinians who live under Israeli rule, the...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Awdah Hathaleen
January 27, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBAwdah Hathaleen lives in the village of Umm al-Khair, in the South Hebron Hills: a region of the West Bank where Israel has full civil and military control. At the start of 2023, the Israeli military announced plans to forcibly evacuate more than a thousand people from eight villages in the South Hebron Hills. Even though Umm al-Khair is not one of those eight villages, Awdah says life has still become much more difficult for his family and community in the past year. You can hear more from...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Musa Abdullah Ali Awad
January 23, 2023 14:09 - 7 minutes - 7.15 MBMusa Abdullah Ali Awad lives in the village of Isfey al-Fauqa. Isfey is located in a part of the West Bank called Masafer Yatta, where Israel has total civil and military control. While the Israeli military has claimed for decades that much of the area is a “firing zone,” they were prevented from forcibly evacuating the villages because of an ongoing legal case. Last spring however, Israel’s High Court of Justice issued its final ruling – in favor of the military and against the Palestinians...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Ali Awad
January 17, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.74 MBMasafer Yatta is in Area C of the West Bank, where Israel has total civil and military control. For decades, the Israeli military has claimed much of the area as a “firing zone.” They were prevented from forcibly evacuating the villages by an ongoing legal case. But last spring, Israel’s High Court of Justice issued its final ruling — in favor of the military and against the Palestinians. Since then, the people of Masafer Yatta have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And two weeks ago...
Producer Pick: Politicized Pain
December 08, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBTo commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode to republish. For this episode, producer Asaf Calderon shares Politicized Pain, a conversation between two friends processing what it means to grieve when pain is public and political, originally released in May of 2021. Help shape the future of Unsettled by filling out this listener survey! It should take only 5-10 minutes to complete.
Producer Pick: Amal Sumarin
December 06, 2022 13:43 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBTo commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode to republish. For this episode, producer Emily Bell shares a documentary produced in collaboration with the +972 podcast. The documentary tells the story of Amal Sumarin, who lives with her family in East Jerusalem, in the Palestinian village of Silwan. However, they have been at risk of being forcibly evicted from their home for decades. This...
Producer Pick: The Great March
December 01, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBTo commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode to republish. For this episode, producer Ilana Levinson shares The Great March, a report originally released in 2019, on a mass demonstration in the Gaza Strip attended by thousands. The Great March of Return was originally planned to last six weeks, but continued for many months. How did it all begin, and who are the protestors who risked the...
Producer Pick: Dan Fishback & Motaz Malhees
November 29, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBTo commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode to republish. First up, producer Max Freedman shares his interview with two theater artists: playwright/musician Dan Fishback, and actor Motaz Malhees. Dan and Motaz joined us in 2017 to discuss two productions that were literally cancelled because of their content: Dan’s play Rubble Rubble and The Siege by the Freedom Theatre of Jenin. This e...
Be Back Soon
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 2 minutes - 2.54 MBUnsettled is currently on a break from releasing new content, but we’ll be back on your feed in the Fall. While we’re gone, make sure to catch up on some of our latest episodes. This past Spring, we released a four-part series, ‘The Birthday Party,’ about a growing movement of Palestinians and Jews working together to oppose the occupation in the South Hebron Hills; a piece about the Jewish National Fund’s role in uprooting Palestinian communities; a feature on the educational bookshop in Ea...
Mona Mansour & Hadi Tabbal: The Vagrant Trilogy
May 13, 2022 17:20 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBIn 1967, a young Palestinian scholar is invited to London to lecture on his mastery of a William Wordsworth poem. But after he arrives, war breaks out back home and he's forced to decide between staying in London or going back home to his family where uncertainty and suffering are guaranteed. These are events that begin The Vagrant Trilogy, a show currently playing at The Public Theatre. The audience is taken down two different paths: one where Adham chooses to stay in London, and one that ...
"Playgrounds for the military"
May 09, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBLast week, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued an opinion that could lead to one of the largest population transfers in recent history. After a decades-long legal battle, the court gave the Israeli military a green light to evacuate the residents of eight villages in Masafer Yatta — Palestinians who have lived for generations on land the state now claims as a “military firing zone.” A few weeks ago, we published an interview with activist Ali Awad about the campaign to save Masafer Yat...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 4: The Spring
April 15, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBEin al-Beida is a fresh water spring that used to be the main source of water for several Palestinian villages — until Israeli settlers moved in and claimed the spring as their own. On a cold Friday morning, two hundred Palestinians and Jews march together to the spring to take it back. Then the army shows up. Unsettled producer Max Freedman reports from the center of the action: what goes according to plan, what doesn’t, and what happens next. "The Birthday Party" was reported by Max Free...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 3: Lilly
April 13, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBLilly is a young activist from North London who has been to the West Bank many times before — just never with other Jews. In this episode of “The Birthday Party,” Lilly talks about the teenage rebellion that first brought her to Palestine, and why she now believes she can have the greatest impact within her Jewish community. Unsettled producer Max Freedman follows Lilly and other activists with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence as they get to know the people and the landscape of the South H...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 2: Bob
April 12, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBBob first visited Israel in 1969, when he was on leave from his U.S. military service in Vietnam. He was raised in a Zionist home; he has relatives who proudly live in former Palestinian houses; he once volunteered on an IDF base. But now, at 71 years old, Bob is entering the West Bank for the first time. He’s one of 44 diaspora Jews who have come to the South Hebron Hills with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence to practice co-resistance with Palestinians. In the second episode of “The Birth...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 1: Tariq
April 11, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this special miniseries from Unsettled, producer Max Freedman spends nine days in the South Hebron Hills with Palestinians and Jews working together to oppose and obstruct the occupation. This trip, organized by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, culminates in a dramatic direct action known by a code name: “the birthday party.” In the first episode, Max gets to know Tariq, a Palestinian teacher from the village of Umm al-Khair. Umm al-Khair is surrounded on three sides by an Israeli sett...
