Prof. Guy Ben-Porat discusses his co-written book, “Usual Suspects: Minorities, Police and Citizenship in Israel”

The settler-colonialism prism is a textbook example of the use and abuse of academic theories for political ends – how and why has it come to be? Adam Kirsch offers an historical genealogy as well as a contemporary analysis.

Prof. Guy Miron discusses his most recent book, “Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich”

Dr Amit Levy, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa’s Department of Israel Studies, discusses his book, “A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel”

Neta Shoshani’s documentary film 1948: Remember, Remember Not was commissioned by Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster for the country’s 75th Independence Day. Almost two years on, it has yet to be broadcast, in the wake of a right-wing campaign that claims that it defames Israel. In this episode, she talks about the interplay between history, memory and public knowledge.

Adam Shinar, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, at Reichman University, discusses the recent return of Israel’s Film and Theatre Review Board from oblivion, to serve the government’s political goals. How did Israel’s censorship laws evolve over the years?