the promised podcast

FIFA = “Frankly, Israel Foments Apartheid”?

We discuss the brouhaha over a Palestinian proposal to expel Israel from the international football association, FIFA.

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Labor’s loser?!?

We discuss the documentary, “Herzog,” which led journalists and politicians to pile onto Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog.

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The legacy of leaving Lebanon

On the 15th anniversary of Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon, we ask what imprint the occupation and withdrawal left on today’s world.

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The anti-social network

We discuss the tragedy of a government bureaucrat who, accused on Facebook, shot himself. Is the power of social network rage something we need to tamp?

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Short trip from cradle to grave

An ultra-Orthodox woman achieved the positively biblical feat of giving birth to her first child at the age of 65. Is Israel a little too baby crazy?

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Religious fanatics or Godless heathens?

A recent world-wide poll found that Israel is one of the least religious countries in the world, which conflicts with other findings that religion is very important to most.

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Netanyahu’s Ministry of Magic?

Allison, Don, and Noah discuss the odd new ministerial alchemy that produced a “Minister of Space” and other strange concatenations.

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Will Negev Bedouins have to make way for the Jews?

A high court ruling allows plans to go forward to demolish a 60-year-old Bedouin village in the Negev in order to establish a new Jewish town in its place.

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BDS bummer on campus

Student councils and minority activist groups are demanding divestment from Israel while telling Jewish students they are privileged whites.

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