Understanding Israel Palestine

In this our last episode of the year 2022, we reflect on harbingers of hope. On the political front, in response to Israel’s November election that added fascist elements and […] The post Palestinians Finding Hope in 2023 appeared first on KKFI .

In this our last episode of the year 2022, we reflect on harbingers of hope. On the political front, in response to Israel’s November election that elected fascist elements and […] The post Finding hope for Palestinian justice appeared first on KKFI .

The Rev. Dr. Alex Awad talks about the realities of today’s Bethlehem where, like elsewhere in the West Bank, local residents are experiencing the expropriation of their land. A  Christian […] The post Christmas in Bethlehem Today appeared first on KKFI .

The documentary film “Boycott” looks at how and why 34 U.S. states have passed laws targeting Americans who boycott Israeli products in support of Palestinian rights. “Boycott” tells the story […] The post “Boycott” Investigates Anti-Boycott Laws Threatening Free Speech appeared first on KKFI .

The word Intifada in Arabic means a shaking off. The First Intifada began in December 1987, thirty-five years ago, and lasted more than five years, ending in 1993 when its […] The post First and Second Intifadas: the story has not yet ended appeared first on KKFI .

Dov Waxman, professor of political science and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies at UCLA, assesses the likely consequnces of the far-right coalition government taking shape […] The post The Rise of the Right in Israel appeared first on KKFI .

Voices From the Holy Land chose The Settlers for its November online film salon. A 60-minute online panel discussion about the film has been edited for this episode of UIP. […] The post The Settlers and debate about Zionism appeared first on KKFI .

Son of a famous Israeli general in the Six-Day War, Israeli peace activist Miko Peled discusses his memoir “The General’s Son” and how he came to reject the Zionist principles […] The post Miko Peled: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine appeared first on KKFI .

Chen Alon and Osama Iliwat discuss how they came to join Combatants for Peace, a group that brings together combatants on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to work for […] The post Combatants For Peace Share Their Stories appeared first on KKFI .

Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, discusses the recent elections in the United States and in Israel; Jonathan Kuttab, international human rights lawyer and director of […] The post Update on U.S. and Israeli Elections; The #SaveShadi Campaign appeared first on KKFI .

We explore three alternative resolutions to what we will term the “conflict” between Israelis and Palestinians. Which frameworks are being considered today to resolve this conflict that has lasted for […] The post Eve Spangler: Understanding Israel Going Forward appeared first on KKFI .

Alice Speri, a journalist for The Intercept, discusses her recent reporting on the U.S. government’s failure to demand accountability for the death of its citizens at the hands of Israeli […] The post “Israeli Forces Keep Killing Americans” appeared first on KKFI .

Ellen Siegel, an American RN, relates her eyewitness account of the 1982 massacre of refugees living in the Sabra Shatila camp in Lebanon.  She witnessed the killing of thousands of […] The post Eyewitness account of 1982 massacre in Sabra Shatila appeared first on KKFI .

We listen to a conversation between two men: Alan Edelman, a Zionist and longtime Kansas City Jewish professional, and Alex McDonald, a Quaker and non-Zionist who began twenty years ago […] The post A Zionist and non-Zionist have a conversation appeared first on KKFI .

Omar Shakir, Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch, discusses Israel’s Aug. 18 closure of seven leading Palestinian human rights organizations and the threat this poses to Palestinian human rights and […] The post Closure of Palestinian NGOS Poses “Existential Threat” appeared first on KKFI .

An offstage Voice begins the play It’s What We Do by Pam Nice, prompting each of three Israeli soldiers to tell their stories of military actions in the occupied territories, […] The post Breaking the Silence – a dramatization appeared first on KKFI .

Khaled Elgindy, director of the Program on Palestine and israeli-Palestinian Affairs at the Middle East Institute, explains Israel’s three-day assult on Islamic Jihad in August. William Deere, acting director of […] The post Israel’s Assault on Islamic Jihad; Troubles at UNRWA appeared first on KKFI .

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was chief of staff to General Colin Powell when Powell was Secretary of State from 2001-2005. Wilkerson offers his insider perspective on the U.S.-Israeli “special relationship,” which […] The post A “Poisonous” U.S.-Israeli Relationship appeared first on KKFI .

Keifah Addera tells her story from Tuwani, how she helped organize the women in Tuwani to realize some amazing accomplishments: sending young women to university and bringing electricity to the […] The post Tuwani woman’s story of the village women organizing to get electricity appeared first on KKFI .

Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute who directs its program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, discusses the internal and external factors that created the split in […] The post A Divided House: The Split between Fatah and Hamas appeared first on KKFI .

We explore the controversy around the Mapping Project, a publication that sparked extensive controversy after it went live on June 3.  The Mapping Project identifies and maps hundreds of policing institutions, […] The post The Mapping Project controversy; Samidoun supports Palestinian prisoners appeared first on KKFI .

Maha Nassar’s book Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World tells the story of Palestinian writers and intellectuals in Israel for two decades following the 1948 war. […] The post How Palestinian intellectuals after 1948 shaped national identity appeared first on KKFI .

In May a decades-long legal battle ended with the Israeli Supreme Court ruling that Palestinians living in an area in the south Hebron Hills in the Occupied West Bank could […] The post Palestinians in Masafer Yatta face forcible transfer appeared first on KKFI .

Part I (first 27 minutes). Dr. Virginia Tilley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Carbondale was co-author with Richard Falk of a 2017 report for the […] The post Part I: Israel and apartheid Part II: Israel’s attack on USS Liberty in 1967 war appeared first on KKFI .

Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian reporter for Al Jazeera,was shot dead May 11, 2022 as she covered an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West […] The post Did Israel Assassinate Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh? appeared first on KKFI .