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Unsettled is a podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. We're here to provide a space for the difficult conversations and diverse viewpoints that are all too rare in institutional American Jewish communities.
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101 EpisodenIn Remembrance: Awdah Hathaleen
In remembrance of Awdah Hathaleen, who was murdered by an Israeli settler on Monday, July 28th, Unsettled Podcast has created a compilation of our pre...
An Ask from Unsettled
Since the small team at Unsettled started producing the show seven and a half years ago, we've published almost 100 episodes — personal stories, exper...
"Ethnic cleansing by a thousand cuts": an update from the South Hebron Hills
In this episode of Unsettled, we hear from Ali Awad, a 26-year-old activist and translator living in Tuba, a village in a region of the west bank cal...
Matt Duss: "It is not a war of self-defense. It is a war of choice."
With the one year anniversary of October 7th last Monday, Unsettled followed up with previous guest Matt Duss to ask him about President Biden's appro...
Rabbi Abby Stein: "There's a long, long road ahead"
It’s currently high holiday season, the holiest time in the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah, was last week and Yom Kippur begins tonight at sundown. Th...
Shahd Safi's fight to reclaim hope
On October 31, 2023, Unsettled aired an interview with 22-year-old Shahd Safi, a university student and freelance journalist from Gaza. At the time, s...
Asaf Calderon: "The problem as we understand it is Zionism"
Today is October 7th, 2024. One year ago, thousands of militants led by Hamas launched a multi-front attack on Israeli towns and military bases, killi...
Our Voicemail Is Open
On October 14th, 2023, we set up a voicemail and invited listeners to share their thoughts and feelings with us. We received messages of grief, fear,...
Tareq Baconi: The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
Last Wednesday on July 31st, Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran. Haniyeh came to the capital city of Tehran for the presid...
The Columbia Encampment
On Tuesday April 30th, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called the New York Police Department to clear the campus of students who had ere...
'Ayeka': a new song from Aly Halpert
For this episode of Unsettled, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: premiering a new song.
Aly Halpert makes music used in synagogues...
Rabbi Miriam Grossman: “We act and we do not wait for hope”
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, grief and rage have brought thousands of people to the streets to demand a ceasefire. One of the many groups...
An update from Isam Hamad
The last time we featured Isam Hamad on Unsettled was a few days after the October 7th attacks, when Israel had just begun its bombardment of the Gaza...
Talking to Our Families
Just before Thanksgiving, we asked listeners to call in and tell us about how they’re navigating conversations with their families, friends, and commu...
Milena Ansari: “Detention without trial or charge”
As of Thursday, November 30th, a temporary ceasefire is in place between Israel and Hamas. The truce allows for an exchange of hostages who have been...
Noam Shuster-Eliassi: “We are broken”
It's hard to find anyone in Israel who isn't shaken to the core by the magnitude of Hamas' attack on October 7. For many in Israel, their pain and sho...
“The worst it’s ever been”: the South Hebron Hills after October 7
It’s been a month since October 7, when Hamas fighters killed 1,400 Israelis and captured more than 200 hostages. It’s also been a month of Israel's r...
Shahd Safi: "We need electricity, we need fuel, we need flour, we need bread"
On Friday, October 27th, Israel cut off internet in the Gaza Strip for 36-hours, as it expanded its ground operations. This total internet blackout le...
Arie Hasit: "Everybody has opened a situation room"
Last week, Producer Ilana Levinson talked to Arie Hasit at his home in Israel, in the midst of a deadly war. Arie and his family, including two small...
Matt Duss: "This is not a moment where people are making good policy"
The United States has always been Israel’s strongest ally, and President Biden has pledged his steadfast support for Israel since Hamas's surprise att...
Isam Hamad: "What sort of a life is this?"
On Saturday, October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack across the Gaza border, killing more than 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilians, and taking at lea...
Tareq Baconi: "There's no going back"
Over the next few days, Unsettled is going to bring you the voices of many different people who have been affected by this week's devastating escalati...
A note from Unsettled producers
Earlier today Hamas launched an attack on Israeli towns near the Gaza border, and has also been launching rockets towards Israeli population centers a...
Groundwork: Three Bullets
For more resources on the topics discussed in this episode:
Women Wage Peace
Women of the Sun
AChord
Abraham Initiative...
Amjad Iraqi: The Myth of Israeli Democracy
Israel is often called "the only Democracy in the Middle East,” with activists, politicians, and even journalists pointing to Israel's Supreme Court a...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Awdah Hathaleen
Awdah Hathaleen lives in the village of Umm al-Khair, in the South Hebron Hills: a region of the West Bank where Israel has full civil and military co...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Musa Abdullah Ali Awad
Musa Abdullah Ali Awad lives in the village of Isfey al-Fauqa. Isfey is located in a part of the West Bank called Masafer Yatta, where Israel has tota...
Escalation in the South Hebron Hills: Ali Awad
Masafer Yatta is in Area C of the West Bank, where Israel has total civil and military control. For decades, the Israeli military has claimed much of...
Producer Pick: Politicized Pain
To commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode...
Producer Pick: Amal Sumarin
To commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode...
Producer Pick: The Great March
To commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode...
Producer Pick: Dan Fishback & Motaz Malhees
To commemorate five years of Unsettled, we’re closing out 2022 by diving into our archive. Each member of the team has picked a favorite past episode...
Be Back Soon
Unsettled is currently on a break from releasing new content, but we’ll be back on your feed in the Fall. While we’re gone, make sure to catch up on s...
Mona Mansour & Hadi Tabbal: The Vagrant Trilogy
In 1967, a young Palestinian scholar is invited to London to lecture on his mastery of a William Wordsworth poem. But after he arrives, war breaks out...
"Playgrounds for the military"
Last week, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued an opinion that could lead to one of the largest population transfers in recent history. After a d...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 4: The Spring
Ein al-Beida is a fresh water spring that used to be the main source of water for several Palestinian villages — until Israeli settlers moved in and c...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 3: Lilly
Lilly is a young activist from North London who has been to the West Bank many times before — just never with other Jews. In this episode of “The Birt...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 2: Bob
Bob first visited Israel in 1969, when he was on leave from his U.S. military service in Vietnam. He was raised in a Zionist home; he has relatives wh...
The Birthday Party, Pt. 1: Tariq
In this special miniseries from Unsettled, producer Max Freedman spends nine days in the South Hebron Hills with Palestinians and Jews working togethe...
The Campaign to Save Masafer Yatta
On March 15, Israel’s High Court of Justice heard a case that could lead to one of the largest forced population transfers in recent history. For more...