Israel’s End Game

Can Israel Survive Its Policies?

A Limited Podcast Series 

Session 4
Bassam Haddad Interviews Illan Pappé

Presented by Jadaliyya and Gaza in Context Project
www.PalestineInContext.org

"Israel’s End Game" is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances might enable or constrain those policies. We ask our guests whether or how internal divisions within Israel or Israel’s growing international isolation--particularly in the public sphere and despite furious campaigns to suppress scrutiny and criticism—could alter Israel’s strategic choices. The series also examines whether ongoing developments—including the Gaza Genocide, the rupture of the US’s traditional alliances, domestic polarization, and economic woes—have meaningfully changed the global balance of power or merely reinforced established patterns by normalizing a more profound breakdown of an already inconsistent “rules-based order.” Finally, the series addresses whether Israeli leaders misread or deliberately discount emerging political, economic, and social shifts, domestically or internationally, that could alter Israel’s current trajectory.

Watch All Conversations on Israel's End Game
Miko Peled...................... 18 February
Mohammed El-Kurd....... 23 February
Diana Buttu..................... 25 February
Ilan Pappe........................... 02 March
Mouin Rabbani................... 04 March
Noura Erakat.............................. TBA
Shir Hever.................................. TBA 

Featuring

Ilan Pappé is a Professor of History at Exeter University and the author of many books, including his latest Israel on the Brink: Eight Steps for a Better Future. He is the founder and co-director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. Papé obtained his BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and the D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. Pappé was a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science in Haifa University, Israel between 1984 and 2006. He was appointed as chair in the department of History in the Cornwall Campus, 2007-2009 and became a fellow of the IAIS in 2010. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis and on Power and Knowledge. 

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).