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| Date | Title | Type | Featured experts & moderator/discussant |
| April 14, 2024 | Volatile Times – the current challenges for the people of Gaza and Palestinian American activists |
Podcast: A Moment with Erik Fleming | Zaha Hassan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) & FMEP President Lara Friedman |
| April 11, 2025 | The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and the Threat to Free Speech | Understanding Israel Palestine radio show/podcast, with Margot Patterson | FMEP president Lara Friedman |
| April 11, 2025 | Memory Culture, Israel and Genocide: Criminalizing Speech in Germany | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with German journalist Hanno Hauenstein |
| April 11, 2025 (recorded 4/3/25) | “One hour after an attack, we prepare to be attacked again”: Survival in Masafer Yatta | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with writer and activist Ali Awad about life in Masafer Yatta |
| April 3, 2025 | Why are there so many child amputees in Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audFMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video)io & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor |
| April 1, 2025 | Protect Students, Don’t Repress Them: The Hostile Environment for Human Rights on College Campuses | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi and Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association |
| April 1, 2025 | Analyzing & Shifting U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Josh Paul, who resigned from the State Department in October 2023 in opposition to the Biden Administration’s policies supporting Israel |
| March 19, 2025 | Israeli Detention and Torture of Palestinian Medical Workers: Testimonies, Patterns, and Analysis | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Naji Abbas, Director of the Prisoners and Detainees Department for Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) |
| March 17, 2025 | Palestinian Politics Under Israeli Occupation | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Tahani Mustafa, Senior Palestine Analyst for the International Crisis Group |
| March 14, 2025 | Staying Home or Having “Gaza on their mind in the ballot box”: Revisiting the 2024 Elections | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with political strategist and former FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice together with Maya Berry, Executive Director of the Arab American Institute, and Margaret Zaknoen DeReus, Executive Director of the IMEU Policy Project |
| March 12, 2025 | Gaza Genocide, Disinformation, and the Death of Truth | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP President Lara Friedman with Dr. Assal Rad and Professor Marc Owen Jones |
| March 6, 2025 | Ceasefire Possibilities, Political Dynamics, Regional Aspirations, and the Trump Administration | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with analyst Mouin Rabbani |
| February 27, 2025 | Trump’s Gaza Plan and Regional Reactions | SETA Foundation webinar | Khaled Elgindy (Visiting Scholar, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University; FMEP president Lara Friedman, Kadir Ustun (SETA); moderated by Kilic Kanat (SETA) |
| February 26, 2025 | Harvard Professors on Censorship, Repression, and Opportunities for Speaking Up on Palestine | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Harvard professors Dr. Eman Ansari & Dr. Aaron Shakow |
| February 21, 2025 | The Boomerang Effect: Power and Resistance in the U.S. and Palestine | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with Noura Erakat, human rights attorney and Professor at Rutgers University |
| February 13, 2025 | Criminalize, Censor, Surveil: Escalating Repression Against Advocates for Palestinian Rights | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Dima Khalidi, founder & director of Palestine Legal |
| February 13, 2025 | Dissent & Resigning from Harvard | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with Jay Ulfelder, former Program Director of the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard Kennedy School |
| February 11, 2025 | Sumūd: Poetry, Art, Steadfastness, and Joy | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi with Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably, editors of the new book Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader. |
| February 3, 2025 | “Centering Human Life, Disrupting Injustice Without Replicating It:” Introducing 2025 FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Director of Programs & Partnerships Sarah Anne Minkin with 2025 FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi |
| January 31, 2025 | Mapping Life & Land: Beirut Urban Labs | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Dr. Nour Joudah with American University of Beirut Professor Ahmad Gharbieh |
| January 23, 2025 | The Escalation of Israel’s Gaza-fication of the West Bank | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP President Lara Friedman with journalist Dalia Hatuqa |
| January 22, 2025 | Genocide and self-involvement: on being Israeli as Israel commits a historic crime | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with Israeli scholar and analyst Ori Goldberg |
| January 20, 2025 | A toxic environment for those who dare to question | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Professor Katherine Franke, former faculty at Columbia University’s law school |
| January 14, 2025 | Holding Israel & the US Accountable for Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson |
| January 13, 2025 | Introducing FMEP’s 2025 Fellow Ahmed Moor: How to act when “the urgency of the need in Palestine isn’t met by the pace of change.” | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor with FMEP Director of Programs & Partnerships Sarah Anne Minkin |
