Podcasts about Ramallah

Sayfollah, a 20-year-old Palestinian-American from Florida, came to Palestine to visit his family, not knowing it would be his last trip home. On July 11, 2025, he was brutally beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil, near Ramallah. This attack came amid a sharp escalation of settler violence across the West Bank. In this episode, we speak with Bahaa Fuqaha, the deputy chair of Sinjil municipality, about a town now under siege, and hear the heartbreaking account from Kamel, Sayfollah's father, as he recounts the day his son was killed. Thank you for tuning into This is Palestine, the official podcast of The IMEU! For more stories and resources, visit us at imeu.org. Stay connected with us:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theimeu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theIMEU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theIMEU/ For more insights, follow our host, Diana Buttu, on:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianabuttu     

Beeldend kunstenaar Susanne Khalil Yusef werd geboren in Duitsland, als dochter van Palestijnse vluchtelingen. Yusef behaalde haar bachelor en master in Fine Arts aan de St. Joost Academie in Den Bosch en raakte toegewijd aan onderzoek naar haar familiegeschiedenis en de Palestijnse diaspora tijdens een semester aan de International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP) in Ramallah. Ze maakt kleurrijke installaties door verschillende media te combineren, zoals muurschilderingen, video, keramiek en publieksparticipatie. Hoewel haar felgekleurde werk luchtig en speels is, stelt ze kritische vragen over thema's als thuisland en ontheemding, identiteit en sociaalgeografische machtsverhoudingen. Werken van haar hand zijn op dit moment te zien op De Textiel Biënnale 2025 in Museum Rijswijk en in de vierde editie van ‘Makersgeheimen', in het Textielmuseum in Tilburg. Femke van der Laan gaat met Susanne Khalil Yusef in gesprek.

Protesters have marched through Ramallah in the West Bank, after Israel's military confirmed it had targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalist, Anas Al Sharif in Gaza. The 28 year old journalist was killed in an airstrike along with four Al Jazeera colleagues, and two others. As Palestinians mourn the deaths, Israel's plan to take control of Gaza City continues to draw condemnation from leaders both outside and within Israel.

Gaza está en una zona crítica, con hambruna, desplazamientos incesantes por efecto de las bombas, y más de 60.000 muertos. A la crisis cada vez más grave, denunciada por gobiernos e instancias internacionales, se suma ahora la amenaza de una ocupación total por parte del primer ministro de Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, que parece dispuesto a todo menos a negociar.Pero la crisis no es solo en Gaza, sino también en Cisjordania, donde el avance de colonos israelíes no cesa, para tomar tierras y echar a palestinos. Para conocer a fondo lo que pasa allí conversamos con Xavier Abu Eid, politólogo, quien fue asesor del equipo negociador palestino desde 2008, que nos atendió desde Ramallah.Con la conducción de Lucía Cholakian Herrera y Marco Teruggi. Edición a cargo de Alejandro Demasi. Para suscribirte al newsletter de El Mundo En Crisis escribí a envios@revistacrisis.com.ar.

This week I have two stories for you. The first is about a person that gets an unexpected Shabbos guest and the second about a Torah teacher that asks an Israeli bus driver to do him a favor. If you're enjoying these Chassidic stories, please take a quick moment to buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/barakhullman Thank you! I deeply appreciate your support! Also available at https://soundcloud.com/barak-hullman/there-are-no-jews-in-ramallah To become a part of this project or sponsor an episode please go to https://hasidicstory.com/be-a-supporter. Hear all of the stories at https://hasidicstory.com. Go here to hear my other podcast https://jewishpeopleideas.com or https://soundcloud.com/jewishpeopleideas. Find my books, Figure It Out When You Get There: A Memoir of Stories About Living Life First and Watching How Everything Falls Into Place and A Shtikel Sholom: A Student, His Mentor and Their Unconventional Conversations on Amazon by going to https://bit.ly/barakhullman. My classes in Breslov Chassidus, Likutey Moharan, can be found here https://www.youtube.com/@barakhullman/videos I also have a YouTube channel of ceramics which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@thejerusalempotter

RA.1000 continues with the pride of Palestine's techno scene, Sama' Abdulhadi. What makes the sound of resistance? For Palestinian DJ and producer Sama' Abdulhadi, it's the freedom to explore her artistic expression in all its authenticity and complexity. What stands out in her mix for our 1000th celebration is defiant energy, the kind that galvanises more than just dance floors. Born in Ramallah but a student of Beirut's underground scene, Abdulhadi plays charging, self-assured techno, as calibrated for basement parties as for conquering festival main stages. Her sets are powerful journeys through moods, tempos and stimuli, connected by a deep sense of love. A love for the music, the craft, the soil from which Abdulhadi grew. It's a love we've explored in a cover story, a film and now one of our ten RA.1000 mixes. As Abdulhadi notes in her accompanying interview, her entry to the series forms a link back to another "pride and joy of Palestine," with Bethlehem-descending Nicolás Jaar's entry on RA.500. Yet ten years on, the landscape is altered beyond all recognition. As we all watch the ongoing destruction of Palestinian land, this mix is an unequivocal reminder that we cannot look away. It continues techno's decades-old lineage as vital resistance music. @sama_abdulhadi Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1010. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at 1000.ra.co.

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Developments in the Middle East have come thick and fast this week. On Tuesday the IPC - a UN-backed monitor group - warned that the "worst-case scenario of famine" is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Britain, meanwhile, warned that unless Israel met a number of conditions before the UN General Assembly convenes next month, it would join France in recognising a State of Palestine. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupied West Bank has received little international attention since the war in Gaza began. Attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians living there are on the rise - up by 13 percent over the past year, says the UN. We examine attacks in one village and a town.Also in the programme: Why is Greece detaining all migrants arriving from North Africa? And the English city of Birmingham says goodbye to Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne.(Photo: Locals inspect a burnt car in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 28 July 2025. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli settlers attacked the village of Taybeh and set two vehicles on fire and spray-painted racist slurs on walls. Credit: Alaa Badarneeh/EPA/Shutterstock)

Zerbombte Häuser, hungernde Kinder, dazu die Angst vor Flucht und Vertreibung: Es ist eine verzweifelte Lage, in der sich die Bevölkerung im Gazastreifen befindet. Von einer „Hölle auf Erden“ spricht das Rote Kreuz. Während international der Druck auf die Regierung Netanjahu wächst, den Krieg in Gaza schnell zu beenden, ist offen, wie eine Nachkriegsordnung in dem Küstenstreifen aussehen soll. Welche Perspektive haben die rund 2 Millionen Palästinenser? Welche Zukunft hat Gaza? Michael Risel diskutiert mit Daniel-Dylan Böhmer – DIE WELT; Jan-Christoph Kitzler – ARD-Korrespondent, Tel Aviv; Kirsten Krampe – Leiterin des Büros der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Ramallah

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Les ministres des Affaires étrangères d'une quarantaine de pays se réunissent ce lundi et mardi à New York. Objectif : discuter de la solution à deux États, l'un israélien, l'autre palestinien. Une séquence de préparation avant l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU qui doit se tenir en septembre et au cours de laquelle la France va reconnaître l'État de Palestine. Mais les ambitions diplomatiques affichées sont-elles compatibles avec la réalité sur le terrain de l'occupation ? À Ramallah, nous avons posé la question aux jeunes Palestiniens de Cisjordanie occupée. De notre correspondante à Ramallah, Installée à la terrasse d'un café du centre-ville, Hala inhale de grandes bouffées de tabac à chicha. La jeune femme, férue de géopolitique, n'attend rien de la réunion à New York aujourd'hui. « Il est possible que l'on assiste à une représentation théâtrale, mais à rien de vrai. Les pays arabes et les pays du monde entier poursuivent des intérêts similaires à ceux d'Israël. Ici, nous n'avons aucune confiance », exprime-t-elle. Elle pointe notamment les liens économiques et militaires entre l'Occident et Israël : « L'occupation nous oppresse depuis une centaine d'années. S'ils avaient voulu créer un véritable État palestinien, cela se serait produit il y a 80 ou 90 ans. Cela nécessite des actions plus importantes que de simples conférences. » Sur le terrain, en Cisjordanie, les raids de l'armée israélienne, les arrestations, se multiplient. Une accélération de l'occupation qui inquiète Rami. « Il y a bien sûr le génocide en cours à Gaza et ces derniers jours, ce vote de la Knesset en faveur de l'annexion totale de la Cisjordanie. Ce qui implique l'abandon d'une solution à deux États, une fin complète et radicale », redoute-t-il. « En réalité, cela fait bien longtemps qu'Israël occupe et annexe des parties de la Cisjordanie » Mercredi dernier, le Parlement israélien a effectivement voté une motion symbolique en faveur de l'annexion du territoire palestinien. « C'est un texte symbolique qui n'a pas de valeur. Mais en réalité, cela fait bien longtemps qu'Israël occupe et  annexe des parties de la Cisjordanie », affirme Rami. De toute façon, de nombreux Palestiniens refusent la solution à deux États, la cohabitation avec un État israélien. « En tant que palestinienne, je ne pense pas que la solution à deux États soit la solution appropriée pour nous. Parce qu'à la fin, c'est notre terre et nous voulons notre terre. Je suis désolée, mais cette idée des deux États, je ne peux pas la soutenir », explique Shatha. À lire aussiConflit israélo-palestinien: «Reconnaître l'État de Palestine, c'est changer de prisme» Les discussions à New York porteront aussi sur la démilitarisation des territoires palestiniens occupés. Une mesure que Mohammed, ingénieur informatique, considère dangereuse. « L'objectif d'Israël est de désarmer les Palestiniens, comme cela, après 5 ou 10 ans, ils pourront nous exterminer, nous bombarder, faire un génocide sans aucune sorte résistance. Leur cible principale pour l'instant, c'est Gaza. Quand ils auront fini avec Gaza, ils feront la même chose avec la Cisjordanie », estime-t-il. Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, près d'un millier de Palestiniens de Cisjordanie ont été tués par l'armée israélienne et les colons, selon l'ONU. À lire aussiAmande Bazerolle (MSF): «Nous espérons pouvoir réactiver la grande majorité des centres de distribution d'aide à Gaza»

