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This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio hosts Understanding Israel Palestine, a news show with 229 episodes published.
Ben Freeman discusses a provision in the fy 2027 National Defence Authorization Act that would deepen U.S.-Israeli military ties to an unparalleled degree, making them difficult to unravel and removing Congressional over
The Premeditated Clampdown: Alison Weir on the Calculated Campaign to Protect Israeli State-Sponsored Destruction In this archival dive from September 2021, Alison Weir , executive director of If Americans Knew , exposes
In this rebroadcast of the program of April 17, Sonia Meyerson-Knox provides historical context for Israel's war in Lebanon, its seventh since the founding of Israel in 1948. She discusses Israel's decades-long ambition
Mideast peace negotiator Robert Malley continues his conversation with Margot Patterson about the road to Oct. 7th. Part I of the interview aired May 15. In Part II, he speaks about the differing strategies pursued by Pa
The Architecture of Empire: Walter L. Hixson on the Israel Lobby and the Machinery of Endless War Part Two: The Nakba’s Blast Radius and the Capture of U.S. Foreign Policy Episode Description Seventy-eight years ago, the
Longtime Mideast peace negotiator Robert Malley talks about his and Hussein Agha's recently published book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine. Malley discusses how diplomatic
Abdelfattah Abusrour, founder and director of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine, joined the show this week to discuss his life's work. We discussed how he came to found Alrow
Understanding Israel Palestine: A Beyond the Walls Edition Episode: The Structural Origins of AIPAC & The History of Israeli Espionage in the U.S. Guest: Grant Smith, Research Director at the Institute for Research: Midd
Sonya Meyerson-Knox spent 16 years in Beirut, Lebanon working as a journalist and for U.N. agencies before becoming communications director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She discusses the new war in Lebanon that began after
Beyond the Walls: The Israel-Silicon Valley Nexus and the Penetration of U.S. Critical Infrastructure (with Mary Silva) Episode Overview: While public discourse naturally gravitates toward the physical realities of the o
Journalist, author, academic and editor of the news site The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud discusses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and how it relates to Israel's war in Lebanon and Israel's effort to ethnically cleans
Journalist, author, academic and editor of the news site The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud discusses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and how it relates to Israel's war in Lebanon and Israel's effort to ethnically cleans
As the devastation in Gaza threatens to be spilled over into a full-scale annihilation of Beirut, the Middle East crossed a Rubicon the morning this episode was recorded. With Israel’s sudden announcement of high-level a
Civilian casualties continue to climb in the region, especially in Iran and Lebanon, as the US and Israel intensify their assault on Iran. Iran retaliates by using its array of drones and missiles to hit US and Israeli m
Mai Shaheen is a Palestinian peace activist and therapist who uses nonviolent communication in her work with victims of trauma. She talks to Margot Patterson about how nonviolent dialogue brings Israelis, Palestinians an
Overcoming the Structures of Erasure and the Semantics of Genocidal Management with Aseel AlBajeh "How do we talk about a reality that is being systematically erased in real-time?" On this episode of Understanding Israel
Beyond the Language of the Israel-Palestine 'Conflict' and the Unconscious Grammar of Genocidal Consent with Alex McDonald On this episode of Understanding Israel Palestine, a Beyond the Walls edition , we move beyond th
Rasha Abouselem has been a humanitarian aid worker since 2014. In December she was in Gaza. She reports on the conditions she found there, the violence Palestinians continue to live with despite the ceasefire, the ongoin
Josh Paul joins the show again to discuss A New Policy, the organization that he co-founded with Tareq Habash. A New Policy is an organization dedicated to transforming American foreign policy toward Israel/Palestine to
Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, speaks to Margot Patterson about the war in Gaza in 2025 and the Trump administration's efforts to repress Palestinian activism in the Unite
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