| December 23, 2024 | Why Some Israelis Refuse to Serve in the IDF | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Refuser Solidarity Network’s Atalya Ben Abba and Mattan Helman |
| December 22, 2024 | Phoenix of Gaza: a 360° view of Palestinian agency and life | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Nour Joudah with Cal State University San Bernardino Professor & co-founder of Phoenix of Gaza XR Ahlam Muhtaseb |
| December 17, 2024 | Can Syria Rebuild? | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Maha Yahya, Director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center |
| December 17, 2024 | Eyewitness to Israel’s Intentionally Created Health Apocalypse in Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP President Lara Friedman with Dr. Tammy Abughnaim, a US physician who served in Gaza twice since 10/7/23; and Dr. Yara Asi, assistant professor at the University of Central Florida & and visiting scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. |
| December 16, 2024 | Connecting the Bullets: Guns on the Kitchen Table to Organized Crime to Crimes Against Humanity | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin with Meisa Irshaid (Gun Free Kitchen Tables & Women Against Weapons), Rela Mazali (Gun Free Kitchen Tables) and Vanderbilt University Professor Jonathan Metzl |
| December 12, 2024 | How and Why South Africans Care About Palestinians | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & writer William Shoki |
| November 27, 2024 | A Cartography of Genocide | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weitzman |
| November 15, 2024 | Understanding Palestinian Pain & Resistance: Reporting from the West Bank | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast | FMEP Fellow Nour Joudah + journalist Mariam Barghouti |
| November 15, 2024 | Beyond unipolarity and the ‘rules-based international order’ toward a “Better Order Project” | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Peter Beinart (FMEP) with Zach Paikin (Quincy Institute) and Trita Parsi (Quincy Institute) |
| November 13, 2024 | Post-Election Assessment: US Election Results and the Future of US Foreign Policy and the Gaza War | Webinar hosted by Arab Center DC | Lara Friedman (FMEP), Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC), Sarah Leah Whitson (DAWN), and Josh Paul (New Policy), moderated by Khalil Jahshan (Arab Center DC) |
| November 12, 2024 | Diplomacy is Not a Dirty Word – Iran and the Middle East | Panel convened by NIAC as part of the NIAC 2024 Post-Election Symposium, ft. | Negar Mortazavi (CIP), Lara Friedman (FMEP), Nader Hashemi (Georgetown University), Jon Hoffman (Cato Institute) and Steven Simon (Quincy Institute) |
| November 11, 2024 | Discussion Panel from the film-screening of “Boycott” (Doc., 2021), 6.11.24 | Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Berlin) event/webinar | Lara Friedman (FMEP), Yasmeen Daher, Shir Hever, and Yanis Varoufakis, moderated by Lucas Febraro |
| November 7, 2024 | AAI’s Election 2024 Analysis | Arab American Institute webinar | AAI President Dr. Jim Zogby & AAI Executive Director Maya Berry in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP), Gerald Seib (Former Wall Street Journal Exec. Washington Editor), & John Zogby (Founder, John Zogby Strategies). |
| November 4, 2024 | Jews, Philanthropy, Politics, and Palestine | Webinar with Jewish Liberation Fund as part of their Jews, Money, and 2024 series | Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) with Rabbi Becky Silverstein (philanthropist & Rabbis for Ceasefire) and Rebecca Vilkomerson (Funding Freedom) |
| November 1, 2024 | Israel’s UNRWA Ban: What it means for Gaza, the UN and the World | FMEP/MEI webinar (also posted as video/podcast) | Roland Friedrich (Director of UNRWA Affairs in the West Bank), Mona Jebril, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Smith (JD/MPH/MA, former USAID official, resigned May 2024); Moderated by: Khaled Elgindy (MEI) & Lara Friedman, (FMEP) |
| October 22, 2024 | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Together | Background Briefing with Ian Masters (podcast) | Interview with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| October 21, 2024 | Holding Israeli Media Accountable: Incitement to Genocide is a Crime | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin in conversation with Israeli human rights attorney Alon Sapir |
| October 14, 2024 | Israel’s Plans for a “New Order” in the Middle East – a conversation with Mouin Rabbani | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman in conversation with Mouin Rabbani (Jaddaliya) |
| October 10, 2024 | “The clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground” — Ta-Nehisi Coates & Peter Beinart | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video), in partnership with Jewish Currents | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart in conversation with journalist/author Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| October 8, 2024 | The (Bipartisan) Betrayal of Arab Americans | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Maya Berry, Executive Director of the Arab American Institute. |
| October 2, 2024 | Palestinian Digital Rights Study Group: Big Tech and Genocide – no video posted. Also see article:
Documenting a new frontier: Big tech accountability and Palestinian digital rights |
Webinar – 7amleh & IMEU | Jalal Abukhater (7amleh), Gaya Khandhadai, BHRRC, Abed Ayoub, ADC; moderated by FMEP’s Lara Friedman
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| September 27, 2024 | Is Israel dragging the US into a Mideast quagmire? | The Bottom Line/Al Jazeera English | The Bottom Line host Steve Clemons interviews FMEP’s Lara Friedman & Professor Roxane Farmanfarmanian (University of Cambridge) |