Les ministres des Affaires étrangères d'une quarantaine de pays se réunissent ce lundi et mardi à New York. Objectif : discuter de la solution à deux États, l'un israélien, l'autre palestinien. Une séquence de préparation avant l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU qui doit se tenir en septembre et au cours de laquelle la France va reconnaître l'État de Palestine. Mais les ambitions diplomatiques affichées sont-elles compatibles avec la réalité sur le terrain de l'occupation ? À Ramallah, nous avons posé la question aux jeunes Palestiniens de Cisjordanie occupée. De notre correspondante à Ramallah, Installée à la terrasse d'un café du centre-ville, Hala inhale de grandes bouffées de tabac à chicha. La jeune femme, férue de géopolitique, n'attend rien de la réunion à New York aujourd'hui. « Il est possible que l'on assiste à une représentation théâtrale, mais à rien de vrai. Les pays arabes et les pays du monde entier poursuivent des intérêts similaires à ceux d'Israël. Ici, nous n'avons aucune confiance », exprime-t-elle. Elle pointe notamment les liens économiques et militaires entre l'Occident et Israël : « L'occupation nous oppresse depuis une centaine d'années. S'ils avaient voulu créer un véritable État palestinien, cela se serait produit il y a 80 ou 90 ans. Cela nécessite des actions plus importantes que de simples conférences. » Sur le terrain, en Cisjordanie, les raids de l'armée israélienne, les arrestations, se multiplient. Une accélération de l'occupation qui inquiète Rami. « Il y a bien sûr le génocide en cours à Gaza et ces derniers jours, ce vote de la Knesset en faveur de l'annexion totale de la Cisjordanie. Ce qui implique l'abandon d'une solution à deux États, une fin complète et radicale », redoute-t-il. « En réalité, cela fait bien longtemps qu'Israël occupe et annexe des parties de la Cisjordanie » Mercredi dernier, le Parlement israélien a effectivement voté une motion symbolique en faveur de l'annexion du territoire palestinien. « C'est un texte symbolique qui n'a pas de valeur. Mais en réalité, cela fait bien longtemps qu'Israël occupe et  annexe des parties de la Cisjordanie », affirme Rami. De toute façon, de nombreux Palestiniens refusent la solution à deux États, la cohabitation avec un État israélien. « En tant que palestinienne, je ne pense pas que la solution à deux États soit la solution appropriée pour nous. Parce qu'à la fin, c'est notre terre et nous voulons notre terre. Je suis désolée, mais cette idée des deux États, je ne peux pas la soutenir », explique Shatha. À lire aussiConflit israélo-palestinien: «Reconnaître l'État de Palestine, c'est changer de prisme» Les discussions à New York porteront aussi sur la démilitarisation des territoires palestiniens occupés. Une mesure que Mohammed, ingénieur informatique, considère dangereuse. « L'objectif d'Israël est de désarmer les Palestiniens, comme cela, après 5 ou 10 ans, ils pourront nous exterminer, nous bombarder, faire un génocide sans aucune sorte résistance. Leur cible principale pour l'instant, c'est Gaza. Quand ils auront fini avec Gaza, ils feront la même chose avec la Cisjordanie », estime-t-il. Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, près d'un millier de Palestiniens de Cisjordanie ont été tués par l'armée israélienne et les colons, selon l'ONU. À lire aussiAmande Bazerolle (MSF): «Nous espérons pouvoir réactiver la grande majorité des centres de distribution d'aide à Gaza»

Aflevering zes van de zevendelige NRC-podcast Dit is ons land. Wil je meer luisteren? Zoek dan op Dit is ons land in je podcastapp en luister meteen verder.De 38-jarige Shadha Musallam runt een start-up voor boeren in Ramallah. In een gebied waar grenzen, checkpoints en dreiging het dagelijks leven bepalen, probeert zij met technologie de landbouw – en daarmee de economie – levensvatbaar te houden. Hoe blijf je dromen als je leven zo beperkt wordt?Presentatie: Ruben Pest & Derk WaltersRedactie: Felicia Alberding & Esmee DirksFixer: Nidal RafaMuziek, montage en mixage: Bas van Win & Jeroen JaspersEindredactie: Anna KorterinkProductie: Rhea StroinkPromotie: Ruben BaudoinMet dank aan: Mirjam van Zuidam, Danielle Pinedo & Floris van StraatenIllustratie: Lynne BrouwerVormgeving: Yannick MortierZie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

C'è una parola che la comunità internazionale continua a evitare, come se nominarla rompesse un incantesimo: annessione. Eppure è ciò che è appena accaduto. Il parlamento israeliano ha approvato una mozione che proclama Giudea, Samaria e Valle del Giordano “parte inscindibile della patria storica del popolo ebraico” e chiede di estendere su questi territori la sovranità israeliana. In Cisgiordania, insomma, si cambia status: da occupazione a possesso, da disputa a conquista. Un atto gravissimo, che se pronunciato da altri paesi avrebbe provocato sanzioni, convocazioni d'urgenza dell'ONU, aperture dei telegiornali. Invece qui domina il silenzio, interrotto solo da qualche timido appello umanitario. Intanto, a Gaza, si consuma una tragedia senza precedenti: oltre cento organizzazioni denunciano una carestia di massa, con centinaia di bambini morti di fame. Ospedali assediati, aiuti umanitari respinti, giornalisti affamati come i civili che raccontano. Il diritto internazionale è ridotto a una foglia di fico. Israele rigetta ogni parere delle Nazioni Unite e afferma che “gli ebrei non possono essere occupanti nella propria patria”. Un'affermazione che rovescia secoli di diritto e legittima l'apartheid, come denuncia Ramallah. Le parole hanno un peso: e quando si consacra l'ideologia coloniale nella legge, non si è più davanti a una guerra. È un progetto. La fame, l'assedio, l'annessione: tutto grida, ma chi ascolta? L'Europa balbetta, gli Stati Uniti trattano tregue da uno yacht. Intanto, un'intera popolazione viene cancellata dalla mappa. Prima dai territori, poi dal linguaggio. Domani, dai libri. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

