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Recent Episodes
The Complicated History of Israel and South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Movement
Dr. Asher Lubotzky takes us through the complicated relationship between the South African anti-apartheid movement and Israel, from the birth of both countries in 1948 through the Cold War, the end of apartheid, and into the present.
Body Politics
Dr Ofer Idels, fellow in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, takes us back to interwar Palestine, when Jews were debating what kind of bodies, citizens, and society they wanted to create.
Special Podcast Series
About the Hosts
Gilad Halpern
Gilad is a journalist, broadcaster and media historian. He is also a founding co-editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books magazine, an English-language online quarterly, and an Idit Fellow at the University of Haifa, researching the history of the Jewish press in Mandatory Palestine. Previously he was Managing Editor for Ynetnews and Assignments Editor for Haaretz English Edition. His work appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Time Out magazine, the Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Chronicle.
Theorizing Israel/Palestine
A Palestinian political and legal philosopher explores political theory, citizenship, competing Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, and the challenges of translating between Palestinian demands and Jewish Israeli fears.