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'In Israel, we now have crumbs of democracy, not real democracy'
Season 1 Episode 390
Alongside the threats of the Gaza war and the troubling Qatargate scandal, Israelis should be paying attention to a renewed direct threat to their de…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
‘Qatargate’: Explaining the scandal that has Netanyahu panicked
Season 1 Episode 389
Like the Watergate affair that brought down President Richard Nixon, the details of the latest scandal to rock the Prime Minister’s Office and the wh…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
'A fiasco and an embarrassment': How Israel's antisemitism conference went sideways
Season 1 Episode 388
It was supposed to be a “coming out party” for the newly cozy relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and Europe’s burgeo…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
'If I need to talk to the devil to get the hostages out, I will'
Season 1 Episode 387
Israel’s decision to return to full-scale war in Gaza was a devastating and tragic turn of events for the families of hostages still being held there…
11 months ago
'Mahmoud Khalil is no Mother Teresa - but there are laws in America'
Season 1 Episode 386
Haaretz Jewish World editor Judy Maltz joins this episode of the Haaretz Podcast to discuss the crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists in America. Ac…
11 months ago
From Tel Aviv to the Venice Biennale and back: How an Israeli artist took a stand on Gaza
Season 1 Episode 385
Ruth Patir had been, in her own words, an “artist without art” over the past year. Until this week.
Patir’s inventive feminist video installation "(…
11 months, 1 week ago
'Trump is frustrated with Netanyahu so he pushed through a back channel with Hamas'
Season 1 Episode 384
What if former U.S. President Joe Biden’s envoys had negotiated directly with Hamas behind Israel’s back? Haaretz military analyst Amos Harel says Pr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Peter Beinart: 'I feared ethnic cleansing on a large scale, but I couldn't imagine Gaza'
Season 1 Episode 383
Peter Beinart’s new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” confronts his “horror” - even as a long-time harsh critic of Isra…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
'Ironically, Israel's far-right extremists are more normalized than Germany's far right'
Season 1 Episode 382
On this episode of the Haaretz Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer speaks to two journalists who covered last week’s German election, which concluded…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt: ‘I should have framed my tweet about Elon Musk’s salute differently’
Season 1 Episode 381
The death and devastation on October 7 was "the end result of antisemitism unchecked," Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said o…
11 months, 4 weeks ago