Harvey Price is the founder of the Peace Drums Project, an organization that connects children of multiple faiths by having them play together in a steel drum band. In this episode of PeaceCast, Maxxe Albert-Deitch speaks with Harvey about steel drums as an instrument of peace and the logistics of running a people-to-people music-oriented peacebuilding program in Israel and Palestine in the current challenging times.
May 29, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 320
Recording of our May 22, 2024 webinar, with Anat Saragusti. This conversation was hosted by Naomi Paiss. “The media” has come to mean many different things– broadcasters, social media, a euphemistic descriptor for spreaders of misinformation, or simply the news. But in the haze of war in Gaza and protests in the U.S., the media has itself become a source of polarization and debate. To analyze why coverage seems to slant one way or another politically, how nationalism and government disinformatio...
May 22, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 319
Recording of an APN webinar from May 2, 2024. A conversation between APN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind and Senator Chris Van Hollen. We discussed the role of Congress in shaping US-Middle East policy and how conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have changed on Capitol Hill. Senator Van Hollen is a Congressional champion for peace and justice.
May 03, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 318
Sandy Tolan is the author of The Lemon Tree, which is a widely known microhistory of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Children of the Stone, which focuses on one Palestinian’s dream to build a music school in the midst of the Occupation. He’s also a journalism professor and an award-winning radio and print journalist. We spoke with Sandy about his books, the protests currently springing up at college campuses across the country, and generally, what it's like to be a journalist with a strong ba...
Apr 22, 2024•39 min•Ep. 317
Recording of an APN webinar, April 17th 2024. Over the last few weeks, the subject of humanitarian aid has dominated conversations about the Gaza War. Headlines depict aid trucks being stopped or blocked altogether from entering Gaza and global experts warning that Gaza is on the verge of famine with Northern Gaza likely already experiencing famine. Some individuals and organizations are still managing to offer food and support, providing some measure of relief. To discuss the situation on the g...
Apr 17, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 316
After 18 years at APN, our VP for Public Affairs Ori Nir has retired. He is widely known as a go-to expert on issues of Middle East peace and conflict, as well as for his voice and empathetic perspective. In this episode, hosted by Maxxe Albert-Deitch, Ori looks back on his career and the general state and trajectory of the peace movement. We’re sending Ori off b'hatzlacha, bil tawfiq, and good luck for the next stage of his journey. Make a contribution to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate...
Apr 12, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 315
Recording of a February 22nd APN webinar. Recently, Shalom Achshav released their 2023 settlement report. Their findings were disturbing even by the standards of the actions of Netanyahu’s far-right extremist government. Under the cover of the Gaza war, conditions in the West Bank have quietly but dramatically shifted for the worse. We have seen a record number of plans for new construction, minimal law enforcement against illegal settler activity, substantial budgets for expanding settlements a...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 314
On February 26th, we met with Dr. Khalil Shikaki to discuss current events in Israel and Palestine.
Mar 07, 2024•46 min•Ep. 313
Recording of a February 22nd APN webinar
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min
John Lyndon is the Executive Director of ALLMEP the Alliance for Middle East Peace, the largest network of Israeli and Palestinian peace-building organizations. ALLMEP brings together 170 organizations, both groups that advance a shared society inside Israel and cross-border Israeli and Palestinian groups that work to resolve the conflict between the two peoples.
Feb 02, 2024•38 min
Recording of a January 23rd 2024 APN webinar.
Jan 23, 2024•56 min
Recording of a January 18th 2024 APN webinar.
Jan 18, 2024•58 min
A recording of a January 4th 2024 APN webinar.
Jan 04, 2024•57 min
Yonatan Zeigen is the son of Vivian Silver, the iconic Isreali peace activist, who was murdered on October 7th in her kibbutz, Be'eri. After his mother's death, Yonatan quit his job to (again) become a peace activist. His headshot was taken by Sandra Mehl.
