Join Dr. Ofer Cassif, Israeli Knesset member for Hadash and the only Jewish member of the Arab-majority party's delegation, as he traces the road from a Labor Zionist childhood to communist conviction.

He tells Dr. Hani Chaabo and Katie Bogen why he refused reservist duty in Gaza during the First Intifada and served four terms in military prison, how he survived an expulsion vote of 85 fellow MKs, and what it means to be suspended, silenced, and dragged from the podium simply for quoting a beloved Israeli novelist. From a memorial in Masafer Yatta to a Darwish poem, this is dissent as a way of life. Weeks before the October 27 election, Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to bar him from running.

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Always Cast Doubt: Ofer Cassif on Growing Up Labor Zionist and Choosing Refusal

Ten Months of Silence: Ofer Cassif on What Israel's Treatment of Its Loudest Dissenter Reveals About Its Democracy

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Cover photo of Ofer Cassif: Amir Deeb, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).

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Join Diana Buttu, the Stanford-trained lawyer who sat inside the failed peace negotiations as legal advisor to the PLO team and later advised the Palestinian president, as she explains why she came to call them a mistake.

One of the lawyers who won the apartheid wall case at the International Court of Justice, Diana describes the room where an Israeli mapmaker redrew the West Bank with a marker and told her the law would be recognized only when Israel was forced to recognize it, the night soldiers seized her apartment at two in the morning, and why her own presence at that table legitimized the process she now regrets.

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The Protective Silence: Diana Buttu on Inheriting a Homeland Nobody Named

Bigger Prison Cells: Diana Buttu on Why the Peace Process Was Built to Fail

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Join Aida Touma-Sliman — Nobel Peace Prize nominee, first Palestinian woman to chair a committee in the Knesset, first woman on the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, founder of Women Against Violence, and outgoing Member of Knesset — for an unflinching reflection on a decade of fighting for Palestinian rights and gender justice from inside Israel's parliament.

Aida shares how a circle of six friends in 1992 Nazareth launched the first Arab feminist organization in Israel to confront honor killings, why she refuses to surrender the word "shahid" (martyr) to those colonizing her language, and what it cost her to name an apartheid regime on the Knesset floor.

She speaks with raw honesty about October 7, the genocide in Gaza, her suspension over al-Shifa, the death threats, and why she has decided the real battle must now be fought from the outside.

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Six Friends in Nazareth: How Aida Touma-Sliman Built an Arab Feminist Movement From a Kitchen Table

Shahid, al-Shifa, and Khalas: Aida Touma-Sliman on the Knesset That Could No Longer Hear Her

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