News from Within: Palestine/Israel is a podcast of the Alternative Information Center (AIC). The AIC is a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization which prioritizes political advocacy, critical analysis and information sharing on the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Local and International Perspectives on a Two
State Solution
In the
next few podcasts, we will be bringing you some highlights from the
International conference, Building a Future Together: Alternatives to the
Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which took place in Bethlehem,
Palestine on 2-3
December 2005. The conference was jointly organized by the Alternative Information
Center, the Palestinian
Health Works Committee, and the Alternative Tourism Group.
On this
show, we bring you a lecture by Virginia
Tilley titled Local and International Perspectives on a Two State Solution.
Virginia Tilley is a professor of Political Science at Hobart
and William Smith
Colleges in NY and author of The One-State Solution: A
Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock from the University of Michigan Press.
News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Israel Responsible for over One Billion Dollars in Damage to East Jerusalem Palestinians
In a press conference, held on 14 March 2007, Shir Hever, economist and researcher for the Alternative Information Center (AIC), presented findings from his recently published bulletin titled "The Separation Wall in East Jerusalem-Economic Consequences." He discussed the damage that the Wall has and continues to produce for the population of East Jerusalem, and how this impacts the future prospects for achieving a just peace for both the Palestinians and Israelis.
News from Within Podcast: International
Legal Solutions for War Crimes and Human Rights Violations - The Experience in
Latin America and its Relation to the Situation in Palestine
On Feb 6
2007, the Alternative Information Center
(AIC) and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), jointly hosted a lecture by Judge Juan Guzman at the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem. Judge Guzman is a retired Chilean judge who became internationally famous for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, after Pinochets return to Chile following more than a year of house arrest in London, England. He spoke together with Israeli human rights lawyer, Lea Tsemel on "International Legal Solutions for War Crimes and Human Rights Violations: The Experience in Latin America and its Relation to the Situation in Palestine."
News from Within PODCAST: Elections, Occupation and Solidarity - An Interview with Professor Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart is a professor emeritus of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and currently Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at NYU and a professor at the University of Utrecht. She has written several books on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, has a column in Israels largest daily, Yideot Aharonot, and has had many articles published in international journals. Her latest book, The Roadmap to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003, is published by Verso Press.
This interview was conducted in April 2006, shortly after the Israeli elections, and Prof. Reinhart discusses the implications of the election win by Olmerts Kadima Party, the Labor partys agreement to join in a coalition government, historical background about Amir Peretz, the current head of the Labor party, the ongoing international sanctions against the Hamas led Palestinian government, the international communitys relations with Israel and support for the continuation of the Occupation of Palestinian land, the opportunities and limits of the international and local movement against Israeli policies, and background about her support of academic boycott and its relation to leaving her position as professor at Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Reinhart was interviewed by Bryan Atinsky of the Alternative Information Center (AIC).
AIC PODCAST: Discussion - Education under Occupation
The discussion focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian and Israeli educational systems, and how local and international educational strategies can be effective in working to end the occupation. Palestinian, Israeli and International educators, discuss ways in which pedagogy can be an essential tool in working towards liberation, human rights, and democracy building or a means for subjugation and oppression. With: Michael "Mikado" Warschawski, Hanan Aruri, Howard S. Davidson, Ilan Pappe and others.
Podcasts 
Tanya Reinhart is a professor emeritus of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and currently Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at NYU and a professor at the University of Utrecht. She has written several books on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, has a column in Israels largest daily, Yideot Aharonot, and has had many articles published in international journals. Her latest book, The Roadmap to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003, is published by Verso Press.
