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In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by NJN Board members and Habonim Dror leaders Shaina Wasserman and Judah Altman. The conversation delves into the details of how Habonim Dror and New Jewish Narrative are connected, as well as how dialogue, discussion, and youth involvement help shape our broader community. This episode also includes some details about the World Zionist Congress elections and the shifting nature of progressive Zionism across generational lines. More info about Habonim Dror North America- https://www.habonimdror.org/ Learn more about the Hatikvah Slate- https://www.hatikvahslate.net/ Vote in the 2025 WZC elections- https://azm.castiron.votem.net/election/037548cb-4cbb-4a94-aa9a-8aef017d4ddf Shaina Wasserman (she/her) is a proud second generation Habo and a staunch progressive Zionist. Shaina has served as a Jewish professional for over 20 years, including at J Street and Jewish education settings. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Strategic Operations for SRE Network. Shaina is a board member of New Jewish Narrative, Habonim Dror Foundation, American Zionist Movement, and Chair of the HUC School of Education Alumni Association.  Judah Altman is the new Mazkirol or Executive Director of Habonim Dror North America. He grew up in Calgary going to Habonim Dror Camp Miriam in British Columbia and spent a year in Israel on Kibbutz as a participant in Habonim Dror's gap year program Workshop. As a staff member, they were a counselor for three years, led the leadership training program for Camp Miriam in 2021, and served as Education Director of Camp Miriam in 2022. 

In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by NJN's Director of Government Relations, Madeleine Cereghino, for a discussion of President Trump's "flood the zone" tactics, and staying sane in the age of information overload. This episode also covers recent events at USAID and other federal agencies as well as at Columbia University. 

In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by APN's President and CEO, Hadar Susskind, for a discussion about recent events in the Middle East, the October 7th anniversary, and the past year of conflict. The discussion covers Israel's recent military incursion into southern Lebanon as well as Iran's bombing attack in Israel. 

In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by APN's Director of Government Relations, Madeleine Cereghino, for a discussion of PM Netanyahu's DC visit. The discussion covers PM Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress, that speech's implications, and the general optics of the PM's DC visit. 

Ten brave New Story Leadership alumni -  Muslim, Jewish, and Christian -  from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, decided to move forward together in the aftermath of October 7th. First, the group negotiated and crafted a joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire and hostage release. But they also realized that this was not nearly enough. After months of research, discussion and an intense week together in Geneva, these alumni-- the Phoenix Ten-- negotiated and drafted the Phoenix Plan. In this episode of PeaceCast, we spoke with some of these peacebuilders about what the plan is and what their vision for a peaceful future looks like. Learn more about NSL and the Phoenix Plan: https://www.newstoryleadership.org/ Make a contribution to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate

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 peacebuilding program in Israel and Palestine in the current challenging times. 

Dr. Arnon Degani, a scholar who focuses on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the producer of a Hebrew language podcast on the Oslo process, comes back to PeaceCast for a deeper dive into the topic on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo agreements.  Arnon was our guest a year ago on episode # 255.  contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org  

Sally Abed, a social activist, and Dina Kraft, a journalist and author, are the anchors of Groundwork, a successful podcast co-sponsored by the New Israel Fund and the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP). In this episode they talk about the second season of their podcast.  Link to Groundwork: https://groundworkpodcast.com/ Links to past PeaceCast episodes that featured Salli and Dina:  - https://peacenow.libsyn.com/2001-introducing-groundwork - https://peacenow.libsyn.com/100-accentuating-the-positive-with-dina-kraft - https://peacenow.libsyn.com/232-standing-together Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org  

West Bank settlements remain a significant roadblock to peace in Israel and Palestine—perhaps the largest. Exacerbating the issue is settler violence against Palestinians, which has been on the rise in recent months. To help us understand this pressing and complex issue, and the historical context surrounding it, we've brought Ori Nir onto the show. Ori is the VP for Public Affairs at Americans for Peace Now; his decades of experience covering the conflict—and the West Bank, specifically—make him a crucial voice. Read the article Ori referenced on the program, When Evil Greets Me on Israel's Streets, I Now Answer Politely: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-when-evil-greets-me-on-israel-s-streets-i-now-answer-politely-1.10624003 Check out APN's Peacecast: https://peacenow.org/podcast Learn about Breaking the Silence—and how you can engage: https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/ Written and recorded by Ezz Masri and Andrew Hirsh Edited by Andrew Hirsh Music: Kalte Ohren (septahelix remix) by septahelix (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/59527 Ft: starfrosch Image courtesy of Dennis Jarvis/Flickr

