Listen to inspiring peacemakers
Nader Abu Amsha, director of Bethlehem YMCA. Interview with Nader in Bristol on 2 December 2008. He talks about the rehabilitation programme, saying “We are healing the wounds but the reason for the wounds is still there.” (13 minutes) Click here to download…
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe. This book by the Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, is disturbing reading as it provides evidence as to how the ideology of zionism to forcibly remove the indigenous Palestinian population from the newly created state of Israel was put into practise. In this audio, two Jewish women, Lisa Saffron and Michal Nahman, talk about their reactions to this book. (15 minues) Click here to listen…
Bethlehem Link is a registered charity which organises cultural visits by Palestinian children from the Ghirass Centre in Bethlehem to the UK where they stay with local familes and schools. Interview with Nina Beaven, secretary and founder and Dr. Judith Brown, trustee. More information at www.bethlehemlink.org.uk Includes dabka music by the Hakaya Singers. 7 July 2008 (18 minutes) Click here to listen…
Coming together on the 60th anniversary: Maha el Taji Daghash, a Palestinian peace maker/academic living in Israel, talks about a joint Nakba/Independence Day commemoration in Israel attended by both Israeli Jews and Palestinians. 17 July 2008 (18 minutes) Click here to listen…
A British doctor in Gaza: Tony Davies, retired medical teacher from Exeter, talks about his recent trip to Gaza and the West Bank. 28 July 2008. (30 minutes) Click here to listen…
Susan Nathan: Interview with the author of The Other Side of Israel. From the book’s synopsis: “This is the pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra. ..The increasing segregation of, and disinclination against, the million-strong Arabic population of Israel is something she witnesses at first hand… Written with warmth, compassion and humour, “The Other Side of Israel” is one courageous woman’s positive life-enhancing response to a situation in which entrenched attitudes lead only to more violence and bloodshed.” Interview done 14 July 2008 (14 minutes) Click here to listen…
