January 11, 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 11 2009

A report from Netivot, the target of Hamas rockets; a view of the war from inside Israel; American Jews protest Israel's war; a new book on the Civil Rights movement in the North; plus we remember anti-apartheid parliamentarian Helen Suzman.

Episode segments
  • Israel Discovers Its Development Towns
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Gal Hurvitz is a theater student in Tel Aviv
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark and Alisa Solomon

    Beyond the Pale joins a group of Tel Aviv theater students as they go to Netivot, one of the development towns in Southern Israel targeted by Hamas rockets, to entertain children in shelters.  After decades of neglect, these communities are now the focus of attention from the Israeli government--who uses them to justify their military operations in Gaza; from journalists who are  prohibited from entering Gaza, but encouraged to visit the south; and from scores of volunteers who have streamed south to offer support.

  • Report from Within Israel
    Israeli Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark from Tel Aviv.
    Esther Kaplan

    Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark reports on what the Gaza invasion looks like from within Israel.

  • Jews Say: Not in Our Name
    American Politics, Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Donna Nevel, long time peace and justice activist and one of the conveners of Jews Say: Not in Our Name.
    Esther Kaplan

    An ad hoc group of Jews have called for a silent protest on Monday January 12th to oppose Israel's blockade, bombing and invasion of Gaza and to call for an end to the Israeli Occupation.  We talk with Donna Nevel about why a specifically Jewish protest is warranted.

  • Sweet Land of Liberty
    Arts & Culture, Literature
    Thomas Sugrue is the author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North and Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
    Alan Levine
  • Remembering Helen Suzman
    Obituaries
    Nan Rubin

    Beyond the Pale remembers Helen Suzman, the South African anti-apartheid activist, who died January 1 at 91 years.