The Campaign to Save Masafer Yatta
April 07, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBOn March 15, Israel’s High Court of Justice heard a case that could lead to one of the largest forced population transfers in recent history. For more than 20 years, Israel has been trying to expel the residents of 12 Palestinian villages in a part of the West Bank called Masafer Yatta. The state claims they need the land for a military firing zone. If the court agrees, 1,300 Palestinians might be removed from their homes. In this episode, producer Max Freedman speaks to Ali Awad and Maya R...
Maya Rosen & Daniel Roth: KKL-JNF
March 24, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBBefore there was a state of Israel, there was the Jewish National Fund. The JNF, or Keren Kayamet L’Yisrael in Hebrew, was founded in 1901 to buy land in Palestine for Jewish settlement. Today, most American Jews know the JNF for its tin tzedakah boxes and tree planting campaigns. But KKL-JNF owns 13% of the land in Israel — which it allocates exclusively to Jews — and has been involved in evicting Palestinians in the Negev, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank. This episode was produced by Il...
Milena Ansari: Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights
February 25, 2022 16:29 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBWhen Hisham Abu-Hawash ended his 141-day hunger strike last month, he had been imprisoned by Israel for more than a year without charges or a trial. He was just one of about 500 Palestinians held in “administrative detention.” In this episode, we speak to Milena Ansari, International Advocacy Officer at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Milena explains Israel’s military court system and how Palestinians are fighting to end administrative detention. Unsettled is produc...
Mahmoud Muna: Educational Bookshop
February 09, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBMahmoud Muna is part of the family that runs the Educational Bookshop: the only English language bookstore in East Jerusalem. The current iteration of the Bookshop was opened in the 1980s by Mahmoud’s father, Ahmed. Today, the shop has multiple locations and thousands of titles on its shelves. "Any book on Palestine-Israel that has ever [been] written," Mahmoud says, "there's a good chance we have it." When Unsettled producer Max Freedman visited Jerusalem at the start of 2020, he stopped b...
The Calderons are unsettled (part 2)
January 20, 2022 19:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBUnsettled producer Asaf Calderon grew up in Israel in a household of “smolanim”: leftists. His parents raised him to think critically and to fight against injustice, even if it means going against what most people consider normal. But today, even while their values remain the same, there is a deep ideological rift between them when it comes to Zionism. In this episode, Asaf sits down with his parents, Nissim and Rivka Calderon, to learn about their political development and discuss whether Z...
The Calderons are unsettled (part 1)
January 20, 2022 19:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBUnsettled producer Asaf Calderon grew up in Israel in a household of “smolanim”: leftists. His parents raised him to think critically and to fight against injustice, even if it means going against what most people consider normal. But today, even while their values remain the same, there is a deep ideological rift between them when it comes to Zionism. In this episode, Asaf sits down with his parents, Nissim and Rivka Calderon, to learn about their political development and discuss whether Z...
Earworms for the Movement
December 23, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBThis summer, New York City’s Astor Place hosted a bat mitzvah ceremony unlike any other: the Anti-Zionist Bat Mitzvah, an all-day musical extravaganza created by Morgan Bassichis and Ira Khonen Temple. The event started with tutoring sessions on Palestinian popular resistance and the weaponization of the Torah, and ended with a celebratory dance to “Hava Nagila” remixed as an anti-police anthem. In this episode of Unsettled, producer Ilana Levinson talks to Morgan and Ira about their collab...
Why Israel is calling Palestinian rights groups 'terrorists'
December 07, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBIn October, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared six Palestinian civil society organizations “terror groups." These groups work in issue areas like women’s rights, children’s rights, and agricultural labor. The "terror" designation is based on alleged connections to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small political faction. But so far, Israel’s evidence has failed to convince many international leaders. In this episode of Unsettled, we look closely at one of those...
Naomi Shihab Nye: Poetry as Refuge
October 12, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB"Grief is something that, alas, as human beings we're just going to keep experiencing over and over and over again in all of its many manifestations. And I think poetry can help us know that we're not alone in experiencing it, that it's a place to place our pain, and to place our unresolved questions, our mysteries." - Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian-American writer, educator, and editor. Her published work includes poetry, children’s books and essays, and she has been aw...
