The Promised Podcast – Segment

Give peace a deadline

December 24, 2014

The recent Palestinian proposal to the UN Security Council mandates peace negotiations that must, within a year, produce an agreement ending the occupation and establishing a state in Palestine. A deadline on peace? Where will it lead?

Privatizing BDS

December 19, 2014

20 great American scholars, leftist Zionists all, want to sanction individual politicians (like Naftali Bennett) who sustain the occupation.

Spotlight on the leaders who impact our world: Moshe Feiglin

December 18, 2014

Moshe Feiglin, the man challenging Netanyahu for leadership of the Likud, wants to annex the territories but make marijuana freely available to us all.

#IsraElex: Picking teams

December 17, 2014

Allison, Don, and Noah discuss the the Labor Party’s efforts to bring all the center-left parties, save one, under its wing.

Will the elections make any difference at all?

December 12, 2014

Allison, Don, and Noah try to answer questions about the upcoming Israeli elections.

Give peace a policy

December 11, 2014

Former Ambassador to the US Michael Oren challenged Labor leader Isaac Herzog on his policy towards the Palestinians and the peace process.

Woman of valor, who will elect?

December 10, 2014

We discuss the campaign to get ultra-Orthodox women on the ballot for the upcoming elections, which encourages people not to vote for religious parties that don’t allow women to run.

This is how women wage peace

December 5, 2014

The Women Wage Peace group held its official inaugural event last week, a remarkable train-caravan of 700 women to the embattled southern town of Sderot.

Equality enshrined?

December 4, 2014

Hilik Bar submitted a bill that would enshrine the language of equality in Israel’s Declaration of Independence as a Basic Law.

The pall of the poll

December 3, 2014

Israel’s last elections were in January 2013, and now, it seems, the smoke-filled rooms have spoken: We’ll be heading to the polls again very soon.