The Palestinian Forum for Israeli StudiesAfter the 1967 occupation, Israel surrounded its settler colonization project in the occupied territory with a multi-level "legal" cover, with the Israeli Supreme Court forming one of the pillars of this legal structure. In this episode, lawyer Sawsan Zahr reviews the role of the Israeli Supreme Court in contributing to the permanence of the occupation, enabling settlements, and legitimizing the decisions of the Israeli establishment towards the occupied territory and its Palestinian inhabitants. This episode summarizes a book published by MADAR in October on Israeli Supreme Court decisions related to the territories occupied in 1967, prepared by Attorney Sawsan Zahr, who previously served as Deputy Director of Adalah in Israel.
In 2018, the Israeli Ministry of Education developed a five-year plan targeting the city of Jerusalem, aiming to integrate more Arab schools into the Israeli education curriculum and condition the development of their infrastructure on accepting this integration. In this episode, Dr. Maram Masarweh, lecturer and head of the Education Department at Al Qasimi Academy, discusses the efforts to Israelize education in Jerusalem and the conditions that Jerusalemites face regarding the educational process and opportunities to engage in the labor market.
How have decades of marginalization of Palestinians and the erosion of their health rights impacted the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Israel? In this episode, Professor Nihaya Daoud discusses neoliberal and colonial Israel, the concept of health justice, and the ethics of distributing the coronavirus vaccine. Daoud, a researcher and specialist in health disparities, provides recommendations with social and political dimensions to protect the health rights of Palestinians inside Israel.
In Israel, the coronavirus cabinet makes all crucial decisions related to the economy, education, health, and security during the pandemic. This episode explores where this apparatus has failed and how the new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, will address the fourth wave of the pandemic. Dr. Bishara Bisharat, President of the Association for the Development of Arab Community Health at the Israeli Medical Association and medical coordinator of the state’s Corona team, discusses the medical decision-making system in Israel.
This episode is a reading of the book " Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev," published in Arabic by MADAR in 2021. In this episode, we host Dr. Ahmed Amara, one of the authors of the book, who will delve into the legal history of the Negev lands, refuting the Zionist narratives related to the place and its inhabitants. Dr. Amara discusses the history of the legal struggle over land ownership, drawing on archival materials, interviews, and inspections.
Palestinian political action inside Israel is undergoing significant changes that must be addressed. Key developments include the split of the Joint Arab List, the entry of an Arab party into the government coalition, the confrontations in most Palestinian cities during the May 2021 uprising, and the formation of a right-wing Israeli government headed by Naftali Bennett. In this episode, Mr. Antoine Shalhat will host Mr. Muhammad Baraka, Chairman of the Higher Follow-up Committee for Palestinian Affairs in the 1948 Territories, to discuss the future of Palestinian political action within Israel. This episode is based on a political seminar conducted by the MADAR on July 13, 2021.
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