| September 20, 2024 | Can Israel Decide Who Qualifies as Jewish? | Scheer Intelligence (NPR/KCRW) | Journalist Robert Scheer in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| September 18, 2024 | Palestine in the 2024 U.S. Elections | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP President Lara Friedman in conversation with FMEP fellow Rania Batrice. |
| August 27, 2024 | U.S. Policy Through the Looking Glass | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Non-resident Fellow Rania Batrice talks with Matt Duss (Center for International Policy) |
| August 23, 2024 | The Accountability Archive | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Non-Resident Fellow Nour Joudah speaks with Philip Proudfoot and Mahdi Zaidan from the Accountability Archive (@archivegenocide) |
| August 7, 2024 | Turning Pain into Power: Feeding Families & Bringing Attention to Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice speaks with Hani Almadhoun, Gaza native, Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, and co-founder, along with his family in Gaza, of Gaza Soup Kitchen. |
| August 5, 2024 | Immoral Policy, Looming Regional War, and Leaving the Biden Administration | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Defense Intelligence Officer & Biden Admin Resignee Harrison Mann |
| July 15, 2024 | The Core Truths about Palestine & Israel | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & writer Ahmed Moor |
| July 12, 2024 | Defending Dissent: Palestine, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Protest | Netroots Nation conference featured panel, organized by Just Vision | Suhad Babaa (JustVision/moderator), Fadi Abu Shammalah (Just Vision), Sabiya Ahmed (Palestine Legal), Lara Friedman (FMEP), Vincent Warren (Center for Constitutional Rights); Simone Zimmerman (Diaspora Alliance and co-founder of IfNotNow) |
| July 10, 2024 | The Assault on the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Columbia Prof. Emeritus Rashid Khalidi |
| July 2, 2024 | Witnessing in the West Bank & Gaza Strip | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice with Riham Jafari (ActionAid) |
| June 25, 2024 | Israel is Annexing the West Bank | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Professor Yael Berda (Hebrew University) |
| June 4, 2024 | The Gaza Catastrophe: 2024 Congressional Briefing Series | MEI/FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing Series: The Gaza Catastrophe | FMEP’s Lara Friedman & MEI’s Khaled Elgindy speak with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin about the goals and structure of the Congressional Briefing Series |
| June 3, 2024 | The new “terror” bill with Darryl Li & Lara Friedman | Institute for Critical Study of Zionism (podcast) | Darryl Li (Univ. of Chicago), Lara Friedman (FMEP) in conversation with Emmaia Gelman (ICSZ) |
| May 29, 2024 | Centering Gaza, Punished in College: What it’s Like to be a Campus Activist Against this War | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart in conversation with Shraddha Joshi and Asmer Safi, two student activists organizing for Palestinian solidarity at Harvard University (Harvard is withholding both of their degrees due to their campus activism) |
| May 22, 2024 | A Look From the Radical Israeli Left: A Multi-Front Battle Against Fascism & Jewish Supremacy | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart in conversation with Sapir Sluzker Amran about her identity as a Mizrachi, queer activist – and her recent action to document and disrupt right-wing Israeli settlers attacking a convoy of aid at the Gaza barrier. |
| May 17, 2024 | Will the Antisemitism Awareness Act repress free speech in the US? | Episode of UpFront/Al Jazeera | Marc Lamont Hill speaks to the president of FMEP, Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson (contributing columnist at The Forward) |
| May 10, 2024 | The Gaza Catastrophe, Part 4 — What Comes Next? | MEI/FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing Series: The Gaza Catastrophe | Panelists: Abdelhadi Alijl (Social & Political Scientist), Nour Odeh (Political Activist), Mouin Rabbani (Jaddaliya); co-moderated by MEI’s Khaled Elgindy and FMEP’s Lara Friedman
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| May 6, 2024 | Mapping the Fight: IHRA and anti-Palestinian attacks on knowledge | Unpacking Zionism – program hosted by the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism | Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace; Amira Jarmakani, San Diego State University; Emmaia Gelman, Sarah Lawrence College |
| May 3, 2024 | The Gaza Catastrophe, Part 3 — International Law & Humanitarian Crisis | MEI/FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing Series: The Gaza Catastrophe | Panelists: Raz Segal (Stockton University), Sherine Tadrous (Amnesty International), Chris Gunness (Former UNRWA spokesperson); co-moderated by MEI’s Khaled Elgindy and FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| May 3, 2024 | The Attack on Academic Freedom | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Rutger University Professor Sahar Aziz |
| May 1, 2024 | Why Palestine Is Part of (& Central To) the Movement for Climate Justice | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice with author Mary Annaïse Heglar |
| April 28, 2024 | The House and Senate Move to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | Background Briefing with Ian Masters (podcast) | Interview with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| April 26, 2024 | The Gaza Catastrophe, Part 2 — The U.S. Role & Responsibility | MEI/FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing Series: The Gaza Catastrophe | Panelists: Josh Paul (former official at the U.S. Department of State), Zaha Hassan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Tess McEnery (Middle East Democracy Center); co-moderated by MEI’s Khaled Elgindy and FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| April 25, 2024 | What does it mean for the U.S. to condition aid to Israel? | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & Seth Binder of the Middle East Democracy Center |
