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On today's episode of Haaretz Weekly, senior commentator Chemi Shalev and host Simon Spungin discuss the upcoming Israeli election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's gaffe-prone visit to Warsaw and what American Jews and Israelis should learn from Ilhan Omar's controversial tweet. Follow Haaretz Weekly on iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of Haaretz Weekly, host Simon Spungin talks to Washington correspondent Amir Tibon about the anti-BDS law which was passed last week by the U.S. Congress and to diplomatic correspondent Noa Landau about the upcoming Israeli election, fake news, Netanyahu's overseas trips, and even the Eurovision Song Contest. Follow Haaretz Weekly on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first section of this two-part episode of Haaretz Weekly, host Simon Spungin talks to Yonatan Gher, director of Amnesty International Israel, about his organization's new campaign targeting online booking companies for "driving settlement expansion and profiting from war crimes." Has the campaign against Airbnb, Booking...

On this two-part episode of Haaretz Weekly, host Simon Spungin talks to Danielle Ziri – Haaretz's New York correspondent – about the Women's March: amid allegations of anti-Semitic sympathies and the newly approved policy of opposing anti-BDS legislation, we ask what place Jewish women can and should have in this sisterly movement. In Part 2, Bradley Burston describes his visit to the West Bank, as part of an upcoming series of articles on Haaretz...

In this week's episode of Haaretz Weekly, Haaretz's Anshel Pfeffer joins host Simon Spungin to discuss a wide range of subjects, from Israel's recently confirmed military activity in Syria to the spate of Jewish terror attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank. Why are outgoing IDF chief Gadi Eizenkot and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suddenly speaking so openly about airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria? What will the U.S...

In this week's episode of the Haaretz Weekly podcast, host Simon Spungin is joined by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Allison Kaplan Sommer for a wide-ranging discussion with a theme: disunity. Whether it's Jewish anti-occupation groups in the United States, opposition parties on both sides of the political divide in Israel or the Women's March, unity is hard to come by. How is Israel's election being played out in America? Are Jewish groups in the U.S...

In this week's episode of Haaretz Weekly, host Simon Spungin talks to Haaretz's Chemi Shalev and Judy Maltz about the biggest issues of the week: the formation of a new right-wing party, which seeks to provide an alternative to the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the April election and the visit by the prime minister (and his wife and son) to Brazil, where they have been feted by the country's controversial president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a snap general election for early April – despite apparently having staved off previous threats to the stability of his coalition...

For the past 13 years, Israel has been waging all-our war against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement: diplomatic reservists have been drafted in, friends around the world have been rallied and there's even a government minister dedicated to tackling the 'strategic' problem. As part of this war, Israeli leaders brand any non-Israeli who supports BDS as anti-Semitic and Israeli supporters of the movement are called kapos, traitors and worse...

Last week, thousands of Israeli women held a nationwide day of protest against the inaction of the Israeli government and of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the face of rising violence against women. Since the start of this year, 24 girls and women have been murdered in Israel. Over half of these murders were committed by a male relative of the victim or a current or ex-partner...