Understanding Israel Palestine

“The Detonator and the Survival Kit: Recovering the Map Beyond the Wreckage” featuring Jonathan Kuttab   "Welcome back to Understanding Israel Palestine , a Beyond the Walls edition. I’m Jeremy Rothe-Kushel. Today, we re-open a black box recording from a time of useful consciousness : my March 2021 conversation with long-serving Palestinian human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab . Back then, the UN...

Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, Director of Israel-Palestine Research at the non-profit DAWN (Democracy in the Arab World Now), speaks about the accelerating pace of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank,  which is raising fears of a new genocide. He describes the history of settler violence, the U.S. role in enabling Israeli occupation,  apartheid and genocide, and the need for measures that could prompt...

Mamdani’s Panopticon Burden: To Inherit the Hardened and Databased Political Epistemology of the Security State(s)? By Jeremy Rothe-Kushel Host/Producer, Understanding Israel Palestine: Beyond The Walls New York City is a paradox disguised as a metropolis. Above, the glass-and-steel canyons of Midtown reflect the accumulated wealth of empire—the real estate dynasties, the hedge funds, the global i...

Jen Marlowe, the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects, and producer of the recent film Severed, joins the show to talk about the crisis of disability in Palestine and particularly in Gaza, where thousands of amputees struggle to get the care in the aftermath of Israel's escalated genocide and its suffocating blockade.

The project director on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, an independent non-profit focused on preventing and resolving deadly conflict,  Max Rodenbeck discusses the Crisis Group's recent report on the Gaza Peace Plan advanced by President Trump. He describes how Trump's 20-point plan developed, its unavoidable ambiguity, the many questions about  the ceasefire's terms and prosp...

Two years after the October 7th attacks, a so-called Gaza peace deal is roughly unfolding. But there widely remains no serious analytical investigation into the full origins of that inciting event. Was it really a surprise? Or was it part of a deeper provocation, escalated by security stand-downs and the 'Mass Hannibal Directive'? We cast back to an AnteDote analysis from October 2023 to begin re-...

In the fall of 2023, a shady land deal signed a few years earlier between the Armenian Patriarchate and an Australian-Israeli businessman came to light. Despite the Patriarchate's cancellation of the deal on Nov. 1, 2023, Israeli surveyors and settlers pushed ahead with their plans to develop the property into a luxury hotel and permanently alter the character and demography of the Old City's Arme...

In anticipation of Voices from the Holy Land's upcoming October 19th online film salon "The Israel Occupation Tech Lab," we will hear a segment Jeremy Rothe-Kushel produced in December 2020 and then remixed for August 2021 titled "Cyberweaponry, Kill-Switch Diplomacy and the Technology of Occupation." To find out about and register for Voices from the Holy Land's October 19th "Israel Occupation Te...

From the People's Conference for Palestine 2025: Over the past year, we have seen a shift in public consciousness: from demanding an immediate ceasefire to demanding a full arms embargo on Israel. Mass protests have erupted in the ports of Morocco, French dockworkers have refused to handle military cargo destined to Israel, and Spain has passed a policy to enact an arms embargo against Israel. Thi...

Amidst the flames, ruin & human destruction currently being escalated by the Israeli military in Gaza City and the UN's finally emergent declaratory analysis of genocide, a more than century-old haunting logic has destructively unfolded. In the US, the political fallout from the cloaking & cloaked wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk has accelerated Executive & Legislative moves t...

Emmaia Gelman, director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, discusses Zionism's relationship to racism and colonialism,   the threat to Americans' First Amendment rights posed by the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism promoted by the Anti-Defamation League and other Zionist groups, and the emergence of Zionism as an arm of fascism in the United States.

For this week’s episode, we are excerpting portions of a panel entitled The Struggle Continues: The Fight for Palestine in North America held on Aug 30, 2025 at the second annual People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit. We are excerpting PYM organizer Mohammed Nabulsi’s responses to questions posed by the moderator Loubna Qatami. In response to the last two years of Zionist genocide in Gaza,...

For this episode of Understanding Israel Palestine — a Beyond the Walls edition — Jeremy Rothe-Kushel speaks with Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill, a doctoral candidate in International History at the London […] The post Genocidal Deceptions, Palestine Denied & the Public Responsibilities of how History might Speak appeared first on KKFI .

Masafer Yatta is a collection of hamlets in the South Hebron Hills that Israel has long tried to wrest from Palestinians living there. The intensifying struggle there is the topic […] The post Providing Protective Presence in Masafer Yatta: One Man’s Story of Activism in Palestine appeared first on KKFI .

Pollster and Middle East scholar James Zogby discusses his recent column on the Drobles Plan for Palestine, which he says Israel is advancing in Gaza and the West Bank despite […] The post Israel Implements the Drobles Plan for Palestine amid War on Iran appeared first on KKFI .

Since it’s founding in 1996, Jewish Voice for Peace has advocated for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation, apartheid and war. In early May, JVP held its first […] The post Jewish Voice for Peace Rallies Members to Fight Genocide in Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

How have humanitarian organizations managed to deliver life-saving aid to millions of Gazans despite the dangerous and difficult conditions since Oct 7? Despite their success, why have the US and […] The post Famine and Farce: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation appeared first on KKFI .

Zeiad Abbas Shamroukh, Executive Director of the Middle East Childrens Alliance joins the show to talk about the conditions people in Gaza are facing, as Israel’s total blockade on food, […] The post Starvation and Sumud in Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Israel is calling up thousands of reservists to escalate its war on Gaza. Its vow to rescue the hostages and eradicate Hamas comes after 19 months of a brutal assault […] The post Part II of “The Gaza Catastrophe:” Israel Vows Intensified Assault on Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Middle East analyst Khaled Elgindy discusses Israel’s continuing bombardment and total blockade on food and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the U.S. role in the ongoing destruction of the […] The post The Gaza Catastrophe: What Next for Israel & Palestine? appeared first on KKFI .

This week we are rebroadcasting an interview we aired on June 28, 2024 by my co-host Margot Patterson. She interviewed journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, assistant manager of We Are Not Numbers, […] The post Repost: Stories from Gaza with Mahmoud Mushtaha appeared first on KKFI .

In a talk given on Thursday, April 10 at the First Presbyterian Church in Hartford, Issa Amro reflects on the challenges he and Palestinians have faced in nonviolently resisting Israel’s […] The post Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine after Oct. 7 appeared first on KKFI .

Margot Patterson talks to Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, about the threat to free speech posed by the International Holocaust Rembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition […] The post The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and the Threat to Free Speech appeared first on KKFI .

On Oct. 7, 2024 the Heritage Foundation unveiled Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. Since the Trump administration took office, this document has served as the basis for […] The post Project Esther and the Neuroscience of Solidarity appeared first on KKFI .

Margot Patterson talks to Dr. James Zogby about the Trump administration’s effort to deport foreign students and scholars who have protested Israel’s war on Gaza. The attempt to stifle dissent […] The post The Assault on Universities and Free Speech on Palestine appeared first on KKFI .