PeaceCast

A recording of an APN October 26th 2022 webinar with Haaretz journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer, less than a week before Israel's general elections.

Eric Axelman is a film director and producer. His new documentary, Israelism, features young American Jews who were raised to defend the state of Israel, but when they went there, what they saw on the ground shocks and deeply disturbed them, and motivated them to become activists against Israel's occupation and in support of Palestinian rights. Through their stories, the film examines the deepening divide over Israel within the American Jewish community.

Israelism's web site: https://www.israelismfilm.com/

Contac Ori: [email protected]

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This episode is a recording of an October 19th 2022 webinar with the founder and president of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), Avi Meyerstein on the special congressional initiaive to fund Israeli-Palestinian people-to-people programs.

For the Mitvim report that Avi authored on the subject, click here

Micah Hendler is the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus. In this episode, he talks about the choir and about the power of music to bring people together. On the JYC’s web site, you can find more details and videos.  

Dr. Arnon Degani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Avraham Harman Research Center for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Research fellow at the Israeli think tank MOLAD. He is also the creator of an 8-part Hebrew language podcast on the Oslo Accords. The podcast dispells some of the chief misconceptions about the Oslo Accords, their background and their impact.  In thus episode, Dr. Degani discusses the objective of the podcast, which will hopefully be re-produced for the English speaking audience. For the Oslo Podcast (Hebrew) click here.  To contact Ori write to: [email protected]  To donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate  

A recording of a September 21st 2022 webinar with Israeli journalist and political analyst Tal Schneider. 

Chen Arieli is the Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv. This episode is an audio recording of a September 8th 2022 webinar, in which Arieli spoke about her initiative of producing new maps for Tel Aviv public schools, which clearly delineate Israel's borders, including the Green Line that separates sovereign Israel from the occupied West Bank.

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Dr. Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American scholar, journalist and actiivist, is the author of a recent Haaretz arrticle titled "What Palestinians Really Think About the Holocaust." In this episode, Dr. Bahbah discusses his article and why he decided to publicly address such a sensitive topic. 

A recording of a September 1, 2022 webinar with Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei and Dr. Suad Lubbad, mental health practitioners in the Gaza Strip. 

Suad Lubbad is Project Officer at the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) in the Gaza Strip. The projects she leads mainly handle early childhood development, child health, nutrition, education, protection and hygiene. She holds a PhD in human development.

Yasser Abu Jamei is the director general of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, a leading mental health services provider, and the cofounder of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network. His recent focus is an approach that integrates public health and human rights into mental health in the Gazan context.

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This episode is an audio recording of an August 25 APN webinar with Ruth Messinger and Mik Moore to discuss their jointly authored article recently published by The Nation.

The article is available here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democracy-middle-east-israel-palestinians/