Israel/Palestine Podcast

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Guests: Sima & Mai, Young Ambassadors for Peace / Parents Circle –Families Forum Hosts: Alexandria, Mert & Efe Sima and Mai are Young Ambassadors for Peace with the Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF), an organization of over 800 bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who have each lost a close relative to the conflict. Mai's grandfather, Haim Perry, an artist and peace activist from...

Guest: Prof. Eyal Naveh – Tel Aviv University Hosts: Yusuf & Mert Bio: Eyal Naveh is an Israeli historian and educator specializing in history education in conflict contexts. He has taught at Kibbutzim College of Education and Tel Aviv University, where he served as Head of the Department of General History and Chair of the General and Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Naveh is co-director of...

Guests: Sharon Booth, CEO Solutions – Not Sides, Mohamed Ali Amla, Public Affairs Director, Solutions – Not Sides Hosts: Mert, Alexandria, Yusuf Bio: Sharon Booth is the Founding Executive Director of Solutions – Not Sides, a leading UK NGO fostering constructive dialogue about Israel/Palestine in schools. She studied Theology and Religious Studies at Cambridge University, taught English in Tunisi...

Guest: Prof. Dr. Björn Krondorfer, Northern Arizona University Hosts: Yusuf & Efe Bio: Björn Krondorfer is the Endowed Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. He holds a Ph. D. in Comparative Religion from Temple University and studied Protestant Theology in Frankfurt/Main and Göttingen, Germany. Krondorfer is internationally...

Guest: Dr. Per Leo, Historian & Author, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Hosts: Efe & Philip Bio: Per Leo studied history, philosophy, and Slavic Studies in Freiburg and Berlin, earning his PhD in 2009 at Humboldt University. His novel Flut und Boden (2015) , which reflects on his grandfather Friedrich Leo, an SS-Sturmbannführer, and the family’s history during the Nazi era, was shortlisted f...

Guests: Mohamed Ibrahim – Political Scientist and Educator; recipient of the Flechtheim Award for Democracy & Human Rights 2015 Sapir Huberman – Mediator, Curator, Scholar & Educator Host: Efe Bio: Mohamed Ibrahim is a political scientist specializing in international cooperation. For over 15 years, he has led workshops on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Israeli colleagues and works...

Guests: Jouanna Hassoun / Shai Hoffmann – Trialog / Gesellschaft im Wandel gGmbH Hosts: Philip, Bünyamin Bio: Jouanna Hassoun is the founder of Transaidency, a German-Palestinian organization promoting intercultural dialogue, empowerment, and human rights education. She regularly facilitates dialogue formats in schools. Shai Hoffmann is a Social entrepreneur, educational activist, and podcast host...

Guest: Prof. Dr. Meron Mendel, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank / Frankfurt UAS Hosts: Philip & Efe Bio: Prof. Dr. Meron Mendel is an educator, historian, and publicist. Since 2010, he has been the Director of the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt am Main and also serves as Professor of Transnational Social Work at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. He is considered one of the mos...

Guest: Alexandra Senfft – Author; vice-chair of the Study Group on Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust PAKH  Hosts: Efe & Philip  Bio: Alexandra Senfft is a German writer and free-lance journalist, a Middle East expert, and political author. She studied Middle Eastern Studies and worked as a non-partisan Middle East adviser for the Green Party in the Bundestag/German parl...

Guest: Dr. Sami Awad – Holy Land Trust, Betlehem; co-director of Nonviolence International Hosts: Alexandria & Yusuf Bio: Dr. Sami Awad was born in the US and grew up in Bethlehem in a Palestinian Christian family. His father comes from a refugee family that lost their home in Jerusalem in 1948, and his mother is from Gaza. He is the nephew of Mubarak Awad, a pioneer of Palestinian nonviolent...

Guest: Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, PhD, Author & Psychotherapist Hosts: Alexandria & Yusuf Bio: Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Ph. D., is a Jungian psychotherapist, rabbi, and a leading figure in the international Jewish Renewal movement. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in St. Louis, she is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor—her mother escaped Nazi Germany on the last Kindertransport, a...

Guest: Dr. Yael Danieli (UN Senior Representative) Host: Alexandria, Mert & Efe Bio: Dr. Yael Danieli is a truly historic figure as a world-renowned clinical psychologist who has transformed the study of trauma through her pioneering work on the transgenerational impact of the Holocaust. She co-founded the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, establishing the world’s first...

