In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with journalist Maya Rosen and analyst Natasha Soffer-Roth about the groups behind the nascent effort to establish Israeli settlements in Lebanon, the US-to-Israel pipeline of radical Zionists (such as Meir Kahane, Baruch Goldstein, and others), and the role that secular Israelis play in pursuing settlement policies. 

For more, see:

"Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel," Maya Rosen, Jewish Currents, April 2026;

"How Kahanism found its way into the Israeli political mainstream," Natasha Soffer-Roth, +972 Magazine, May 2025; 

And these two FMEP podcasts with Natasha Soffer-Roth: "Extremism in Israel" (February 2023) and "Mainstreaming the Extreme: How Meir Kahane’s Vision of Jewish Supremacy Conquered Israeli Politics" (March 2021); 

Maya Rosen an assistant editor at Jewish Currents.

Natasha Soffer-Roth (formerly Roth-Rowland) is director of research and analysis at Diaspora Alliance. She has a PhD in History from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on the Israeli- and American-Jewish far right

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. You can follow Ahmed on Substack at: https://ahmedmoor.substack.com and on X at @AhmedMoor.

Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.