In the first of a series of programs on Zionism, Professor Barry Trachtenberg discusses the origins and early development of Zionism. Trachtenberg holds the Rubin Presidential Chair in Jewish History […] The post The Origins of Zionism appeared first on KKFI.

Swarthmore students have faced unprecedented repression in their Palestine solidarity organizing in the past year, despite using tactics embraced in earlier campus struggles. A recent graduate of Swarthmore involved in […] The post The Palestine Exception at Swarthmore appeared first on KKFI.

Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are tourism entrepreneurs and peace activists that have been working for peace in Palestine and Israel for years. Hamas militants killed Maoz's parents on […] The post The War is Coming Home: Palestinian and Israeli Peacebuilding Duo Call on Americans to Act appeared first on KKFI.

Ambassador Chas Freeman, Jr., discusses the proliferating wars in the Middle East,  Zionist aims in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran, U.S. ineffectuality, and the catastrophic collapse of U.S. […] The post Support for Israel Is Destroying U.S. Influence in the Mideast appeared first on KKFI.

Heiko Wimmen of the International Crisis Group details the quickly changing situation in Lebanon and northern Israel after the assassination of Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's launch of […] The post Israel Applies Gaza Tactics in Lebanon as Hizbullah Refuses to Back Down appeared first on KKFI.

Margot Patterson talks to Mideast scholar Juan Cole about last week’s dramatic escalation in the year-long cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah and how the failure of the Biden administration’s […] The post A Widening War in Lebanon Evinces Biden's Failed Approach to Israel appeared first on KKFI.

Anna Martin is a Montana-based journalist who writes about resistance movements and politics and how the two intersect with each other. We spoke with her as she was wrapping up […] The post As Palestinians in Egypt Remain Separated from their Families, Israel Escalates in the West Bank appeared first on KKFI.

In a 2023 Christmas Eve sermon that drew global attention, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Palestine, charged the Western church with complicity […] The post Challenging Churches' Complicity in Genocide appeared first on KKFI.

This week on Understanding Israel/Palestine, we're rebroadcasting an episode from Let's Talk UNRWA entitled An American in Gaza with Scott Anderson. Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA, speaks with […] The post An American in Gaza with Scott Anderson appeared first on KKFI.

A professor of history at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of half a dozen books on the Middle East, including The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War, […] The post "There Is No Military Solution to the Gaza Conflict" appeared first on KKFI.