Amanda Gelender is an American Jewish writer and poet currently based in the Netherlands.

Amanda was raised in a progressive Jewish community, yet she was still only taught some of the truth about Israel and Palestine. It wasn’t until college that Amanda began to deconstruct what she had been taught and question her Zionist education.

Amanda joins Heath to discuss how Zionsim differs from Judaism, understanding the current genocide in Palestine, and her own learning process over the last twenty years.

For more learning and information from today’s conversation, Amanda provided these additional links:

On the work of Dr. Mohamed Abou

Abdaljawad Omar's talk entitled, "Germany, Zionism, and the Politics of Debt"

Susan Abulhawa’s piece on the number of people killed in Gaza

Lancet report on killed in Gaza

On systemic hospital and medical destruction

On Israel’s torture concentration camps

Israeli tree-planting as colonization in occupied Palestine

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