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Podcasts to keep you informed

As well as reading too many emails we keep ourselves informed by listening to podcasts. This is a list of links to a range of podcasts, all of them provide news, background and analysis of events in Palestine and Israel; some concentrate on that, others cover a wider range of political topics.
All of these can be listened to for free, although some have a paid for option for additional material. They can be listened to direct from their websites or downloaded form the major podcast stores or via a podcast app to avoid the corporate web. I use Podcast Addict for Android, Pocket Casts comes well recommended for iPhones
If you have other podcasts you think readers will be interested in please post details in a comment
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Note: the information on recent episodes was compiled at the start of 2026 but is representative of the podcasts’ range of interests

Drop Site News

https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/drop-site-news

Independent reporting on war and politics in the U.S. and across the world, delivered by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and the Drop Site team

  • The RSF’s Systematic Mass Killings in El-Fasher
  • Israel’s Rampage Across the West Bank & a Look at “The Epstein Files”
  • Censorship and Military Support: How Big Tech Supports Israel

JVP Radio

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/podcasts/#pp-toc-9p02ikuctvl5-anchor-0

JVP Radio is a member-produced limited series podcast dedicated to stories, strategy, and key questions from Jewish Voice for Peace leaders, members, and our partners. Mainstream media refuses to accurately report on the Palestine movement and erases Jewish opposition to the genocide in Gaza. On JVP Radio, our members and our partners in the movement tell our stories on our own terms.

In our grief, rage, despair and hope we keep working to make our movement stronger. We strategize. We hold hard conversations. We connect across geography, weave together different parts of the movement, and come together to strengthen our movement for a Judaism beyond Zionism and Palestinian liberation.

  • SWANA [South West Asia and North Africa] & Arab Jews: From Cultural Return to Right of Return
  • Building a Movement From The Base Up

Mehdi Unfiltered

https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered

A weekly show that delivers unfiltered news, bold opinions, and challenging interviews you won’t find elsewhere with Mehdi Hasan

  • Imran Khan’s Sons Tell Mehdi Their Father Is Being Tortured in Solitary Confinement
  • ‘The Fraud’ Reveals How a Pro-Israel, Centrist Faction Engineered Keir Starmer’s Rise
  • ‘I Did Not See a Ceasefire’: American Doctor Back From Gaza Talks to Mehdi

On the Nose

https://jewishcurrents.org/on-the-nose

On the Nose is Jewish Current’s biweekly podcast. The editorial staff discusses the politics, culture, and questions that animate today’s Jewish left.

  • Processing the Attack at Bondi Beach
  • Writing the Palestinian Diaspora
  • What the Soldiers Did in Gaza

Palestine This week 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/podcasts-palestine-this-week/

Palestine This Week with NMouin Rabbani is a weekly analytical review of the biggest stories coming out of Palestine from Middle East Monitor

  • Can imperial Israel ever cross a red line for Arab states?
  • Consolidating a New Authoritarianism in Service of Israel
  • Blind Faith: How the West Loses Its Moral Compass on Israel

Politics Theory Other

https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history

  • COP30 and Lula’s politics of class conciliation
  • Spotify unwrapped
  • Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox

The +972 podcast

https://www.972mag.com/topic/podcast/

Your direct line to the journalists, thinkers, and activists struggling for justice in Israel-Palestine.

+972 Magazine is an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Founded in 2010, our mission is to provide in-depth reporting, analysis, and opinions from the ground in Israel-Palestine. The name of the site is derived from the telephone country code that can be used to dial throughout Israel-Palestine.

Our core values are a commitment to equity, justice, and freedom of information. We believe in accurate and fair journalism that spotlights the people and communities working to oppose occupation and apartheid, and that showcases perspectives often overlooked or marginalized in mainstream narratives.

  • Who’s afraid of Palestinian Christianity?
  • Uncovering the inner workings of an AI genocide
  • What happened to the Palestinian popular struggle?

The Intercept Briefing

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/the-intercept-briefing/

Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a new weekly podcast delivering incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl.

  • “Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner”
  • Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus
  • Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians

The Jewish Diasporist

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Religion–Spirituality-Podcasts/The-Jewish-Diasporist-p3818792/

Join us as we explore the political, cultural and social implications of life in diaspora. We wander across a variety of topics, grounding a socialist diasporist perspective through conversations with social movement organizers and scholars from around the world. While primarily focused on the Jewish world, we dialogue with people from non-Jewish communities which share the experience of diaspora and exile and situate Jewish communities in their diverse national contexts.

  • Bored of Deputies
  • Jewish Day Schools Reimagined
  • Jewish or Zionist Self-Determination?

The Mondoweiss Podcast

https://mondoweiss.net/podcast/

Palestine, Israel and the United States

Mondoweiss is an independent news organization that informs readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related U.S. foreign policy. We provide news and analysis regarding the struggle for Palestinian human rights that is unavailable through mainstream media.

  • Israel’s Man-Made Famine in Gaza and the Collapse of Public Health
  • Omar Barghouti: 20 years of BDS in the time of
  • From Gaza to Iran: How Empire Manufactures War

The Verso Podcast

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-verso-podcast-the-home-of-radical-thinking

The Verso Podcast, a platform where radical thinkers engage in lively conversations about the issues that matter most. With our new regular fortnightly schedule, we are excited to bring you more episodes featuring exciting guests, insightful discussions and fresh perspectives on the most pressing issues of our time.

At the helm of the Verso Podcast is our new host, Eleanor Penny, a writer and journalist whose work focuses on social justice, popular culture, and political theory.

  • Against Nature
  • Myths About Israel: Ilan Pappé
  • Cyberboss, with Craig Gent

Unshocked with Naomi Klein

https://zeteo.com/s/unshocked

A monthly conversation on the world around us and the history that informs it with Naomi Klein and Mehdi Hasan

  • ‘How Are You Going to Survive?’: Doctor Describes ‘Horrific’ Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
  • Israel’s Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide
  • Silicon Valley’s AI Coup: ‘It’s Draining Our Real World’

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