The Promised Podcast – Segment

The Revolution Won’t Be Televised

A proposed amendment to the elections
advertising law will do away with government sponsored free TV spots during election campaigns. Is it too early to eulogize the place of television in electoral politics?

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Why Oh Why Won’t You Try Me?

An IDF officer and spokesperson for human rights NGO Breaking the Silence demanding to be prosecuted for beating a Palestinian man, only to find that the State Attorney’s Office insists he is innocent.

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Losing our Religion?

Has Israel’s left “forgotten what it means to be Jews,” as the new head of the Labor Party says?

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Take From Us Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Israel contemplates paying $8,500 a head for African asylum seekers to leave for Rwanda. Is this solving a thorny problem, or indulging an ugly xenophobia?

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Between a Rock and a Hard-On: Israeli Women and the Patriarchy

As more and more Israeli women share their stories of harassment, we ask whether or not women in Israel are subject to our own special sorts of sexual violence.

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Expatriotism

Is a new organization for Israeli-Americans a plot by Sheldon Adelson to create a zombie army to do his reactionary bidding in DC?

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Unscrewed

Sephardim and Mizrahim don’t feel discriminated against, while rich Ashkenazim do? What gives?

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On the Road to Perdition with Waze

The Israeli-designed community-based traffic and navigation app Waze is one of the so-called start-up nation’s biggest success stories. But could Waze be harming our environment and our democracy?

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