Understanding Israel Palestine

In the first of a series of programs on Zionism, Professor Barry Trachtenberg discusses the origins and early development of Zionism. Trachtenberg holds the Rubin Presidential Chair in Jewish History […] The post The Origins of Zionism appeared first on KKFI .

Swarthmore students have faced unprecedented repression in their Palestine solidarity organizing in the past year, despite using tactics embraced in earlier campus struggles. A recent graduate of Swarthmore involved in […] The post The Palestine Exception at Swarthmore appeared first on KKFI .

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are tourism entrepreneurs and peace activists that have been working for peace in Palestine and Israel for years. Hamas militants killed Maoz's parents on […] The post The War is Coming Home: Palestinian and Israeli Peacebuilding Duo Call on Americans to Act appeared first on KKFI .

Ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr., discusses the proliferating wars in the Middle East,  Zionist aims in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran, U.S. ineffectuality, and the catastrophic collapse of U.S. […] The post Support for Israel Is Destroying U.S. Influence in the Mideast appeared first on KKFI .

Heiko Wimmen of the International Crisis Group details the quickly changing situation in Lebanon and northern Israel after the assassination of Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's launch of […] The post Israel Applies Gaza Tactics in Lebanon as Hizbullah Refuses to Back Down appeared first on KKFI .

Margot Patterson talks to Mideast scholar Juan Cole about last week’s dramatic escalation in the year-long cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah and how the failure of the Biden administration’s […] The post A Widening War in Lebanon Evinces Biden's Failed Approach to Israel appeared first on KKFI .

Anna Martin is a Montana-based journalist who writes about resistance movements and politics and how the two intersect with each other. We spoke with her as she was wrapping up […] The post As Palestinians in Egypt Remain Separated from their Families, Israel Escalates in the West Bank appeared first on KKFI .

In a 2023 Christmas Eve sermon that drew global attention, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Palestine, charged the Western church with complicity […] The post Challenging Churches' Complicity in Genocide appeared first on KKFI .

This week on Understanding Israel/Palestine, we're rebroadcasting an episode from Let's Talk UNRWA entitled An American in Gaza with Scott Anderson. Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA, speaks with […] The post An American in Gaza with Scott Anderson appeared first on KKFI .

A professor of history at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of half a dozen books on the Middle East, including The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War, […] The post "There Is No Military Solution to the Gaza Conflict" appeared first on KKFI .

Retired Col. Ann Wright of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla details the numerous ships that have attempted to break the siege of Gaza over the years. After a summer sailing to […] The post Freedom Summer: the Handala Prepares to Sail to Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Terrorism is generally held to be political violence that is illegitimate, but what confers legitimacy on some acts of political violence and illegitimacy on others? Is terrorism simply the name […] The post Terrorism and its Semantics in the Middle East appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Emilio Dabed, a Palestinian-Chilean lawyer specializing in constitutional matters, international law, and human rights, discusses his recent article for 972 Magazine entitled, "By failing to stop the Gaza genocide, […] The post The ICJ and the Administration of Colonial Violence appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Annelle Sheline, fellow at the Quincy Institute, speaks about her resignation from the State Department in protest over the Biden administration's role in backing Israel's assault in Gaza. She's […] The post The Regional Consequences of Israel's Assault on Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Khaled Elgindy, director of the program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute, discusses growing concerns about war on the Israel-Lebanon border,  deteriorating conditions in the West […] The post Will Israel Open a New War Front? appeared first on KKFI .

Journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, assistant manager of We Are Not numbers, a non-profit in Gaza that pairs young Palestinian writers with professional journalists to  help them tell their stories of siege […] The post Enduring the Unendurable: Stories from Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Khalid Hroub talks to Margot Patterson about the evolution of Hamas, the Oct. 7th attacks, and the ceasefire plan proposed by President Biden to end the war in Gaza. A […] The post What about Hamas? appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Shira Klein, Associate Professor and Chair of History at Chapman University, discusses Israel's turn toward fascism in the wake of the National Union of Israeli Students proposing a new […] The post Israel's Turn Toward Fascism appeared first on KKFI .

Margot Patterson talks to Neve Gordon, a professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London.  Gordon discusses the significance of the International Criminal Court’s decision […] The post Assessing War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide in Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Sometimes called the Arab Gandhi, Palestinian peace activist Mubarak Awad was deported from Israel in 1988 for leading non-violent resistance to the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. In this […] The post Mubarak Awad on Nonviolence as a Path to Palestinian Liberation appeared first on KKFI .

This week we speak with Robert Bletcher, Director of the Future of Conflict program at International Crisis Group (ICG). He was the lead author of the ICG's recent report Stopping […] The post Stopping Famine in Gaza appeared first on KKFI .

Rutgers University law professor Sahar Aziz and Mitchell Plitnick, president of Rethinking Foreign Policy, discuss student protests of Israel's war in Gaza, the growing threat to free speech on college […] The post Islamophobia Is Ignored in Ferment over Anti-Semitism on Campus appeared first on KKFI .

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla movement began with a 2006 email from a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement sent to other volunteers struggling with how to bring to the attention […] The post Breaking the Siege of Gaza: Freedom Flotillas since 2008 appeared first on KKFI .

In the last part of a series on the Israel lobby in the United States, Alison Weir, founder and executive director of If Americans Knew, a non-profit established more than […] The post Part VI of the Israel Lobby: Advocates Double Down after Oct. 7 appeared first on KKFI .

Dr. Sam Brody, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at The University of Kansas, discusses the history of the Anti-Defamation League (or the ADL) and the role it plays as a […] The post Part V of the Israel Lobby: The ADL's Exploitation of the Charge of anti-Semitism appeared first on KKFI .