Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOccupation: The Law Gives and the Law Takes Away
Michael Sfard, one of Israel's leading human rights lawyers, chronicles the evolution of the legal pillars of Israel's military occupation of Palesti…
8 years ago
Shifting Attitudes Towards Israel and Zionism
For South African Jews, support for Israel has ceased to be the one thing they can all agree upon. Three distinguished panelists debate the meaning, …
8 years ago
Private Eyes: Data, Metadata and Civil Rights
How did a country with the world's most advanced surveillance technology and minimal restrictions on using it end up with a citizenry that hardly min…
8 years ago
Portrait of an Artist as a Feisty Activist
Isn't art always political, and when it is not, is it just bad art? And what is the role of art in shaping our political outlook, when the Israeli re…
8 years, 1 month ago
Ignorance is Bliss? Black Africans' Attitudes Towards Jews
Dr Adam Mendelson, a historian and the director of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town, discusses his re…
8 years, 1 month ago
How Did a Palestinian Terrorist Become Israel's National Heart-Throb?
How do you fight a war by becoming the enemy and still keep your identity? Who are the good guys who are the bad guys? What's the best action series …
8 years, 1 month ago
Looking Back: Memories of an Anti-Apartheid Activist
"I never thought I'd go back to live in South Africa," says Lorna Levy, a trade unionist and anti-Apartheid activist who spent decades in exile after…
8 years, 1 month ago
Everything You Knew about Israel's Economy is Wrong
What does economic history have to do with a country's national identity? In Israel's case, a great deal. The myth of a socialist ideal morphing into…
8 years, 1 month ago
Black Lives Matter: Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Prof. Deborah Posel, a sociologist at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, analyzes how racial tensions have played…
8 years, 1 month ago
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us: Shas' Post-Revolutionary Crisis
Yair Ettinger, a journalist and researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute's "Ultra-Orthodox in Israel" program as well as a fellow at the Hartman …
8 years, 1 month ago