This episode is a recording of a July 14th 2022 webinar, sponsored by organizations that comprise the Progressive Israel Network (PIN), focusing on the ongoing crisis at the South Hebron Hills Palestinian villages of Masafer Yatta. Disussants are Israeli human rights activists.
Alexander (Alex) Winder, is a professor at Brown University focusing on Palestinian history, and the co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS). Prof. Winder is one of the editors of the newInteractive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question. In this episode, he introduces the project and explains its significance. The encyclopedia is here: https://www.palquest.org/ and the Institute of Palestine Studies is here: https://www.palestine-studies.org/
This is an audio recording of a July 6th 2022 webinar with Dana Mills, the acting executive director of Israel's Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) movement. A transcript of this webinar: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39760#.YsbzpHbML84 Peace Now's report about the record of the first year of the Bennett-Lapid government in relation to settlement construction can be found here: https://peacenow.org.il/en/the-first-year-of-the-bennett-lapid-government To donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
This is a recording of a June 23rd 2022 webinar with the young members of APN's team to explore the ways in which young progressive American Jews are thinking, talking, and acting about Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians. Participating are APN's new Communications and Development Associate Maxxe Albert-Deitch, her predecessor Claire Davidson Miller, and our intern Eliana Blumberg, in conversation with APN’s Director of Government Relations, Madeleine Cereghino. For a transcript of this episode, click here.
This is a recording of a June 15th, 2022 webinar featuring Jessica Montell, the executive director of the Israel human rights organization Hamoked to discuss the new set of regulations issued by Israel's Ministry of Defense, governing the entry of foreign nationals into the West Bank and their residence in it. The compendium of new regulations is available here. Hamoked's analysis of the new regulations available here. Hamoked's website is here. For a transcript of this episode click here. To contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org To donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
This episode is a recording of a June 7th 2022 in-person event in Washington DC with strategic affairs analyst Yossi Alpher regarding Israel’s existential challenges. Yossi's new book is availablel here. To contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org Donate to APN
The Israeli progressive organization Mehazkim put up billboards throughout Israel showing the Israeli and Palestinian flags and saying, "We were Meant to Live Together." One of them, near Tel Aviv, was ordered taken down by local authorities because it was deemed too offensive. Eran Nissan is with Mehazkim. In this conversation, he lays out the rationale behind the billboard campaign and addresses the reaction to it as a metaphor to current Israeli attitudes to the conflict with the Palestinians. For a transcript of this episode click here.
Recording of a webinar with veteran Palestinian journalists Daoud Kuttab and Mohammed Daraghmeh on the challenges of covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a Palestinian journalist.
This episode is a recoring of a May 19th 2022 webinar with Dr. Dana Mills, the acting director of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) on the Israeli peace movement currenrt efforts to curtail Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
Larry Garber is back from the West Bank, where he spent a month documenting the second round of the Palestinian municipal elections as a member of a Carter Center expert team. The team’s report is here. Contat Ori. Donate to APN.