Protective Presence USA Podcast

For thirty years Daniel Seidemann has been warning various American and European administrations against allowing Netanyahu to construct the E-1 settlement that is designed to put an end to any hope for a two state solution. Now it seems construction is about to begin. How did we get here? And what can be done?

Moishele Alfonso talks with Mitch Abidor and Celeste Marcus about what protective presence was like during the two weeks he was there this past August, how it was different from his last trip the year before, and how it has changed his life.

Adala is a leader of UCPIP, a young Palestinian led organization in the West Bank. She is often the only activist in the room who speaks Arabic. On this episode she discusses her experiences in the West Bank and out of it.

Jacob Ner David is a protective presence activist who has been involved in activism in various parts of the Israeli left for many years. In this episode he talks at length how the funding and support from the government for settler terrorism literally works, and what his hopes are for a better future.

Paul Fish, an activist from California, joins Amit Orfali and Celeste Marcus to talk about his experiences doing protective presence as a retiree and a secular Jew from Canada

Rabbi Arik Ascherman talks with Amit Orfali and Celeste Marcus about how he got involved in the protective presence movement, how his activism has changed over the last thirty years, how the Israeli public and the Israeli government has changed for the better and for worse in that time, and how his Judaism informs his work.

Sam Stein reflects on six years of activism in the West Bank with Mitchell Abidor Celeste Marcus.

Adele Shoko joins Moishele Alfonso and Amit Orfali to discuss her life living in the West Bank doing Protective Presence and journalism 24/7.

The hosts of Protective Presence USA Podcast introduce themselves, explain why they do Protective Presence, and share a story from their time in the West Bank.