| April 25, 2024 | Dead, Disabled, Displaced, Detained, Orphaned: The Toll of Israel’s War on Palestinian Children | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi with Miranda Cleland of Defense for Children International – Palestine and Hamdi Shaqqura of Palestine Centre for Human Rights |
| April 19, 2024 | The Gaza Catastrophe, Part 1: How We Got Here | MEI/FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing Series: The Gaza Catastrophe | Panelists: Mkhaimar Abusada (Al-Azhar University of Gaza) & Mairav Zonszein (International Crisis Group); co-moderated by MEI’s Khaled Elgindy and FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| April 16, 2024 | Updates on Gaza & Looking to the Future: Mass Depopulation & Continued Violence | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & analyst Khalil Sayegh |
| April 12, 2024 | RESIGNED: The Former Biden Admin Officials Who Left Their Jobs Over Gaza | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice with Tariq Habash (formerly U.S. Department of Education), Josh Paul (formerly U.S. Department of State) & Annelle Sheline (formerly US Department of State) |
| April 5, 2024 | “Incitement, Displacement, Destruction, Willful Flouting of International Law”: Israel’s Assault on Al Shifa Hospital | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | 2023 FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi with FMEP’s Dr. Sarah Anne Minkin |
| March 28, 2024 | The US Policy on Israel in an Election Year
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SETA Foundation event | Kilic Keinat (SETA) in conversation with Daniel Levy (USMEP), Lara Friedman (FMEP), Kadir Ustun (SETA) |
| March 27, 2024 | The Israel-Hamas War: Impacts and Prospects, Six Months On [also on c-span] | Stimson Center event (hybrid) | Barbara Slavin (Stimson Center) in conversation with Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland), Mairav Zonszein (International Crisis Group), Ali Vaez (International Crisis Group) and Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| March 24, 2024 | The Palestine Exception: The crackdown on Palestine advocacy on US campuses | Fault Lines Documentary/Al Jazeera English | Columbia students including Maryam Alwan, professor Lara Sheehi, Radhika Sainath (Palestine Legal), Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Professor Joseph Hawley (Columbia University) |
| March 22, 2024 | Rania Batrice & Ryan Grim on the Urgency & Need for Independent Journalism | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice & journalist Ryan Grim |
| March 13, 2024 | What Comes After the Destruction of Gaza? | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & writer Ahmed Moor |
| March 8, 2024 | Biden & Israel: What it’s Like to Make Policy in the White House | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart & former NSC Director Steven Simon |
| March 6, 2024 | Media Bias in Reporting on Sexual Assault on October 7th – Breaking Down the Damage | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice & anlayst Krystal Ball |
| March 1, 2024 | Introducing Nour Joudah, 2024 FMEP non-resident Palestinian Fellow | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | UCLA Assistant Professor & FMEP Fellow Nour Joudah in conversation with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin |
| March 1, 2024 | How the War in Gaza is Transforming Democratic Politics | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellows Rania Batrice & Peter Beinart in conversation |
| February 29, 2024 | How Mainstream Media Collaborates with Israel’s War on Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Middle East scholar Dr. Assal Rad |
| February 27, 2024 | Introducing Rania Batrice, 2024 FMEP Palestinian non-resident Fellow | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Political strategist & FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice in conversation with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin |
| February 20, 2024 | “Famine is a Massacre in Slow Motion:” On Mass Hunger & Israel’s Culpability in Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Alex de Waal (Tufts University) in conversation with FMEP Fellow Yara Asi |
| February 20, 2024 | Impacts of Israel’s War on Gaza – a Regional Tour d’Horizon | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Omar Rahman (Middle East Council on Global Affairs/Baker Institute) in converation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| February 15, 2024 | How Israel And Its Allies Weaponize Antisemitism | Al Jazeera English report | Dena Takruri (Al Jazeera), Simone Zimmerman (Diaspora Alliance), Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| February 15, 2024 | Promoting Risk & Undermining Rights: Morningstar’s Betrayal of Palestine & ESG (Part 2) | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Tara Van Ho (Univ. of Essex, UK) in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| February 15, 2024 | The War in Gaza and the Prospect of Regional War | Webiner hosted by NIAC | Lara Friedman (FMEP) Daniel Levy (US/MEP), Barbara Slavin (Stimson Center), Jim Zogby (AAI), and Jamal Abdi (NIAC) |
| February 13, 2024 | Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza, Palestinian Refugees, and the Campaign Against UNRWA | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Chris Gunness, formerly of UNRWA |
| February 12, 2024 | Israel’s War on Gaza: Implications & Impacts on Saudi Policies & Politics | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Saudi analyst & researcher Aziz Alghashian |
| February 7, 2024 | Separation, Dehumanization, Theft of Time: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi speaks with author Nathan Thrall |
| January 26, 2024 | ‘Dehumanization of Palestinians in real time with no condemnation’ — Tariq Habash on resigning from the Biden Administration | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Tariq Habash, formerly of the US Department of Education |
