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Unsettled is a podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. We're here to provide a space for the difficult conversations and diverse viewpoints that are all too rare in institutional American Jewish communities.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Unsettled makes power legible by tracing Palestinian rights through land ownership, military detention and cultural life.
Unsettled begins with something tangible, then follows it into the institutions shaping life in Israel-Palestine. A childhood JNF folder leads to questions about KKL-JNF's land holdings and evictions.
A childhood JNF folder contains a map without the Green Line; your questions start there.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A steady, law-centered look at detention without due process.
The piece is at its strongest when it lays out Palestinian prisoners' rights in plain terms: administrative detention can mean being held without charge or trial, and defense counsel may never see the evidence.
A blue folder becomes a sharp look at how green branding can hide land power.
This episode tracks KKL-JNF through a blue folder from a 2009 teen conference, moving from childhood memory into land politics, forestry branding, and Israeli-Palestinian control.
A sober account of detention, secrecy, and the law's uneven reach.
Unsettled centers Hisham Abu Hawash's 141-day hunger strike and then follows it outward to the system that made it matter. It is clearest when it lays out the machinery in plain terms: secret evidence, repeated detention renewals, military courts, and the different treatment of…
A bookstore becomes a careful entry point into East Jerusalem and the politics around it.
Mahmoud Muna frames the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem as a practical way into Palestine and Israel, and the appeal is its plainness. The opening problem is familiar: visitors want one book that can make sense of the subject, but they are not always sure which words are…
Jewish thought under present pressure.
Jerusalem-based strategy for a volatile region.
Israel news with biblical voltage.
Jewish public affairs with context and consequence.
Israelis argue Zionism live, and callers get a say.
For the ILWU, a community picket counts as a picket line, and health-and-safety clauses let members refuse to cross it.
The episode returns to Palestinian prisoners' rights.
Maya Rosen opens with a blue folder from her childhood bedroom.
Unsettled opens with Hisham Abu Hawash, a Palestinian administrative detainee who ended a 141-day hunger strike after Israel set his release date.
Mahmoud Muna turns the Educational Bookshop into a practical point of access for reading East Jerusalem.