This episode of PeaceCast features Professor Hillel Cohen, an exceptionally creative Hebrew University scholar studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His current article in Israel Studies Magazine is titled: Marketing the Occupation to the Palestinians of the West Bank: Shabak Facebook Pages in Historical Context. Link to the article: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/842361 Hillel Cohen's web site: https://pluto.huji.ac.il/~hilcoh/ Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org  

This episode features the hosts of Groundwork, a new podcast about Palestinian and Jewish Israelis refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change. Sally Abed is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and an elected member of the national leadership of Standing Together, a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel. Dina Kraft is a Jewish-Israeli journalist based in Tel Aviv who reports for the Christian Science Monitor. She is the former Israel correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and was formerly an Associated Press correspondent based in Jerusalem and Johannesburg. Dina was also the producer and host of the podcast The Branch. She was our guest on our 100th episode, on December 2019, to talk about The Branch. Links: Groundwork: https://groundworkpodcast.com/ PeaceCast's episode #100: https://peacenow.libsyn.com/100-accentuating-the-positive-with-dina-kraft Standing Together: https://www.standing-together.org/english Email Ori with ideas or feedback: onir@peacenow.org Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate

More than four and a half years ago, we launched PeaceCast, Americans for Peace Now's podcast. Since then, we recorded 200 episodes. This celebratory episode features a conversation between Ori Nir and PeaceCast's new co-host, Claire Davidson Miller. We have exciting plans for PeaceCast's future, and would love your input. With any feedback or ideas, please email Ori at onir@peacecast.org To support PeaceCast, donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate

May 15th is the anniversary of the most traumatic experience that the Palestinian people suffered in its history, the devastation in the 1948 war, which Israeli Jews call the War of Independence, and the Palestinians refer to as the Nakba. In this episode of PeaceCast, Dr. Carol Daniel Kasbari talks about the long shadow that the Nakba casts over the current collective experience and identity of Palestinians – both in Palestine and abroad. Dr. Kasbari’s bio: https://www.mei.edu/profile/carol-daniel-kasbari Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org Donate: https://peacenow.org/donate

In an interview for PeaceCast with Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now, Dahlia describes the concept and goals of the series, decisions about topics and interviewees, main takeaways, lessons and surprises that emerged in the process.

Palestinians don’t see Joe Biden as a savior. Far from it. But the end of the demise of the Trump administration, the worse period ever in US-Palestinian relations, is viewed by many Palestinians as an opportunity to push the reset button not only on their relations with Washington but also on intra-Palestinian politics. Discussing Palestinian policy and the Biden administration is Khaled Elgindy, formerly with the Brookings Institute and now the Director of the Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affairs at the Middle East Institute here in Washington. He is also the author of Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump. He has been a guest on episode #78 of PeaceCast in April 2019.

Rafi Nets-Zehngut’s new book (currently in Hebrew only) focuses on the collective memory among Israeli Jews of the question of the Palestinian exodus from Palestine during the 1948 war, the war that Israeli Jews refer to as the War of Independence and that the Palestinians refer to as the Naqba, the catastrophe. One of his most intriguing and surprising findings is that the biased “official” Zionist narrative regarding this experience has been challenged in Israel and then lost its grounding much earlier than one may think. How did this happen? Why is it important? How may it impact efforts to advance peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians? Dr. Nets-Zehngut addresses these questions and others in this episode of PeaceCast. Write to Ori Nir Write to Dr. Nets-Zehngut Donate to APN

