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Occupied Thoughts
From the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), Occupied Thoughts amplifies the voices of FMEP grantees and partners, offers critical framing, and promote new ideas and new angles on the many issues connected to achieving justice, security, and peace for Palestinians and Israelis. FMEP works to...
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The escalating drive toward Greater Israel - a view from Ramallah
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Ramallah-based Palestinian journalist/analyst/commentator Nour Odeh. No...
Ahmed & Ben - 3:9:26, 3.02 PM
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, about...
What do West Bank Palestinian youth want?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with author and scholar Dr. Nathan J. Brown about his recent article, For Yo...
The American-Israeli war on Iran - Polls and Impact on Strategic Considerations
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with University of Maryland Professor Dr. Shibley Telhami and FMEP President Lara...
ICE, Gaza & The Flow of Surveillance Technology to Fuel Repression
FMEP Non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart interviews researcher and journalist Dr. Sophia Goodfriend on the pernicious flow of repressive surveillance te...
Upside-Down Love, human rights work, and living in the West Bank: A conversation with Sari Bashi
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with human rights attorney and writer Sari Bashi about her new memoir, Upside-Down...
Forced Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing in the service of Jewish Supremacy
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Myssana Morany, a lawyer and coordinator of the Land and Planning Rights U...
Enduring devastation: "They redefined the human being in Gaza"
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Jaser Abu Mousa, a 2025 Yale Peace Fellow and past Program Officer working...
Severed: Looking at Disability Justice, Palestinian rights, and Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, 2025 FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe about the film Severed, which Jen...
Institutionalizing sexual violence and torture: the findings of the UN Committee on Torture
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Nick Rodelo, a researcher employed by the University Network for Human Rights...
Destroying systems that sustain life: Israel's destruction of healthcare in Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor interviews Liz Allcock, the former head of humanitarian protection at Medical Aid for Pal...
"We have talked enough about ourselves": a conversation with Benjamin Moser
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author Benjamin Moser about Jewish supremacy, diasporic Jewish life, and the...
Shifts in US Policy & Public Opinion, the Impact of BDS, and Assessing Coming Threats
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with analyst Yousef Munayyer about shifts in US public policy and public opinion o...
From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Omer-Man of DAWN, an organization supporting h...
Christians in Gaza, Ecclesiocide, and Kairos Palestine II
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Dr. Yousef Kamal AlKhouri, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Ac...
Surrealism against fascism - a conversation with Naomi Klein
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new essay, "Surrealism Against Fascism," (publis...
Boycott, solidarity & taking responsibility: Ahmed Moor speaks to Peter Beinart about the TAU speech
FMEP fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Peter Beinart (also an FMEP fellow) about Peter's decision to speak at Tel Aviv University, his apology for doing s...
Queerness and Liberation: A Discussion about 'Fire in Every Direction' with Tareq Baconi
FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor is joined by Palestinian analyst Tareq Baconi to discuss his newly published book, "Fire in Every Direction."
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Jewish Institutions and Anti-Zionism
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Arielle Angel and Alissa Wise about Jewish navel-gazing, Jewish institutions,...
“Without memory, there can be no justice" - Archiving the Gaza Genocide
In this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Zo Brown (an alias), the founder of Databases for Palest...
Jordan, the Gulf, and American Policy in Palestine
FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute about Jordan, the Gulf and US policy on Palestine. They also discuss the Bi...
The Palestine Laboratory, A Conversation with Antony Loewenstein
FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author and journalist Antony Loewenstein about his upbringing in Australia, his film "Germany's Israel Obsession",...
The International Solidarity Movement and the Freedom Flotillas
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with civil rights attorney and activist Huweida Arraf about Huweida's work to co-f...
Media, BDS, and Lessons from 25 Years of Solidarity Work
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Mondoweiss editor Adam Horowitz about the role that Mondoweiss, an independen...
Attacks on the First Amendment Continue
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Jenin Younes, National Legal Director at the American-Arab Anti-Discriminatio...
The Starvation Regime and Plausible Deniability for War Crimes
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with human rights attorney Sari Bashi and policy expert Bushra Khalidi about the c...
Accountability After Genocide and the Emerging Left-Right Consensus on Israel in America
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy an...
MAGA & the FBI Break Up with the ADL
and scholar Emmaia Gelman about the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), including the history and current activities of the ADL and the ADL's approach to ad...
On the new 20-Point-Plan, Recognition of Palestinian Statehood, and Popular Pressure to End the Genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with analyst Mouin Rabbani about political and diplomatic developments relatin...
UC Berkeley’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom in this Time of Genocide
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with UC Berkeley Professor Ussama Makdisi, who was recently informed that UC Be...
FMEP Fellows Peter Beinart & Ahmed Moor on Palestinian statehood & US politics
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellows Ahmed Moor and Peter Beinart speak about the new developments with Palestinian statehood and their...
Poetry of the Camps: Poems from Gaza on Homeland, Miracles, and Freedom
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with zehra imam, who launched Poetry of the Camps, a poetry program in Gaza wi...
On the Global Sumud Flotilla Heading for Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, who...
Apartheid, Genocide, and the Growing Chasm in the Right's Support for Israel
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP). They discuss...
The Holocaust, the Nakba, the Genocide in Gaza & How the I.H.R.A. Definition of Antisemitism Censors Scholars
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Marianne Hirsch, Professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at C...
How Israel Targets Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Laila Al-Arian, the executive producer for Fault Lines, an award-winning c...
Necroviolence: On Israel's Corpse Captivity Policy and Palestinian Practices of Dignity & Defiance
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with researcher Randa Wahbe about the Israeli policy and practice of holding P...
"No Way But Forward": Life in the Gaza Strip
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, former FMEP President Matt Duss speaks with professor & author Brian Barber, who recently published No Way But F...
Palestinian Citizens of Israel, the Future, and Inconsequential Palestinian State Recognition: a conversation with Diana Buttu
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst Diana Buttu. They discuss Palesti...
Destroying the Conditions of Life: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel on Israel's Genocide in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Aseel Aburass, Director of the Occupied Palestinian Territory Department a...