Understanding Israel Palestine

In 2014, American Tim Bruns moved to Palestine with his friend Will hoping to set up a climbing gym in Ramallah. Almost ten years (and hundreds of sends) later, the […] The post Rock Climbing as a Revolutionary Act: Resistance Climbing in the Occupied West Bank appeared first on KKFI .

A day after the Israeli Parliament’s passage of a highly  contested bill to limit the power of the Supreme Court, two members of the peace camp there speak to its […] The post The Crisis in Israel : Observations of the Peace Camp appeared first on KKFI .

On July 3 Israel unleashed a major raid on the Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, The operation was led by various Israeli special […] The post Jenin Refugee Camp resists Israeli raid appeared first on KKFI .

Jehad Abusalim is executive director of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and author of a recent article in “The New Arab” that looks at Gaza 16 years […] The post Will Gaza’s Fate Become the West Bank’s Future? appeared first on KKFI .

Human rights advocate Samer Daoudi and international human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab discuss the recent demolition of the Jubbet adh-Dhib village school by the Israeli army on May 7, 2023. […] The post School by School, Israel Takes Area C of the West Bank appeared first on KKFI .

Longtime peace advocate and protest candidate Jerome Segal discusses his decades-long efforts to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his proposal for a post-Oslo peace plan based on the U.N. […] The post Re-Viewing the Palestinian Declaration of Independence appeared first on KKFI .

Is Israel a nation founded on the Jewish religion or is it a secular state that is home to Jews, with non-Jewish minorities? Without a constitution ambiguities remain and questions […] The post Divisions among Jewish Israelis expose possible threat to the Israeli state appeared first on KKFI .

For the past 5 months hundreds of thousands of citizens on Israeli streets, draped in Israeli flags, have been protesting laws proposed by the newly elected government to gut the […] The post Israel’s lack of a constitution: denial of equal rights appeared first on KKFI .

To commmorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot dead by an Israeli bullet in what many suspect was an Israeli extra-judicial killing, […] The post The High Price of “the Special Relationship” appeared first on KKFI .

Four distinguished panelists expand on arguments in the book The One State Reality: What is Israel/Palestine. The complete panel discussion hosted by The Center for Middle East Policy at the […] The post What is Israel/Palestine: Recognizing the One State Reality appeared first on KKFI .

May 15 marks the 75th aniversaryof the Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe” when 3/4 of the indigenous population of Palestine were expelled or fled their homes in the violence […] The post Recognizing the Nakba appeared first on KKFI .

The Rev. Mae Elise Cannon, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace, says Jerusalem’s status as a city that is home to two peoples and sacred to three faiths […] The post Jewish Nationalism Fuels Increasing Attacks on Christians appeared first on KKFI .

A professor of international relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, Stephen M. Walt discusses how unconditional support for Israel has had negative effectis on both U.S. foreign policy and Israel itself. […] The post The Israel Lobby appeared first on KKFI .

As we continue our series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, we listen to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s March 2017 presentation to the National Press Club   Al-Nakba is the […] The post Ilan Pappe on decolonization appeared first on KKFI .

A prolific scholar who has dedicated his life to examining the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Norman Finkelstein discusses the massive protests taking place in Israel, describing them not as a battle for […] The post Israel’s Culture War appeared first on KKFI .

We continue our series on the Nakba, the name given to the dispossession of Palestinians that began even before 1948 and continues today. Bayan Shbib, who returned to Israel/Palestine from […] The post Monodrama by Palestinian returnee appeared first on KKFI .

In this episode, the fourth of our Nakba Project, we listen to portions of a discussion among the three authors of a new book, Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: […] The post Three UN Special Rapporteurs: How the US blocks peace in Palestine appeared first on KKFI .

The award-winning author of more than two dozen books, acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye discusses her work and life, her experiences as the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and her […] The post Naomi Shihab Nye Discusses Poetry and Palestine appeared first on KKFI .

Ori Nir, vice-president of public affairs for the liberal Zionist peace group, Americans for Peace Now, talks about tensions within the U.S. Jewish community over Israel. An Israeli journalist for […] The post Tensions Grow Among U.S. Jews over Israel appeared first on KKFI .

Fida Jiryis, author and advocate for Palestinians’ right to freedom, dignity and the internationally recognized right of return to their homeland, tells the story of her return to Palestine in […] The post Author Fida Jiryis: the challenge of return to Palestine appeared first on KKFI .

Writer, anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, talks about the conpletion of the conquest of Palestine, the dire choices facing Palestinians, now restricted […] The post Message to Palestinians: Submit, Get Out, or Die appeared first on KKFI .

In this our second episode of the Nakba Project we listen to more stories of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon taken from videotaped interviews in the Nakba Archive. 20 years ago […] The post Palestinians explain their experience in 1948 Nakba appeared first on KKFI .

This episode is the first in a series taken from the Nakba Archive, a collection of more than 500 recorded interviews of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon by a team of […] The post Palestinian refugee’s personal story of 1948 ethnic cleansing appeared first on KKFI .

Richard Falk, international law expert and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, discusses the significance of Israeli […] The post Decoding Israeli Extremism appeared first on KKFI .

Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, discusses the aims of the BDS movement, U.S. support for Israeli apartheid and the double standard evident […] The post Omar Barghouti on the BDS movement and Israeli apartheid appeared first on KKFI .