The Complicated History of Israel and South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement
What did South African anti-apartheid activists once think about Israel and Zionism? The answer is more complicated than most seem to think....
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The Tel Aviv Review
Showcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian socie...
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20 of 685 episodesBody Politics
What does soccer have to do with Zionism? More than you might think. Today, competitive sports feel like an obvious part of Israeli culture....
An Activist's Notebook
What separates an activist who changes the world… from one who simply makes noise? Israeli-American lawyer, philanthropist, and disability r...
Beyond Anne Frank: The Jew in Dutch Cinema
Can films reveal what a nation really believes about itself? For decades, Dutch cinema told one story about its Jews. Then, slowly, that sto...
Losing Our Story?
Upon the publication of Autocorrect , his latest collection of short stories, Etgar Keret joins us to discuss his favorite literary form, th...
Patron-Exclusive Sample: Iran and the Bomb: A Long View
The major turning points in Iran's nuclear program were not the JCPOA or the latest wars, but the Shah's defiance of Henry Kissinger and the...
The Arab King and the American Republic
How does a Western-educated king survive — and thrive — in the political chaos of the Middle East for more than 25 years? Aaron Magid, a jou...
A Nightmare on Herzl Street
Olga Gershenson, professor of Jewish and Near East Studies and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains how a gene...
The Dialectics of a Special Relationship
Oz Frankel, professor of American history at the New School for Social Research in New York, discusses his book Coca Cola, Black Panthers an...
Early Zionism's Arabists
A thought-provoking episode exploring how early Zionist thinkers engaged deeply with Arabic language and Islamic culture, challenging conven...
Bubbe-Meises for the Masses: A Gendered Reading of the US Yiddish Press
Did you know that a Yiddish newspaper once had a larger circulation than The New York Times ? At the turn of the 20th century, the Yiddish p...
When Everybody Is LGBT, Nobody Is
Amir Naaman and Dr Ran Heilbrunn, Israeli writers based in Germany, discuss their new collection of essays Inversion: Gay Life after the Hom...
The Beginning of the End of Israeli Democracy
For Michael Sfard, one of Israel's most prominent human rights lawyers and author of the forthcoming book Occupation from Within: How Israel...
Patron-Exclusive: Israel-Us Relations at a Crossroad?
How will the much-touted special relationship be affected by President Trump's overhaul of many aspects of American governance? Alon Pinkas,...
The Ottoman World of Sports
Dr. Murat Yildiz, a historian of the Middle East at Skidmore College, discusses his book, The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies,...
A Tragedy of Miscalculations
Robert Malley, a former US negotiator and president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, and currently Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Y...
Jews and "Whiteness" Across Time and Space
Dr Balazs Berkovits, a Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher, and Dr. Sara Hirschhorn, an American-Israeli historian, discuss the compl...
The Legal Battle for Palestine
Steven E. Zipperstein, the director of the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA, discusses his book, Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism...
Antisemitism/Anti-Zionism on Campus: An Israeli Perspective
Dr Dikla Yogev and Dr Shlomi Balaban, two Israeli academics based in Canada, reflect on Oct. 7 and its aftermath in their professional and p...
An Alphabet for the Jewish People
Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur, Professor of Jewish Theology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, discusses his book Living the Letters: An Alphab...