Occupied Thoughts

Peter Beinart is joined by Dima Khalida (Founder and Director of Palestine Legal)to discuss the Trump Administration's recent Executive Order regarding antisemitism on college campuses.

Peter talks to Salem Barahmeh - one of the creators behind a new virtual reality app taking people inside key places in Palestine - about the power of seeing and hearing stories of the Palestinian experience. The two also investigate the trends in political thought of Palestinian youth.

FMEP Non-Resident Fellow Peter Beinart is joined by Lior Amihai, Executive Director of Yesh Din, to discuss Israel's ongoing de facto annexation of West Bank land, and the role violent settlers play in advancing that goal.

Occupied Thoughts: What Happened to the Israeli Left? w/ Peter Beinart & Shaqued Morag by Occupied Thoughts by FMEP

FMEP non-resident fellow Peter Beinart is joined by Tania Hary (Gisha) to discuss the reality facing Palestinians living in Gaza, and how Israel's blockade is driven by several goals by the state of Israel to shape the prospects and nature of  a future of a Palestinian state.

In this new episode of Occupied Thoughts (recorded 9/20/19) - recorded days after Israel's recent election - Peter Beinart explores the situation of Israel's Bedouin citizens in the Negev. He is joined by Tal Avrech, of the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF), an Israeli NGO working to achieve full civil rights and equality for all those living Negev/Naqab.

Peter & Lara discuss how Israel-Palestine is playing into the current political discourse across the political spectrum in the United States.

Khaled Elgindy joins the FMEP staff - Lara, Kristin, and Phil - to talk about what comes after the utter collapse of the U.S.-led peace process.

This episode references a recent Foreign Policy article by Khaled Elgindy and Lara Friedman, "The End of Oslo is an Opportunity."

A Civil Discussion About The BDS Movement w/ Peter Beinart & Omar Barghouti by Occupied Thoughts by FMEP

Peter Beinart is joined by one of the organizers of the Great March of Return in Gaza, Ahmed Abu Artema, for a discussion of how the march came to be, and what has sustained it for almost one year.