PeaceCast is a podcast produced in Washington, DC by New Jewish Narrative (formerly Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu). We engage in nuanced conversations with people working towards peace and progress in Israel and Palestine. Episodes feature experts, activists, advocates and scholars whose work or passion is Israeli-Palestinian peace. Learn more about New Jewish Narrative: https://www.newjewishnarrative.org/
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Peacehead is about conspicuous peace. We intentionally center our thoughts on peace rather than ego. Because why not?
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#358: Upside-Down Love: Sari Bashi on Love, Hope, and Resilience
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In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by author, internationally renowned human rights lawyer, and longtime activist Sari Bashi to discuss the new English translation of her book Upside-Down Love, originally published in Hebrew in 2021. Told in alternating chapters by both Sari and Osama (a pseudonym), Upside-Down Love i…
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#357: When Doves Try: The History of Israel's Peace Now Movement
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In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by author and journalist Micah L. Sifry to discuss his new book, When Doves Try: Israel's Peace Now Movement 1978-1983. This book tells the story of how a handful of young Israeli reserve officers helped ignite the country's largest grassroots peace movement, which our listeners know…
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In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN Director of Programs Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by comedian and podcast host Orli Matlow (host of War Is Stupid: An Antiwar Podcast About War) Read more about War Is Stupid: An Antiwar Podcast About War: https://warisstupid.substack.com/ Listen to War Is Stupid: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNvZw9ofCuL…
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#355: Inside the Moment: Gershon Baskin on What's Next for Israel & Gaza
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This episode of PeaceCast, cohosted by NJN's President and CEO Hadar Susskind and NJN and T'ruah board member Rabbi Esther Lederman, is a recording of a webinar hosted on November 18th, 2025. In the month since the Trump-brokered ceasefire went into effect, the fighting has mostly stopped and the living hostages have been returned to Israel (as hav…
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#354: Making Sense of the Trump Plan with Laura Rozen and Joel Braunold
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from October 1, 2025, hosted by Hadar Susskind. At an unusual press conference at the White House on Monday September 29 — with Prime Minister Netanyahu at his side — President Trump unveiled a plan to end the Gaza War. The document, which was emailed to reporters during the event, included 20 s…
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In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN Director of Prgrams Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by Tamar Cohen, the Resource Development Director at Comet-ME. Comet-ME is an Israeli-Palestinian NGO providing off-grid renewable energy, clean water, and wireless internet infrastructure to vulnerable Palestinian communities in the occupied Palestinian territories…
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#352: Sanctions to Stop Settler Violence: U.S. Policy and the Path Forward, with Senator Peter Welch
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Recording of a conversation between Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and NJN President and CEO Hadar Susskind from September 3, 2025. Senator Welch recently reintroduced the SANCTIONS in the West Bank Act. This important legislation seeks to codify the Biden Administration Executive Order that imposed sanctions on those "undermining peace, security, and …
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#351: The Humanitarian Situation in Gaza: An Update
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from August 25th, 2025. Experts share updates on the evolving humanitarian situation in Gaza. Featuring: Dr. Tarek Loubani, a medical doctor and founder of the Glia project, which provides medical aid and services in war-torn regions, Palestine the first among them. He is currently working at a …
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#350: Linguistic Justice: How Language Shapes Accessibility in East Jerusalem with Lissan
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NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined here by Aliza Schoffman Land and Sirin Smoom from Lissan. Lissan, Arabic for language or tongue, advances a vision of a bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Jerusalem by promoting linguistic justice and equal access to basic rights and services for all Jerusalem residents through Hebrew language instruction to East Jerusalemi…
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#349: How To Talk To Your Congressperson About Israel and Palestine (with NJN Director of Government Relations, Madeleine Cereghino)
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In this episode of PeaceCast (recorded on August 1, 2025), Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by NJN's Director of Government Relations, Madeleine Cereghino, for a conversation about the mass flood of legislative actions revolving around Israel and Palestine that have hit Washington in the last handful of weeks. This episode addresses the basics of how …
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#348: What's Going On With Syria? (co-produced with J-LINK).
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Recording of a webinar hosted by NJN and J-LINK on July 29, 2025. The situation in Syria continues to evolve rapidly, with significant implications for regional stability and international relations. With regional alliances shifting and global attention elsewhere, what is the current state of play in Syria? What role can Syria play in future diplom…
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#347: Opening a New Health Clinic in Gaza
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from July 24th, 2025. Project Rozana, a longtime partner of NJN's that works to promote cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis in healthcare, is working to open a new health care clinic in Gaza – an initiative that NJN is proudly supporting. The conversation featured two Project Rozana le…
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#346: What Happened at the Trump-Netanyahu Meeting?
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from July 8th, 2025. On July 7th, President Trump is met with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington, DC. In the days leading up to and following the meeting, the rumors (and the Truth Social posts) have been coming fast and furious. Nobody really knows yet what this meeting means. Some of the q…
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#345: Israel/Palestine and the LGBTQ Community
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This is a recording of a NJN webinar from June 18th, 2025. Navigating issues related to Israel/Palestine in the queer community – and in some of the broader progressive spaces – can be challenging. There is a history of using Israel's relatively LGBTQ friendly environment to try to distract from the Occupation, a practice which has earned the label…
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#344: Emergency Briefing: Understanding the Israel-Iran War
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from June 19th, 2025. The Israeli government's decision to begin a bombing campaign in Iran on Thursday marked the beginning of a new chapter in the conflict. All of us are trying to make sense of the military action, the diplomatic fallout, and what the consequences will be for Israel, the regi…
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#343: The Weaponization of Antisemitism - with Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Kevin Rachlin
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from June 5th, 2025. We are living through a moment in the United States when we see both that antisemitism is rising and that the Trump administration is weaponizing antisemitism to silence its critics and to attack academia. For years, NJN has been a leader in making sure that efforts to count…
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#342: The Perimeter- Breaking the Silence's Gaza Report
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This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from June 4th, 2025. "The perimeter" is the term used to describe the ever-expanding buffer zone on the Gaza side of the entire Israel-Gaza border from which Palestinians have been forcibly removed since the beginning of the war. As Breaking the Silence's recent report demonstrates, the area has…
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