Palestine
April 2015
Iyad Burnat: Non-Violent Resistance in Palestine
Since 2005, citizens of Bil’in, joined by Israeli and international peace activists, have held weekly non-violent demonstrations against the Israeli encroachment of illegal settlements.
March 2014
Framing Military Occupation: Close-Ups of Daily Life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Physician Alice Rothchild of American Jews for a Just Peace leads a panel discussion on living under military occupation in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
March 2013
Brokers of Deceit
Rashid Khalidi, one of the foremost historians of the modern Middle East, zeroes in on the United States’ role as a broker of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Analyzing the 1982 “Reagan Plan,” the negotiations leading to the Oslo Accords, and President Obama’s stance toward the conditions for Middle East peace, […]
November 2012
Censoring Children
MIT’s Noam Chomsky and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance discuss A Child’s View of Gaza, the book of Palestinian children’s artwork slated for exhibition at the Oakland Museum of Children’s Art. The exhibition was canceled at the last minute without explanation.