| January 14, 2024 | Voices for Peace – with Lara Friedman | Cairo Review of Global Affairs/American University in Cairo podcast | Nadeen Shaker (Cairo Review of Global Affairs) in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| January 10, 2024 | Israel’s War on Gaza: Implications & Possibilities for Regional Escalation | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Foreign Policy/national security expert Jasmine El-Gamal in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| December 19, 2023 | “The story of Attiya Nabaheen reveals the system that devalues Palestinian life”: On Gaza, Israeli law, and the Lack of Recourse | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast | FMEP Fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin |
| December 12, 2023 | Lara Friedman interviewed on the Joan Esposito Radio Show (starting at 24:20) | Radio Show on WCPT | Host Joan Esposito interviewing on Israel’s war on Gaza |
| December 6, 2023 | Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Power of Precise Terminology surrounding the bombing of Gaza | Churches for Middle East Peace webinar | Raz Segal (Stockton University), Dr. Maha Nassar (University of Arizona) and Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| November 30, 2023 | Assessing America’s Response to the Gaza Crisis: The White House, Congress, and the American Public | Arab Center DC webinar | Lara Friedman (FMEP), Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) and Aaron Miller (Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace), in conversation with Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC) |
| November 21, 2023 | Repression in the Shadow of Israel’s War on Gaza Part 2: Israel’s Rapid Repression & Criminalization of Palestinian Life in the Wake of October 7th | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | Hassan Jabarin (Adalah) and Ghousoon Bisharat (+972), in conversation with Peter Beinart (FMEP) |
| November 21, 2023 | International Law & Israel/Palestine: A Primer | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Non-Resident Fellows Dr. Yara Asi and Rabea Eghbariah in conversation with Dr. Ardi Imseis (Assistant Professor and Academic Director, International Law Programs at Queen’s University Law School) |
| November 16, 2023 | Repression in the Shadow of Israel’s War on Gaza Part 1: Five Israeli Human Rights Groups Sound the Alarm | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | Tamara Newman, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI); Jessica Montell, HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual; Anat Litvin, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI); Tal Steiner, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI); Yahav Erez, Yesh Din with Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| November 14, 2023 | Silencing Palestine with Lara Friedman (Video) | Jadaliyya/Connections Podcast Episode 77 | Mouin Rabbani (Jadaliyya co-editor) in conversation with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| November 14, 2023 | From Israel’s Blockade to the Siege on Al Shifa Hospital: Public Health in Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Dr. Yara Asi speaks with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin |
| November 10, 2023 | The UN Tried to Silence Craig Mokhiber, He Resigned | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Craig Mokhiber, formerly of the UN. |
| November 7th, 2023 | Biden’s ‘Full Tilt’ Embrace of Israel and Its War on Gaza | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor of the US |
| November 5, 2023 | Ceasefire Now! | Ralph Nader Radio Hour podcast | FMEP President Lara Friedman interviewed by Ralph Nader. |
| November 3, 2023 | Gaza, Israel and the 2023 War: Are There Any “Red Lines?” | FMEP webinar (& podcast) co-hosted with Middle East Institute | Jamil Dakwar (Human Rights Lawyer & Adjunct Professor, New York University and Hunter College), Katherine Gallagher (Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights) & Dr. Raz Segal (Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide, Stockton University) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (Middle East Institute) |
| November 1, 2023 | Catastrophe in Gaza: What’s Next? Part 2 | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | Sari Bashi (Human Rights Watch), Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine) & Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| October 30, 2023 | If Netanyahu Cared About Hostages, Why Did He Launch Ground Invasion? | Democracy Now! | Interview with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| October 30, 2023 | Catastrophe in Gaza: What’s Next? Part 1 | FMEP webinar & podcast | Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy), Fadi Quran (Avaaz), & Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| October 29, 2023 | Winning the Military Campaign But Losing the Information War | Background Briefing with Ian Masters (podcast) | Interview with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| October 27, 2023 | Israel Attacked: Hamas breaks out, the indiscriminate Israeli response, and the dehumanisation of Palestinians | The New Arab Voice podcast | Ft. Joost Hiltermann, program director for the Middle East in North Africa, at the International Crisis Group; and Lara Friedman, the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace |
| October 20, 2023 | Israel-Gaza: When will the world say ‘Enough’? | UpFront | Episode of UpFront/Al Jazeera | Marc Lamont Hill speaks to the president of FMEP, Lara Friedman; human rights lawyer Noura Erakat; and executive director of +972 Magazine, Haggai Matar |
