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Occupied Thoughts
From the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), Occupied Thoughts amplifies the voices of FMEP grantees and partners, offers critical framing, and promote new ideas and new angles on the many issues connected to achieving justice, security, and peace for Palestinians and Israelis. FMEP works to...
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Accountability After Genocide and the Emerging Left-Right Consensus on Israel in America
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy an...
MAGA & the FBI Break Up with the ADL
and scholar Emmaia Gelman about the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), including the history and current activities of the ADL and the ADL's approach to ad...
On the new 20-Point-Plan, Recognition of Palestinian Statehood, and Popular Pressure to End the Genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with analyst Mouin Rabbani about political and diplomatic developments relatin...
UC Berkeley’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom in this Time of Genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with UC Berkeley Professor Ussama Makdisi, who was recently informed that UC Be...
FMEP Fellows Peter Beinart & Ahmed Moor on Palestinian statehood & US politics
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellows Ahmed Moor and Peter Beinart speak about the new developments with Palestinian statehood and their...
Poetry of the Camps: Poems from Gaza on Homeland, Miracles, and Freedom
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with zehra imam, who launched Poetry of the Camps, a poetry program in Gaza wi...
On the Global Sumud Flotilla Heading for Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, who...
Apartheid, Genocide, and the Growing Chasm in the Right's Support for Israel
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP). They discuss...
The Holocaust, the Nakba, the Genocide in Gaza & How the I.H.R.A. Definition of Antisemitism Censors Scholars
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Marianne Hirsch, Professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at C...
How Israel Targets Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Laila Al-Arian, the executive producer for Fault Lines, an award-winning c...
Necroviolence: On Israel's Corpse Captivity Policy and Palestinian Practices of Dignity & Defiance
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with researcher Randa Wahbe about the Israeli policy and practice of holding P...
"No Way But Forward": Life in the Gaza Strip
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, former FMEP President Matt Duss speaks with professor & author Brian Barber, who recently published No Way But F...
Palestinian Citizens of Israel, the Future, and Inconsequential Palestinian State Recognition: a conversation with Diana Buttu
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst Diana Buttu. They discuss Palesti...
Destroying the Conditions of Life: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel on Israel's Genocide in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Aseel Aburass, Director of the Occupied Palestinian Territory Department a...
Music & Dance in Jerusalem: The Power of Culture in the Face of Israeli Repression
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Rania Elias, former director of the Yabous Cultural Centre and the Jerus...
Destroying Palestinian Life in Gaza in a Systemic, Deliberate Way: "Our Genocide"
FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Yuli Novak, executive director of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, about how and why B'Tselem has...
Humanizing and Historicizing the World in a Time of Genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with UC Berkeley History Professor Ussama Makdisi, who was personally named and...
A conversation with Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of JVP
FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Executive Director Stefanie Fox about the evolution of JVP as a Jewish anti-Zionist or...
Iyad El-Baghdadi on "Late Stage Zionism" & What it Suggests for the Future of Israel and Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Palestinian political analyst Iyad El-Baghdadi about Israel's regional mil...
How Western journalists are complicit in Israel’s effort to silence Palestinian journalists
FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Palestinian American journalist and writer Jennifer Zaccharia about the treatment of Palestinian journalists and re...
How to think about Gazans' mental health during this genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, psychiatrist and Director General of the Gaza Commu...
The Urgency of Telling Palestinian Stories
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with author & architect Suad Amiry and film & TV director/actor/producer Cheri...
Jewish Anti-Zionism and the American Left
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author Benjamin Balthaser about the history of Jewish anti-Zionism, its curre...
How Iranians Have Reacted to the US & Israeli Attacks
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with journalist Negar Mortazavi about Iranian reactions to the recent U.S. and...
Daily Life while Committing Genocide: the Lexicon of Brutality in Israel
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with sociologist Assaf Bondy and human rights researcher and historian Adam Raz ab...
What an American Doctor Saw in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who recently returned from spending the month of March,...
What Harvard’s Antisemitism and Islamophobia Reports Get Wrong
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Dr. Lara Jirmanus and Professor Atalia Omer about the Harvard University's...
What's happening between the U.S. and Iran?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with analyst Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute about Iran and the U.S. Their con...
After Nonviolence and What Comes Next in Palestine: A conversation with Ben Ehrenreich
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor and author Ben Ehrenreich cover a range topics reflecting Ben's reporting and analysis on...
"One hour after an attack, we prepare to be attacked again": Survival in Masafer Yatta
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with writer and activist Ali Awad about life in Masafer Yatta, the part of the W...
Memory Culture, Israel and Genocide: Criminalizing Speech in Germany
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with German journalist Hanno Hauenstein about Germany's memory culture and the tre...
Why are there so many child amputees in Gaza?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor about child amputees in Gaza, now estimated to numb...
Analyzing & Shifting U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Josh Paul, former State Department official who resigned in October 2023 in p...
Protect Students, Don't Repress Them: The Hostile Environment for Human Rights on College Campuses
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Gina Romero, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom o...
Palestinian Politics Under Israeli Occupation
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Tahani Mustafa, Senior Palestine Analyst for the International Crisis Group,...
Israeli Detention and Torture of Palestinian Medical Workers: Testimonies, Patterns, and Analysis
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Naji Abbas, Director of the Prisoners and Detainees Department for Physici...
Staying home or Having "Gaza on their mind in the ballot box": Revisiting the 2024 Elections
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with political strategist and former FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice together with Maya...
Gaza Genocide, Disinformation, and the Death of Truth, ft Assal Rad & Marc Owen Jones
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Dr. Assal Rad and Professor Marc Owen Jones -- two of the most promine...
Ceasefire Possibilities, Political Dynamics, Regional Aspirations, and the Trump Administration
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with analyst Mouin Rabbani about the current state of affairs, including: the p...
Harvard Professors on Censorship, Repression, and Opportunities for Speaking Up on Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart talks with two Harvard professors - Dr. Eman Ansari & Dr. Aaron Shakow -...