Lectures & Media Interviews

Coming in Fall 2025

Thinking About Palestine and Israel After the Destruction of Gaza

Class at Havurah Shalom, Portland, OR (in person)

5 sessions - Oct. 20 – Nov. 17

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Israel’s War on Gaza, 2023-25

Aug. 17, 2025 - interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Aug. 15, 2025 - interview with Marvin, Veteran’s Voice, KBOO radio, 90.7

(begins about 7-8 minutes into the recording)

Aug. 1, 2025 - interview with Mitchell Plitnick, Cutting Through podcast

July 16, 2025 - interview with Aileen Alfandary, KPFA Evening News, 94.1 FM

May 25, 2025 - interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

May 6, 2025 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Apr.8, 2025 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Mar. 19, 2025 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Feb. 28, 2025 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Feb. 11, 2025 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Feb. 9, 2025 - interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Jan. 2, 2025 - “Palestine Solidarity in a New Trump Era,” discussion with Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Dec. 5, 2024 - Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio

Oct. 22, 2024 – Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Oct. 1, 2024 - “Israel Invades Lebanon” interview (begins at 37:05) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Sept. 29, 2024 - “Another War,” interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Sept. 24, 2024 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Sept. 20, 2024 - “Understanding October 7, 2023, and Israel's War on the Gaza Strip,” Jewish Palestinian Alliance of Oregon

Aug. 4, 2024 - “An Eye for an Eye,” interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

July 25, 2024 - interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

July 9, 2024 - “Anti-government protests in Israel; Ceasefire Talk,” interview (begins at 8:35) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

June 12, 2024 - “Benny Gantz Resigns, Truce Deal on the Table,” interview (begins at 8:40) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

June 9, 2024 - “The Samson Option” interview (begins at 0:45) with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

June 4, 2024 - “On the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal,” interview (begins at 35:00) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

May 10, 2024 – “On Israel-US Relations” interview (begins at 34:20) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

April 30, 2024 – “Israeli Politics and Negotiations with Hamas,” interview (begins at 34:15) with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

April 17, 2024 – “Israeli Responses to Iran’s Missile Attack,” interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

April 3, 2024 – “Israeli and Arab Opposition to the Gaza War,” interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Mar. 10, 2024 - “Next Year in Jerusalem” interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Feb. 28, 2924 – “Pressure on the Israeli Government,” interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Jan. 23, 2024 - “Tensions in the Israeli Government Over Gaza War,” interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Dec. 31, 2023 – “War Without End,” interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Dec. 20, 2023 – “On Truce Talks,” interview with Brian Edwards-Tiekert, UpFront, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

Nov. 23, 2023 - “Portlanders Call for Ceasefire in Gaza,” interview with Amal Elhelw, KPTV Fox 12 TV (on-air version, shorter)

Nov. 15, 2023 - “War Crimes and Historical Contexts: Understanding the 2023 Hamas-Israel War,” lecture at Stanford University, Abbasi Center for Islamic Studies

Nov. 14, 2023 - Teach-In at De Anza College

Oct. 25, 2023 – “Why does the US always side with Israel?” Today Explained (audio only)

Oct. 19, 2023 – Emergency Gaza Webinar, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Palo Alto, CA

Oct. 18, 2023 - “Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Disentangling News, Rhetoric, and Disinformation” interview, Areva Martin in Real Time, KBLA Radio 1580 AM (at 10:30 min)

Oct. 15, 2023 – “Israel & Gaza,” interview with Philip Maldari Sunday Show KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

A History of Palestine and Israel

class at the Eastside Jewish Commons, Portland, OR

June - July 2025

Get the syllabus here

June 2 - The Crisis of Eastern European Jewry; Early Zionism; Palestine in the Late Ottoman Era; Zionism and the British Empire

June 16 - The Nakba

June 23 – The 1967 War

June 30 - The Occupation, the 1st Intifada, and the Oslo Process

July 7 - A History of Gaza from the Nakba to 2023

Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism

Class for Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine

March 2025

March 4, 2025 - Zionism

March 11, 2035 - Anti-Zionism

March 18, 2025 - Antisemtisim

Occupation 101

Class for Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine

January-March 2024

Password for all Occupation 101 Sessions: recip2024

January 11, 2024 Beginnings of the Occupation Regime

January 18, 2024 The Rise of Orthodox Messianic Religio-Nationalism

January 25, 2024 The Legal Structure of the Occupation

February 1, 2024 Hebron and South Hebron Hills - The Logic of Occupation

February 8, 2024 Jerusalem

February 15, 2024 Jenin: From Battleground to Freedom Theater to Battleground

February 29, 2024 Gaza

March 7, 2024 Two Regimes?

Class for Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine

Password for recording of each class is january2023

Class 1 - Introduction, Expectations, Beginnings of Zionism

Class 2 - Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period

Class 3 - Zionists Encounter Palestine

Class 4 - Great Britain and the Palestine Mandate

Class 5 - 1948: Nakba/War of Liberation

Class 6 - “Beautiful Israel”?

Class 7 - Palestinians and the PLO

Class 8 - The 1967 War

Class 9 - The Occupation, the 1st Intifada, and the Oslo Process

Class 10 - Reprise: How did we get here?

More on Israel/Palestine

May 18, 2024 – “The History of Communism in Israel/Palestine,” Parallax Views, podcast with J.G. Michael

May 4, 2024 - “The Long Tradition of American Jewish Critiques of Israel and Their Suppression,” Speaking Out of Place, podcast with David Palumbo-Liu, Geoffrey Levin, and Simone Zimmerman

April 11, 2024 - “Settler Colonialisms and Deadly Violence,” Annual conference of the Jewish Studies Center of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

Sept. 27, 2023 - The History of the Israeli Communist Party Holds Lessons for Israel’s Current Crisis, interview with Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Real News Network

Mar. 8, 2023 - Egyptian Popular Culture in Late-Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, Bisan Lecture Series, sponsored by Scientists for Palestine

Jan. 22, 2023 - Democracy for Some, interview with Philip Maldari, Sunday Show, KPFA Radio, (audio only)

Jan. 14, 2023 - On Israel’s New Right Wing Government, interview with Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Nov. 18, 2022 - Israel’s Elections Spell More of the Same for the Country, Only With an Even Uglier Face,” interview with Bob Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, KCRW Radio (audio only)

May 24, 2021 - A ceasefire, but nothing more: Israel-Gaza conflict as entrenched as ever, interview, Perspective, France 24

June 4, 2011 - Joint Palestinian-Israeli Popular Struggle, lecture at Portland State University for Jewish Voice for Peace

Aug. 17, 2007 - US Foreign Policy and the Palestine-Israel Conflict, interview with William Seaman (Singer), PDX Justice Media Productions

More on Egypt & the Arab World

Feb. 12, 2021 - Reflecting on the Legacy of Egypt's January 25 Uprising, panel with Amr Hamzawy and Nancy Okail, moderated by Hesham Sallam, Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, Stanford University

Apr. 3, 2017 - Labor Movements & Popular Uprisings in Tunisia & Egypt, conversation with Danny Postel, Northwestern University

Jan. 21, 2015 - Workers and Revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, lecture, Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford, University

Feb. 25, 2012 - Workers’ Struggles in the Arab Spring, lecture at Portland State University