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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 defend and support Palestinian rights, end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and ensure a just and secure future for Palestinians and Israelis. FMEP advances this goal through its grants program, public programming, and research. www.fmep.org

UNRWA's continued work on the ground

35 mins; March 30, 2026

How Gaza Broke the Art World

52 mins; March 25, 2026

Sde Teiman & Permission to Rape

30 mins; March 19, 2026

The Gulf Countries and the American Security Umbrella - What Comes Next?

57 mins; March 17, 2026

The escalating drive toward Greater Israel - a view from Ramallah

49 mins; March 13, 2026

Iran, Gaza and accountability – a conversation with Ben Rhodes

66 hours 21 mins; March 09, 2026

What do West Bank Palestinian youth want?

37 mins; March 04, 2026

The American-Israeli war on Iran - Polls and Impact on Strategic Considerations

55 mins; March 04, 2026

ICE, Gaza & The Flow of Surveillance Technology to Fuel Repression

21 mins; February 24, 2026

Upside-Down Love, human rights work, and living in the West Bank: A conversation with Sari Bashi

54 mins; February 15, 2026

Forced Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing in the service of Jewish Supremacy

39 mins; February 09, 2026

Enduring devastation: "They redefined the human being in Gaza"

57 mins; February 05, 2026

Severed: Looking at Disability Justice, Palestinian rights, and Gaza

29 mins; February 02, 2026

Institutionalizing sexual violence and torture: the findings of the UN Committee on Torture

51 mins; January 27, 2026

Destroying systems that sustain life: Israel's destruction of healthcare in Palestine

52 mins; January 22, 2026

"We have talked enough about ourselves": a conversation with Benjamin Moser

54 mins; January 15, 2026

Shifts in US Policy & Public Opinion, the Impact of BDS, and Assessing Coming Threats

52 mins; December 23, 2025

From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine

61 hours 4 mins; December 17, 2025

Christians in Gaza, Ecclesiocide, and Kairos Palestine II

35 mins; December 09, 2025

Surrealism against fascism - a conversation with Naomi Klein

51 mins; December 03, 2025

Boycott, solidarity & taking responsibility: Ahmed Moor speaks to Peter Beinart about the TAU speech

38 mins; November 28, 2025

Queerness and Liberation: A Discussion about 'Fire in Every Direction' with Tareq Baconi

60 hours 40 mins; November 25, 2025

Jewish Institutions and Anti-Zionism

57 mins; November 18, 2025

“Without memory, there can be no justice" - Archiving the Gaza Genocide

54 mins; November 12, 2025

Jordan, the Gulf, and American Policy in Palestine

65 hours 54 mins; November 11, 2025

The Palestine Laboratory, A Conversation with Antony Loewenstein

63 hours 22 mins; November 04, 2025

The International Solidarity Movement and the Freedom Flotillas

57 mins; October 29, 2025

Media, BDS, and Lessons from 25 Years of Solidarity Work

53 mins; October 24, 2025

Attacks on the First Amendment Continue

39 mins; October 20, 2025

The Starvation Regime and Plausible Deniability for War Crimes

54 mins; October 17, 2025

Accountability After Genocide and the Emerging Left-Right Consensus on Israel in America

54 mins; October 13, 2025

MAGA & the FBI Break Up with the ADL

57 mins; October 08, 2025

On the new 20-Point-Plan, Recognition of Palestinian Statehood, and Popular Pressure to End the Genocide

35 mins; September 29, 2025

UC Berkeley’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom in this Time of Genocide

23 mins; September 23, 2025

FMEP Fellows Peter Beinart & Ahmed Moor on Palestinian statehood & US politics

25 mins; September 21, 2025

Poetry of the Camps: Poems from Gaza on Homeland, Miracles, and Freedom

47 mins; September 19, 2025

On the Global Sumud Flotilla Heading for Gaza

39 mins; September 18, 2025

Apartheid, Genocide, and the Growing Chasm in the Right's Support for Israel

36 mins; September 12, 2025

The Holocaust, the Nakba, the Genocide in Gaza & How the I.H.R.A. Definition of Antisemitism Censors Scholars

58 mins; August 29, 2025

How Israel Targets Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

27 mins; August 26, 2025

Necroviolence: On Israel's Corpse Captivity Policy and Palestinian Practices of Dignity & Defiance

46 mins; August 19, 2025

"No Way But Forward": Life in the Gaza Strip

35 mins; August 15, 2025

Palestinian Citizens of Israel, the Future, and Inconsequential Palestinian State Recognition: a conversation with Diana Buttu

46 mins; August 13, 2025

Destroying the Conditions of Life: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel on Israel's Genocide in Gaza

30 mins; August 06, 2025

Music & Dance in Jerusalem: The Power of Culture in the Face of Israeli Repression

74 hours 13 mins; August 01, 2025

Destroying Palestinian Life in Gaza in a Systemic, Deliberate Way: "Our Genocide"

36 mins; July 29, 2025

Humanizing and Historicizing the World in a Time of Genocide

28 mins; July 25, 2025

A conversation with Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of JVP

64 hours 26 mins; July 16, 2025

Iyad El-Baghdadi on "Late Stage Zionism" & What it Suggests for the Future of Israel and Palestine

