25th Hour! It’s a Spike Lee joint. And we (Humble Mumbles & Never Forget Radio) once loved it. It’s the breathless epic/gritty tale/classic caper/New York torque of One Man’s Last Day of Freedom with all its existential reckoning, love, comradeship, suspicion, despair etc etc before he goes to jail (the 25th Hour). It emerged in the early post-9/11…

“When I first met him, it was at my mom’s house in Minnesota… My mom is a rabbi.. He was giving a talk about his story and she loved him–as many middle-aged Jewish women do–he’s an incredibly charming person; that’s one of the pieces of his story… ” Penina Eilberg-Schwartz is a Jewish-American writer/poet and electric guitar player with San Francis…

In episode 3 of the ‘Foreigners in Palestine’ series, our rubbernecking wide-eyed war reporter travels to Hebron, where she meets the luminously seen-it-all Maya, a 19-year-old Danish woman working with the Palestinian group Youth Against Settlements. “Can I just ask you a question: does it seem at all scary knowing that someone got killed there be…

It’s a classic story. A sultry summer’s night: Two suave British students of Arabic and one flustered American activist talk about being Western women in Palestine. Rebecca: “So what’s it like traveling in the West Bank ?” Lola: “Sometimes it’s just like commuting… “ Poppy: “It’s completely different for internationals, there’s not really the same …

Welcome to the dubious ‘Foreigners in Palestine’ series! In this episode, we speak with three young people from The West: Alice, a French artist in Bethlehem, Lily, an American archaeologist in Jerusalem & Rebecca, an American layabout in Beit Sahour Who ARE these 20-30-year-old white women in Palestine? “Hamdulillah, Israel!” In Episode 1 of our ‘…

“You know, me being Israeli, my very, very identity as Israeli, one of the most important components of being Israeli is being an occupier here” In this episode we speak with Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, co-creator of Decolonizer (www.de-colonizer.org) and former director of Zochrot (zochrot.org) on the importance of alternative education even when im…

Welcome to the (second part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU… or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. … the star of this play and also my heart. Bad Activist: The energ…

Welcome to the (first part of the) second version of Bad Activist: Sex Politics, Palestine and YOU… or maybe version 2.5. A play, by Humble Mumbles Narrator: Who is this girl? [enter Bad Activist] I met her in Palestine but she’s not Palestinian. She’s an American. An American Jew. … the star of this play and also my heart. Bad Activist: The energy…

In this episode our Humble Mumbles representative speaks with Wisam Salsaa, owner and manager of The Walled-Off Hotel (a play on Waldorf Hotel), the creation of renowned political art cipher Banksy. Is this hotel effective political satire? Disrespectful Western meddling? A comfortable abode for the traveler to Bethlehem? Salsaa fields all these cr…

Part II (Part I here : bit.ly/2ptW4gs) Are you looking for a gloriously compelling, coherent and comprehensive introduction to 20th century Palestine/Israel in the context of 19th century Europe and 21st century America? This is the clear and impassioned two-part interview episode for you “History didn’t stop 2000 years ago and start again in 1948”…