For over 30 years, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, has been conducting public opinion polls of Palestinian and Israeli views on a wide variety of issues. What do these polls tell us about Palestinian society today and about possibilities for the future? Join host Karen Spira as she and Shikaki discuss some of the misconceptions surrounding Palestinian views about democracy, resistance, and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority in light of escalating violence and diminishing prospects for a peace agreement.

Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah and founding senior fellow at the Crown Center.

Karen Spira, assistant director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University.

More Resources

• Recent public opinion poll from March 23, 2023: https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/938
• The Palestine/Israel Pulse, a Joint Poll Summary Report: https://pcpsr.org/en/node/928 
• Michal Ben Josef-Hirsch, "Democracy at Risk? Assessing Israel's Democratic Backsliding," Middle East Brief 150, December 2022, https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/middle-east-briefs/pdfs/101-200/meb150.pdf

Editorial team: Naghmeh Sohrabi, Karen Spira, Ramyar D. Rossoukh
Producer: Karen Spira
Audio engineer: Levon Henry
Podcast art: Chae Lee
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