Best Americans For Peace Now, Maxxe Albert Deitch Podcasts (2024)

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#321: Looking to the Future- Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah on a Post-October-7th World 57:15

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Recording of our June 20, 2024 webinar with Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon. This conversation was hosted by Hadar Susskind and Maxxe Albert-Deitch. Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon feel the loss and pain of October 7th and the carnage in Gaza that has followed especially keenly: both have lost family to the conflict. Since October 7th, the two have appea…

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#320: Harvey Price and the Peace Drums Project 35:56

1M ago35:56

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Harvey Price is the founder of the Peace Drums Project, an organization that connects children of multiple faiths by having them play together in a steel drum band. In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch speaks with Harvey about steel drums as an instrument of peace and the logistics of running a people-to-people music-oriented peacebuil…

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#319: Reading Between the Headlines with Anat Saragusti 58:02

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Recording of our May 22, 2024 webinar, with Anat Saragusti. This conversation was hosted by Naomi Paiss. “The media” has come to mean many different things– broadcasters, social media, a euphemistic descriptor for spreaders of misinformation, or simply the news. But in the haze of war in Gaza and protests in the U.S., the media has itself become a …

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#318: A Discussion on Middle East Policy & Congress with Senator Chris Van Hollen 41:54

2M ago41:54

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Recording of an APN webinar from May 2, 2024. A conversation between APN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind and Senator Chris Van Hollen. We discussed the role of Congress in shaping US-Middle East policy and how conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have changed on Capitol Hill. Senator Van Hollen is a Congressional champion for pea…

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#317: Troubling Reports- with Sandy Tolan 38:35

2M ago38:35

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Sandy Tolan is the author of The Lemon Tree, which is a widely known microhistory of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Children of the Stone, which focuses on one Palestinian’s dream to build a music school in the midst of the Occupation. He’s also a journalism professor and an award-winning radio and print journalist. We spoke with Sandy about hi…

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#316: Getting Aid into Gaza with SmartAid's Shachar Zahavi 57:06

2M ago57:06

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Recording of an APN webinar, April 17th 2024. Over the last few weeks, the subject of humanitarian aid has dominated conversations about the Gaza War. Headlines depict aid trucks being stopped or blocked altogether from entering Gaza and global experts warning that Gaza is on the verge of famine with Northern Gaza likely already experiencing famine…

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#315: A Storied Career- In Conversation with Ori Nir 38:42

3M ago38:42

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After 18 years at APN, our VP for Public Affairs Ori Nir has retired. He is widely known as a go-to expert on issues of Middle East peace and conflict, as well as for his voice and empathetic perspective. In this episode, hosted by Maxxe Albert-Deitch, Ori looks back on his career and the general state and trajectory of the peace movement. We’re se…

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#314: An Unprecedented Year for Settlement Expansion- with Peace Now’s Hagit Ofran 59:30

3M ago59:30

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Recording of a February 22nd APN webinar. Recently, Shalom Achshav released their 2023 settlement report. Their findings were disturbing even by the standards of the actions of Netanyahu’s far-right extremist government. Under the cover of the Gaza war, conditions in the West Bank have quietly but dramatically shifted for the worse. We have seen a …

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#313: A Briefing from Dr. Khalil Shikaki 45:54

4M ago45:54

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On February 26th, we met with Dr. Khalil Shikaki to discuss current events in Israel and Palestine.

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#312: Executive Action Against Settler Violence: A Deep Dive into Biden's Order 1:01:07

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Recording of a February 22nd APN webinar

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#311: People-to-people after October 7th - with ALLMEP's John Lyndon 38:15

5M ago38:15

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John Lyndon is the Executive Director of ALLMEP the Alliance for Middle East Peace, the largest network of Israeli and Palestinian peace-building organizations. ALLMEP brings together 170 organizations, both groups that advance a shared society inside Israel and cross-border Israeli and Palestinian groups that work to resolve the conflict between t…

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#310: Mending our Broken Hearts with Rabbi Sharon Brous 56:09

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Recording of a January 23rd 2024 APN webinar.

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#309: How do Palestinians Envision the Future of Gaza - with Khaled Elgindy 58:03

5M ago58:03

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Recording of a January 18th 2024 APN webinar.

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#308: "The End of Israel" - a Book Talk with Bradley Burston 57:17

6M ago57:17

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A recording of a January 4th 2024 APN webinar.

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#307: Back to Peace with Yonatan Zeigen 31:09

6M ago31:09

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Yonatan Zeigen is the son of Vivian Silver, the iconic Isreali peace activist, who was murdered on October 7th in her kibbutz, Be'eri. After his mother's death, Yonatan quit his job to (again) become a peace activist. His headshot was taken by Sandra Mehl.