Palestine

Meet the Jewish American Activist on Palestine You Saw on Jon Stewart »

October 30, 2009

On Thursday night, Jon Stewart had Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness on Palestine," on The Daily Show. The program was inundated with hostile calls and e-mails from apologists for Israel's occupation. You can hear more from Baltzer in this interview Matthew Rothschild conducted with her earlier this year.read more

The Holocaust and Palestine »

By Matthew Rothschild, September 2, 2009

Edward Said would be especially dismayed this week as leading figures in Palestine are denying the Holocaust.read more

Gandhi of the West Bank »

By Robert Hirschfield, March 2008 issue

How a high school teacher rallies Palestinians to the cause of nonviolence.read more

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Israel Sends Soldiers to Try to Shut Down Literature Festival »

By Matthew Rothschild, May 25, 2009

“The place was swarming with the Israeli army. I am still in shock. To ban literature? To ban reading? How is this possible?”read more

Amira Hanania »

My guest today is Amira Hanania, a Palestinian journalist on the West Bank.

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Critic of Israel Threatened Before Talk in NY »

By Matthew Rothschild, January 14, 2009

“These enemies to the Jews will pay very soon for their act of treachery,” the leaflet said.read more

Now even Olmert says Israel should withdraw from Occupied Territories »

By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, October 3, 2008

Now that Olmert has recognized the futility of the settlement policy, now that he has followed in the footsteps of other Israeli leaders before him like Abba Eban, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin, it’s time for the rest of us to recognize it, too.

The United States should insist that Israel dismantle its settlements and withdraw from the Occupied Territories.read more

Father Elias Chacour »

My guest this week is Father Elias Chacour, the Archbishop of Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. We discuss the future of Israel and Palestine.

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Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile »

By Nathalie Handal, May 2002 Issue

He expressed the notion that only poetry can bring harmony to a world devastated by war: "Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by," he has written.read more

John McCAIPAC »

By Matthew Rothschild, June 3, 2008

When John McCain went before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on June 2, he could not have been more obsequious to this group that has done more than any other in the United Statesread more

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