Eran Nissan is a key orgnizer and activist in the current Anti-Netanyahu, anti-corruption and pro-democracy protest movement in Isreal. He is a former staff member of Peace Now, and currently works for Mehazkim, a progressive Israeli activist nonprofit.  What is the role of the Israeli peace movement in the broader context of the protest movement? What opportunity does this mass protest movement grant to the Israeli peace camp to advance its advocacy? Does the protest movement open a door to highlight the relationship between the occupation and the erosion of democracy in Israel?  Eran addresses this and other questions. Eran's story on a past PeaceCast episode Mehazkim's web site Donate to APN  

New Story Leadership is a program that every summer brings to Washington five Israelis and five Palestinians for a program aimed at empowering young leaders who will advance mutual Israeli-Palestinian understanding, tolerance and peace. Americans for Peace Now has partnered with NSL since its inception, more than ten years ago. This year, due to COVID-19, the Israeli and Palestinians who were chosen for this summer’s program had to stay home and participate in the program virtually, online. They will travel to DC, COVID permitting, next summer. In past years, we brough NSL delegates to PeaceCast. This episode is a COVID-era attempt to bring NSL’s voices to you, PeaceCast’s listeners. It’s an opportunity to listen to young Israelis and Palestinians who are acting, separately and together, to build bridges between their communities and to forge hope for a better future.   

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin. Dahlia is a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant, as well as a scholar and a writer. In this episode, she talks about Israeli public opinion regarding West Bank annexation and about a new study she authored which offers a set of recommendations for a practical solution to the Palestinian refugee problem, known as the Palestinian right of return. Dahlia’s bio: https://tcf.org/experts/dahlia-scheindlin/ PeaceCast’s previous episode with Dahlia: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=30761#.XtVaIjpKiUk The Tel Aviv Review: https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/ PeaceCast’s co-produced episode with the Tel Aviv Review: https://peacenow.libsyn.com/73-covering-the-conflict-from-dc Dahlia’s study on the right of return: https://tcf.org/content/report/neither-intractable-unique-practical-solution-palestinian-right-return/ Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate Write to Ori Nir: onir@peacenow.org

This episode is an edited version that Americans for Peace Now held with Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann on February 28th, 2020. Danny is the director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, an Israeli non-profit that works to identify and track the full spectrum of developments in Jerusalem relating to Israeli-Palestinian, Jewish-Arab relations, with an emphasis on developments that could impact a final-status peace resolution to the conflict in and around Jerusalem. This briefing call examines the Israeli government’s policy of creating wedge settlements around East Jerusalem to deny a contiguity to a future Palestinian state. For more on the E-1 project and on Givat Hamatos settlement, check out Peace Now’s backgrounders here  and here   Watch this video of Danny explaining the significance of E-1  To contact Ori Nir, write to: onir@peacenow.org To donate to PeaceCast click here and write “podcast” in the comments field.

This episode features a talk by Arye (Arik) Carmon, the founder and former director of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). Arik’s bio  Carmon's book Building Democracy on Sand: Israel without a Constitution.  write to Ori Nir Donate to PeaceCast.  

This episode features a conversation with Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. Shakir investigates and documents human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. We talked about his recent deportation from Israel and about Human Rights Watch’s new report, Born Without Civil Rights. Omar’s bio: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/omar-shakir A link to the report: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/palestine1219_web_0.pdf PeaceCast’s April 9th, 2018  interview with Omar: https://peacenow.libsyn.com/38-snipers-on-the-gaza-border

In this special episode of PeaceCast, APN’s Debra Shushan and Ori Nir are the interviewees rather than the interviewers on the Bill Press Pod. A co-production.  With any comments or questions, please email onir@peacenow.org