What do you do when you're an Israeli comedian set to perform in Paris on the very day the world learns the fate of the Bibas family? Yohay Sponder faced that moment in February 2025—and chose to take the stage. Wearing an orange tie in their honor, he brought laughter to a grieving crowd. Since October 7th, he has used comedy to carry pain, affirm his identity, and connect through resilience. Hear how his Jewish identity shapes his work, how his comedy has evolved since the Hamas attacks, and what he says to those who try to silence him. Recorded live at AJC Global Forum 2025. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC. Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: Untold stories of Jews who left or were driven from Arab nations and Iran People of the Pod:  Latest Episodes:  From Broadway to Jewish Advocacy: Jonah Platt on Identity, Antisemitism, and Israel Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: The Dinah Project's Quest to Hold Hamas Accountable Journalist Matti Friedman Exposes Media Bias Against Israel Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of the Interview: Manya Brachear Pashman:   Israeli stand up comedian Yohay Sponder: first gained popularity for his funny Monday shows in Tel Aviv, which attracted a following on YouTube. A few years ago, Sponder made the decision to perform Israeli comedy in English to reach a wider audience and a wider audience it has reached. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, and in May, launched the North American leg of his international tour in Baltimore.  Sponder is with us now on the sidelines of AJC Global Forum 2025. Sponder, welcome to People of the Pod.  Yohay Sponder:   Thank you so much for this eulogy. Manya Brachear Pashman:   I'm curious how you found your way to stand up comedy and tell us a little bit about your upbringing in general.  Yohay Sponder:   Doing comedy, I always been fascinated about the laughing reaction of humans. You know, it's fascinating, if you think about it, if you have the ability to improve the frequency in the room. As a kid, I was really intrigued by that. So you saying few things, and people go, haha. It's like designing a vibe.  So as a kid, I was attracted to that. So as a kid, you watch video cassettes, back in the day, I would watch all of the comedy stuff. I had all of them cassettes. I was very, very affected by it, impersonations, imitating them, doing jokes of my own, and always around that.  And in my show, I'm talking about comedy. I have a bit about comedy in my show that I'm saying that I was, I wasn't just the class clown in my school. I was the jokes technician. If you had a broken joke or a joke that didn't work, you would come to me. I would fix it for you, bring it back. Not using it as my own resume. I would bring it back, when it's fixed. Manya Brachear Pashman:   That's great. So you helped others clown around as well. Yohay Sponder:   Yeah, I was a clown teacher.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Were you raised in a secular home, a particularly Jewish home? Yohay Sponder:   I was raised in a, let's say secular but Jewish, celebrated holidays, family Friday night family dinners. But we weren't like super Shabbat keepers. I think I became closer now, when, after my father passed away, I for the Kaddish and I put tefillin a little bit. And the war, you know, this war, activated a lot of Jews to the to this kind of level. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Right. You're sitting across from me, and you're wearing a gigantic Star of David. On your chest. Yohay Sponder:   Yeah, you see what she did, you see what she did? You're sitting across and you're wearing a gigantic Star of David.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Have you always worn that or did you put it on after October 7? Yohay Sponder:   No, it's after the war kicked in. I don't know. I had a vision that that's what we should do right now. We need to be out there and show other Jews that we're there. That's what I felt. And I imagine that, I need a big star of David. And the day I thought about it, I saw that. So there was a sign for me, like I had this vision, that I need a big star of David here. And less than 24 hours, that one find me. I didn't look for it. It came across my eyes. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Which I imagine you'll be wearing your Magen David on tour. The tour itself is called Self Loving Jew. What is the meaning of that title? Yohay Sponder:   So, basically, you know, this is so awesome, because before October 7, you could argue of other opinion. You could hear some people saying, Yeah, but maybe we should this. After October 7 that we know so all these monsters that came and attack us, the self hating Jews that they're doing now, super horrific, disgusting job of mocking us. And I find it really bad, and I think so I'm I'm bringing the other side. I'm just bringing the you know, it doesn't mean that I hate someone that is not Jewish. I'm just, I want to inspire other people to be to love themselves, even if they're not Jewish. But as Jews, we have to love us, because we're probably the last ones to love us, and if we won't love us, that's that's over for us.  And people, people saying that it's very harsh to compare the self hating Jews of now to the Kapos and and I'm saying, yes, it's it's not fair for the Kapos, because they didn't have a choice. You guys have a choice, and you did it just for likes and for other people from other cultures to like you. I really, I really believe.  I really deeply believe I'm coming from there. I'm coming from the war. I really believe that the people that don't, they don't give us the credit, people that not supporting Israel, they're uneducated. I really believe in that they don't know enough. They might be not bad people, but they might be stupid people.  Self hating Jews, like whatever Dave Smith, all these guys that try to be liked by, you know, others, and they they just out of their own idiocy. Listen, you don't know anything about what's going on. As Douglas Murray told them, ou've been there. You saw those things that you're talking about when you're saying, Israel, starving the Gazans you're never seeing the the trucks that going every day. You're You're an idiot. You're just an idiot. You listen to other people, and you listen to other lies.  And they will say, No, I just want peaceful. We all want peace. Just the fact that you're Jewish, it means that you want peace. We say Shalom when we see each other, when we say Shabbat Shalom. The holiest day of the week. We say telech bshalom, tachzor bshalom. Go in peace, come back in peace. You don't want peace more than I want. We all want peace, but we're willing to fight for peace because we have to make sure that no innocent people from both sides, by the way, will get hurt.  So yeah, it's really bad and shitty situation, war, but you blame us without checking it. So anyway, I don't want it to make it too much political. It's not political, by the way, Self Loving Jew. It's about loving yourself and being, you know, being in touch with what's going on right now.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So there is so much misinformation out there, you launched your you started doing English language comedy to reach a wider audience. Now you're doing an English language international tour. Do you have a message that you want to get out to the wider world to especially this region where there is so much misinformation and misunderstanding? Yohay Sponder:   Yeah, the message is that, we're living in a time that it's very hard to agree on something, and I really miss the days that we all agree that the world is round. You know, a little long ago, a few years ago. But yeah, the message is that you do your research and come to laugh with us.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   It's an important message that gets forgotten. October 7, and its aftermath were so horrific. Did you press pause on your comedy career for a little while? At what point did you find it acceptable to make people laugh again in the aftermath? Yohay Sponder:   No, it took time. It took time. It took a day. Manya Brachear Pashman:   One day. Okay. Yohay Sponder: Because right after that, after the attack, they start to arrange people to go to volunteer in squads and families that got evacuated from their house and soldiers and hospitals, people got wounded. So I've been around. I did that. That was my duty service. And also I did regular reserves duty, stuff like that.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   And what did you do on reserve duty?  Yohay Sponder: I was in Ramat Gan patrol. So not super serious, but I did what I did.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   And at what point did you go back to the stage and so more standup? Yohay Sponder:   So I'm running the show Funny Monday, I think roughly a month after October 7, we get. Maybe two months, yeah, something like around that. January, maybe, I remember, like a little bit after that, the show went back and we did stand up in English. People really followed what's going on in Israel. No matter what you do from the country, they follow that. And we had strong they were saying, Wait, Shahar Hassan, my co-host, very good friend. Really funny man, serious comedian, like one of A-list, Top list. And people follow, people watching what we have to say. That was the main purpose of Funny Monday, when we launched it in 2016 nine years ago.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Did it shift? When you restarted it after October 7, was it different? How so?  Yohay Sponder:   Yeah. We always talked about current events, what's going on in the world? It's the international perspective of not just news, but Israel perspective and stuff like that. So in that case, you're talking about Iran's attack. What the news with Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu? Whatever is happening politically, or current events and yeah, people were more attached to the screen those days. And also in comedy. It's a great form of art to deliver, you know, your point of view, or your, yeah, your what you want to say. So it's, it was great to do that, and till this very day, that's what we do.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So you really though, have to read the room, right? I mean, different audiences, I imagine, receive your comedy in different ways, especially in different regions of the world. So I'm curious if there are differences in the kind of humor that resonates with an Israeli audience, and the kind of humor that resonates with an American audience or a European audience. Yohay Sponder:   So that's the thing, why I love my country so much, because you can just stand up in any form you want. You can go as dark as you want in Israel or as political as you want. We have some issues right now with people having fight with each other, of political issues, and we have a lot of demonstrations and stuff. So there's that. But beside that, you can get away with a lot of what people say here in America, woke culture, politically correct. In Israel, we don't have it. You don't stand up like in the 80s. If someone looks gay in the audience, you say, Hey, you look gay man. That's very gay. You're fat. You these, you're old, you're very brown. We just say that, and that's fine. No one canceled. We don't even know what it means to cancel someone. No one get canceled in Israel. Manya Brachear Pashman: Holocaust humor, is that acceptable in Israel? Yohay Sponder: Yeah, it's not just it's acceptable. For example, from my wife's point of view, she was shocked when people came back to say, wow, mitlachot poh shoah—the shower was like, it's the Holocaust. Holocaust shower. They sang that. There's something that you say in the army and it's kind of fine. No one like, hey, how can you compare this? Because the water was cold, so they were called. So they say, but in the Holocaust, no water at all, was gas.  And also, when my wife told me, Don't honk like this, it's ghetto. You know, it's American thing to say, Don't honk. It's ghetto. It's like, I'm pretty sure that in Auschwitz, they didn't have cars.  Manya Brachear Pashman: She's talking about a different kind of gheto.  Yohay Sponder: And she said, like, you can't do these jokes. Yeah, you can't do this. She's like, she's from American perspective, you can't do these jokes. It's horrible. It's like, that's jokes we do here all the time. And in Israel, you use Nazi sometimes, like, as a, not only as a bad thing. It's like, accuracy. You say, like, Nazis coming on time. I need a Nazi plumber, not . . . someone that is a good commander. When I'm having the perspective of my wife and American people, I understand how horrible that is.  However, some Holocaust survivors testify that they had humor in the camps. They used humor, even dark humor, in the camps, and it helped them raise their frequency and raise their morality and maybe survive, maybe humor saved them. So when you saying too soon, sometimes it's, yeah, it's too soon for someone but it's okay for someone else.  I see black humor as spicy food. We all have our own scale for it. You can, you can eat spicy like a crazy mental person, and I can just taste it. And, you know, it's too harsh for me, and vice versa. So I did jokes about October 7, in November 7, and horrible ones, and it was also with the Holocaust. That's how horrible that was. So maybe it's too soon for the Holocaust. It's too soon for October 7. I said, the people that compare compared October 7 to the Holocaust. And I'm saying at least in the Holocaust, no one kidnapped Holocaust survivors. It's not even a funny, like, haha, funny. It's like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, that's the joke. It's not a joke of a punch line. It's a punch in your belly. Yeah. Manya Brachear Pashman:   What have been some of the most memorable moments from your shows, from your live shows, and I'm talking good and bad, have there been really positive responses and have there been really ugly? Yohay Sponder:   So let's just take this afternoon in Paris that I'm sitting in my hotel and Instagram and social media exploding from what's going on with the releasing of the Bibas babies. That we're getting back coffins, and I'm getting, I don't know, hundreds of messages from people that like we don't know if we're coming to the show. Two shows sold out in a huge theater in Paris. I'm not there every day. That's the show. That's it. One day since October 7, and no one knows when I'm going to come again. And my heart is broken, and people tell me we want to come but we can't. What do you think we should do?  Now, I responded to all of them, my wife and I responded to all of them, you do what you feel. I totally support your feelings. And the show is going to happen, and we get together tonight, and it's going to be a group hug, but if you can't make it, that's fine. I went on stage with an orange tie that I bought, and we talked it through. Arthur is the comedian and producer of those shows. He opened the show, he talked about the situation, and we did the shows. Now, that's the beauty of it, that's, that's the genome of the Jewish people. That's so in us to . . . . what we talked earlier about the Holocaust survivors that testify that they want to laugh, they want to have a good time. They don't want to let these terrorists decide for us what we gonna feel. Yeah, we feel bad. Yes, you're the worst people on the planet. I wish God will wipe you out, or IDF as fast as possible. You're a disgusting dirt of…but for us, for what we can do right now, we're gonna, we're gonna do our best to raise our morality and frequency. And I did the shows. I'm not gonna lie to you, I was very sad. But you know, the people that, that's what Bob Marley said after, he got shot, you know, and he did the show anyway, and he said, the people that want us to feel bad, they don't take a day off. So how could I? That's a very nice thing to say. Manya Brachear Pashman:   You had a show at City Winery where some people in the audience came with, maybe with intentions to protest, or at least they expected to disagree with you, and they met up with you after the show. And what happened? Yohay Sponder:   After my show, one of the presidents of the BDS organizations. She approached me and she said, we came to hassle the show. We came to ruin your show. So like, why you didn't do it? And she said we were waiting for the right moment, but the more the show went on, the more we liked what you said. You talk a lot about peace, you talk a lot about mutual values and how to solve problems, and you talk about the nice things of the Jewish tradition and the Jewish religion. We couldn't ruin that. We have conscience and we also liked you.  They liked the show. They wanted to ruin it, but they loved it, and they laughed. I told her, that's exactly what I do. In my stand up show, when you see that bit, it's with the whole structure of what happened there and how I almost made peace with these guys, but it didn't work out.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Maybe you need to do your stand up routine in Gaza and that would solve everything. Yohay Sponder:   I checked that. They don't have comedy clubs there. I said that when I hosted the show, we have an Arab comedian, a friend of ours. You know, people like they don't know that, but Arab-Israelis, are Palestinians. To their definition, to the Palestinians definition, it's the same thing, but they don't identify as Palestinians. It's like we're Muslims, we're Arabs. Anyway, they're with us. They're like siblings to us.  So when I introduced him, I also made fun of the situation. I said, When is going to be in Palestine? When it's going to be the Jewish comedian goes on stage like you going here and stuff like that, and there is no comedy clubs in Ramallah or in Gaza, but Inshallah, when there will I go and I do a spot. Manya Brachear Pashman:   How many of your shows, as you've been traveling around, have actually been canceled or moved or postponed. I read something about your Amsterdam show, for example, was moved to an undisclosed location because of security concerns. Has that happened elsewhere? Yohay Sponder:   Australia. And they tried to cancel my show in Brussels, didn't make it. They tried to cancel my show in Paris. They couldn't make it, but demonstrated outside. And every time that thing happened, I got a lot of press covers and interviews, and people get insane. And like, oh, we have to support and come to see the show. So every time it happens, I doubling or sometimes tripling the amount of people. Which is so weird, you know, because they're always the people they hate us. Always go, oh, Jews, money and you guys this, and you made me make more money. I didn't want to make that much money.  I want to make third of the amount of money. But because of your protesting. Your hate, that's how bad you are of what you do. And how amazing we are what we do. You know, I didn't want to make that much money, so now I hire them, the protesters. So they work for me.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   They do your marketing, generate publicity. So none of the shows have been successfully cancelled? Yohay Sponder:   No, the Amsterdam show canceled. The Boom Chicago, which also surprising. Your name is Boom Chicago. What's your security concerns. That's gonna be a boom. Let it be.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   But I thought it was moved.  Yohay Sponder:  We moved that like because they a week before the show, they said we're not doing the show. And was like, guys, let me respond. Let me say something. No, no. Police said that. We called the police. We have their numbers, you know, we call them. They say, No, we didn't talk to them. And then they wrote, we can help you find a Jewish venue. So I told him, we can help you find a Jewish lawyer. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So there was no show? Yohay Sponder:  Not in the Boom Chicago. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Got it. Yohay Sponder:  And I'll never go there. Manya Brachear Pashman:   And not in Amsterdam?  Yohay Sponder:  No, it was in Amsterville.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   Got it, okay. Amsterville, is that next to Amsterdam? Yohay Sponder:   Turns out, yeah, they didn't know that too. Was was a very nice theater, I think, three times' size of the Boom Chicago, and we had a great time. And I'll go there again. And it's not just the Boom Chicago, when we try to rebook it, a lot of other venues, more than 30 venues, didn't want to have me there.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   So is there anything else that I haven't asked you that you really want to share with our audience? Yohay Sponder:   Yeah. I mean, listen, I'm not sure that the audience is going to be 100% Jewish, right? So the message is going to be split for both. So I'll talk to them. So if you guys are Jews, I wanted to know that everything's going to be fine, and we got this, and raise your head, and we're good. We're going to be good. This is probably the last one. It's the last one. I think Messiah is coming, right? We're going to be fine, all right?  And if you're a non Jewish person watching it, you're an ally. So I want to thank you. We don't take it for granted. It's very important that you're around. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Sponder, thank you.  Yohay Sponder:   Thank you so much.   

