Podcast appearances and mentions of joel migdal

On the Ground in Israel Now is a public talk that was held on Jan. 16, 2024, featuring Joel Migdal, Professor Emeritus, UW Jackson School of International Studies in a pre-recorded conversation with Reşat Kasaba, Professor, UW Jackson School of International Studies. It was followed by remarks and Q&A with Alan Dowty, UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. This is a recording of the event, which was held at 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2024 in the HUB South Ballroom at the University of Washington. It was the inaugural lecture of the War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and responses worldwide. The lecture series, which runs from Jan. 16-Feb. 27, 2024, is free and open to the public. Sponsors: Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Division of Social Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences; Stroum Center for Jewish Studies; and the Middle East Center at the University of Washington in partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation

Politik Siyonizm'in modern dönemdeki kurucusu Theodor Herzl'in yakın arkadaşlarından Israel Zangwill, 1905 yazında İsviçre'nin Basel kentinde toplanan Yedinci Siyonist Kongre'den sonra, ana akım Siyonizm'den ayrılarak kendi grubunu (“Bölgesel Siyonizm”) oluşturdu. Bölgesel Siyonizm taraftarları, Filistin'i öncelemeksizin, Afrika veya Asya'da herhangi bir yerin Yahudilere “yurt” olabileceğini savunuyor, Filistin'e odaklanılmasını Yahudilerin menfaatine uygun bulmuyordu. Bu düşüncenin arka planında ise, bizzat hareketin kurucusu Zangwill'in yaşadığı şahsî bir tecrübe yatıyordu: Zangwill, 1897'deki Birinci Siyonist Kongre'den itibaren, Yahudilerin dünyanın çeşitli ülkelerinden toplanıp Filistin'e göç etmesi gerektiği fikrinin ana savunucularından biri olarak öne çıkmıştı. Yaptığı konuşmalarda ve yazdığı makalelerde kullandığı bir slogan da kısa zaman içinde şöhrete kavuşmuştu: “Topraksız bir halk için, halksız bir toprak.” Bu ifade, İngiltere'de Siyonizm'in ilk destekçilerinden Lord Shaftesbury'nin 1853 tarihli bir mektubundan iktibas edilmişti. Topraksız halk Yahudiler, halksız toprak da Filistin'di. Ancak Zangwill, Filistin'i ziyaret ettikten ve bölgenin “tıka-basa Araplarla dolu olduğunu” gördükten sonra fikrini değiştirmiş, ana akım Siyonizm'den de kopmuştu. Israel Zangwill'in kendi yolunu çizdiği Yedinci Siyonist Kongre, Theodor Herzl'in Yahudiler için yurt olarak Uganda'yı teklif etmesiyle patlak veren tartışmaların gölgesinde toplanmıştı. Herzl kongrenin hazırlıkları devam ederken ölünce, Siyonist delegeler onun yokluğunda ilk iş olarak Uganda Planı'nı rafa kaldırarak yeniden gözünü Filistin'e dikmişti. Herzl'in Uganda ısrarının arkasında da kendi tecrübesi vardı: 1898'de kısa süreliğine Filistin'i ve Kudüs'ü ziyaret eden Herzl, gördüğü manzara karşısında hayal kırıklığına uğramış, Kudüs'teki “dinî fanatizm”den ürkmüş ve kendisinin de mensubu bulunduğu seküler Avrupalı Yahudi grupların bölgede barınmakta zorlanacağını görmüştü. Theodor Herzl'in bile bizzat yaşadığı bu fikrî dönüşüme rağmen, dünyanın dört bir tarafından Filistin'e hücum eden Yahudi göçmenler eliyle kurulan İsrail, “Topraksız bir halk için, halksız bir toprak” mottosunu resmî tarih söyleminin temeline yerleştirdi. Yahudi nesiller anaokulundan itibaren, “Biz geldiğimizde Filistin toprakları bomboştu, buraya yerleştik. Sonra Araplar bize saldırdı ve bizi kovmaya çalıştı. Biz de kendimizi savunduk, devletimizi kurduk” yalanlarıyla büyütüldü. Ta ki, bir grup İsrailli Yahudi tarihçi ve akademisyen (bilahare kazandıkları isimle “Yeni Tarihçiler”), kendi devletlerinin resmî tarih tezleriyle kıyasıya hesaplaşıncaya kadar... 1980'lerin başından itibaren, devlet arşivlerinde sürdürdükleri yoğun çalışmaların ardından, aralarında Avi Shlaim, Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe, Simha Flapan, Joel Migdal, Shlomo Sand, Baruch Kimmerling, Tom Segev gibi önemli isimlerin bulunduğu bu tarihçiler çok çarpıcı bazı neticelere ulaştılar. Buna göre: Filistin toprakları, İsrail'in kuruluş sürecinde buraya akın eden Siyonist mültecilerin iddia ettiği gibi tümüyle “boş” değildi, aksine tarihî şehirler ve kasabalar kalabalık yerli Arap nüfusu barındırıyordu, Filistinliler, iddia edildiği gibi “gönüllü biçimde” vatanlarını terk etmemişti. İsrail'in bugün kurulduğu topraklarda, Siyonist çeteler eliyle çok sayıda katliam uygulanmış, yerel nüfus cebren tehcir edilmiş, yüzlerce yıldır buralarda yaşayan ahali komşu ülkelere sığınmak durumunda kalmıştı,