Amer Zahr is a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian, who for the fourth year in a row is producing One Thousand and One Laughs, a stand-up comedy festival in the West Bank joins PeaceCast from Ramallah. He talked about humor and his use of humor as a tool to help fellow Palestinians resist the occupation and generate change. Zahr’s web site: www.amerzahr.com Zahr’s blog: http://www.civilarab.com Zahr’s book: https://smile.amazon.com/Being-Palestinian-Makes-Me-Smile/dp/0991467906/ref=sr_1_1?ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-org00-win10-other-smile-us000-gatwy-feature-SEARC&keywords=being+palestinian+makes+me+smile&qid=1566264147&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Erez Maggor, an Israeli social scientist who specializes in the history and the political economics of the West Bank settlement, says that the impetus for the West Bank settlement policies of the Likud government in the late 1970s and 1980s is largely misunderstood. What chiefly pushed the Israeli government to build across the Green Line, he says, was not an ideological Greater Israel zeal but rather a demand by the Likud’s low-income electoral base for affordable housing. Maggor is a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Department of Sociology. His article on this subject was recently published in Israel’s Hazman Hazeh magazine (Hebrew)  Maggor co-edited the book Normalizing Occupation, The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (2017) With ideas or feedback for PeaceCast, please write to onir@peacenow.org  

Eran Nissan is the Project Coordinator at Israel's Peace Now movement, the Israeli sister-organization of Americans for Peace Now. This summer, he is one of eight fellows participating in the annual summer program of Washington's New Story Leadership (NSL), and interning at APN.  In this conversation, Eran tells the story of his becoming a political activist, following his service as a combat soldier at the Israel Defense Force.   Eran and his fellow NSL scholars will be featured in a subsequent episode of PeaceCast next month, when we live-record this year's edition of The Dove, our annual storytelling event. Stay tuned. 

This special episode of PeaceCast is produced in partnership with T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. It features six stories told by rabbinical students at a recent story telling evening in Israel, at the end of their one-year T’ruah program there. With any feedback, comments or ideas, please email Ori Nir at onir@peacenow.org  

This is a special episode of PeaceCast. For the first time, we recorded PeaceCast before a live audience in Washington DC. We partnered with one of Israel’s most popular English language podcasts, the Tel Aviv Review. We recorded it on March 7th 2019 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The event was organized in partnership with J Street. We hosted two journalists, Israeli journalist Amir Tibon of Haaretz and Palestinian journalist Said Arikat of al-Quds. Haaretz is published in Tel Aviv and al-Quds is published in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Amir and Said are the Washington correspondents of their newspapers. The idea of this conversation was to explore how Said and Amir both cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Washington. This episode is released simultaneously on PeaceCast and on the Tel Aviv Review. Check out the Tel Aviv Review here: https://tlv1.fm/podcasts/tel-aviv-review-show/

Abdallah Hamarsheh is the acting director and co-founder of Zimam , a Palestinian civil society organization working to enable and empower youth to take a leadership role in creating a pluralistic and democratic Palestinian State. Zimam is the outgrowth of the Palestinian chapter of One Voice and is still supported by OneVoice . Together with Mara Lee, the Global Executive Director of OneVoice, Abdallah Hamarsheh spoke with Ori Nir and Debra Shushan at APN’s office in Washington. Please include APN in your end-of-year giving. To donate click here and write PeaceCast in the comments field. Thank you!  

Jim Gerstein is a pollster and a founding partner of GBA Strategies, a DC-based firm that provides research-based strategic counsel for candidates running for office, non-profit organizations, and for arts and cultural institutions. Since 2008, Gerstein has been conducting national polls of American Jews on election nights, commissioned by J Street. In this episode, J Street's Jessica Rosenblum and APN's Ori Nir talk with Gerstein about his November 6th, 2018 poll. This episode marks a new partnership between Americans for Peace Now and J Street on PeaceCast.   The data files of Gerstein's poll are here.

This episode is an edited down version of a November 15th 2018 briefing call with strategic affairs expert Yossi Alpher, a former senior Mossad official and the former director of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.  Alpher is the Author of Hard Questions Tough Answers, APN's weekly news analysis. For past PeaceCast episodes on Gaza, see here.  for the full recording of the briefing call, see here. 