31 mins; July 16, 2025

How Western journalists are complicit in Israel’s effort to silence Palestinian journalists

47 mins; July 11, 2025

How to think about Gazans' mental health during this genocide

47 mins; July 11, 2025

The Urgency of Telling Palestinian Stories

48 mins; June 29, 2025

Jewish Anti-Zionism and the American Left

61 hours 53 mins; June 26, 2025

How Iranians Have Reacted to the US & Israeli Attacks

18 mins; June 26, 2025

Daily Life while Committing Genocide: the Lexicon of Brutality in Israel

64 hours 32 mins; June 09, 2025

What an American Doctor Saw in Gaza

42 mins; June 01, 2025

What Harvard’s Antisemitism and Islamophobia Reports Get Wrong

49 mins; May 16, 2025

What's happening between the U.S. and Iran?

58 mins; May 14, 2025

After Nonviolence and What Comes Next in Palestine: A conversation with Ben Ehrenreich

57 mins; May 02, 2025

"One hour after an attack, we prepare to be attacked again": Survival in Masafer Yatta

70 hours 14 mins; April 11, 2025

Memory Culture, Israel and Genocide: Criminalizing Speech in Germany

49 mins; April 11, 2025

Why are there so many child amputees in Gaza?

38 mins; April 02, 2025

Analyzing & Shifting U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine

54 mins; March 30, 2025

Protect Students, Don't Repress Them: The Hostile Environment for Human Rights on College Campuses

48 mins; March 30, 2025

Palestinian Politics Under Israeli Occupation

66 hours 16 mins; March 20, 2025

Israeli Detention and Torture of Palestinian Medical Workers: Testimonies, Patterns, and Analysis

35 mins; March 19, 2025

Staying home or Having "Gaza on their mind in the ballot box": Revisiting the 2024 Elections

54 mins; March 13, 2025

Gaza Genocide, Disinformation, and the Death of Truth, ft Assal Rad & Marc Owen Jones

60 hours 57 mins; March 12, 2025

Ceasefire Possibilities, Political Dynamics, Regional Aspirations, and the Trump Administration

42 mins; March 06, 2025

Harvard Professors on Censorship, Repression, and Opportunities for Speaking Up on Palestine

39 mins; February 26, 2025

The Boomerang Effect: Power and Resistance in the U.S. and Palestine

58 mins; February 19, 2025

Criminalize, Censor, Surveil: Escalating Repression Against Advocates for Palestinian Rights

41 mins; February 18, 2025

Dissent & Resigning from Harvard

46 mins; February 16, 2025

Sumūd: Poetry, Art, Steadfastness, and Joy

38 mins; February 11, 2025

"Centering Human Life, Disrupting Injustice Without Replicating It:" 2025 FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi

41 mins; February 04, 2025

Mapping Life & Land: Beirut Urban Lab

66 hours 1 min; February 03, 2025

Genocide and self-involvement: on being Israeli as Israel commits a historic crime

47 mins; January 23, 2025

The Escalation of Israel's Gaza-fication of the West Bank

49 mins; January 23, 2025

A toxic environment for those who dare to question: Prof. Katherine Franke w/ Peter Beinart

48 mins; January 22, 2025

Introducing 2025 Fellow Ahmed Moor: When "the urgency of the need isn't met by the pace of change."

39 mins; January 16, 2025

Holding Israel & the US Accountable for Gaza

52 mins; January 15, 2025

Why Some Israelis Refuse To Serve in the IDF

29 mins; December 23, 2024

Phoenix of Gaza: a 360° view of Palestinian agency and life

68 hours 35 mins; December 23, 2024

Can Syria Rebuild?

30 mins; December 17, 2024

Connecting the Bullets: Guns on the Kitchen Table to Organized Crime to Crimes Against Humanity

61 hours 41 mins; December 16, 2024

Eyewitness to Israel's Intentionally Created Health Apocalypse in Gaza

85 hours 49 mins; December 16, 2024

How and Why South African Care About Palestinians

36 mins; December 12, 2024

A Cartography of Genocide

38 mins; November 27, 2024

Understanding Palestinian Pain & Resistance: Reporting from the West Bank

49 mins; November 21, 2024

Beyond unipolarity and the 'rules-based international order' toward a "Better Order Project"

37 mins; November 18, 2024

Israel’s UNRWA Ban: What it means for Gaza, the UN and the World

74 hours 6 mins; November 01, 2024

Holding Israeli Media Accountable: Incitement to Genocide is a Crime

41 mins; October 21, 2024

"The clash between the stories we tell & the reality of life on the ground"

40 mins; October 16, 2024

Israel’s Plans for a “New Order” in the Middle East - a conversation with Mouin Rabbani

49 mins; October 14, 2024

The (Bipartisan) Betrayal of Arab Americans

43 mins; October 10, 2024

The (Bipartisan) Betrayal of Arab Americans

43 mins; October 10, 2024

Palestine in the 2024 U.S. Elections

46 mins; September 18, 2024

U.S. Policy Through the Looking Glass

37 mins; August 27, 2024

The Accountability Archive

44 mins; August 23, 2024

Turning Pain into Power: Feeding Families & Bringing Attention to Gaza

32 mins; August 07, 2024

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