The Israel-Palestine battle goes again many years, however this newest struggle has taken an unprecedented toll when it comes to the variety of folks killed, and represents a major step again from any hopes of securing a two-state answer and a everlasting peace. Vox podcasts are overlaying the battle in depth, providing our listeners context and readability in regards to the historical past of the battle, a deeper understanding of the gamers in Israel and Palestine and on the world stage, and the toll of Hamas’s assault and Israel’s retaliation on the folks within the area.
At present, Defined, Vox’s each day information explainer podcast, has been overlaying the battle because it started, with an episode posted proper after Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel that took the lives of round 1,200 folks and resulted within the kidnapping of an estimated 240 hostages. The present has since continued to cowl many threads on this story, from the place Hamas comes from to how false details about the battle has unfold on social media and the way info warfare is used within the Center East. Vox podcasts The Weeds and The Grey Space have additionally been overlaying the unfolding disaster, its stakes, and its affect.
You could find these and all our different episodes on the subject beneath; we’ll proceed so as to add extra as new episodes are revealed.
Israel, Gaza, and Eurovision
Could 7, 2024 | The pop music competitors is going through boycott calls over Israel’s participation. Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding and historian Tess Megginson clarify why the apolitical occasion retains getting political.
Is divesting from Israel potential?
Could 6, 2024 | Sure, nevertheless it’s laborious. Inside Greater Ed’s Josh Moody and UC Merced’s Charlie Eaton clarify.
Columbia’s free-speech combat
April 24, 2024 | Each day Spectator information editor Sarah Huddleston stories on the protests at her college. AAUP President Irene Mulvey explains the stakes for campus free speech.
Why Iran attacked Israel
April 15, 2024 | The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom explains. Jerusalem-based journalist Noga Tarnopolsky explores whether or not the unprecedented assault hurts or helps Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel’s assault on World Central Kitchen
April 4, 2024 | The Wall Avenue Journal’s Stephen Kalin explains what occurred, and Refugees Worldwide president Jeremy Konyndyk lays out what this implies for Gazans.
How Israel is upending Democratic races
March 5, 2024 | Tremendous Tuesday is the most important day of the presidential main marketing campaign, however the greatest race within the greatest state isn’t about Biden or Trump. As an alternative, the main candidates for California’s open Senate seat — three Democrats and a Republican — are discovering themselves speaking so much about Israel, Palestine, and the struggle in Gaza.
The protest vote towards Biden
February 27, 2024 | Michigan’s main right this moment will take a look at President Biden’s viability with Muslim voters amid the struggle in Gaza. One Arab American chief says the group is abandoning Biden and searching for options — Donald Trump is likely to be certainly one of them.
Rafah, the final “protected” zone
February 15, 2024 | Palestinians are trapped in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost metropolis, the place about 1.5 million folks have sought refuge. After Israel bombed Rafah this weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening a floor invasion. Palestinian journalist Aseel Mousa takes us inside Rafah, and the Economist’s Anton La Guardia explains why diplomatic efforts to halt the preventing have stalled.
Iran and the Axis of Resistance
January 31, 2024 | Iran-backed militias use drones, missiles, and even TikTok dances to antagonize america and Israel. The Worldwide Disaster Group’s Ali Vaez explains how the struggle in Gaza has energized the self-described Axis of Resistance.
Israel on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice
January 29, 2024 | South Africa took Israel to courtroom over claims of genocide. Courthouse Information reporter Molly Quell and the Worldwide Disaster Group’s Robert Blecher clarify what occurred subsequent.
How the struggle in Gaza ends
January 18, 2024 | Israel’s struggle towards Hamas has now been raging for over 100 days. In keeping with Ian Lustick, professor emeritus on the College of Pennsylvania, historical past tells us what it would take to finish it.
Israel’s subsequent transfer
January 3, 2023 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces bother at dwelling and overseas. AP correspondent Tia Goldenberg and scholar Hussein Ibish clarify the importance of a high-profile killing in Lebanon.
The combat over campus antisemitism
December 12, 2023 | Three elite college presidents stroll into Congress for a listening to on antisemitism. Solely two nonetheless have their jobs. New York journal reporter Nia Prater tells us what occurred, and a Harvard professor of Jewish historical past explains why he thinks resignations received’t make campuses safer.
How Palestine went international
December 4, 2023 | Individuals with no direct connection to the Center East have taken to seeing the Palestinian trigger as an anti-colonial battle linked to their very own expertise. Columbia historian Rashid Khalidi explains why “decolonization” is resonating worldwide.