The presidency of Donald Trump is having a significant impact on international affairs, global alliances, the U.S. role in the world, and on the status and politics of other countries. The Jackson School's faculty members feature in a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the Trump presidency. In this podcast Professor of International Studies Joel Migdal discusses Israel/Palestine and the Middle East.

Israel and Middle East expert, Prof. Joel Migdal, was interviewed by KOMO News radio to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Israel. Migdal said that the Israelis were overall pleased by the visit but expressed some anxiety particularly following Trump's meetings with Russian Foreign Minster last week. Reports said that sensitive intelligence information was leaked during those meetings.

During his campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump made trenchant remarks regarding US allies, the NATO pact, relations with Russia and China and his views on U.S. immigration policies. Faculty at the Henry M. Jackson School for International Studies at the University of Washington held a roundtable to discuss the implications of a Trump presidency on China, Russia, European Union, the Middle East and refugees and immigrants in the US. Featured panelists: Scott Radnitz, Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies with a focus on the post-Soviet region, authoritarianism and protests. Sabine Lang, Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Center for West European Studies with a research focus on on transnational advocacy and multilevel governance in the European Union. Kathie Friedman, Associate Professor of International Studies and an expert on forced migration and refugees. Joel Migdal (via Skype), Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies and an expert in Middle East politics, states and societies. He is currently on sabbatical in Israel. David Bachman, Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies and an expert on China and US-China relations. NOTE: Due technical difficulties, portions of Dr. David Bachman's responses were inaudible and thus have been cut from this podcast. His remarks as recorded will are available on the Jackson School's YouTube account here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdU6FiYRLY&feature=youtu.be

Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the University of Washington, is the author of the recently published Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East. He offers host Gilad Halpern an analysis of how the Middle East turned out to be a microcosm of American foreign policy. Song: Jango - Yoter Mehakol This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal’s periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years  Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal’s periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years  Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal’s periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years  Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal’s periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years  Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal’s periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years  Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal's periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any person who turns on CNN or Fox News today will see that the United States faces a number of critical problems in the Middle East. This reality should surprise few. Stunned by the Al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, the George W. Bush administration sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan as part of a larger “war on terror” and invaded Iraq in 2003 to “disarm” Saddam Hussein. At this very moment, the United States still has troops in Afghanistan and continues to employ drones to kill “terrorists” in places like Yemen. It has put together a coalition of states, including some Arab governments, to begin the process of taking back the huge swaths of territory that the extremist jihadi group ISIS has taken in Iraq and Syria. The Middle East has also not just “stood still” for U.S. policymakers to find their bearings. The “Arab Spring” and “Green movement” in Iran have raised profound questions about the future of government and authority in the region. In his work Shifting Sands: The United States and the Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2014), Joel Migdal addresses the question of why U.S. policymakers have had so many problems accomplishing their goals in the region since the end of World War II. Employing clear prose without the polemics and scholarly jargon that so many books on this subject contain, he explains how the U.S. government has far too often ignored the complexities and history of the Middle East when acting in the region. While Migdal's periodization of events in the Middle East and the place of Israel in U.S. foreign policy may strike some as too revisionist, he offers a number of valuable suggestions about how U.S. policymakers can best navigate the shoals of the region in the coming years Even if readers do not find all of these arguments persuasive, they will benefit from grappling with his critiques and insights. Shifting Sands stands out a useful reminder of what can go wrong when policymakers ignore historical trends and assume the universal applicability of the American experience.