Marwa Fatafta: Digital Rights
August 24, 2021 13:24 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBIn the spring, the prominent twin activists Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd were regularly speaking out about an Israeli settler takeover of their home in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. But just after Muhammad and Muna started to get international attention, they were detained and interrogated by Israeli authorities. The al-Kurd twins are not alone. Palestinians say they’ve been subject to censorship from social media companies and by the Israeli authorities for decades. On this episode of Unsettled...
Introducing Groundwork
August 09, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBGroundwork is a new podcast about Palestinians and Jews refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change. When war broke out between Israel and Gaza this past May, some of the worst inter-ethnic fighting in Israel’s history erupted between its own citizens. The violence showed that even in mixed cities, where people often talk of coexistence, there are deep political, ethnic, and economic divides. Lod was the epicenter of this recent violence: there were shootings in the st...
Jonathan Brenneman and Aidan Orly: Christian Zionism
July 27, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBAs international attention turned to Israel-Palestine this May, Jonathan Brenneman and Aidan Orly co-authored an op-ed for Truthout titled “Progressives Can’t Ignore Role of Christian Zionism in Colonization of Palestine.” In this episode, producer Emily Bell interviews Brenneman and Orly about the origins of Christian Zionism; the relationship between Christian Zionism, Jewish Zionism, and U.S. foreign policy; and what it means to challenge Christian Zionism. CREDITS Unsettled is produced...
Kathleen Peratis: Visiting Gaza
July 12, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThe Gaza strip has been under Israeli siege for 14 years, with cycles of violence happening over and over again. In the latest round of fighting, at least 254 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died. 2 million people live in the Gaza strip, and they’ve endured over a decade of air raids, and an economic blockade that deprives them of basic necessities, like power and clean water. But in the Jewish community, conversations about Gaza tend to focus only on Hamas terrorism and claims of widespread an...
Update from the South Hebron Hills
May 27, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe recent escalation of violence in Israel-Palestine seemed to be happening everywhere, all at once. But one place that’s been getting less public attention is a rural part of the West Bank called the South Hebron Hills. Last weekend, Jewish settlers set fire to Palestinian fields and tried to destroy a cave in the village of Sarura. We have dedicated two past episodes of Unsettled to the story of this cave: how it was first reclaimed four years ago by Palestinian and Jewish activists; and...
Amjad Iraqi: Palestinians Rising
May 24, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBOver the last two weeks, even in the face of state and mob violence, Palestinians have been organizing mass demonstrations on both sides of the Green Line: from Jerusalem to Nazareth to Ramallah. After decades of policy designed to keep the Palestinian people fragmented, they have taken to the streets in unison to demand radical change. What does this new Palestinian uprising look like? And where will it go next? Producer Ilana Levinson speaks to Amjad Iraqi, a writer and editor for +972 ...
Politicized Pain
May 21, 2021 11:14 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBWhen violence erupts in Israel-Palestine, talking in public about Palestinian suffering is often met automatically with an assertion of Israeli suffering — as if one somehow cancels out, or even justifies, the other. It feels like compassion has become a scarce commodity. How do we grieve publicly without negating the experience of the “other side"? This episode is not an expert interview, it's a conversation between two friends: one American, one Israeli. Unsettled producers Ilana Levinson...
Shaul Magid: The Life and Afterlife of Meir Kahane
May 19, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBMeir Kahane is one of the most polarizing figures in modern Jewish history. His Jewish Defense League was labeled a terrorist group by the FBI. His KACH party was banned from the Knesset for racism. Kahane was assassinated in 1990, but his name and ideas live on. Kahanist mobs have recently marched through the streets of Israeli cities chanting “Death to Arabs” and attacking random Palestinians. A Kahanist politician was blamed by Israel's Police Commissioner for inciting a new intifada. Wh...
Leena Dallasheh: "East Jerusalem is under attack"
May 18, 2021 09:38 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBThe imminent displacement of several Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah set off a chain of events that led to the violence we’re now seeing all over Israel-Palestine. But what’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah isn't new. Ever since Israel gained control of East Jerusalem in 1967, the state has been making life difficult for Palestinians -- and trying to get them out. In this episode, producer Ilana Levinson speaks to historian Leena Dallasheh about the many ...
Tareq Baconi: Hamas, Explained
May 17, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBSince last week, nearly two hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. Israel's defenders say the state is simply defending itself against rocket fire from Hamas; loss of life is tragic, but Hamas is to blame. But many of us know very little about Hamas itself. In this episode, originally published in 2019, producer Max Freedman speaks with Tareq Baconi, author of the book Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. They discuss the origin...
Rasha Budeiri: Sheikh Jarrah
May 14, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBThere’s a lot going on right now in Israel-Palestine. Right-wing Jewish Israeli mobs are attacking Palestinians in cities like Lod and Haifa. Israel is bombing Gaza. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel. Just last week, Israeli police were attacking worshippers inside Al Aqsa mosque. This round of violence began in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. A number of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah are facing imminent eviction from their homes, to be replaced by Jewish settler...