Mind Over Matters interviews Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of “Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” and “An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel”.
Halper describes the beginnings of ICAHD and what the organization is doing today. ICAHD not only offers humanitarian help for affected Palestinians, but also emphasizes the importance of political resistance in Israel/Palestine and abroad.
This program was produced by Mind Over Matters on February 21, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://icahd.org/eng/
Phil Weiss provides us with his experience and analysis of the US media’s stand, and their one-sided coverage and one-sided censorship on issues and cases related to Israel and the Israel lobby. He discusses the parallels between the tactics used in Gaza by Israelis and those implemented during the holocaust. Mr. Weiss talks about the Jewish identity question around the Israel lobby, the Obama administration’s hypocritical stand on and lame no-response response to the Goldstone Report, the importance of Jewish money and the Israel lobby to Obama and the Democrats, the recent changing perception of Israel, and much more.
Philip Weiss is an investigative journalist who has written for The Nation, The New York Observer, The American Conservative, Harper’s Magazine, and New York Times Magazine among other publications. He is the author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps and an editor of the website Mondoweiss, which covers the Israel-Palestine conflict.
This program was produced by The Boiling Frogs show for February 19, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://boilingfrogspost.com/
http://mondoweiss.net/
Michael Ratner reports on his recent visit to the West Bank. Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.
This program was produced by The Real News for February 15, 2010.
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http://therealnews.com
Planting olive trees is a matter of resistance for the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (or APN), a non-profit organization based in Amman, Jordan.
The organization began in 2003 with the goal of replanting one million trees on Palestinian land. By 2008, they achieved this goal and now hope to plant one million more trees in Palestine. They began organizing in 2001 against the wall being proposed by the Israeli government. Since 2002 the illegal construction of the wall has resulted in the confiscation thousands of dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) of Palestinian land, uprooting olive trees as well. APN was initiated by volunteers brought together under the slogan, “They uproot one, we replant ten.”
Rand Wahbeh details her work with the APN and the continued struggle to save the olive trees. She describes exactly what the olive trees mean to the people of Palestine.
This program was produced by the Electronic Intifada for December 21, 2009.
For more information, visit:
http://apnature.com/en/
http://electronicintifada.net
Lia Tarachansky is a journalist with the Real News Network, currently based in Israel/Palestine. She has reported for many grassroots independent media outlets over the years such as the Domion, Znet, and Rabble.ca. She recently helped to launch The Daily Nuisance, an online news portal for independent media from Israel/Palestine, which went online in early January. Aaron Lakoff speaks with Lia via Skype at her home in Jaffa. She talks about the mission of The Daily Nuisance, the potential for independent media in Israel/Palestine, and other news stories she has been covering.
This program was produced by CKUT for January 5, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://aaron.resist.ca
http://www.thedailynuisance.com
http://therealnews.com
“The Gaza Freedom March is not over, it’s only begun.” So says Professor Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Boston CodePink organizer, just back from the event in which most of the 1300+ marchers from numerous countries were harassed by Egyptian authorities and blocked from entry to Gaza. Salma Abu Ayyash interviews Roche-Mahdi and two other marchers, live in our studio, on their feelings and experiences in Egypt. The other two marchers are Stephanie Andrews (a local organic farmer), and Emily King (a PhD student at Tufts University).
This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for January 10, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://truthandjusticeradio.org
http://gazafreedommarch.org
The reactionary stranglehold of the old-guard mainstream Jewish organizations over public perception about American Jewish opinion is being smashed into well-deserved, long-overdue oblivion by the irrepressible voices of a new, dynamic generation of Jewish thinkers and writers. These champions of human rights, equality, and traditional Jewish ethical values are inspiring fast-growing circles of readers on blogs like mondoweiss.net, rabbibrant.com, and muzzlewatch.com. Don’t miss this event: Adam Horowitz, Rabbi Brant Rosen, and Cecilie Surasky are brilliant, thought-provoking bloggers; in person, they’re absolutely electric.
This program was produced by the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine for January 10, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://www.cjpip.org
http://rabbibrant.com
http://muzzlewatch.com
One year after Israel’s attack on Gaza, aid and solidarity convoys find Egypt barring access to the region. Nigel Parry reports for Rustbelt Radio.
This program was produced by Rustbelt Radio for January 18, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://radio.indypgh.org
http://nigelparry.com
Flashpoints special correspondent Jamal Juma’a released from Israeli detention, he talks about his month in jail, enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture and his perseverance to keep the anti-apartheid movement going; Bekah Wolf talks about expanding Israeli settler attacks in West Bank villages; and cartoonist reporter Joe Sacco talks about the focus story of his book, Footnotes in Gaza.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for January 14, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://www.flashpoints.net
http://stopthewall.org
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org
Voice of Palestine speaks with Ehab Lotayef in Cairo. An Egyptian Canadian poet, activist and engineer, Lotayef was part of the Gaza Freedom March Coordinating Committee. Ehab told us about how Egyptian authorities had stopped the 1400 delegates from being able to participate in the March and the various protest actions delegates had taken around Cairo. He also explained the difficulties for the organizers in trying to handle the situation and also take care of the delegates who found themselves stranded in Cairo. He commented on the Final Declaration issued just a few days earlier that stressed support for the Gazan people and for the global Boycott Israel movement, and noted that the event had succeeded in solidifying an international support network.
This program was produced by Voice of Palestine for January 5, 2010.
For more information, visit:
http://www.voiceofpalestine.ca
http://gazafreedommarch.org