Best 972 Magazine Podcasts (2024)

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What happened to the Green Line? 43:18

2y ago43:18

43:18

Last month, a controversy erupted in Israel when the Tel Aviv municipality, in time for the new school year, distributed maps to classrooms that showed the Green Line. Although the 1949 armistice lines that formed Israel's unofficial borders at the cessation of the 1948 war are internationally recognized, in Israel the Green Line is a contentious p…

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The Jewish Comedian Calling Out Apartheid in Arabic 33:39

2+ y ago33:39

33:39

Noam Shuster-Eliassi, an Israeli comedian based in south Tel Aviv, spent her childhood and early adulthood invested in a traditional model of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Growing up in Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, a mixed community in central Israel where Jews and Palestinains live together by choice, Shuster-Eliassi took to peace …

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Excavating Israel's underground settlements 25:02

2+ y ago25:02

25:02

Archeology is presumed to be a neutral endeavor, a practice of excavation that merely uncovers clues about the past. But according to Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrahi, it's easy to frame archeological discoveries in a way that privileges one narrative or one history over another. That's very much what is happening in Israel-Palestine, and a lo…

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The Role of Fiction in Palestinian Liberation 39:10

2+ y ago39:10

39:10

When Sahar Mustafah, a Palestinian-American author and teacher, heard about the 2015 murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina by their white neighbor, she turned to writing to process the attack and its ramifications. "It was the kind of event that just rattled me to my core," says Mustafah, who is based in Chicago. "What compels someone t…

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Resisting Apartheid Behind Israel’s Prison Walls 33:14

2+ y ago33:14

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Perhaps the most enthralling story in Israel-Palestine last month was the startling escape of six Palestinians from the notorious Gilboa prison, using simple tools like spoons to dig a tunnel out of their cells and on to freedom. Although the prisoners were re-captured several days later, their feat dominated Israeli news headlines and captured the…

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A Little Ice Cream Goes a Long Way 40:59

3y ago40:59

40:59

Earlier this month, American ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s announced that will stop selling their products in Israeli settlements located in the occupied West Bank. The company’s decision has sparked an uproar by Israeli politicians, from the far-right to the Zionist left. Along with cries of “antisemitism” and “economic terrorism,” the Israeli g…

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The Israeli Researchers Unearthing Their Country's Dark Past 44:11

3y ago44:11

44:11

It was in the early days of the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research that one of the researchers stumbled upon a document that had disappeared since first being published in the mid-1980s. Dubbed the Immigration Document, the 18-page memo authored by an Israeli intelligence officer in 1948 lists the Palestinian villages and to…

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An Uprising for Palestinian Unity 37:36

3y ago37:36

37:36

In late May, Israeli police launched the largest nationwide crackdown against Palestinian citizens of Israel in decades. The campaign, known as Operation Law and Order, has led to the arrest of hundreds of Palestinians who participated in last month’s wave of protests, sparked by the imminent expulsion of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah, the …

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A Night of Jewish Supremacist Violence in Jerusalem 28:41

3y ago28:41

28:41

In this episode, we interview +972 contributor Orly Noy about the shocking display of racism and brutality in Jerusalem last week, when hundreds of Israeli Jews, many of them young men, marched through the streets of the city chanting "Death to Arabs.” The march was organized by Lehava, a notorious extreme right wing organization, after several vid…

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Will This Palestinian Matriarch Get to Keep Her Jerusalem Home? 34:07

3y ago34:07

34:07

As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the world this past year, home has become an especially important source of shelter and safety. While some governments have responded to pressure from activists and paused evictions, Palestinians in East Jerusalem still face uncertainty. That's the case with the Sumarin family, who live just outside Jerusal…

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Six Shots in Two Seconds: Investigating the Fatal Shooting of Ahmad Erekat 32:45

3+ y ago32:45

32:45

On June 23, 2020, Ahmad Erakat crashed into the Container checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Border Police officers shot him six times in two seconds, claiming he had attempted a car-ramming attack. But a new forensic investigation undermines the authorities’ version of events. At the request of the Erakat family, Forensic Architecture, a resear…

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Why is Netanyahu Suddenly Courting Palestinian Voters? 39:05

3+ y ago39:05

39:05

Israel is heading into its fourth election in less than two years, and with the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing rather uncharted territory. Like previous rounds, these elections are in many ways a referendum on Netanyahu. But there are bigger factors that could determine if the fourth contest will be different from the last. +972 Magazine Editor-in-Ch…

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How Palestine Advocates Are Gearing Up for the Post-Trump Era 26:06

