The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies"Garin Torani" (or Torah Nucleus) refers to groups of religious and extremist individuals who settle in the heart of Israeli cities with the aim of Judaizing them. These groups have two main goals: to besiege the secular culture of Israelis and to combat the Palestinian presence in coastal cities. In this episode, we host Abdel Qader Badawi, a researcher at the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies – Madar, to explain the rise of the Torah Nucleus and the role of the Oslo Accords in this phenomenon. He will particularly address the "Rosh Yehudi" nucleus that is active in Tel Aviv, highlighting how it creates friction, sometimes violent, with secular Israelis.
<p>On August 30, 1993, the Israeli government headed by Yitzhak Rabin held an important meeting that ended with agreeing to sign the Oslo Accords. The guest of the episode, Professor Antoine Shalhat, reviews the minutes of this session, which was crucial for the Israelis and which preceded the signing of the Oslo Accords in the courtyards of the White House two weeks later.</p>
Many provisions of the coalition agreements of Netanyahu's right-wing religious-settler government focus on the creeping de facto and legal annexation of the West Bank. In this episode, lawyer Sawsan Zahr, who previously served as deputy director of the Adalah Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, provides an extensive analysis of the policies guiding the work of the Israeli government. She discusses how these policies will impact the future of the West Bank, the viability of the two-state solution, and Israel's international standing, especially in light of the growing international human rights discourse accusing Israel of establishing a system of "exclusive Jewish supremacy" between the river and the sea.
On June 21, 2023, the Israeli police violently suppressed protests by the people of the occupied Syrian Golan against the project to build air turbines on their land. In this episode, Wael Tarabay, a Syrian artist and activist from the occupied Golan Heights, discusses the lands of the Golan people. He critically addresses their tense relationship with the State of Israel and the complex relations with the Druze community in the Palestinian Galilee.