Syria is investigating violence that erupted in Sweida this month. US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia invests in Syria. On today's episode of Trending Middle East: US ambassador meets Palestinian official on first Ramallah visit Syria's Defence Ministry to investigate claims of 'shocking violations' in Sweida Saudi Arabia expected to sign $4bn worth of deals as it holds investment forum in Syria This episode features Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Jordan correspondent; Thomas Helm, Jerusalem correspondent; and Dana Alomar, Future Editor. Editor's note: We want to hear from you! Help us improve our podcasts by taking our 2-minute listener survey. Click here.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. According to a Channel 12 Israeli television report, later today, Israel will present new maps for the IDF’s redeployment in the event of a ceasefire-hostage release deal along the Morag Corridor and perimeter around Gaza after Hamas rejected its previous offer. Magid updates us on the status of the Doha talks and speaks about the blame game from both sides. We hear about how the Trump administration is playing the "Witkoff card" -- or when US envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff will finally join the talks and what it will signify when he does. We turn to the results of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to Washington, DC, even as he comes home without any overt deals. What else was on the table for the trip and what was accomplished? Over the past day, security forces arrested six people in connection with an incident in the West Bank yesterday, where settlers allegedly killed two Palestinians on Friday. US citizen Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was allegedly beaten to death in Sinjil, a village north of Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said. A second man, Mohammed Rizq Hussein al-Shalabi, 23, died after being shot during the attack, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. Magid describes what we know about this incident and weighs in on whether any rigorous investigation will be launched. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: Doha talks stuck on IDF withdrawal; Palestinian officials say discussions nearing collapse US won’t allow Israel to resume war, but rejects truce text saying so explicitly — sources Two Palestinians, including US citizen, killed by settlers in West Bank attack — PA Family of American-Palestinian man allegedly beaten to death by settlers urges US probe Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: Demonstrators in Tel Aviv protest against the Israeli government and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, July 5, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Le comunità del West Bank subiscono atti di vandalismo e intimidazioni costanti dagli estremisti israeliani e sono supportati dal governo. Yarin Levin, ministro della Giustizia di Israele ha dichiarato: "Annetteremo la Cisgiordania". "Vent'anni fa qui abitavano venti famiglie. Dal 7 di ottobre hanno incominciato ad aggredirci quasi quotidianamente e un po' alla volta tutti se ne sono andati. Siamo rimasti noi" dice Koran Basharath, pastore di un villaggio nella Valle del giordano. "Sono violenti e armati" dice Elie Avidor, israeliano, veterano di guerra, oggi "combattente pacifico" contro l'occupazione della Cisgiordania. Anche l'agricoltore israeliano Peretz Gan, come Avidor, lotta per i diritti dei palestinesi. Lui fa parte dei Jordan Valley Activists. "Li supportiamo – spiega - sia finanziariamente che legalmente. Quello che facciamo è monitorare la situazione, presidiare il territorio, raccogliere prove degli abusi, fotografie di aggressioni, denunce". Ma queste violenze accadono anche vicino a Ramallah. Padre Bashar è il parroco di Taybe, cittadina cristiana che si sta spopolando a causa delle aggressioni dei coloni.

The Irish Immigration Service has denied the visa applications for a group of GAA Palestinian players and mentors ahead of a summer tour.A team of 33 children and 14 mentors were due to travel to Ireland, arriving here next week.So, what happened?Joining Andrea to discuss is Stephen Redmond, Founder of Palestinian GAA and Cathal Ó Gaillín, Liaison Officer with the Moataz Sarsour Club in Al Am'ari refugee camp in Ramallah.

Palestinian GAA clubs from the West Bank are set to arrive in Ireland next week (18th July) for a tour, with a visit to County Clare as part of the itinerary. The 47 participants, including 33 children between 9 and 16 years, will travel from Tulkarm, Ramallah, Jenin, Beit Lahm and Al Khalil for a two-week tour to foster friendship, solidarity, cultural understanding and athletic development. They are expected in Clare towards the end of July. For more on this Alan Morrissey was joined by Claire Liddy, social care worker. PHOTO CREDIT: Éire Óg GAA

Could peace between Israel and the Palestinians really come from Hebron—not Ramallah or Gaza? Host Emily Schrader, journalist and human rights activist, is joined by an all-star panel including Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll (Co-founder of Chochmat Nashim), Daniel-Ryan Spaulding (comedian and political commentator), and Ateret Shmuel (Founder and Director of Indigenous Bridges). Together, they unpack one of the most dramatic stories to emerge in the region: a reported offer by Hebron's Palestinian sheikhs to break from the Palestinian Authority and join the Abraham Accords.

At Glastonbury, Britain's biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel's genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. On-stage remarks by one of them - Bob Vylan - plunged the country's public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the performance, into yet another Gaza-shaped row. Contributors: Des Freedman – Author, The Media Manifesto Peter Oborne – Journalist and broadcaster Karishma Patel – Former newsreader, BBC Justin Schlosberg – Professor of Media and Communications, University Of Westminster On our radar: In the United States, Zohran Mamdani has secured the Democratic nomination for New York mayor, despite relentless media attacks that focus less on his policies and more on his outspoken stance against Israel's war on Gaza. Tariq Nafi reports. Palestinians are seen as some sort of existential threat, just for being there While debates rage in international media over phrases like “from the river to the sea” and “death to the IDF,” far less scrutiny falls on the anti-Palestinian abuse that has become normal inside Israel - from pop songs to viral chants. Palestinian analyst Abdaljawad Omar joins us from Ramallah to unpack this everyday Israeli racism. Featuring: Abdaljawad Omar – Lecturer, Birzeit University

Decenas de colonos israelíes y palestinos se enfrentaron el viernes en una aldea de la Cisjordania ocupada, donde debía llevarse a cabo una marcha tras recientes ataques de colonos contra tierras palestinas. Informe de nuestra enviada especial a Cisjordania, Melissa Barra. Una caravana de autos se adentra en el centro de Sinjil, un pueblito al norte de Ramallah. Una forma de protesta para sus habitantes palestinos: las autoridades israelíes han cercado la localidad por completo con una valla metálica y alambre de púas. Los soldados israelíes han separado a los habitantes de sus cultivos agrícolas y en algunas de las colinas del pueblo se han instalado colonos israelíes. "Tengo el derecho de ingresar a mis tierras sin obstáculos, pero no lo puedo ejercer", dice Hafez Jaber, uno de los organizadores de la manifestación.   "Todo esto es por culpa de colonos que decidieron colocarse ahí con su rebaño y con la protección del ejército israelí en nuestro suelo", agrega. Hace un año y medio, su hijo murió a balazos cerca de su casa. No sabe con certeza si fue a manos el ejército o miembros de la Juventud de las Colinas, un grupo extremista de colonos.   La protesta se convierte en enfrentamientos. Palestinos prenden fuego a la loma para desalojar a los colonos, se arrojan piedras y los auto palestinos son vandalizados.  En unos minutos el ejército israelí ingresa y dispara tiros al aire.   Un residente anónimo de Sinjil no cree que la perspectiva de un cese el fuego en Gaza pacifique la situación en Cisjordania: "La gente está a la espera de una tregua y de la paz, pero eso no existe aquí, los colonos no quieren tregua ni paz. A nosotros nos han abandonado".   La víspera, ministros de Benjamin Netanyahu redactaron una carta llamando a anexionar Cisjordania por completo. 

