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Occupied Thoughts
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…
Episodes
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Getting Serious about Accountability for Genocide and Apartheid: Sanctions, US law, the ICC and Universal Jurisdiction
Note from FMEP: This conversation was recorded on November 4, 2026., the last day of Ahmed Moor's fellowship with FMEP, which began in 2025 and continued until…
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Jewish Anti-Zionism: A conversation with Shaul Magid and Zev Mishell
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Shaul Magid and Zev Mishell about their new book, Jewish Anti-Zionism: A Historical…
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How Israel Used the Election as Cover to Attack Hebron
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Hebron resident & activist Issa Amro about what is happening now in the West Bank…
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Solidarity Work in the Face of Settler Terror in the West Bank - updated
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay of Rabbis for a Ceasefire and Oriel Eisner of the Center for…
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The Palestinian Struggle: the tip of the spear to moving towards a more just and egalitarian world
In this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist Tareq Baconi about his new…
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Barred from Knesset Elections: Sami Abu Shehadeh on the State of Israeli "Democracy"
Barred from Knesset Elections: Sami Abu Shehadeh on the State of Israeli "Democracy" In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks…
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Why Settler Violence is Out of Control
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with journalist Dalia Hatuqa about what's really going on in the West Bank. They discuss…
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Reviewing NAZA - a conversation with Mahmoud Mushtaha and Muhammad Shehada
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with journalist & researcher Mahmoud Mushtaha and researcher & writer Muhammad Shehada…
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"The Elimination Project:" Israel's Effort to Systematically Dismantle Palestinian Collective Life
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with B'Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak about B'Tselem's newest report, "The…
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"The Condition of Being Palestinian in English" Fady Joudah on Exhibit G
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with poet & physician Fady Joudah about Fady's new book, Exhibit G, which was released…
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How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide
In this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with historian and author Dr. Assal Rad about the media's role in the…
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What Will Sanctions on Israel do?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with international lawyer Itay Epshtain about the recent decision by 12 countries, led…
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Six Months into the Iran War
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with journalist and commentator Negar Mortazavi about the developments & dynamics around…
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The Jewish vote in Michigan, Florida, and Beyond
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with journalist Alex Kane (Jewish Currents) about the role that Palestine/Israel is playing…
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Navigating Bad-faith Accusations of Antisemitism
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with researcher Ben Lorber about the "bad-faith disinfo[rmation] attacks" against Hasan…
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How Powerful Is Israel’s Lobby?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, co-authors of the new book Israel’s Lobby: America in…
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Supremacy over Democracy: The Shame of the American Jewish Establishment
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor interviews FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart about Peter's recent Jewish Currents essay, "The Shame of the…
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Israel, a Personal History - a conversation with Swedish author, Göran Rosenberg
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Swedish author Göran Rosenberg. They discuss messianism in Jewish history, the…
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Meeting Gaza's Needs for Food, Justice, & Accountability
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Hani Almadhoun, Vice President of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA and co-founder of Gaza…
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Reeling Israel In: A Conversation with Seth Ackerman
In this conversation, FMEP non-resident Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Seth Ackerman (Jacobin Magazine) about the latter's recent article on a speech by Rahm…
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On Building Power in the Palestine Movement
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Abed Abou Shhadeh, a community organizer based in Jaffa who served as a City…
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The betrayal of Gaza’s journalists
In this episode of FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Anan Quzmar, a Palestinian researcher focused on the systematic…
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The Biden administration and genocide: An interview with investigative journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor does a deep-dive with award-winning foreign affairs journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed into the…
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TrackAIPAC: A conversation with co-founders Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy, the co-founders of TrackAIPAC, a campaign to that…
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The Urgent Threat to Dr. Abu Safiya's Life: "They Brought Me Here to Kill Me"
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Naji Abbas, Director of the Prisoners and Detainees Department at Physicians for Human…
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Umm al Khair: A conversation with Eid Suleman and Andrey X
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Eid Suleiman, a resident of the village of Umm al Khair in Masafer Yatta in the…
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Born into Apartheid: The Work of Dismantling Jewish Supremacy
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Yuli Novak, executive director of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem…
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Breakup: Will the Iran War Accelerate US Efforts to Craft an Independent Foreign Policy?