Guest: Michael Sfard – Human Rights Lawyer, Tel Aviv Hosts: Mert & Yusuf Bio: Michael Sfard is Israel's leading human rights lawyer, known for representing activists, major human rights and peace organizations before Israel’s Supreme Court and in international forums. His practice focuses on strategic litigation against occupation, racism, and discrimination. A graduate of the Hebrew Universit...

Guest: Dr. Nahed Samour, Radboud University, NL Host: Yusuf Bio: Dr. Nahed Samour is an internationally recognized legal scholar. She studied law and Islamic studies in Bonn, Birzeit/Ramallah, London, Berlin, Harvard, and Damascus, and completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. She has conducted postdoctoral research in Helsinki, Göttingen, and Berlin, a...

Guest: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Claus Kreß (University of Cologne / International Court of Justice) Hosts: Philip, Yusuf & Efe Bio: Prof. Claus Kreß is a leading scholar of international law. He holds the Chair for Criminal Law and International Law at the University of Cologne and directs the Institute for Peace Research and Security Law. He has held guest professorships at Cambridge, Mel...

Guests: Dr. Agnès Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International & Dr. Julia Duchrow, Secretary General, Amnesty International, Germany Hosts: Alexandria, Mert & Yusuf Bio: Dr. Agnès Callamard is a globally recognized human rights expert and current Secretary General of Amnesty International. She previously served as UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary execut...

Guest: Nazih Musharbash – President of the German-Palestinian Society Hosts: Philipp & Mert Bio: Nazih Musharbash is the President of the German-Palestinian Society. He served for many years as a school principal and as coordinator for school development and evaluation at the Weser-Ems regional authority. Musharbash lives in Bad Iburg and was a member of the city council for 34 years as well a...

Guest: Alena Jabarine – Journalist and Author Hosts: Efe & Philip Bio: Alena Jabarine, born in 1985 in Hamburg, is a German-Palestinian journalist, author, and Middle East expert. She studied Political Science in Hamburg and earned a Master’s in International Relations in Barcelona. After a traineeship at NDR, she worked as a radio and TV reporter and contributed to NDR Info, STRG_F, Panorama...

Guest: Gil Shohat, M.A. – Director, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Israel Hosts: Mert & Efe Bio: Gil Shohat (b. 1988, Bonn) is a historian and political scientist specializing in modern Israeli and German political culture. He studied in Munich, Exeter, and Berlin and has researched anti-colonial activism and Marxist historiography in Britain. Since 2021, he has directed the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung i...

Guest: Prof. Dr. Omri Boehm – The New School for Social Research (New York) Bio: Omri Boehm, born in Israel, studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University and completed his PhD at Yale. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School and a prominent public intellectual on Israel/Palestine, democracy, and identity debates. His books include Haifa Republic – A Democratic Future for Israel and...

Guests: Prof. Dr. Omer Bartov – Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA Hosts: Yusuf & Efe Bio: Prof. Dr. Omer Bartov, born in Israel in 1954, is a world-leading scholar of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He served in the Israeli army during the 1973 Yom Kippur War before studying history at Tel Aviv University and earning his doctorate from Oxford on W...

Guest: Professor Kenneth S. Stern, Director, Bard Center for the Study of Hate Host: Yusuf Bio: Professor Kenneth Stern is the Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, which also supports Bard College Berlin. He is an attorney, author, and leading global expert on antisemitism and extremism. For 25 years, he directed the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Commi...

Guest: Benjamin Fischer – Founding President, German Jewish Student Union; Former President, European Union of Jewish Students; European Consultant for Digital and Minority Rights Hosts: Efe & Philip Bio: Benjamin Fischer is a European advisor on digital and minority rights, focused on countering online hate and strengthening civil society through data-driven and innovative activism. As Progra...

Guest: Dr. Volker Weiß – Historian, Author, Hamburg Hosts: Efe & Philip Bio: Dr. Volker Weiß is a historian, journalist, and leading analyst of authoritarian and far-right movements in Germany and beyond. He studied literature, social and economic history, and psychology at the University of Hamburg, later teaching in Hamburg, Leipzig, and Munich. In 2021, he was Guest Professor at the Institu...