Le vendredi 27 juin 2025, l'assemblée Corse a reconnu l'existance de la Palestine, dans une motion intitulée « soutien au peuple palestinien et violations du droit international par l'État israélien dans la bande de Gaza ». À travers cette motion la Corse « reconnaît officiellement l'Etat de la Palestine dans les frontières de 1967 ». La France, elle, ne reconnaît toujours pas cet état…. La Palestine coche bien toutes les cases pour être reconnue comme Etat. L'Autorité palestinienne se situe à Ramallah en Cisjordanie occupée… En 1988, le Président palestinnien, Yasser Arafat, avait accepté la solution à deux états en acceptant la résolution 242 du Conseil de Sécurité des Nations Unies.  Quelles sont les conditions pour être reconnu comme Etat ? Combien de pays reconnaissent aujourd'hui la Palestine ? Qu'est-ce que ça change si la France reconnaît la Palestine ?  Écoutez la suite de cet épisode de Maintenant vous savez ! Un podcast Bababam Originals écrit et réalisé par Hugo de l'Estrac. À écouter ensuite : Pourquoi le Rassemblement National est-il régulièrement accusé d'antisémitisme ? Qu'est-ce que le projet Périclès, pour donner le pouvoir à l'extrême droite ? Qu'est-ce que le “backlash” ? Retrouvez tous les épisodes de "Maintenant vous savez".Suivez Bababam sur Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When New Yorkers gave Zohran Mamdani close to half the votes in the Democratic primary for mayor, they turned a local race into contest with global impact. Mamdani is of Indian Muslim background. As a state assemblyman, he's been an outspoken critic of Israel. About nine percent of New Yorkers are Muslim but 12 per cent are Jewish. So has this election reflected these differences? The small Palestinian town of Taybeh is one of the few villages in the West Bank where almost all the residents are Christian. In recent weeks, radical Israeli settlers have stepped up attacks on residents and properties, as part of their plan to occupy the entire West Bank territory. If Pope Leo XIV decides to take on some of the world's most powerful leaders, he can rely on the nerves of steel he developed while leading the Catholic Church in his adopted homeland of Peru. When he was archbishop, he found himself in the middle of a conflict between the leftist guerilla movement, known as the Shining Path, and the right-wing Catholic group Opus Dei, which supported the authoritarian government. GUESTS:ETAN NECHIN is New York correspondent for Ha'aretz newspaper.SANAD SAHELIA is a freelance journalist in Ramallah who reports for Catholic media.MATTHEW CASEY-PARISEAULT of Arizona State University is based in Lima, where he studies the relationship between the church and state.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Political correspondent Tal Schneider and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. Israeli settlers torched a multi-million-shekel security installation used to “thwart terror attacks and maintain security” in the Ramallah area of the West Bank overnight, according to the IDF. This came after a riot by settlers outside a military base in the West Bank, where, according to the IDF, settlers attacked security forces, sprayed mace and vandalized army vehicles. Sharon and Schneider delve deeply into the issue of settler violence and how it is being fostered -- and even potentially funded -- by members of the coalition. Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is now in Washington, DC, where he is expected to face pressure from the Trump administration during his meetings tomorrow in Washington to end the war in GazaIt appears from statements made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday that he, too, is on board with winding down the Gaza war. Schneider explains which ministers are against ending the Gaza war and whether this coalition crisis in the making could lead to early elections. Top security officials told judges presiding over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial in a closed-door meeting yesterday that Netanyahu must be released from his testimony for the week because there is an opportunity to change the face of the Middle East and for Israel to expand its circle of peace, including with Syria. Sharon discusses the mechanisms of canceling the trial for the week. Then, Schneider speaks about reports claiming that Syria would be willing to give up its claim to the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace agreement. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: Settlers torch West Bank security site, riot against ‘traitor’ IDF officer; no arrests PM: Iran war opened broad regional possibilities, ‘first we need to free the hostages’ Court agrees to cancel PM’s testimony this week after briefing by security chiefs Report: Syria not demanding Golan Heights as part of deal with Israel Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: A West Bank security installation that was torched overnight by settlers on June 30, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Destructive attacks on Palestinian communities by West Bank settlers “emboldened” by support from powerful far right-wing figures in the Netanyahu government have received little attention as the country has focused on the war in Gaza and the recent clash with Iran. Last week, dozens of settlers descended upon Kafr Malik, a Palestinian town north of Ramallah, attacking residents and their property, as well as IDF soldiers who arrived at the scene. The outpost – illegal even under Israeli law – was dismantled by the Israeli army later that night, triggering multiple riots at a nearby army base and police station. The settlers’ attacks on Israeli soldiers sparked widespread public outrage and even condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz. Haaretz West Bank correspondent Hagar Shezaf joined host Allison Kaplan Sommer this week for a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing tension and the “Jewish terrorists” so dedicated to driving Palestinians off of their land that they are willing to attack IDF soldiers when they stand in their way. Noting that Israelis generally “support the soldiers over the settlers,” she shared insights about the evolving political climate toward violent extremists in the West Bank. “I think in settler society – and to an extent, broader Israeli society, it has become much, much, much more normalized post October 7 – the sense that these people are guarding the land.” Attacks on IDF soldiers, she said, are “obviously always controversial in Israeli society – but attacking Palestinians? Not so controversial anymore.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. Read more: Dozens of Israeli Settlers Attempt to Break Into West Bank IDF Base, Army Source Says Six Settlers Arrested for Assaulting IDF Troops in West Bank; Netanyahu: Bring Them to Justice Five Days After Building an Outpost on the Edge of a West Bank Palestinian Village, Israeli Settlers Drove Locals OutSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. Friday night, throngs of rioting Israeli settlers attacked IDF soldiers at the Palestinian village of Kafr Malik near Ramallah, after the forces arrived there to prevent them from rampaging in the village. Six Israelis were arrested following the violence. According to Hebrew media reports, the Israeli assailants beat, choked and hurled rocks at the troops. Later, on Saturday, a police outpost was vandalized by settlers in what authorities said was an apparent act of revenge for the arrest of the six suspects accused in the nighttime attack. Fabian explains the rollout of the events. This morning, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told CBS news that Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months,” despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks. But this is in contrast to what IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has reportedly told colleagues that Iran is no longer a nuclear threshold state following the Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear program. Fabian relays the army's assessment of the 12-day war and discusses whether the ceasefire will be similar to the November 27, 2024, ceasefire with Hezbollah. This morning, the IDF re-issued a wide evacuation warning for Palestinians in the Gaza City and Jabalia areas in the northern Gaza Strip. This comes as Zamir said Friday that the military’s latest offensive in Gaza will soon “reach the lines” defined by the government, which would see the military assert control over 75% of the territory. We hear what is happening on the ground in Gaza. Finally, one of the founders of Hamas, who was also one of the planners of its onslaught of October 7, 2023, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City on Friday night. We learn about Hakem al-Issa, who served as chief of staff at the “combat and administrative support division” in the Palestinian terror group’s military wing. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: Settlers attack IDF soldiers, try to ram them amid riot in West Bank village; 6 detained PM, defense chiefs condemn settler attack on soldiers; suspects try to torch police post IDF chief believes Iran no longer a nuclear threshold state after Israeli, US strikes 34 Gazans said killed in IDF strikes; army issues evacuation warning after rocket fire Gaza offensive will soon ‘reach the lines’ set by the government, says IDF chief Veteran Hamas operative who helped plan Oct. 7 killed in Gaza City strike, IDF says Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: IDF soldiers operate in the northern Gaza Strip in this June 19, 2025, handout photo. (IDF)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first half of the show, we bring you speeches from the “Future Fund Invests in Genocide” rally held on June 26 in Naarm/Melbourne. We hear from Jaimie Jeffrey, who is a member of the No Aukus Vic and Elbit Out of Vic campaigns, as well as Romina Beitseen, an Iranian unionist and peace campaigner with the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament.In the second half, sound artist Bridget Chappell takes us to the occupied West Bank, where they interview Yara Dowani, co-founder of Om Sleiman Farm in Bil'in village, west of Ramallah. Yara speaks about agroecology as a form of resistance, centring Palestinian food sovereignty, solidarity economies, and the reclamation of land and identity in the face of Israeli coloniality in its various manifestations.

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth holds morning newser, insisting strikes dealt a severe blow to Iranian nuclear sites. Iran's Supreme leader congratulates nation for victory over Israel in first public appearance since ceasefire. 3 Palestinian men killed by Israeli settlers who attacked and set fire to their community near Ramallah. Mexico's top court orders release of case file on 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects bill C5 could pass in the Senate as early as today. Americans reflect on 10 years since the United States legalized same-sex marriage. Buskers in Quebec City slam a new rule requiring they sing in French only.

Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in Gaza "Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians in last 24 hours, including many aid seekers, and wounded hundreds others in besieged Gaza. Meanwhile,the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that Palestinians in Gaza face a severe water crisis threatening them with death from thirst, as Israeli strikes and fuel restrictions have crippled the enclave's water infrastructure. " Trump open to Iran nuclear talks " President Donald Trump has said the United States will hold talks with Iran over its nuclear programme next week, following a 12-day conflict with Israel that drew in the US and left hundreds dead and wounded. Trump claimed recent US air strikes had led to the ""total obliteration"" of Iran's nuclear capabilities, setting the programme back ""decades"". He added that the ceasefire he announced earlier in the week was ""going very well."" However, a leaked US intelligence assessment seen by American media suggested the strikes may have delayed Iran's nuclear efforts by only a few months." Israeli military, illegal Zionist settlers kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank "Israeli military and illegal Zionist settlers have killed at least four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Three Palestinians were killed in Kafr Malik, a village northeast of Ramallah, where dozens of illegal Israeli settlers stormed the area, set vehicles on fire and attacked residents. At least seven others were wounded, including one person in critical condition." Kenya protests turn deadly "Sixteen protesters were killed and at least 400 wounded, with 83 in serious condition, following protests across Kenya. A rights group said most were killed by police. Protests raged across at least 23 counties and coincided with the first anniversary of demonstrations opposing tax hikes that left 60 people dead and 20 others missing." Zelenskyy seeks to buy US air defence systems "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he had discussed buying US air-defence systems with President Donald Trump during their meeting on the sidelines of NATO's summit in The Hague. He added that Kiev was ready to buy this equipment and support American weapons manufacturers and the two leaders have also discussed a potential joint drone production. "

Leyla King shares her family's story of survival as her ancestors flee war and poverty. From Haifa to Ramallah, Damascus, Beirut, and finally Texas, Leyla makes global politics deeply personal as family squabbles, ambition, mental illness, romance, and religion shape their immigrant journey. 