Donald McIntyre, the former Jerusalem bureau chief of the British Independent, is the author of a new book on the Gaza Strip. The book puts a human face on Gaza and provides some valuable keys to unlock the conundrum that Gaza is. This episode is another effort by PeaceCast to shed light on Gaza, a small strip of land a perpetual state of crisis. Click here for the book on Amazon   

Orly Halpern is an American-born, Jerusalem-based freelance journalist who edits News Nosh, Americans for Peace Now’s roundup of the daily news from Israel. She prepares the English language review of Israel’s Hebrew media early in the morning, Israel time, taking advantage of the seven-hour time difference between Jerusalem and America's East Coast so that News Nosh subscribers can scan the Israeli news of the day with their morning coffee and bagel. News Nosh is a free service. Subscribe to it here: https://peacenow.org/issue.php?cat=news-nosh#.W7O5nWgzaM8 This episode goes much beyond News Nosh. Orly talks about her career in journalism, about Israeli journalism and about Israeli society. With any feedback or ideas that you may have for PeaceCast, please email Ori Nir at onir@peacenow.org

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August 30th, 2018 was Debra DeLee’s last day as Americans for Peace Now’s President and CEO. As she was packing up her office, Debra sat down with PeaceCast’s host Ori Nir and with APN’s Director of Policy and Government Relations, Debra Shushan. We talked about Debra’s frustration with America’s Jewish establishment’s inability to confront the moral challenges related to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. We talked about the leadership role of women in Jewish organizations. We talked the wonderful people that comprise the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement in the United States.  And we talked about hope. Debra led APN for the past 21 years, through thick and thin, and has been one of the most influential figures in the movement. In addition to her professionalism and her leadership skills, Debra is a mensch. Her humanity and charm clearly shine in this conversation. Read Debra’s farewell letter here: http://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=28808#.W4ihA-hKiUk Read Debra’s tribute to her mother, Ruth Epstein, here: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=16950#.W4ihaOhKiUk  

In the first part of this special extended episode of PEACEcast, Dave and Joel talk Legion and toxic masculinity, as well as the recent controversy over "Western Civilisation studies" being promoted in Australian universities by the Ramsay Centre. Hosts: Dave Taylor Joel Harrison Producer: Liam Bray

More than 40 years ago, Dr. James Zogby wrote a short book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and published it a couple of years later. The book was unique in that it laid out the Palestinian narrative of the conflict and its history at a time when this narrative was all but absent from the conversation on Israel-Palestine in the US. Forty years later, Zogby talks about what has changed and what has not, and explains his somewhat surprising decision to take an old short book, dust it off, write a new introduction, and republish it as is. APN's Policy and Government Relations Director, together with PeaceCast's host Ori Nir, spoke with Zogby on July 6th, 2018 about a host of issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Please don't hesitate to continue sending us feedback and ideas. Best is to email Ori at onir@peacenow.org   

Another in a series of episodes drawing on Ori's experience in Israel and the West Bank in February, with APN's Study Tour and with the Encounter program.  This episode is based on a conversation that members of APN's Board of Directors had with with Khalil Shikaky, who had been featured in the past on PeaceCast.  We met at his Ramalla office, where he analyzed his most recent polling data, and spoke about Palestinian politics. This edited-down version focuses on Shikaki's characterization and analysis of the decline of Palestinian secular nationalism. Shikaki's talk follows a short introduction by Ori and Stephanie Brietsman, who manages APN's programming.  Please contact Ori with any comments, feedback or requests at onir@peacenow.org    

PeaceCast is back after a long hiatus. Ori Is back from Israel and the West Bank. Debra Shushan is back from AIPAC's policy conference in DC.  In this episode, Ori and Debra talk about AIPAC, about APN's Israel Study Tour, and about the Encounter program that Ori attended in February in Israel. The featured segment of the episode is an edited version of a conversation that APN's Board of Directors had at Haaretz's office in Tel Aviv with Editor in Chief Aluf Benn.

The U.S. State Department notified the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) late in November 2017 that it may shut its mission to the United States in Washington DC. The move sparked livid reactions by the Palestinian leadership and raised many eyebrows among Washington's policy community. Why would an administration that says it wants to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace act to alienate one of the parties it wants to bring to the negotiating table? Are the administration's hands truly tied by congressional legislation on this issue?  To answer these and other questions, PeaceCast hosted Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the former director of policy and government relations of Americans for Peace Now.  Check out FMEP's web site: https://fmep.org/ and Lara's explainer of the crisis: https://fmep.org/blog/2017/11/understanding-plo-mission-crisis-key-documents/

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