PeaceCast

This episode is a recording of an April 17th APN webinar with Palestinian political scientist and pollster Khalil Shikaki.

Ali Abu Awwad is the Co-founder & General Manager of Taghyeer (Change), a Palestinian organization that leads a national nonviolence grassroots movement in the West Bank. It strives to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on freedom, dignity, and security for all. Abu Awwad is one of Palestine's most prominent nonviolence activists. This episode is an edited version of a talk he gave at Washington DC's Busboys and Poets' Peace Café on April 4th 2023. It was produced in cooperation with the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), of which Taghyeer is a member organization.

Taghyeer's website: https://www.taghyeerpal.ps/

ALLMEP's website: https://www.allmep.org/

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Assaf Adiv is a longtime activist in the field of Palestinian labor rights. He is the Executive Director of MAAN Workers Association, a nonprofit that functions as a labor union. It works to advocate for and safeguard the rights of Palestinians who work in Israel and in Israeli West Bank settlements. Maan's website: https://eng.wac-maan.org.il/ Contact Ori: [email protected]

Palestine 1936 The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict is the newly published book by Oren Kessler, an Israel-based author and journalist. In this conversation, Oren discusses his book, the Revolt, and their relevance today. The book is available here on Amazon.

This episode is a recording of a March 29th 2023 webinar with the executive director of Israel's Peace Now movement, Lior Amihai. Before becoming Peace Now's executive director last month, Lior served as the executive director of the Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din. Prior to his five years there, Lior co-headed Peace Now's Settlement Watch project for almost six years. He holds a master's degree in human rights studies from London's University College. The webinar recording started a bit late, so a couple of minutes at the very beginning of the webinar were cut off. Peace Now's web site: https://peacenow.org.il/en/ Donate: https://peacenow.org/donate

A recording of APN's March 1st webinar with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the political crisis in Israel.

Newly released in English, Shuli Dichter's book Sharing the Promised Land: In Pursuit of Equality Between Jewish and Arab Citizens in Israel combines personal stories with a blueprint for true equal relations between Israeli Jews and Arabs. In this conversation he talks about his vision for Jewish-Arab realtions in Israel and explains the concept of "civic Zionism."

Shuli's book on Amazon.

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This episode is a recording of a Februry 14th 2023 APN webinar with three of the organizers of the pro-democracy Israeli protest movement: Limor Moyal, Nery Life-Choma and Offir Gutelzon.

Janet Aviad was among the founders of Israel's Peace Now movement. 40 years ago, she stood next to Emil Grunzweig, a leading Peace Now activist, when he was killed by a right-wing Israeli at the end of a Peace Now demonstraton. In this episode, she talks about the event and the long shadow it cast on Israeli public life. Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate

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Yara Amayra is a young Palestinian civil society activist and opinion leader.

This episode features her conversation with APN's strategic communications maven Maxxe Albert-Deitch and APN intern Eliza Schloss.