This week on Talk World Radio we are hearing and discussing poetry about Gaza. Our guest, Anita Barrows, is a poet, novelist, and translator from French, German and Italian. She has eighteen published books and a nineteenth on its way. She and Joanna Macy have translated four volumes of the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, and many of their translated poems have been used in weddings and other ceremonies, and set to music. Anita is a clinical psychologist and teaches in a psychology doctoral program, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, where she is a tenured Institute Professor. She maintains a clinical practice where she sees children and adults with a history of trauma or neurodivergence. Anita Barrows worked for five summers at The Palestinian Counseling Center in Ramallah (in the Occupied West Bank) and she has had a longstanding commitment to the liberation of Palestine. See https://poemsforgaza.com

Dans le chaos de Gaza, il y a des histoires humaines fortes qui passent complètement sous silence. C'est l'une de ces histoires que nous souhaitons vous raconter aujourd'hui. Celle d'une famille gazaouie sauvée - sans le savoir - par des Américains de confession juive. Un scénario digne d'un film rendu possible par la magie des réseaux sociaux et par la bonté discrète, mais puissante, d'une jeune trentenaire nommée Hannah. Une histoire qui nous emmène à Gaza, au Caire et à Brooklyn. De notre correspondante à Ramallah, Dans le tourbillon du Caire, une amie me présente Marwan. Un Palestinien d'une trentaine d'années. Le jeune homme a l'air un peu ailleurs. À 300 km de là, certains de ses amis vivent sous les bombes. Il tente de les aider comme il peut : « J'ai posté un message sur mon compte Instagram. J'ai expliqué que j'essayais de fournir des tentes à des gens à Gaza et que ceux qui voulaient participer pouvaient me contacter. C'est comme cela que tout a commencé. Je ne me souviens pas avec précision du montant que l'on a réussi à lever, mais je crois que c'était entre 80 et 90 000 dollars en tout. » La magie des réseaux sociaux opère. Parmi ceux qui répondent à son appel, il y a Hanna, trentenaire de Brooklyn. C'est elle qui va contribuer à lever le gros de la somme : « Je descends d'Ukrainiens juifs qui ont subi des pogroms en Ukraine au début du XXᵉ siècle. Ils ont dû fuir leur village, certains ont été assassinés. Je sais que si nous sommes vivants, nous, c'est parce que des personnes ont été bons avec mes ancêtres. Comme j'ai bénéficié de cette gentillesse, j'estime que c'est à mon tour d'agir de la sorte avec les autres. » Hanna a été élevée dans une famille juive pratiquante. En hébreu, « Tikkun Olam » signifie « Réparer le monde ». Un précepte du judaïsme qu'elle tente d'appliquer à son échelle. Grâce aux fonds levés par Hanna auprès de la communauté juive de Boston, neuf Gazaouis ont pu quitter l'enclave. À l'époque, chaque passage se monnaie aux alentours de 5 000 euros par tête. À payer cash à une agence de voyage égyptienne. Nous décidons de joindre l'un des Gazaouis exfiltrés. Sofiane est ingénieur en informatique. Il est établi à Boston désormais : « On a décidé de quitter Gaza quand le cessez-le-feu a pris fin et que les Israéliens ont menacé d'entrer à Rafah. On s'est donc dit que la seule solution était finalement de quitter Gaza, d'autant que ma femme était enceinte. » « C'est fou que j'aie choisi ce prénom-là » Le 7 février 2024, jour de son départ de Gaza, restera gravé dans sa mémoire à jamais. Quelques heures seulement avant le passage de la frontière, son épouse donne naissance à sa deuxième petite fille. « J'ai appelé ma fille Ann. » - « Et quand tu l'as prénommée ainsi, tu ne savais rien de Hanna, tu ne connaissais pas son prénom », lui demande notre correspondante. - « Non, et d'ailleurs, j'en ris là… Wow… C'est fou que j'aie choisi ce prénom-là. Je viens d'apprendre son prénom grâce à toi », répond Sofiane, très ému. -  « C'est beau ! Ann et Hanna. J'espère que vous vous rencontrerez un jour… » - « Ann et Hanna... Oui, j'espère, répond Sofiane. Je veux lui présenter Ann. La petite Ann ! Ce bébé miraculé né à 3 heures du matin et qui à 7 heures était à la frontière pour quitter Gaza. » Hanna souhaitait rester discrète. Car elle estime que la vraie générosité n'attend rien en retour. Sofiane a demandé son contact. Loin du fracas des bombes, Ann et Hanna vont enfin pouvoir faire connaissance.

In Hamburg wuchs Alena Jabarine auf, aber in den Sommerferien ging es nach Israel, zu den palästinischen Verwandten ihres Vaters. Ab 2020 arbeitete die Journalistin dann für zwei Jahre für die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Ramallah im Westjordanland. Jetzt beschreibt sie im Buch "Der letzte Himmel" ihre Suche nach Palästina.

Conceptual photographer Hrair Sarkissian moves between Syria, Armenia, and Turkey, capturing present absences in personal and political histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.Hrair Sarkissian uses photography, installation, moving image, and sound to reflect on social issues, often silenced or obscured from view. Born and raised in Syria, the grandson of refugees of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, much of his work explores the lived experiences of intergenerational trauma, with respect to individuals and diverse diasporic communities.Sweet & Sour (2021-2022), a three-channel video installation currently on view at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, reflects on memory and storytelling. Hrair discusses the significance of the Maruta Mountain in Armenian culture, and shares images of his ancestral home of Khantsorig, a village in the Sassoun region of present-day Turkey. We also explore the role of emotion and subjectivity in his practice, contrasting his approach to series like Last Seen (2018-2021) with the more detached, extractive approaches typical of photojournalism.Hrair explains his early training at his father's photographic studio in Damascus, and the role of Armenians in the development of studio photography in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. With Sea of Trees (2025), we move between Hrair's exhibition environments to the volcanic Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, discussing how different cultural narratives and contexts have inspired his artistic practice. We look towards new works in production for an international art festival in Japan, and suggest of the long-term creative relationships within his own career that also connect times, places, and migrations - returning to Wolverhampton with Deathscape (2021), an audio installation for British Art Show 9 in 2021.Hrair Sarkissian: Other Pains is at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 22 June 2025. You can hear the artist in conversation at the gallery on Saturday 14 June.Finding My Blue Sky, curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif, is at Lisson Gallery in London until 26 July 2025.The Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, curated by Hoor Al-Qasimi, opens in Japan on 13 September 2025.For more about Mahmoud Darwish, read about Miloš Trakilović's installation 564 Tracks (Not a Love Song Is Usually a Love Song) (2024) at KW Institute in Berlin, in the New Internationalist: newint.org/art/2025/spotlight-milos-trakilovicFor more about diasporic communities in Lebanon and Syria, listen to Sara Shamma's live episode on World Civil War Portraits (2015) with Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Damascus, part of ⁠PEACE FREQUENCIES 2023⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/6c9af892a1a8e1450c2cc4b73f226835For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman's EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cbAnd read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yardPRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/empirelinespodcast⁠⁠⁠Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/empirelines

In our episode of ROPESCAST, we feature Mohammed Daraghmeh, a veteran Palestinian journalist and bureau chief of Al-Sharq TV (Saudi Arabia) in Ramallah, who brings decades of experience covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including his tenure as a senior correspondent for the AP in the West Bank. Daraghmhe offers a rare insider's perspective on how media coverage shapes—and often distorts—public understanding of one of the world's most scrutinized conflicts.With unflinching honesty, Daraghmeh explores the uncomfortable truths that remain hidden from both sides: What do Israelis really know about the horrific humanitarian situation in Gaza? What do Palestinians understand about the trauma and reality of October 7th? He reveals how information is filtered, manipulated, and sometimes deliberately concealed by various actors—from governments to media organizations themselves.Join us for this important conversation that challenges how we consume and understand conflict reporting, and explores what it would take to burst the information bubbles that prevent both peoples from seeing each other's humanity and suffering.

Alors que Gaza est sous blocus et que les principales infrastructures – électricité, eau potable – sont à terre, comment les Gazaouis réussissent-ils à se connecter à internet ? En grande partie grâce à la solidarité de citoyens du monde entier, qui leur envoient des e-SIMS, des cartes SIM virtuelles. De notre correspondante à Ramallah,Bombardements, témoignages de médecins depuis des hôpitaux dévastés, distributions alimentaires ou choses de la vie quotidienne en temps de guerre. Les témoignages en provenance de Gaza inondent la toile depuis le déclenchement de la guerre. Certains internautes gazaouis comptent même des millions de followers. Un paradoxe, car depuis octobre 2023 et le début de l'offensive militaire, toutes les infrastructures de communication sont à terre.Certains, à l'époque, ont très vite compris que l'enclave palestinienne risquait d'être coupée du monde. C'est le cas de Moaz Mansour, ingénieur en télécommunications égyptien basé sur la côte ouest des États-Unis. « Bien que la connexion soit coupée à Gaza, on peut toujours y capter le réseau égyptien ou encore israélien. On a pris cela en considération. On s'est dit que c'était donc possible de se connecter grâce à un système de roaming », nous explique-t-il en communication via WhatsApp.En clair : Moaz achète en masse des recharges égyptiennes et israéliennes qu'il met gratuitement à la disposition des Gazaouis. Sur son site internet Gaza Online, il reçoit des dons du monde entier. Moaz Mansour dit avoir réussi ainsi à faire parvenir plus de 50 000 recharges Internet à Gaza. « On essaye de pousser les gens à faire des dons réguliers parce que c'est ce qui nous permet de continuer ce que l'on fait. On donne la priorité à la connexion sur place aux personnes qui travaillent dans le secteur médical », détaille-t-il.Comme Moez Mansour, des activistes du monde entier tentent de maintenir Gaza connecté. Jane Shi, une artiste qui vit à Vancouver, au Canada, revendique l'envoi de 18 000 SIM virtuelles vers Gaza. Internet est devenu un besoin élémentaire. « Cela peut être très dangereux de monter sur un toit, d'aller près de la mer ou de se rapprocher de la frontière pour essayer d'avoir une connexion israélienne. Les gens risquent leur vie pour avoir une connexion internet. On a entendu des récits de personnes qui ont été tuées par des bombardements israéliens alors qu'ils essayaient d'avoir un accès à Internet », raconte-t-elle.Maintenir la connexion sur place permet aux Gazaouis de rester en contact avec leurs proches. C'est aussi une façon pour ses militants de garder un œil sur ce qui se passe à Gaza. Une façon de dire aux Israéliens : « On vous voit. » « Quand il y a eu le massacre de l'hôpital Al Shifa, on a envoyé des SIM virtuelles à des journalistes qui étaient sur place », se souvient la militante canadienne. D'après les témoignages recueillis, les opérateurs israéliens tenteraient bien de couper ces connexions sans avoir réussi encore à ce stade à les empêcher complètement.À lire aussiGaza: les sauveteurs de la Défense civile en première ligne face aux victimes des bombardements israéliens