3+ y ago26:06

26:06

There was palpable relief, and even joy, throughout the progressive movement when the U.S. presidential race was finally called for Joe Biden at the beginning of November. Four years of an administration that relentlessly attacked every minority group imaginable would finally be coming to an end, and with it, perhaps, a move away from constant fire…

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How the Palestinian Authority Undermines Resistance to Annexation 36:21

4y ago36:21

36:21

Significant historic threats have befallen the Palestinian people this year, including the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” and Israel’s current push to formally annex parts of the occupied territories. But it is still unclear how Palestinians plan to confront these events, both on the leadership and grassroots levels. For example, why …

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The Jewish Israelis Helping Make Palestinian Return a Reality 41:20

4y ago41:20

41:20

This is the third and final episode in our series on the right of return for Palestinian refugees. In the first, we got a glimpse of what return might feel like with Tarek Bakri’s visual documentation project. Then, BADIL’s Lubnah Shomali discussed the practical ways in which return can be made possible. In this episode, we explore what Jewish Isra…

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How Can the Return of Palestinian Refugees Become Feasible? 41:27

4y ago41:27

41:27

Palestinian refugees are the longest-standing displaced population in modern history. There are currently more than 8 million displaced Palestinians, including internally displaced persons inside Israel. In the second episode of a three-part series on the right of return for Palestinian refugees, Lubnah Shomali from BADIL, a Palestinian center that…

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The Project Bringing Palestinian Refugees Back Home 42:35

4y ago42:35

42:35

Almost 10 years ago, Tarek Bakri accidentally started a project called Kunna ou Ma Zilna, Arabic for “we were and are still here,” as a way of visually documenting Palestine in the social media era. Using old photos and oral history, he helps Palestinians find their original homes and villages, many of which are now depopulated, destroyed, or occup…

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Deciding the Fate of Palestinians — Without Palestinians 30:48

4+ y ago30:48

30:48

A month after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East plan, Israelis went to the polls for a third time in a year. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to declare victory, not much has shifted the deadlock from the previous two rounds, and no party is able to form a government yet. For Diana Buttu, Palestinian human rights…

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Does this Far Right Group Expose What Israel Tries to Hide? 45:05

4+ y ago45:05

45:05

When Meir Kahane, an extremist rabbi who advocated for Jewish supremacy through the use of violence, ran in Israel’s 1988 elections, the state’s Central Elections Committee barred his party, claiming it incited racism and threatened the democratic nature of the state. Similar to the fascist movements of 1930s Europe, Kahane envisioned a Jewish soci…

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The Palestinian Musician Shattering Taboos 58:36

4+ y ago58:36

58:36

Singer-songwriter Maysa Daw always knew she wanted to become a musician. At 27, the Haifa native has a debut album out and is a member of two bands: famed Palestinian hip hop group DAM and new, all-women ensemble Kallemi. In this episode, Maysa talks about the importance of shattering social taboos and airing out the dirty laundry, about her journe…

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Who Will Israel Deport Next? 49:10

4+ y ago49:10

49:10

The deportation of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch, put a spotlight on Israel's attempts to suppress dissent and criticism of its policies in the occupied territories. For Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, one of the lawyers representing Shakir in his lengthy battle to stay in the country, the deportation “has huge pote…

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What Does Israeli Liberalism Look Like? 42:44

4+ y ago42:44

42:44

Almost two weeks after Israeli voters cast their ballots for a second time this year, it is still unclear which candidate will lead the country. To make sense of all this, The +972 Podcast turns to leading public opinion analyst Dahlia Scheindlin, who says not much has changed since the April elections. What’s different this time, however, is the g…

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Will Netanyahu's Attempt to Suppress the Palestinian Vote Backfire? 26:11

5y ago26:11

26:11

Whereas in 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to appeal to his voter base by warning of Arabs going to vote “in droves,” now he is openly accusing Palestinian citizens of voter fraud and of “stealing” the elections. Sawsan Zaher of Adalah, the legal center for Palestinian rights in Israel, talks to The +972 Podcast about how this voter intimidation cam…

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Has International Law Failed Palestinians? 48:00

5y ago48:00

48:00

By understanding Zionism as a white supremacist project, the division between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians becomes reductionist, says Noura Erakat, Palestinian human rights activist and author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Thinking of racism merely as a distinction between Jews and non-Jews pits Palestinians against th…

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Could Mizrahim Find Their Most Natural Allies in Palestinians? 36:06