| October 17, 2023 | The Situation in Gaza: A Briefing | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | Tania Hary (Gisha), Nour Odeh (Political Activist), Omar Shakir (Human Rights Watch), in conversation with in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| October 17, 2023 | Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza w/ Lara Friedman and Paul Rogers | Politics Theory Other | FMEP’s Lara Friedman is interviewed on the Politics Theory Other podcast (UK) |
| September 29, 2023 | Free Speech, IHRA, & Palestinian Freedom | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with University of London Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould |
| September 12, 2023 | Forcible Transfer is a War Crime: West Bank Pogroms are Working | FMEP Webinar (audio & video) | Kareem Jubran (B’Tselem) & Sarit Michaeli (B’Tselem) with Dr. Yara Asi (FMEP) |
| September 3, 2023 | Human Rights Work under Apartheid: “To show reality, to shed light…to create hope in the struggle” | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with Yuli Novak of B’Tselem |
| August 9, 2023 | Hebron (Al-Khalil) Through Palestinian Eyes | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio) | FMEP Non-resident Fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks with Abdullah (last name withheld) |
| August 7, 2023 | Has Israel Annexed the West Bank? | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Kristin McCarthy speaks with Shira Livne (ACRI) |
| August 2, 2023 | Blockade, Bombings, and Continuing Trauma: Assessing Mental Health in Gaza | FMEP webinar (& podcast) | Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei (Gaza Community Mental Health Programme), Ghada Majadli (Physicians for Human Rights Israel), and Razzan Quran (George Washington University) in conversation with Dr. Yara Asi (FMEP Non-resident Fellow) |
| August 2, 2023 | Defending Palestine Free Speech: The Case of Fatima Mohammed | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Amal Thabateh (Palestine Legal) |
| August 2, 2023 | The Palestine Laboratory – A Conversation with Antony Loewenstein | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman speaks with Antony Loewenstein, about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World |
| July 21, 2023 | “We Can’t Afford to Leave”: A Conversation about Jaffa with Abed Abu Shehadeh | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to Abed Abu Shehadeh, a political and community organizer from Jaffa who is also an elected city council member in Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s municipality |
| July 19, 2023` | The Destruction of Masafer Yatta | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with journalists Basel Adraa and Yuval Abraham |
| July 6, 2023 | “A Landscape of a Shrinking Space”: A Conversation with Maria Zreik about Nazareth and the Baladna Youth Center | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio) | FMEP 2023 non-resident fellow Rabea Eghbariah speaks to Maria Zreik, a street photographer and political organizer from Nazareth who is coordinating the Baladna Youth Center, a Palestinian cooperative in Nazareth’s Old City. |
| June 30, 2023 | “Now it is Happening to My Family”: The Dispossession of Palestinians from the Old City of Jerusalem | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | 2023 FMEP Fellow Rabea Eghbariah in conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Raafat Sub Laban |
| June 28, 2023 | “Minimizing Privilege” – A Conversation with Anti-Zionist Activist Jonathan Pollak on Solidarity & His Impending Trial | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with activist Jonathan Pollak |
| June 25, 2023 | The Nakba is Our Framework: Framing and Understanding Palestine | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | 2023 FMEP Fellow Rabea Eghbariah with writer & journalist Mohammed El Kurd |
| June 12, 2023 | How IHRA Antisemitism Definition Suppresses Palestinian Rights Advocacy in EU/UK: Insight from ELSC | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Lara Friedman (FMEP) in conversation with Giovanni Fassina & Alice Garcia of the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) |
| June 5, 2023 | Palestinian Rights, the IHRA Definition, & the Battle Around Biden’s Antisemitism Strategy | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Lara Friedman (FMEP) in conversation with Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC) and Emma Saltzberg (Diaspora Alliance) |
| May 31, 2023 | Canada’s Responsibility towards Palestine under International Law: A Dialogue at Parliament Hill | Hybrid event organized by Law for Palestine & the Palestinian General Delegation to Canada, in collaboration with members of the Canadian Parliament (ft. FMEP’s Lara Friedman on the IHRA definintion of antisemitism) | Mona Abuamara (Palestinian General Delegation to Canada), Karen Rodman (Law for Palestine), Elizabeth May (MP), Mario Beaulieu (MP), Alexandre Boulerice (MP), Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine), Michael Lynk (Former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine), Triestino Mariniello (Legal Team representing Gaza Victims, ICC), Wesam Ahmad (Al-Haq), Neve Gordon (Queen Mary University of London), & Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| May 25, 2023 | Israel’s new anti-NGO legislation: An Effort to Eradicate Opponents of Illiberalism | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Lara Friedman (FMEP) in conversation with Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967) and Jessica Montell (HaMoked) |
| May 16, 2023 | Palestinian Hunger Striking and Defiance of Israel’s Carceral Regime | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Dr. Maha Nassar (2022 FMEP non-resident Fellow) in conversation with policy analyst Dr. Basil Farraj |
| May 11, 2023 | Living Memory: Palestinian Artists Mark 75 Years of the Nakba | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio) in partnership with Project48 | Featuring Palestinian artists: Ahmed Abu Artema, Hala Alyan, Suad Amiry, Zeina Azzam, Cherien Dabis, Fady Joudah, Tamer Nafar, Raja Shehadeh, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Waleed Zuaiter. |