Mit Mitte 30 zieht Alena Jabarine nach Ramallah. Sie erlebt den Alltag in einem Land, in dem die eigenen Rechte nicht einforderbar sind. In „Der letzte Himmel: Meine Suche nach Palästina“ gibt die Journalistin Einblicke in das Leben im Westjordanland. Jabarine, Alena www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Mit Mitte 30 zieht Alena Jabarine nach Ramallah. Sie erlebt den Alltag in einem Land, in dem die eigenen Rechte nicht einforderbar sind. In „Der letzte Himmel: Meine Suche nach Palästina“ gibt die Journalistin Einblicke in das Leben im Westjordanland. Jabarine, Alena www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. On this 600th day since the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, we do a zoomed-out update on all seven fronts of the war and where they stand today. Fabian begins the program by updating us on new humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip and chaos on Tuesday as Gazans temporarily overtook a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation disbursement center near Rafah. We turn to the West Bank where Israeli forces raided foreign exchange stores in Ramallah and Nablus on Tuesday, accusing their parent company of “connections with terrorist organizations,” according to an army closure notice. Fabian delves into other -- as yet -- unrealized fears regarding the West Bank. We reported this morning that Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have, in recent weeks, held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes. Fabian weighs in on the evolution of the over 19 months of war there. Although there were early drones and missiles coming from Iran-backed militias in Iraq, recent news indicates negotiations to release Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli-Russian researcher who was taken hostage in Iraq two years ago, are at advanced stages. For the past six months, the militias have not targeted Israel, explains Fabian. However, even as we were recording today's episode, the Israel Air Force retaliated against the Iran-backed Houthis' relentless ballistic missiles and struck the Houthi-held Sanaa airport. Again. Since November 27, 2024, there has been a negotiated ceasefire with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist army. But all is not quiet and, as Fabian explains, Israel will likely remain in fighting form along the border -- permanently. And finally, the great unknown: reports from The New York Times indicate that US officials are worried that Israel could decide to carry out strikes on Iran’s nuclear program without much warning. Fabian reviews what we know. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates. For further reading: Gazans overrun Strip’s new aid center; operator says distribution has resumed Israel launches anti-terror raids on West Bank money changers Israel and Syria holding face-to-face meetings at border to calm tensions Reports claim deal in works to free Israeli-Russian held hostage by Iraqi militia Security cabinet approves plan for high-tech security barrier along Jordanian border US officials concerned Israel may strike Iran nuke sites without much warning – NYT Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves and video edited by Thomas Girsch. Illustrative: Fighters from the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah train in southern Lebanon, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Berber van der Woude werkte jarenlang als diplomaat voor het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. In 2019 werd ze geplaatst in Ramallah, op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Daar begon ze steeds meer moeite te krijgen met het Nederlandse beleid ten aanzien van Israël, dat volgens haar wordt bepaald door hardnekkige dogma's. Na de demonstratie van afgelopen zondag in Den Haag lijkt er langzaam verandering te komen. "De verhouding tot Israël is al lang niet meer in het belang van Nederland."Heeft u vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar podcast@nrc.nl. Presentatie: Pieter van der Wielen Redactie: Mira Zeehandelaar Mixage: Audiochef Productie: Andrea HuntjensMuziek: Rufus van Baardwijk Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alors que la paix entre Palestiniens et Israéliens n'a jamais semblé aussi lointaine, une grappe d'étudiants palestiniens a fait le choix de suivre un cursus d'« études israéliennes ». Au programme : cours d'hébreu, études de grands textes du judaïsme et de la littérature israélienne, histoire et sociologie d'Israël. La prestigieuse université de Birzeit, en bordure de Ramallah, affiche clairement ses objectifs : « Mieux connaître l'occupant » pour mieux le combattre sur le terrain des idées. De notre correspondante à Ramallah,C'est un cours d'hébreu... à la palestinienne. Il démarre par une distribution de baklawas. Grand sourire, une étudiante annonce ses fiançailles tout en promenant un plateau de pâtisseries. Gourmand, Esmat Mansour, le professeur, se sert tout en ne perdant pas de vue ses objectifs pédagogiques : « Mazel tov ! Mazel Tov ! » Les yeux rieurs encadrés de lunettes, il confie à voix basse : « L'hébreu rappelle de mauvais souvenirs aux étudiants. Pour eux, c'est la langue des checkpoints. Alors, j'essaie autant que je le peux de détendre l'atmosphère pendant le cours. Moi, j'adore l'hébreu et mon rôle, c'est de faire aimer cette langue à mes étudiants. Je leur dis souvent qu'en maîtrisant l'hébreu, ils vont gagner en force et en confiance en eux. Si tu ne sais pas t'exprimer en hébreu, les Israéliens te mépriseront. »L'hébreu, le quinquagénaire a eu tout le loisir de l'apprendre en prison où il a passé vingt années de sa vie pour participation au meurtre d'un Israélien établi dans une colonie. Il avait pour camarade de cellule un certain Yahya Sinwar, ancien numéro un du Hamas et instigateur des attaques du 7-Octobre qui ont fait basculer la région dans un chaos dont on ne voit plus la fin.Mais sur ce lourd passé, l'homme préfère se faire discret : « Mes étudiants sont curieux et veulent en savoir plus sur l'expérience de la prison, mais l'université n'est pas le lieu pour le faire. Ici, je ne parle que des bons aspects de la prison. Avoir pu apprendre l'hébreu est l'une de ces bonnes choses. »« C'est normal de vouloir en savoir plus sur les Israéliens »Lui qui dit croire désormais en une « solution politique » au conflit, prodigue la matière phare du cursus : l'hébreu à raison de neuf heures par semaine. Révisions du vocabulaire de base et apprentissage de quelques adages en hébreu, le cours se déroule dans une ambiance bon enfant teintée de salves d'humour noir. Après la lecture d'un texte évoquant la protection de la nature et des animaux, un étudiant lance, cynique : « Ils sont fantastiques, les Israéliens ! Ils font attention à tout, la nature, les animaux ! Sauf à nous ! Nous non, on ne compte pas ! Pourquoi ? Aucune idée ! ». Les rires fusent. « Les plus tragiques des désastres sont ceux qui provoquent des rires », soutient le poète palestinien Mohammed El-Kurd dans son recueil « Rifqa ». Ici, on rit beaucoup. Tout en rondeurs et sourires lui aussi, Rabih Bader, 27 ans, dit vouloir entamer un travail de recherche consacré à ce qu'il appelle la « judaïsation de l'histoire palestinienne » par les Israéliens. Impossible donc de faire l'impasse sur l'hébreu : « C'est normal de vouloir en savoir plus sur les Israéliens. Eux savent tout de nous. Ils ont de très bons départements d'études palestiniennes dans leurs universités. Ils étudient non seulement l'arabe, mais même les différents dialectes palestiniens. Ils sont super spécialisés, à nous d'en faire de même. » Oreilles dressées pour écouter les cours, plusieurs étudiants gardent un œil en permanence sur leurs smartphones. Les dernières informations sont égrenées à haute voix : arrestations, incursions de l'armée israélienne ou rumeurs de fuites de documents au sein du Shin Bet, l'appareil de renseignements israéliens, la salle de classe a aussi des airs de rédaction. On commente, on se perd en conjectures et souvent, on ironise, encore et encore, sur la situation. Un programme lancé il y a dix ansPour accéder à cette rieuse salle de classe, il en aura fallu de la patience. Ici comme dans beaucoup d'endroits de Cisjordanie occupée, la méfiance règne. Avant de nous autoriser à nous mêler à leurs étudiants, les responsables de l'université de Birzeit annoncent avoir fait « leur enquête » sur nous. Un mois et demi d'échanges d'e-mails, de messages WhatsApp, de smileys, de vœux pour l'Aïd, de rencontres et de tractations plus tard, les portes de ce programme académique inédit s'ouvrent enfin à notre micro.Sous un portrait de Shireen Abou Aqleh – ancienne étudiante et professeur à Birzeit, mais surtout journaliste star d'Al Jazeera abattue en plein reportage à Jénine par l'armée israélienne – Najat Abdulhaq, sémillante responsable du département de la communication de l'université explique sa prudence. Smartphone en main, elle montre des photos des différents raids de l'armée israélienne sur le campus. Les dizaines d'étudiants arrêtés, les salles de classes retournées et les drapeaux arrachés l'incitent à la prudence désormais. Dans ce contexte hautement explosif, comment étudier sereinement la société israélienne ? Quand ce programme a été lancé il y a dix ans, un dilemme s'est posé d'emblée : peut-on étudier la société israélienne tout en évitant la « normalisation » ? La solution est vite trouvée. Les seuls Israéliens autorisés à donner cours ici sont des Palestiniens, citoyens d'Israël, comme Areen Hawari, directrice d'un centre de recherches à Haïfa, en Israël. Petite, coupe au carré, elle confie que cette escapade académique hebdomadaire en Cisjordanie occupée est paradoxalement une bouffée d'air pour elle : « Je suis heureuse d'enseigner ici à Birzeit. Je suis palestinienne et cela fait partie de notre projet de libération. Oui, cela fait partie de notre projet de libération de pouvoir produire des études qui soient critiques du colonialisme d'un point de vue académique. Je suis très enthousiaste. » Composant 20% de la population israélienne, les Palestiniens d'Israël sont minoritaires. Présentés comme une cinquième colonne qui menace la sécurité de l'État hébreu, ces professeurs – malgré les checkpoints qu'ils doivent franchir pour venir enseigner en Cisjordanie occupée – trouvent ici paradoxalement un répit de quelques heures dans le climat de suspicion généralisée qui prédomine en Israël. « J'ai un passeport israélien, mais je me sens palestinienne et je porte le poids de la douleur des Palestiniens moi aussi. Notre souhait, c'est qu'Israël ne soit pas un État que pour les juifs, mais pour tous les citoyens. On veut un État démocratique », poursuit Areen Hawari. Combattre la colonisation par les armes du savoirUn département d'études israéliennes peut-il se concevoir sans professeurs israéliens juifs ? Pour Asma, étudiante aussi appliquée qu'impliquée, la question ne se pose pas : « On n'a pas de professeur juif effectivement, mais le problème ce n'est pas la confession en soi. On ne veut pas avoir de profs sionistes. Mais ça n'empêche pas qu'on les lise. On ne peut pas comprendre les Israéliens si on ne lit pas Theodor Herzl et d'autres penseurs du sionisme ». Le sionisme. Le terme revient beaucoup en cours. « Plus de terre, moins d'Arabes », lance une étudiante pour le définir. Une question survient alors : « Peut-on étudier un domaine que l'on n'aime pas ? » Sans circonvolutions, Asma répond avec l'aplomb des punchlines propres à sa génération : « On est un peu comme les médecins qui étudient le cancer. Les médecins n'aiment pas le cancer, mais ils l'étudient pour pouvoir le combattre. » Tous, ici, professeurs comme étudiants, ont l'impression de combattre la colonisation par les armes du savoir. Fondée à l'aube du XXe siècle, l'Université de Birzeit a une longue tradition d'engagement pour la cause palestinienne. Les Français l'ont découverte à la (dé)faveur du déplacement de Lionel Jospin sur le campus le 26 février 2000. Pris à partie par des étudiants scandalisés par ses propos sur le Hezbollah qu'il a qualifié de « terroriste », le Premier ministre français essuie jets de tracts et de pierres. La scène donne des sueurs froides à son personnel de sécurité et vient rappeler combien chaque mot est miné dans cette région du monde. Un programme financé par le Centre arabe de recherche et de sciences politiques de DohaUn quart de siècle plus tard, rien n'a changé. L'Orient reste plus que jamais « compliqué » et suscite l'intérêt redoublé de programmes de recherches du monde entier. À commencer par celui des riches pétromonarchies du Golfe désormais convaincues de la nécessité d'investir dans le savoir en plus de la pierre et des clubs de football européens. La petite trentaine d'étudiants qui suit le programme bénéficient ainsi d'une bourse financée par le Centre arabe de recherche et de sciences politiques de Doha. Un institut dirigé par l'intellectuel palestinien Azmi Bishara également citoyen d'Israël où il fut député. Recherche, journalisme, diplomatie, les secteurs en mesure d'accueillir ces rares étudiants palestiniens connaisseurs en profondeur de la société israélienne sont nombreux et stratégiques.Casquette vissée sur la tête, main qui caresse tantôt un chapelet tantôt une cigarette, Mohanad, le regard clair – lui aussi ancien prisonnier comme 40% des hommes palestiniens et dont le nom sera tu pour des raisons de sécurité – confie pourtant avoir du mal à savoir ce qu'il fera de son diplôme. « Tu sais, nous en Palestine, on ne sait plus se projeter. Là, je suis avec toi, mais demain qui sait où je serai ? J'ai été emprisonné deux fois. Je peux être emprisonné à nouveau à tout moment. Depuis le 7-Octobre, on parle même de nous faire partir d'ici de façon massive. C'est difficile de pouvoir réfléchir à l'avenir ».  « L'impossible futur ; comment la colonisation israélienne sape les rêves d'avenir de la jeunesse palestinienne ». Un thème de recherche académique en soi… 