5y ago36:06

36:06

It is no secret that for decades, the Zionist left discriminated against Mizrahim, or Jews with roots in Arab and Muslim countries, treating them as second-class citizens and pushing them to the economic, political, and cultural margins of Israeli society. Mizrahim took matters into their own hands, forming political movements and parties of their …

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How BDS Became Such A Big Deal in American Politics 40:59

5y ago40:59

40:59

The United States’ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has dramatically transformed since Trump took office, but a lot of those changes — from legislation to defund the Palestinian Authority to an attempt to criminalize boycotting Israel — actually came from Congress. It’s BDS and the idea of boycotting Israel to pressure into changing its…

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Exposing Israel's Arms Sales to Oppressive Regimes 46:00

5y ago46:00

46:00

Israeli human rights lawyer Eitay Mack is working to uncover both Israel’s historic ties to brutal military regimes, such as Pinochet’s Chile, as well as its current arms exports to countries carrying out gross violations of human rights, like South Sudan and Myanmar. Israel's ticket to becoming an arms exporter — with deals dating as far back as t…

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Israel Wants to Deport this Human Rights Defender 22:00

5y ago22:00

22:00

For more than a year now, Israel has been trying to deport the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir. The ongoing litigation began in May 2018, when Israel decided to revoke Shakir’s work authorization in Israel. This was the first time the Israeli government had used a 2017 amendment to its Law of Entry, which denies ent…

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The Other Two-State Solution: Confederation 47:00

5y ago47:00

47:00

Is the two-state solution really dead? Who knows if it ever will be. But an equitable one-state solution isn’t a given, and there are other models out there for creating a Palestinian state. Confederation keeps the basic idea of two states but without separation between them. Borders are open and meant to facilitate movement instead of hinder it. P…

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Being Palestinian During Israeli Pride Week 23:00

5y ago23:00

23:00

Every year, thousands of tourists travel to Tel Aviv in mid-June to take part in the annual Pride Week festivities. For LGBTQ Palestinians living in Israel, however, the celebrations are far more complicated. Israel likes to celebrate how liberal and pluralistic it is while covering up — or “pinkwashing” — its human rights violations in the occupie…

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The Other Palestinian March of Return 12:38

5y ago12:38

12:38

Every year for over two decades, thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel have marked Nakba Day by marching to the site of a different village that was depopulated and destroyed during the Nakba. While the story of Palestinian refugees — 700,000 of whom were driven out or fled in 1948 — is relatively well known, we rarely speak of those who were…

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Watching a Revolution in Exile 30:03

5y ago30:03

30:03

In early April, Sudanese armed forces deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity after nearly three decades of rule. The Sudanese refugee community in Israel celebrated al-Bashir’s fall, which came after months of protests across Sudan. Along with the excitement of regime change, however, th…

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What Just Happened? — A Post-Election Debrief 29:45

5y ago29:45

29:45

A week after Netanyahu easily won another election, things don’t look all that different in Israel-Palestine. But one thing has changed: Everyone who told themselves Israel was seeking a two-state solution all this time now has some difficult and painful questions to face. Our guest this week, +972 Magazine co-founder and contributing editor Lisa G…

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Why Voting to Maintain the Occupation is Rational for Israelis 41:05

5y ago41:05

41:05

Israeli elections are right around the corner. But for a country that controls millions of non-citizens, the concept of democracy becomes muddled. In this episode, +972 Magazine writer Noam Sheizaf explains why, as opposed to the one- or two-state paradigm most of the world thinks in, Israelis consistently vote for a third option: maintaining the o…

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'Accidental' Rockets from Gaza? 27:17

5y ago27:17

27:17

Two rockets fired toward Tel Aviv from Gaza were described, by both Israel and Hamas, as "mistakes" in recent weeks. Tareq Baconi, of the International Crisis Group, joins The +972 Podcast to talk about why that's probably not the whole truth (14:00), how the Great March of Return (8:40) and Israeli elections come into play (15:30), and the consequ…

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Do Ethiopian-Israelis Have Anyone to Vote For? 30:46

5+ y ago30:46

30:46

Decades after the first Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel, the community still suffers from high poverty, discrimination, and recent police shootings have brought on mass protests. Mazal Bisawer, a prominent activist, says Israelis can't seem to admit that anti-black racism exists in their society. Later in the episode, editor-in-chief Michael…

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Should Palestinians Vote in Israel? 30:13

5+ y ago30:13

30:13

Millions of Palestinians living under Israeli rule don't get to vote in the upcoming Israeli elections — but some other Palestinians can. Rejecting calls to boycott the elections, Palestinian Member of Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman says that when things get hard you're supposed to fight harder, not run away. In the first episode of The +972 Podcast, we…

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