JVP Podcasts
JVP Radio
JVP Radio is a member-produced limited series podcast dedicated to stories, strategy, and key questions from JVP 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.
Whether you’ve been a JVP member for decades, or are brand new to our work, we invite you to listen. 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.

JVP Radio is a podcast by members of Jewish Voice for Peace, the world’s largest Jewish organization standing in solidarity with Palestine.
New shows every other Wednesday.
How can return for SWANA and Arab Jews be a visionary gesture?
This is the question our guests ask on JVP Radio Episode 5 – SWANA and Arab Jews: Imagining Return. Writer and curator Camille Lévy-Sarfati speaks about returning to Tunisia as a political act of resistance — a way to imagine narratives beyond the ones prescribed by Zionism. And scholar Livnat Konopny-Decleve shares her work on political imagination: how we can revisit the past not as a reactionary gesture, but as a revolutionary act that frees us from the dogmas of the present and allows us to build a liberated future. Together, we reflect on the work many of us have been doing over the last few years to build a global Mizrahi / SWANA Jewish Left in solidarity with Palestine.
This episode is part one of a two-part series dedicated to SWANA and Arab Jewish organizing. From NYC to Tunis our guests share how they are dismantling the Arab-Jewish binary by returning to their cultures and forging a future grounded in solidarity and collective liberation.
CREDITS
Host & Producer: Noemie Hakim-Serfaty
Host & Producer: Rosa Schwartzburg
Producer & Editor: Fivel Rothberg
Intro Music: Lo Galerian by Eleonore Weil
Transitions and outro Music from Laura Elkeslassy’s upcoming album Ya Ghorbati | Divas in Exile
- Ahalan Wa Sahalan, written and composed by Maurice El Medioni
- Ala Srir Enum, after Habiba Msika.
- Abiadi Ana, after Zohra El Fassia
Violin Taqsim by Eylem Basaldi
Oud Taqsims by Rachid Halihal
Music Production: Ira Khonen Temple, Eylem Basaldi, Laura Elkeslassy.
Vocals: Laura Elkeslassy
Key, Accordion, Piano: Ira Khonen Temple
Violin: Eylem Basaldi
Oud: Rachid Halihal
Drums: April Centrone, Nizar Dahmani
Bass: Marwan Allam, Zoe Aqua
Choir: Laura Elkeslassy, Yoni Avi Battat, Marwan Allam, Ira Khonen Temple, Eylem Basaldi, Nozar Dahmani, Rachid Halihal.
SHOW NOTES
- Reading List on Mizrahi, Sephardi, SWANA and Arab Jews
- Shohat, Ella. “Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims.” (1988)
- Shohat, Ella. On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings. (2017)
- Lavie, Smadar. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. (2018)
- Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha. The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World. (2024)
- Livnat Konopny-Decleve’s film, The Rose of Ioannina; Nessij Collective, co-founded by Camille Lévy-Sarfati

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