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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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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
Transcribe →Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide
Dec 400:42:11Tap to summarizeInvestigative journalist Yuval Abraham takes us inside his reporting on the systems driving Israel’s mass killing in Gaza over the past two years. He discusses the core challenges and ethical dilemmas of uncovering state-backed atrocities, and why the stories revealed so far are just the tip of the iceberg. Abraham highlights the need to hold powerful institutions, like Israel’s military accountable rather than focusing only on individual perpetrators, offering a deeper look at the mechanisms that produce and conceal systemic violence.Additional reading:Yuval Abraham’s archive at +972Follow +972 Magazine: 972mag.com Instagram, Facebook, and XSupport +972 Magazine:Become a Member 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.Theme music by Ghassan BirumiSupport the show
Transcribe →Israel emptied half of Gaza. What’s next?
Nov 2100:50:42Tap to summarizeOver a month into the ceasefire, Gaza’s future remains in the hands of Western powers — with Palestinians largely excluded. Gazan political analyst Muhammad Shehada provides an in-depth look at the diplomatic and geopolitical strategies at play, the ongoing realities of displacement and deprivation inside the Strip, and what this moment might mean for Palestinians’ political horizons.Additional Reading: Muhammad Shehada’s archive at +972What’s behind Israel’s new plan to divide Gaza in twoFollow +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 →Deciding the Fate of Palestinians — Without Palestinians
Mar 6, 2020Tap to summarizeA month after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East plan, Israelis went to the polls for a third time in a year. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to declare victory, not much has shifted the deadlock from the previous two rounds, and no party is able to form a government yet.For Diana Buttu, Palestinian human rights lawyer, analyst, and former advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the contents of the “Trump-Netanyahu plan,” as she calls it, are cause for alarm. The arrogance that characterizes the deal, which deliberately excludes Palestinians from the conversation, reflects an Israeli “fantasy” that “somehow Palestinians are going to agree to their own subjugation,” says Buttu. That exclusion is compounded by the Palestinian Authority’s failure to effectively respond to the plan, she explains.The Trump plan has also “showed Netanyahu’s true face,” says Buttu. “It says to Palestinians who are living in the occupied territories, ‘We don’t want you.’ But the plan is also saying to Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, ‘You also don’t belong in the State of Israel, and so we have the right to get rid of you.’For Buttu, this was one of the reasons Palestinians in Israel voted in even greater numbers this time around. That fact that Netanyahu’s rival, Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party, supports the Trump deal and echoes many of Likud’s policies shows “just how far to the right Israeli society is.”Despite — or perhaps because of — mounting racist attacks, the Palestinian-led Joint List won a record 15 seats, making it the third-largest party once again. But now, its members must decide how to use this political capital.Visit +972 Magazine and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Support +972 Magazine: 972mag.com/donateThe music in this episode is by Ketsa and Unheard Music Concepts.Support the show
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