The American politics of Israel
November 29, 2023 | The Israel-Hamas struggle is dividing the beforehand united Democrats and uniting the lately fractured Republican Celebration. Semafor’s David Weigel explains what which means going into 2024.
The hostage deal (dropped at you by Qatar)
November 27, 2023 | After 50 days of the Israel-Hamas struggle, either side took a breather to avoid wasting lives. And it couldn’t have occurred with out Qatar.
Contained in the occupied West Financial institution
November 20, 2023 | With the world centered on Gaza, Israeli settlers and troopers are growing assaults on Palestinians within the West Financial institution. Author Nathan Thrall and journalist Dalia Hatuqa clarify the many years of rigidity that form life within the West Financial institution.
A name from Gaza
November 14, 2023 | Individuals are desperately making an attempt to flee Gaza because the siege on the strip continues. Mohammed Ghalaieny, a Palestinian British man, tells us why he’s selecting to remain, whilst different overseas nationals escape by means of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
A Jew and a Muslim get sincere about Israel and Gaza
November 13, 2023 | Zack Beauchamp, a Vox senior correspondent who writes about democracy and Israel, speaks with Shadi Hamid, a columnist on the Washington Publish, analysis professor of Islamic research at Fuller Seminary, and writer of The Drawback of Democracy: America, the Center East, and the Rise and Fall of an Concept. They talk about the October 7 assault, the following struggle in Gaza, what it means for Israelis and Palestinians, and the way Jews and Muslims in america can discover frequent floor amid their communities’ grief. This dialog was recorded on November 2, 2023.
BDS and the historical past of the boycott
November 8, 2023 | When you activate the information or scroll by means of your social media feed of selection, there’s likelihood you’ll see the newest on the Israel-Hamas struggle — and the response to it. However there’s one name to motion making its method down social media feeds that feels completely different from all these different responses. It’s known as BDS, quick for boycott, divest, and sanction. And like nearly every thing associated to this battle, it’s difficult and controversial. The Weeds host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with Vox senior reporter Whizy Kim to elucidate the controversial motion, and with Cornell professor and writer of Shopping for Energy: A Historical past of Shopper Activism in America Lawrence B. Glickman to debate the historical past of boycotts and whether or not they even work.
Ceasefire?
November 8, 2023 | Protesters, politicians, and the pope are calling for a ceasefire within the Israel-Hamas struggle, however the US and Israeli governments stay opposed. Vox’s Jonathan Guyer and Jon B. Alterman from the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research clarify what occurs subsequent.
The view from Israel
November 2, 2023 | Israelis overwhelmingly disapprove of their authorities’s dealing with of the October 7 assaults, however their need for unity retains Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in energy. Michael Koplow of the Israel Coverage Discussion board explains what Israel’s authorities ought to do subsequent, and professor Noah Efron of Bar-Ilan College describes the temper amongst Israelis.
Gaza’s humanitarian disaster
October 30, 2023 | Minimize off from water and energy and recovering from a communications blackout, Gaza is plunged deeper into disaster. It’s not only a humanitarian downside, says main human rights lawyer Kenneth Roth — it’s a violation of worldwide legislation.
Why does the US all the time aspect with Israel?
October 25, 2023 | This was the highest query we obtained after we requested At present, Defined listeners hat they wished to find out about this battle. Joel Beinin, Center East historical past professor emeritus at Stanford, has solutions.
Hearts, minds, and likes
October 23, 2023 | False details about what is occurring in Israel and Gaza is taking on social media sooner than journalists like BBC Confirm’s Shayan Sardarizadeh can examine it. That’s precisely how digital propagandists need it, says professor and social media skilled Marc Owen Jones.
Biden goes to Israel
October 18, 2023 | It’s been 11 days since Hamas attacked Israel, killing civilians and taking hostages. Israel’s retaliation has killed a whole bunch of Palestinians and created a humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Senior fellow on the Carnegie Endowment Aaron David Miller and Center East analyst Michael Wahid Hanna clarify what position diplomacy will play within the coming days.
How Palestinians view Hamas
October 16, 2023 | The US together with Israel and lots of of its allies have lengthy thought of Hamas a terrorist group. Khaled Al-Hroub, a professor at Northwestern College in Qatar, explains how its repute is so much murkier amongst Palestinians, who elected the group to political energy in 2006.
Israel, Hamas, and the way we obtained right here
October 10, 2023 | This Israel-Hamas struggle is not like those that got here earlier than it, says Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer. Nevertheless it was years within the making, says Vox’s Zack Beauchamp.
