Radio Palestine/Israel

“Israel is a colonial project that uses the Jewish identity as an excuse to commit the worst crimes.” — Yuval Gal, 2025 Have you ever wondered what brings a person to reject their national identity? How it feels to renounce the state you were born into and start building a life someplace else? In this episode, we hear about the experience and life choices of Yuval Gal, a former Israeli citizen who...

“Deradicalizing is a process that most of the Palestinians should go through — and a lot of Israelis as well... we all need to go through deradicalization.” — Dr. Maya Sion Tzidkiyahu, 2025 What does external influence look like in one of the world’s most entrenched conflicts — and who has the leverage to shape political realities on the ground? In this episode, we sit down with political scientis...

"I felt like I needed to scream. I don't want to scream on social media like everybody else does ... I felt I needed to find my way of screaming, my scream.' -- Yousef Sweid A Palestinian-Israeli who grew up in Haifa, Sweid premiered his solo play  Between the River and the Sea   at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since then, he has performed it tosold-our audiences at Berlin’s Ma...

“I don’t want to tell them what to think. I want them to have the information and make up their own opinion.” – Dr. Dina Zbeidy, 2026 What does it mean to speak, when you are constantly asked to explain, defend and represent an entire people? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Dina Zbeidy, a Dutch-Palestinian anthropologist, lecturer and public intellectual, who in the past few years has become...

“It has always been more important for the Palestinians to ensure that the Jews don’t have a state in any part of the land, rather than them having a state for themselves.” – Einat Wilf, 2025   Dr. Einat Wilf, former Knesset member with the Israeli Labor Party, is a political thinker and author of works such as We should All Be Zionists and The War of Return . A former intelligence officer in the...

"The job is not to be a Palestinian journalist. The job is to be on a mission to expose injustice and inequality and advocate for a different reality. I'm not on a mission of  becoming more Palestinian." What does it mean to be a journalist covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today? How does one maintain a critical outlook on both Israel's war on Gaza and Hamas' attacks on Israeli civilians...

“People call me an activist. I do not like that word. I just live the way that I think I want to live.” - Umayya Abu-Hanna What does it mean to be a “pro-Palestinian” advocate in the West today? In this episode, we sit down with Umayya Abu-Hanna, an award-winning Palestinian-Finnish journalist, writer, and activist. Born in Haifa and having lived for many years in Helsinki and Amsterdam, Umayya br...

“When I was 15, I participated in a hunger strike in prison for 16 days. That was my introduction to non-violence, and it was my first time experiencing a potent energy.” –Sulaiman Khatib, 2024. Breaking the cycle of violence requires profound transformation. For Sulaiman Khatib, this transformation unfolded in an Israeli prison, where he spent a decade after being arrested for resisting oppressio...

"I don't always have high hopes about changing theworld through photography or journalism, but I wake up in the morning and drive a few hours because I think it's important to be there, to stand with these people, to document it." -Oren Ziv, 2024.  In this episode, we sit down with Israeli photojournalistOren Ziv, a pioneer in conflict reporting who has spent nearly two decades c...

"What kind of resistance leads to more loss of land, death, and destruction?” -Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib Could you imagine a voice from Gaza asking this provocative question? This week, we welcome Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American activist and political analyst daring to propose pragmatic solutions to the Israel/Palestine conflict. In a landscape often defined by entrenched positions, A...

“I was radicalized in the archives” - Prof. Avi Shlaim. Have you ever wondered how an Oxford Professor of International Relations, pioneering scholar of Israel/Palestine and member of the Israeli ‘New Historians’, developed his complex political voice? In this episode, we explore the remarkable journey of Avi Shlaim, author of the seminal work The Iron Wall. We delve into Avi's identity as an Arab...