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode. To commemorate Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, October 7 survivors, released hostages and hostage family members toured Auschwitz yesterday ahead of the start of the March of the Living today. Likewise, we hear what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog said last night at the official state ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. During a speech at the opening of the PLO Central Council meeting last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Hamas “sons of dogs” and told the terror group to release hostages it is holding in order to eliminate what he said was Israel’s pretext to continue its war in Gaza. Magid weighs in with his view on the motivations for these statements. The father of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to return its hostage envoy Adam Boehler to the negotiation effort, arguing that the latter’s direct talks with Hamas last month were the closest his son had come to being released from captivity in Gaza. Magid spoke with Adi Alexander and reports back. A man was killed in a shark attack off the coast of Hadera, police confirmed Wednesday, after human remains were positively identified by forensics experts. The victim was named as 45-year-old Barak Tzach, a father of four from the central city of Petah Tikva. Borschel-Dan explains why the sharks are gathering and urges the public not to swim with or feed them. Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates. For further reading: Hamas claims it won’t develop weapons, dig tunnels during long-term truce with Israel Abbas tells ‘sons of dogs’ Hamas to free hostages, remove Israel’s ‘excuses’ for Gaza war Father of American-Israeli hostage urges Boehler’s return to negotiating table Police confirm man killed in shark attack; victim named as Barak Tzach, 45 Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves and video edited by Thomas Girsch. IMAGE: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textIn this episode, Ricardo Karam meets with Raeda Taha, a Palestinian director and writer who was born in Jerusalem and is the daughter of Palestinian activist Ali Taha.Raeda talks to us about the impact of the Palestinian struggle on her life and shares her journey between art and politics, having worked as a press secretary for President Yasser Arafat from 1987 to 1994.Raeda speaks openly about personal liberation that does not contradict with national struggle and the differences between generations of resistance, how the tools of resistance have shifted from weapons to social media, which has helped spread the Palestinian cause worldwide. She also tells us how she used theater as a tool to confront the imposed silence on personal and artistic expression.From her play "Ghazal Akka" to her solo performance titled "Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali?", Raeda gives a powerful Palestinian voice, sharing her artistic journey that began in Jerusalem before 1967 and moved through Lebanon, Amman, and Ramallah. She also reveals her meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the influence of Ghassan Kanafani on her artistic career.Join Ricardo Karam and Raeda Taha in a conversation that reveals a life filled with struggle, art, and stories that reflect the reality of Palestinians in exile.في هذه الحلقة، يلتقي ريكاردو كرم مع رائدة طه، المخرجة والكاتبة الفلسطينية التي نشأت في القدس ابنة المناضل الفلسطيني علي طه. تُحَدِّثنا رائدة عن تأثير النضال الفلسطيني على حياتها، وتشاركنا رحلتها بين الفن والسياسة، إذ عملت كسكرتيرة إعلامية للرئيس ياسر عرفات بين عامي 1987 و1994.  تتحدث رائدة بصراحة عن التحرر الشخصي الذي لا يتناقض مع النضال الوطني، وعن الفرق بين أجيال المقاومة، وكيف تحوّلت أدوات النضال من الأسلحة إلى وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي التي ساعدت في نشر القضية الفلسطينية على نطاق عالمي. كما تروي لنا كيف استطاعت استخدام المسرح كأداة لمواجهة الصمت المفروض على التعبير الشخصي والفني.  من خلال مسرحية "غزال عكا" إلى عرضها الفردي الذي حمل عنوان "أين أستطيع أن أجد شخصاً مثلك، علي؟"، تقدم رائدة صوتاً فلسطينيًاً قوياً، وتستعرض رحلتها الفنية التي تبدأ من القدس قبل 1967 وتنتقل إلى لبنان وعمان ورام الله. كما تكشف عن لقائها مع الرئيس الفنزويلي نيكولاس مادورو، وتأثير غسان كنفاني في مسيرتها الفنية.  انضموا إلى ريكاردو كرم ورائدة طه في حوار يكشف عن تجارب حياة مليئة بالنضال، الفن، والقصص التي تعكس واقع الفلسطينيين في الشتات.

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode. On Saturday, US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “briefly spoke” together in Oman to kick off nuclear talks in what marks the first time the two nations have spoken directly to each other since the Obama administration. We learn about the US's evolving "redline" and the Trump administration's expected timeline. Hamas has reportedly turned down an Israeli offer for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza, which demanded the group to disarm. Magid weighs in on the stalled process, including what he's hearing from one of the Arab negotiators. The Palestinian Authority has formally invited the Trump administration to certify that Ramallah’s reform of its controversial welfare system viewed as incentivizing terror is being implemented, a US official and a PA official revealed to Magid on Friday. Magid explains the provisions of the Taylor Force Act, a 2018 congressional legislation that barred US economic aid that directly benefits the PA, and how the PA is attempting to comply. Please check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates. For further reading: In swift reversal, Witkoff says any nuclear deal must ‘eliminate’ Iran’s enrichment, weaponization Trump says he expects to make a decision on Iran’s nuclear program ‘very quickly’ Gaza hostage talks still stalled, official says, amid reports of incremental progress Hamas said to reject Israeli proposal that it disarm as part of 6-week ceasefire Hostage’s father to PM: How do you plan on freeing last captive without ending war? PA invites US to verify that controversial prisoner payment system no longer in place Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by the Pod-Waves. IMAGE: A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on November 4, 2019, shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear research center, some 300 kilometres south of capital Tehran. (HO / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week for the Conflicted Community we begin a series of conversations about the conflict in Israel and Palestine, with Palestinians themselves, to shed some light on the Palestinian perspective of this most complex of conflicts. And this week it is the turn of Khalil Sayegh, a Palestinian Christian political analyst, who shares his personal journey from Gaza to Ramallah, to Washington D.C.  In this episode, Khalil tells us about his opposition to Hamas, the impact of war on his life, and gives some insights into the historical roots of Palestinian nationalism and the challenges faced by Palestinians under both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. We delve into the complex historical and political dynamics of between Fatah and Hamas, the impact of settler movements, and the ongoing challenges faced by Palestinians in their quest for rights and recognition. And by emphasizing the need for Palestinian rights and the importance of survival amidst ongoing violence, while also reflecting on the complexities of liberalism in the context of the conflict. To listen to the full episode, you'll need to subscribe to the Conflicted Community. And don't forget, subscribers can also join our Conflicted Community chatroom, where you can interact with fellow dearest listeners, discuss episodes past and future, get exclusive messages from Thomas and Aimen, ask future Q&A questions and so much more. All the information you need to sign up is on this link: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/  Conflicted is proudly made by Message Heard, a full-stack podcast production agency which uses its extensive expertise to make its own shows such as Conflicted, shows for commissioners such as the BBC, Spotify and Al Jazeera, and powerfully effective podcasts for other companies too. If you'd like to find out how we can help get your organisation's message heard, visit messageheard.com or drop an email to hello@messageheard.com! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The far right in Israel has long dreamed of settling all of the West Bank, and Gaza, too—annexing the territories to create the land they refer to as Greater Israel. The Trump Administration might not object: Elise Stefanik, Trump's pick for Ambassador to the United Nations, has agreed that Israel has a “biblical right” to the West Bank. “I think Israel is just more emboldened with Trump in office,” says Hisham Awartani, who lives in Ramallah and is now attending Brown University. The reporter Suzanne Gaber has been covering Awartani and his family since he was left paralyzed by a shooting in Burlington, Vermont. (Two other Palestinian students, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, were also shot and injured.) Gaber visited the Awartanis recently in Ramallah to find out how people in the West Bank are thinking about annexation. But, rather than a future event that might happen, the Awartanis describe annexation as a process already well underway. “I'm twenty-one years old,” Hisham tells Gaber. “ In the period of time that I've been alive, it's been a slow push.  It's, like, I'm the frog in the boiling pot.”

Preview: Colleague Malcolm Hoenlein reports the discovery of a Hamas plan to launch an October 7 murder and hostage attack on the West Bank, now interrupted by the authorities. More tonight. 1937 RAMALLAH