Jan 02, 2024•31 min
Ori's impressions from a three-week visit to Israel. Write to Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Dec 13, 2023•9 min
Impressions from a Peace Now volunteering action at the Gaza border community that suffered the heaviest toll on October 7th.
Dec 01, 2023•19 min
A recording of a November 30th APN webinar.
Nov 30, 2023•53 min
Dave Harden and Larry Garber are former directors of the West Bank and Gaza office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this episode, they discuss the challenges of addressing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the rebuilding of Gaza after the war ends. Contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org Donate to APN: https://peacenow.org/donate
Nov 21, 2023•55 min
Ideological settlers are seriously talking about plans to resettle the Gaza Strip, to re-establish Gush Katif and turn back the clock on the 2005 disengagement, which they perceive as a national trauma. Eyal Lurie Pardes, a visiting fellow at Washington's Middle East Institute, discusses this matter. Eyal's article on this topic in the Forward: https://forward.com/opinion/568553/israel-settler-movement-gaza-reoccupy/ Eyal's article on the Israeli government's curtailing the freedom of expresion ...
Nov 16, 2023•30 min
A recording of an APN November 9th webinar with Hagit Ofran and Yonatan Mizrachi, the co-directors of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Project.
Nov 10, 2023•56 min
Arnon Avni, an Israeli cartoonist and graphic designer, is a member of kibbutz Nirim, near the Gaza border. He is a longtime peace activist with Peace Now, Israel’s preeminent peace movement. On October 7th 2023, he hid in his home’s bomb shelter with his wife and two grandchildren, escaping the terrorist attack. Five people were killed in Nirim that day. Others were kidnapped to Gaza. Despite the shock and the pain and the grief, Avni still believes in peace and is determined to pursue it. Supp...
Nov 09, 2023•23 min
This episode’s guest is Dr. Michael Robbins of Princeton University. He is the co-author of an article that was published on October 26th 2023 in Foreign Affairs, titled What Palestinians really think of Hamas. Dr. Robbins is the director and co-principal investigator of the Arab Barometer. Link to the article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas Link to the Arab Barometer: https://www.arabbarometer.org/ Write to Ori: onir@peacenow.org...
Oct 26, 2023•28 min
Recording of an October 11th 2023 APN webinar with Strategic expert Yossi Alpher.
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Recording of a September 28th 2023 APN webinar with Haaretz's diplomatic correspondent Amir Tibon.
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr
Recording of a September 21st 2023 APN webinar with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin.
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr
Dr. Arnon Degani, a scholar who focuses on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the producer of a Hebrew language podcast on the Oslo process, comes back to PeaceCast for a deeper dive into the topic on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo agreements. Arnon was our guest a year ago on episode # 255. contact Ori: onir@peacenow.org
Sep 08, 2023•47 min
Recording of an August 31rd APN webinar with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, discussing her new book.
Aug 31, 2023•54 min
Amos Guiora is a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, and in the past few months has become very active in Israel’s pro-democracy protest movement, both in the US and Israel. Here are links to the two articles he mentions in this episode, published in The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4095672-us-must-respond-to-israels-toleration-of-west-bank-settlers-pogroms-terrorism/ https://thehill...
Aug 28, 2023•30 min
Recording of an August 14th APN webinar. Shahira Shalabi is the Co-Deputy CEO for Programs of the Abraham Initiatives, where she runs the mixed cities program. Before joining the Abraham Initiatives, she served as the Deputy Mayor of Haifa, was a member of the Haifa city council, and was among the founders of the Palestinian feminist movement in Israel.
Aug 14, 2023•58 min
Adam Rasgon, a journalist specializing in covering Palestinian affairs, is the co-author of a recent Foreign Policy profile of Hussein Al-Sheikh, the chief assistant of the Palestinian Authority's President Mahoud Abbas. He is also the chief PA's liaison to Israel. In this episode he discusses the story he co-authored with the New York Times' Aaron Boxerman. Link to the Foreign Policy story: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/31/palestine-hussein-al-sheikh-nationalism-fatah-west-bank-palestinian-...
Aug 09, 2023•43 min