| May 8, 2023 | Shireen Abu Akleh: Her Life, Legacy, & the Continuing Fight for Justice | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Dalia Hatuqa (journalist) in converstion with FMEP’s Lara Friedman |
| May 2, 2023 | The “Abraham Accords”: Implications for Human Rights, a Just Peace, and US Policy | Virtual conference co-convened by FMEP & Arab Center Washington | Khalil Jahshan (Arab Center Washington); Lara Friedman (FMEP); Dana El-Kurd (Univ of Richmond/Arab Center); Marwa Fatafta (Access Now/Al-Shabaka); Eitay Mack (Israeli Lawyer/Human Rights Activist); Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Arab Center/Baker Institute, Rice University); Tamara Kharroub (Arab Center); Zaha Hassan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Tariq Kenney-Shawa (Al-Shabaka); Josh Ruebner (IMEU); Shibley Telhami (UMD); Yousef Munayyer – (Arab Center) |
| April 30, 2023 | Problematic IHRA Definition of Antisemitism | Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) webinar | Lara Friedman (FMEP) & Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison (Palestinian-American human rights advocate who recently faced the IHRA definition in the Virginia state legislature), moderated by Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley (Unitarian Universalist minister) |
| April 28, 2023 | Accused of Antisemitism for Telling Students about Palestinian Life | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Civil rights attorney Huwaida Arraf w/ FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart |
| April 13, 2023 | What is behind rising anti-Semitism around the world? | UpFront with Marc Lamont Hill, on Al Jazeera | Rabbi Brant Rosen (reconstructionist rabbi and founding member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council) & Lara Friedman (FMEP), in conversation with Marc Lamont Hill |
| April 4, 2023 | Palestinian Public Health & Israeli Apartheid: Challenges, Possibilities, and Priorities | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Dr. Yara Asi (Palestinian Non-resident Fellow) in conversation with speaks Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) |
| April 4, 2023 | Spotlight on the “Kohelet Policy Forum”: How a Far-Right-Wing, U.S.-Funded Israeli Think Tank is Working to Shape Policy & Law in Both the US & Israel | Webinar, co-sponsored by FMEP and Jewish Currents | Ran Cohen (Democratic Bloc), Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC) & Eran Nissan (Mehazkim), and Lara Friedman (FMEP); moderated by Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) |
| March 29, 2023 | The Quest for Justice for Palestine at the ICC and ICJ: Where Things Stand Today & Why it Matters | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Lara Friedman (FMEP) speaks to Vito Todeschini (legal expert in human rights law, international humanitarian law and international accountability, focusing on Palestine/Israel and the wider MENA region) |
| March 29, 2023 | How Did We Get Here? How Understanding the Roots of Israeli Extremism Can Power the Fight for a Just Future | Webinar hosted by If Not Now | Eva Borgwardt (If Not Now) with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center DC) |
| March 27, 2023 | “Unprecedented” days in Israel/Palestine: Protesting “under the banner of democracy” and ongoing apartheid | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) speaking with Haggai Matar (+972 Magazine) |
| March 21, 2023 | ‘If the thief is the judge, who will hear the complaint?’ On Escalating Settler Violence in Masafer Yatta | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) with Ali Awad (writer & activist in Masafer Yatta) and Cassandra Dixon. |
| March 17, 2023 | Apartheid and Seek: Why the US establishment is sticking with Israel, for now | The New Arab Voice podcast | Lara Friedman (FMEP), Iman Abid (USCPR), & Robert Lipton (JCP) in conversation with Hugo Goodridge (New Arab Voice) |
| March 17, 2023 | The Role of Congress – Help or Hindrance? | Part 6 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Hassan El-Tayyab (FCNL), Rebecca Abou Chedid (Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP), and Josh Ruebner (IMEU) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| March 15, 2023 | The Cost of a Palestine Caveat: Biden Admin Chooses Politics Over Human Rights Expertise | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Nonresident fellow Peter Beinart with Maya Berry (Arab American Institute) and Jim Cavallaro (University Network for Human Rights) |
| March 10, 2023 | Internal Palestinian Politics | Part 5 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Dr. Dana El Kurd (University of Richmond), Salem Barahmeh, and Khaled AL-Hroub (Northwest University – Qatar) in conversation with Kristin McCarthy (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| March 9, 2023 | A struggle within a struggle”: An anti-apartheid analysis of Israel’s anti-government protests | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) speaking with Haggai Matar (+972 Magazine) |
| March 9, 2023 | ‘We Are Determined to Stay”: One Palestinian Family’s Story of Dispossession in Jerusalem | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Kristin McCarthy (FMEP) speaking with Rafat Sub Laban (human rights lawyer) and Amy Cohen (Ir Amim) |
| March 8, 2023 | Learning & Unlearning Palestine Part 4: Allyship & the Fight for Palestinian Liberation | Part 4 of 4-part webinar series jointly convened by FMEP & Al-Shabaka | Saleh Hijazi (BDS Movement) and Nadya Tannous (Palestinian Youth Movement) in conversation with Tariq Kenney-Shawa (Al Shabaka) |
| March 7. 2023 | ‘Backlash and Perseverance: The UC Berkeley LSJP Bylaw and Its Aftermath | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP non-resident fellow Maha Nassar speaking with Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine members Malak Afaneh and Risa Nagel |
