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The +972 Podcast
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The +972 podcast is your direct line to the journalists, thinkers, and activists struggling for justice in Israel-Palestine.
+972 Magazine is the only English-language media outlet run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists, delivering fifteen years of fearless reporting and analysis between the river and the sea.
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How Israeli classrooms indoctrinate Jewish supremacy
1w ago00:43:39Tap to summarizeFor generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are "Arabs," “enemies,” and a "demographic threat" — or, in the words of scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan, "a problem to be solved." A professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Peled-Elhanan has spent years documenting how Israeli textbooks erase Palestinian life, mobilize Holocaust memory to produce existential fear, and present occupation and ethnic hierarchy as natural facts of life. As Israel's genocide in Gaza lays bare the consequences of decades of dehumanization, she reflects on what this system has produced — and, having experienced the post-October 7 crackdown on dissent firsthand, what it does to those who challenge it.The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.Theme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine
3w ago00:46:43Tap to summarizeJaffa was once a cosmopolitan port city deeply connected to the Arab world. Then, within a few years after 1948, it was transformed: most of its Palestinian population was expelled, its institutions seized and repurposed, and the few residents who remained were confined to a ghetto, often in houses that were not their own, under laws designed to make that dispossession permanent. Abed Abou Shhadeh, a community organizer and researcher, comes from one of the few families that never left. Today, he is raising his children in the city his great-grandfather refused to flee. Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded specifically in Jaffa, the parallels he draws between the ethnic cleansing of the city and the genocide in Gaza, and what it means to resist erasure across generations.Additional reading:Abed Abou Shhadeh’s archive at +972For Palestinian parents, every day of this war provokes existential anxietyThe full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.Theme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →The disappeared of Gaza
Apr 1600:27:36Tap to summarizeIn April 2024, a sixteen-year-old boy named Hassan Al-Qatta rode his bicycle out of his neighborhood in Gaza and never came back. He is not confirmed dead. He is not confirmed alive. He has simply disappeared. Hassan is one of an estimated 9,000 to 15,000 people missing in Gaza. Journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha spent eight months reporting on what that number actually means.This investigation was produced by the Palestine Reporting Lab, a project of Just Vision. The investigation was published last month in partnership with WIRED and published in Arabic on Raseef22.Additional reading:What Happens When You Can’t Get a Death Certificate in GazaHassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He’s One of the Thousands Missing in GazaMahmoud Mushtaha’s archive at +972The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.Theme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →How Israel sells militarism at home and abroad
Mar 2700:41:38Tap to summarizeHow has Israeli society become so deeply militarized, and what does that mean for how “security” is defined? Sahar Vardi, a veteran anti-militarist activist and researcher, traces how militarization shapes everyday life, drives policy, and exports arms and doctrines of control far beyond Israel's borders — and asks who profits, who pays, and why we accept this as inevitable.Additional reading:Israel’s arms sales are surging. So why are its weapons expos smaller than ever?Is Israel’s genocide economy on the brink? The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.Theme music by Ghassan Birumi Support the show
Transcribe →Israel's Iran paradox
Mar 1200:39:58Tap to summarizeIsrael spent 30 years depicting the Iranian regime as an existential threat, and now it is trying to eliminate it. But if the regime falls, which enemy will it choose next? Meron Rapoport joins us under Tel Aviv sirens to talk about the war's real goals, what it means for Israel’s relations with the Palestinians, and why “victory” may only set the stage for an even bigger challenge.The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website. Additional reading:Meron Rapoport’s archive at +972Israel’s last war alongside an imperial power backfired. This one could, tooNetanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psycheFollow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →Where is the PA as Israel annexes the West Bank?
Feb 2600:45:59Tap to summarizeFor more than half a century, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was framed as temporary, even as realities on the ground told a different story. Now, legal experts say recent government measures have pushed Israel into de facto annexation. In the face of these moves, and in the shadow of the genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority has never looked so weak. Longtime Palestinian affairs journalist Dalia Hatuqa unpacks what all of this means and how it is playing out on the ground.A full transcript of this episode will be available on our website. Additional reading:Dalia Hatuqa archive at +972Has Israel crossed the annexation threshold in the West Bank?Follow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →Documenting the settler takeover of the West Bank
Feb 1200:45:10Tap to summarizeAcross the occupied West Bank, Palestinian communities are being expelled at an alarming pace. Violent settler attacks are increasingly routine—and often ignored by authorities and much of the Israeli media. For the past two decades, Oren Ziv has documented these communities’ struggles to stay on their land when much of the Israeli press would not. In this episode, he shares how the constant threat of expulsion—whether from coordinated settler attacks, state policies, or both—reshapes lives, and explores what acts of dissent against this new status quo can realistically achieve.Additional reading:Oren Ziv’s Archive at +972The calculated erasure of Ras Ein Al-AujaAt settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activistIsraeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-MughayyirWith West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunityFollow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →'Israel is using organized crime to control Palestinian citizens'
Jan 2200:50:48Tap to summarizeAs violent organized crime and police violence reshape everyday life in Palestinian communities in Israel, and as another election approaches, MK Aida Touma-Suleiman reflects on a decade inside the Knesset –– and on the moment she decided she could no longer stay. In a conversation about feminist leadership, political exhaustion, and the limits of trying to fight from within the Israeli system built to exclude Palestinians, Touma-Suleiman leaves us to ask: where can the struggle move when institutional politics can’t deliver justice?Additional reading:Israel is ‘restoring governance’ to the Negev — by terrorizing PalestiniansIn Nazareth, holiday festivities mask a ‘deep rot’Follow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →Marwan Barghouti's long walk to Palestine's freedom
Jan 800:50:43Tap to summarizeOver 9,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons and military detention centers. While the majority of their names will be unfamiliar to most, the name of one Palestinian prisoner stands out above all others: Marwan Barghouti. Decades behind bars haven’t dimmed his influence—thanks, in part, to his family’s tireless advocacy. His son Arab Barghouti shares how Marwan’s life embodies both the ordinary struggles of countless Palestinians and the extraordinary impact of one man’s unwavering vision for his people.Follow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan Birumi Support the show
Transcribe →Who's afraid of Palestinian Christianity?
Dec 1800:42:31Tap to summarizeThis time of year, Palestinian Christians are often invoked in media and political discourse as emblems of faith, coexistence, and hope, while the political conditions shaping their lives — including military occupation, genocide, and forced displacement — are ignored. Palestinian theologian and lecturer John Munayer sheds light on the Palestinian Christian experience, from Israeli efforts to separate them from the Arab and Palestinian national movements, to the role of Christian leadership and institutions in legitimizing their subjugation. Arguing that religion and politics cannot be disentangled, he explains why Palestinian liberation theology offers not only a framework for resistance but a challenge to the colonial, Zionist assumptions embedded in Western Christian thought.Right now, your donation is worth up to 12 times more. As part of our end-of-year campaign, a generous donor is multiplying each new +972 membership by 12 and doubling every one-time donation. If you believe in our fight to end impunity and ensure justice for all between the river and the sea, now is your chance to act.Join the +972 family. Make a donation. Make a difference.Additional reading:Sheltering in churches, Gaza’s Christians face another Christmas under firePalestinian Christians do not tolerate life under occupationFollow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member Sign up for our newslettersTheme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
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