The Quincy Institute and Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) co-hosted this webinar that examined how the war on Iran — which was conducted by the…
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How the Iran War will change the Middle East
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Professor Dana El Kurd (University of Richmond) and Professor Nader Hashemi…
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Accountability and the culture of elite impunity in America
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Harrison Mann, a former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense…
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Unveiling the Israel Lobby
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Omar Shakir, Executive Director of Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), about…
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Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and White Nationalism
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with analyst Ben Lorber about the definition of antisemitism today and how it compares to…
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Abraham Discords -- Normalization and Instability
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Matt Duss and Zuri Linetsky about the destabilizing nature of the Abraham Accords; the…
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Israeli Settlements in Lebanon - a Movement Takes Shape
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with journalist Maya Rosen and analyst Natasha Soffer-Roth about the groups behind the…
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Gaza's Disappeared
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Mahmoud Mushtaha, a journalist and researcher from Gaza, and Obada Shtaya, the…
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The Roots of Israel’s Aggression Against Lebanon
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Bard College Professor Ziad Abu-Rish about the roots of Israel’s aggression against…
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Europe Reckons with the "Israel Impunity Tax"
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman is joined by political analyst/commentator Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East…
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Iran War - A regional tour d'horizon with Omar Rahman
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Middle East policy journalist, analyst, and author Omar Rahman about the Iran…
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The Iran Blockade and Israel's War Logic
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor holds a quick conversation with FMEP President Lara Friedman in which they discuss the U.S.'s…
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Iran, the DNC, and Prospects for a Ceasefire: A conversation with Matt Duss
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with foreign policy analyst Matt Duss about whether the US has lost the war on Iran and…
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Censorship, Repression, and Migration of Jewish Israelis
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with journalist Oren Ziv (+972 Magazine/Local Call & Activestills) about the dynamics of…
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Challenging Anti-Palestinian Repression in the UK & Europe
In this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Dr. Amira Abdelhamid, Director of Research & Monitoring at the…
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Israel's Death Penalty law - the evolution of apartheid
In this episode of FMEP's Occupied Thoughts podcast, FMEP fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Sawsan Zaher, an independent Palestinian human rights lawyer based in…
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UNRWA's continued work on the ground
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA. They discuss the role of UNRWA…
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How Gaza Broke the Art World
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with David Velasco, the former editor-in-chief of the art magazine Artforum. Ahmed and…
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Sde Teiman & Permission to Rape
FMEP non resident fellow Peter Beinart is joined by Sari Bashi (Executive Director, Public Committee Against Torture in Israeli) to discuss the dismissal of…
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The Gulf Countries and the American Security Umbrella - What Comes Next?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with analyst Annelle Sheline about the history of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which…
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The escalating drive toward Greater Israel - a view from Ramallah
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with Ramallah-based Palestinian journalist/analyst/commentator Nour Odeh. Nour is an…
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Iran, Gaza and accountability – a conversation with Ben Rhodes
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, about the US &…
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What do West Bank Palestinian youth want?
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP President Lara Friedman speaks with author and scholar Dr. Nathan J. Brown about his recent article, For Younger…
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The American-Israeli war on Iran - Polls and Impact on Strategic Considerations
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with University of Maryland Professor Dr. Shibley Telhami and FMEP President Lara Friedman…
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ICE, Gaza & The Flow of Surveillance Technology to Fuel Repression
FMEP Non-resident Fellow Peter Beinart interviews researcher and journalist Dr. Sophia Goodfriend on the pernicious flow of repressive surveillance technology…
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Upside-Down Love, human rights work, and living in the West Bank: A conversation with Sari Bashi
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with human rights attorney and writer Sari Bashi about her new memoir, Upside-Down Love: A…
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Forced Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing in the service of Jewish Supremacy
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Myssana Morany, a lawyer and coordinator of the Land and Planning Rights Unit of…
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Enduring devastation: "They redefined the human being in Gaza"
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Jaser Abu Mousa, a 2025 Yale Peace Fellow and past Program Officer working for the…
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Severed: Looking at Disability Justice, Palestinian rights, and Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, 2025 FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with filmmaker and activist Jen Marlowe about the film Severed, which Jen…
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Institutionalizing sexual violence and torture: the findings of the UN Committee on Torture
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Nick Rodelo, a researcher employed by the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR)…
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Destroying systems that sustain life: Israel's destruction of healthcare in Palestine
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor interviews Liz Allcock, the former head of humanitarian protection at Medical Aid for Palestinians…
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"We have talked enough about ourselves": a conversation with Benjamin Moser
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author Benjamin Moser about Jewish supremacy, diasporic Jewish life, and the life and…
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Shifts in US Policy & Public Opinion, the Impact of BDS, and Assessing Coming Threats
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with analyst Yousef Munayyer about shifts in US public policy and public opinion over the…