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.
This episode is a tribute to longtime APN Board member Sidney (Sid) Topol, who passed away on March 30th, 2022. Sid was an icon of the US pro-Israel pro-peace movement.
The recordings of Sid, from September 2013 and April 2014, which served to edit this episode, were made by Aliza Becker for the American Jewish Peace Archive: An Oral History of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Activists, which she directs.
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
The conversation evolves around Yossi's new book, Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Three Fateful Days in March.
Yossi's new book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Tango-Sharon-Yasser-Fateful/dp/1538162075/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9ZHTQCPV3Q8V&keywords=Death+Tango&qid=1648755342&s=books&sprefix=death+tango%2Cstripbooks%2C48&sr=1-1
Yossi's column discussing the book on APN's website: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39288#.YkX2wyjMJD8
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
An in-person conversation with Alon-Lee Green and Sally Abed of the progressive Israeli Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together.
Standing Together's website: https://www.standing-together.org/en
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
A recording of a March 29th 2022 webinar with activists Mark Zivin and Aviv Tatarsky to discuss their efforts to stop the mass demolition of Palestinian homes in the village of Al-Walaja, East Jerusalem.
Recording of an APN March 21 2022 webinar with Dr. Hiba Husseini and Dr. Yossi Beilin, the co-authors of a new plan for a Palestinian-Israeli confederation, titled the Holy Land Confederation Plan.
Link to the plan: https://ecf.org.il/media_items/1538
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Write to Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Palestinian flags are not outlawed in Israel. So why do Israeli police officers in East Jerusalem and elsewhere systematically confiscate Palestinian flags, and why does the police go to such great lengths to remove Palestinian flags from the public domain?
This question is the focus of a new petition to Israel's Supreme Court, submitted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). Eyal Lurie-Pardes, who co-wrote the petition with ACRI's Tal Hassin is the guest on this episode.
To review the petition (Hebrew): https://01368b10-57e4-4138-acc3-01373134d221.usrfiles.com/ugd/01368b_a54922e33dd94c7eaba0f7d53958ed98.pdf
To read Ori's Haaretz article on this topic: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-are-israelis-so-frightened-by-the-palestinian-flag-1.10260854
To contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
To donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
This episode is an edited version of a conversation Ori had on February 21st 2022 with Andrew Hirsh and Ezzeldeen Masri of OneVoice, for their podcast, Everyday Voices.
We discussed West Bank settler violence.
For more on OneVoice: https://www.onevoicemovement.org/
For the Everyday Voices podcast: https://www.onevoicemovement.org/everydayvoices
Ori’s Haaretz article on this subject: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-for-israel-s-settlers-it-s-war-their-target-palestinian-land-and-bodies-1.10559557
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
A recording of a February 24th 2022 webinar to discuss a new publication by Truah, A Very Brief Guide to Antisemitism. A conversation on this topic between the CEOs of T’ruah and APN, Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Hadar Susskind.
A transcript of this episode: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39211#.Yhjr8O7MIq0
A link to T'ruah's booklet: https://truah.org/antisemitism/
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
write to Ori: onir@peacenow.org
This episode is an edited version of an APN webinar with Maya Rosen and Daniel Roth, the co-authors of a new report on the ways in which the work of a huge organization that owns large portions of Israel's land reserves dispossesses Palestinians, both in the West Bank and inside Israel.
Find the report here.
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
This episode of PeaceCast features Professor Hillel Cohen, an exceptionally creative Hebrew University scholar studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His current article in Israel Studies Magazine is titled: Marketing the Occupation to the Palestinians of the West Bank: Shabak Facebook Pages in Historical Context.
Link to the article: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842361
Hillel Cohen’s web site: https://pluto.huji.ac.il/~hilcoh/
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Rabbi Dr. Michael Marmur is the Chair of the Board of the Israeli human rights organization Rabbis for Human Rights. He is also an Associate Professor of Jewish Theology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. In this episode, he talks about the organization he leads and about the impressive show of support for its activists who were attacked by settlers as they helped Palestinian villagers plant olive trees in the northern West Bank.
A transcript of this episode:
https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39160#.YgPkLu7MIq0
Rabbis for Human Rights’ web site: https://www.rhr.org.il/eng
Rabbi Michael Marmur’s bio: http://huc.edu/directory/michael-marmur
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
A recording of a January 27th 2022 webinar with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid on his new book.
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Donate: https://peacenow.org/donate
The governments of the US and Israel are negotiating terms for including Israel in the US Visa Waiver Program. Will these terms address Israel's restrictions on travel into and through Israel for Palestinian Americans, and Israel's harsh treatment of Palestinian and other Arab Americans who enter Israel?
Discussing these restrictions are two prominent Palestinian Americans, performing artist Maysoon Zayid and Hanna Hanania, a dentist and Palestinian rights activist.
Contact us: onir@peacenow.org
Donate: https://peacenow.org/donate
Dana Mills is the acting Executive Director of Israel's peace movement Shalom Achshav, Peace Now. She is also a scholar, a professor, an author and a dancer, and a longtime peace activist.
A transcript of this episode: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39106#.YebbtP7MJD8
Peace Now on the web: https://peacenow.org.il/en
Write to Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Uri Ashi is the author of a newly published Hebrew book, The Hope, an Illustrated Guide to Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
In this episode, he discusses his book and the impact he hopes it will have on Israeli society.
Link to Uri’s website (Hebrew): https://hatikvah.co.il/
Write to Ori Nir: onir@peacenow.org
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Ori Givati is the advocacy director of Breaking the Silence. He is discussing a new BTS report, a collection of IDF soldiers' testimonies on settler violence.
A link to the transcript of this episode: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=39080#.YdXi0mjML85
A link to the report: https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/inside/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OnDuty-Testimonies-En.pdf
Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate