Israel Policy Pod

Ilan Goldenberg, Israel Policy Forum's Policy Adviser and a Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for a New American Security's Middle East Security Program joins Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz discuss the merger of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem and the U.S. Embassy to Israel.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

The Camp David Accords, Israel-Egypt Treaty, and Oslo Accords produced some of the most widely celebrated moments in Arab-Israeli diplomacy. But what if these arrangements complicated things for future generations of Palestinians, Israelis, and Americans? To address this question, Israel Policy Pod host Evan Gottesman sits down with Dr. Seth Anziska, author of the new book "Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo."Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Is American aid to the Palestinians over? Israel Policy Pod host Evan Gottesman asks Dave Harden, former assistant administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. Harden has managed USAID's work in the Palestinian territories, where he led the the agency's mission for over a decade, as well as in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Haiti.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman discuss the nation-state law with IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Amal Asad. Special thanks to Shanie Reichman for English-language voice-over. Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Pod host Evan Gottesman speaks with Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO working to improve Palestinian freedom of movement in and out of Gaza. Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Eli and Evan discuss the nation-state law passed by the Knesset and Birthright walkouts by American Jews with Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman are joined by Israel Policy Forum's Israel Fellow Nimrod Novik to discuss the Trump administration peace plan and debate whether the administration has a Plan B. Israel Policy Forum Executive Director David A. Halperin joins at the end to discuss the new 50 Steps Before the Deal Initiative.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Forum Executive Director David A. Halperin returns from the organization's leadership delegation to Israel and the West Bank and shares his impressions abut conditions on the ground and the launch of the 50 Steps Before The Deal initiative.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Oxford University's Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, author of "City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement," joins the podcast to share her expertise on the state of the settlement enterprise in the occupied territories, the American role there, and changing Diaspora Jewish demographics that promise to reshape Israel's external relations.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Eli and Evan are joined by Elizabeth Tsurkov, a research fellow at Israel's Forum for Regional Thinking, to talk about developments with Israel, Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime in southern Syria.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.