Another Education Is Possible

For the season 1 finale, we're flipping the script. Our first guest, Raz Segal, returns to the podcast to play host and Jordan takes a turn as a guest.

Finally, our episode about the student encampments! In this episode, J & A tell us about the paths that led them toward helping build and participate in an encampment at a small liberal arts college in the U.S.

Hannah Mermelstein's Palestine solidarity and education work spans decades, settings, and forms. Whether co-founding the Birthright Unplugged program or Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, Hannah's work remains committed to working for justice in Palestine. In this episode, Hannah takes listeners through delegations, book clubs, zine making, and many other anti-Zionist educational projects.

Members of the internationalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-Zionist organization Jews Against White Supremacy (JAWS) join the podcast to explore principled anti-Zionism, revolutionary struggle, and political education. While we spend a lot of time discussing educational experiences and the role of education in social movements, we also talk about how these experiences relate to engaging in direct...

Sarah Ema Friedland's work as a filmmaker and educator shows the wild, radical potential of documentary. In this episode, Sarah takes listeners through unlearning liberal Zionism and college lessons that helped her avoid Birthright. She also describes how Cuban film school and Palestinian filmmakers influence her work. Sarah and Rami Younis' sci-fi documentary about the city of Lyd offers an oppor...

On a show that keeps mentioning mutual aid, we haven't yet explored its meaning or role within education. Luckily, abolitionist Rachel Joy joins us to talk all about this exact topic. We look at mutual aid as educational, part of Jewish tradition, and something urgent in this moment. We also discuss Rachel growing up queer in South Florida, discovering Judaism beyond Zionism in college through par...

Researcher, activist, founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, and fellow podcaster Emmaia Gelman joins guest host Eli Meyerhoff to discuss the role of radical study in organizing for Palestinian liberation. From being a Jewish kid in New York City to queer and anti-racist organizing, Emmaia shares a complex story that reveals the many ways people encounter Zionism, ho...

Teacher Dan Cohen and organizer Julie Kosowki take us through their decades of work in the Palestine Solidarity Movement in Chicago. The episode includes stories from Dan's public school teaching and Julie applying lessons from her survivor father to her activism. Dan and Julie are also married and close collaborators. They tell listeners about date nights watching Noam Chomsky documentaries and g...

In this episode, we talk to writer and activist Dave Zirin about the political potential of sports. Dave takes us through his childhood in New York City Jewish communities, which included playing street ball with Kenny Anderson. He describes life lessons from anti-Zionist writer Mike Marqusee and former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who refused to stand for the national anthem in the 1990s. It's...

In this episode, writer and organizer Anna Rajagopal shares experiences from a Jewish upbringing in Texas. They describe the failures and frustrations of the NGO-ified so-called Jewish left and the ways in which their own political education has been shaped by Palestinian comrades "calling them out and calling them in." With compassion and critique, Anna invites listeners toward the quiet work of...

Writer and activist Alison Glick shares a story that moves from Jewish cooking in Cincinnati to experiential unlearning on a kibbutz (or, as Alison puts it "learning what Zionism actually is"). Alison discusses the First Intifada, the student encampments, and her novel, The Other End of the Sea. This is a moving and engrossing episode about family, writing, and so much else. A quick note about tod...

On this episode, we're pausing. Producers Yardain and Sam join Jordan to ask what a podcast does and what small role the slow work of a podcast about education can play in the Palestine Solidarity Movement.

In this episode, host Jordan Corson chats with two friends, Roy Danovitch (an associate head of school based in Oakland), and Dani Friedrich (an associate professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University) about the ways in which anti-Zionism has created new dynamics and stronger foundations for relationships with family and friends. The episode reveals how integral fri...

As a number of recent articles suggest, the genocide in Gaza has thrown the field of Holocaust and genocide studies into crisis. Meanwhile, a new generation of students and scholars are actively naming the genocide and opposing Zionism. In this episode, Ren Bell, a graduate student in Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University joins guest host (and Another Education Is Possible producer...

From a Zionist upbringing in Cincinnati to radical political organizing in New York City, Rabbi Alissa Wise takes us on a vast educational journey. Across time and space, she remains devoted to tending to Jewish people and Jewish life. Our conversation touches on her years working for Jewish Voice for Peace and pushing the organization to support BDS and become explicitly anti-Zionist. Rabbi Wise...

Researcher Joe Grim Feinberg joins us to talk about bagels, doykeit, and ecstatic Jewish performance. The conversation moves from the Midwest of the U.S. to New York City to Prague as Joe explores what might count as Jewish values in the face of Zionism. Throughout, Joe speaks with compassion and clarity about the possibilities of diaspora.

Listeners may have heard Maura on a special episode we aired last year about academic freedom and Palestine. In this episode, Maura returns for a more in depth conversation about her educational journey in the Palestine solidarity movement. We discuss her being fired from her tenured position and hear stories from her everyday classroom practice. She offers a glimpse of her time as a principled hi...

Anti-Zionist education doesn't just mean unlearning Zionism. Many Jews, including today's guests, have undertaken educational projects where anti-Zionism is a starting point. In our conversation, the Haiven family take us through community building and ostracization from the Jewish community in Canada, learning and practicing their own version of Jewish traditions, and the sustaining power of rage...

Whether at the Penn encampment or marching in the streets of Philadelphia, the Jewish Boomers Against the Occupation in Palestine have been a visible force of Palestinian solidarity work. In this episode, the group's co-founders, Sukey Blanc and Rachel Martin, take us through decades of friendship and intersectional organizing.

In this episode, comedian Jess Salomon talks about growing up in Montreal and "getting the Zionism" from her famous synagogue. She then tells us about her former life as a human rights lawyer in The Hague (and offers an impeccable Dutch accent). There's also a lot of conversation around learning about Palestine and Palestinians through love and comedy. Throughout the episode, Jess tells us about t...

Donna and Nina are the co-directors of PARCEO, a community research, resource, and education center. In this episode, they talk about their social justice upbringings and retell the story of meeting each other at a wedding, which seems like kismet. We talk about many of their projects including their collaboratively-created Nakba curriculum, their curriculum on antisemitism that focuses on collect...

In this episode, Josh and Shoshana discuss growing up Jewish in Toronto and their different pathways to becoming anti-Zionist Jews. They also explore what it's like being anti-Zionist Jews in Germany, a nation-state whose stated purpose for existing is to provide unwavering support to Israel. Josh and Shoshana bring intensity, care, and amazing sibling banter to this wide-ranging discussion. Shosh...

Recording of a live event on academic freedom and Gaza, recorded on September 30th at Stockton University.

Eli wrote a book, Beyond Education, that most directly influenced the ideas that have shaped this podcast. In addition to discussing his work as it relates to Palestinian liberation and scholasticide, Eli shares a thoughtful, deeply personal educational biography. He describes feelings of unbelonging in Jewish summer camp, joyous moments of radicalization in basement punk shows, encountering Arund...

In this episode, Sol talks about family histories, the role of collective study in unlearning (with shoutouts to radical bookstores like Red Emma's), and comics as a form of public pedagogy. Solomon J Brager is the author of Heavyweight [William Morrow 2024] and other comics, a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective and the director of community e...