| March 3, 2023 | Free Speech, Lawfare and the Right to Protest | Part 4 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Suhad Babaa (Just Vision), Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center Washington DC), & Dylan Saba (Palestine Legal) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| March 2, 2023 | What’s next for the right to boycott in America? | Webinar cosponsored by Just Vision, IMEU & Jewish Currents | Alan Leverritt (Arkansas Times), Brian Hauss (the American Civil Liberties Union), Bahia Amawi (speech therapist and plaintiff from Texas), Mikkel Jordahl (attorney and plaintiff from Arizona); Dima Khalidi (Palestine Legal); Lara Friedman (FMEP), Suhad Babaa (Just Vision), Julia Bacha (director of the film, Boycott) – moderated by Rebecca Abouchedid (FMEP Board member) |
| February 27, 2023 | Learning & Unlearning Palestine Pt 3: Normalizing and Peacemaking as Discourses of Violence | Part 3 of 4-part webinar series jointly convened by FMEP & Al-Shabaka | Inès Abdel Razek (PIPD), Dr. Yara Hawari (Al-Shabaka) and Dr. Maha Nassar (FMEP Non-resident fellow) |
| February 27, 2023 | Introducing Rabea Eghbariah, 2023 FMEP Fellow | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin in conversation with Rabea Eghbariah (human rights attorney, doctoral student at Harvard Law School, and one of FMEP’s 2023-2024 Palestinian Non-Resident Fellows) |
| February 27, 2023 | Introducing Yara Asi, 2023 FMEP Fellow | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin in conversation with Dr. Yara Asi, Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, and one of FMEP’s 2023-2024 Palestinian Non-Resident Fellows. |
| February 24, 2023 | Human Rights & Accountability | Part 3 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Francesca Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur), Rabea Eghbaria (Harvard Law School), Shawan Jabarin (Al-Haq) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| February 20, 2023 | The Delusion of the Supreme Court as a Last Bastion of Human Rights in Israel | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Nonresident fellow Peter Beinart with Nathaniel Berman (Brown University) and Sawsan Zaher (human rights attorney) |
| February 17, 2023 | Extremism in Israel | Part 2 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine), Natasha Roth-Rowland (+972 Magazine), & Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| February 12, 2023 | Q&A Discussion on ‘Til Kingdom Come | Voices from the Holy Land online film salon | Ft. Lara Friedman (FMEP) in conversation with Maya Zinshtein (director of ‘Til Kingdom Come), Mark Braverman (Kairos USA); Bruce Fisk (Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East); Don Wagner (formerly of FOSNA) |
| February 12, 2023 | Lawfare in Action: Attack on US Campaign for Palestinian Rights as a Case Study | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Ahmad Abuznaid (US Campaign for Palestinian Rights – USCPR) and Diala Shamas (Center for Constitutional Rights) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) |
| February 10, 2023 | Beyond Oslo | Part 1 of FMEP/MEI 2023 Congressional Briefing Series: Israel & Palestine –Key Issues for the 118th Congress (webinar) | Omar Dajani (University of the Pacific), Dr. Maha Nassar (University of Arizona), & Dr. Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) in conversation with Lara Friedman (FMEP) and Khaled Elgindy (MEI) |
| February 9, 2023 | Dispatches from the Near Future | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Jehad Abusalim (FMEP Fellow) in conversation with Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP) |
| February 10, 2023 | Peter Beinart in conversation w/ Rep. Ilhan Omar | Webinar, co-sponsored by FMEP and Jewish Currents | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart with Rep. Ilhan Omar |
| February 8, 2023 | Settler Violence: More Than Criminal | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | Ziv Stahl (Yesh Din) with Kristin McCarthy (FMEP) |
| February 7, 2023 | Learning and Unlearning Palestine Part 2: Limited Paradigms | Part 2 of 4-part webinar series jointly convened by FMEP & Al-Shabaka | Muhannad Ayyash (Mount Royal University), Lana Tatour (UNSW Sydney) in conversation with Yara Hawari (Al Shabaka) |
| January 30, 2023 | Learning and Unlearning Palestine Part 1: Who Can Speak on Palestine? | Part 1 of 4-part webinar series jointly convened by FMEP & Al-Shabaka | Nour Joudah (UC Berkeley), Dina Matar (SOAS, University of London), in conversation with Maha Nassar (University of Arizona) |
| January 30, 2023 | On Stage: How to Make a Revolution | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks Issa Amro (Hebron-based activist) and Einat Weizman (Israeli activist & playwright) |
| January 30, 2023 | Commonsense Rules for Reporting & Consuming News on Palestine | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman in conversation with Inès Abdel Razek (Palestine Insitute for Public Diplomacy – PIPD) |
| January 20, 2023 | Domination, Suppression, & Control: The Old & New Policies of the Current Israeli Government | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Kristin McCarthy in conversation with Adalah’s Dr. Suhad Bishara |
| January 16, 2023 | A War Crime in the Making: the UN’s Francesca Albanese on Ethnic Cleansing in the South Hebron Hills | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio & video) | FMEP’s Lara Friedman in conversation with Francesca Albanese (international legal expert and the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967) |
| January 13, 2023 | Why Did Harvard Deny a Fellowship to the Former Director of Human Rights Watch? Israel | FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts Podcast (audio only) | Peter Beinart in conversation with Ken Roth (formerly Human Rights Watch) and Harvard professor Kathryn Sikkink |