Steven Salaita is a professor of English at Virginia Tech University and author of The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought. CKUT’s Stefan Christoff interviews Salaita who addresses the colonial history in North America and in Palestine, while also addressing the Obama administration in regards to the Middle East and global neo-liberal economic policies.

This program was produced for CKUT Radio for June 2, 2009.

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On 29 March 2008, Arthur Neslen spoke at the AICafe in the offices of the Alternative Information Center in Beit Sahour. Arthur is the author of Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche, which was published in 2006 by Pluto Press. The book features a series of first person narratives, gathered from interviews with more than 50 Israelis from across the social and political spectrum, shedding light on the dynamics of Israeli identity and consciousness.

Arthur was formerly the London correspondent for Aljazeera.net and the website’s only Jewish journalist. He was international editor of Red Pepper Magazine for five years, and worked between 2001 and 2004 as a broadcast journalist at the BBC. Additionally, he has written for publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the New Statesman and Private Eye.

This program was produced by News From Within for April 10, 2009.

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http://www.alternativenews.org
Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche @ amazon.com

On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in 1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books including “The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel,” “The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism,” and the “Direct Democracy Manifesto.”

This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 11, 2008.

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http://akiorrbooks.org

Should our cherished laws protecting free speech, tolerance, and academic freedom be subject to the whims of politics and pop culture? What are our obligations, as a self-proclaimed “progressive” society, to permit and encourage all forms of debate and discourse? Our producer Michael Ramadan Jones meets with Joseph Massad of Columbia University to discuss these very questions as they apply to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Hosted by David Tereshchu. Part 2 of a two-part series.

This program was produced by Voices Of Our World for October 14, 2007.

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At some the finest academic institutions in this country an intellectual battle of huge importance and passion is being waged about the nature of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and this country’s support for Israel. Today we examine the conflict behind the conflict — namely, what occurs when the forces of politics and patriotism collide with the concepts of free speech and academic freedom? Joining us to discuss these issues and more is Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. His newest book “Desiring Arabs” is currently in bookstores and online.

Hosted by David Tereshchu. Part 1 of a two-part series.

This program was produced by Voices Of Our World for October 14, 2007.

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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mealac/faculty/massad

Palestinians in Jerusalem marched through the streets of Bethlehem Monday celebrating the Eve of Christmas, the day before the traditional birth of Jesus Christ. Robert Berger is in Bethlehem and filed this on-scene report.

This program was produced by Voice of America.

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Israel is at once a colonialist, a capitalist, and a nationalist project. Non-European Jews and Palestinian Arabs are the poorest people in Israel. Israeli policies of containment, demobilization and co-optation are manifested along ethnic, racial and national conflicts, and serve as the basis for Israeli class society.

Eyal Rozenberg, Israeli anarchist and Ph.D student, speaks about the interaction of class and ethnicity in Israeli society and politics.

This program was produced by the Bluestockings Bookstore on August 30, 2007.

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https://earendil.ath.cx/radical/index.html

*Updated January 3, 2008. The previous link to the website of the Israeli Anarchists Against Walls was not intended to to imply any connection with Eyal Rozenberg and has been removed upon request.

CKUT radio produced a retrospective on the 1967 Naksa (setback) for the 40th anniversary that aired on June 7, 2007. This is part three of that program.

CKUTs Community News program, Off the Hour, features voices from the Palestinian and Jewish Unity Vigil in Montreal about their experiences in 1967.

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CKUT radio produced a retrospective on the 1967 Naksa (setback) for the 40th anniversary that aired on June 7, 2007. This is part two of that program.

Professor Yakov Rabkin is a Professor of History at the University of Montreal and author of A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism. Prof. Rabkin offers Jewish reflection on the anniversary of the Six Day War.

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http://hist.umontreal.ca/U/rabkin (Prof. Rabkin’s page at the Univ. of Montreal, in French)

Sherif Fam interviews the eminent Palestinian psychiatrist Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, founder and Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) and Commissioner-General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for WZBC radio on June 3, 2007.

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http://truthandjusticeradio.org
http://gcmhp.net/