NewView with Hillel Schenker on Israel/Palestine

Here is The New View’s August 12 conversation with Brooklyn born Hillel Schenker, who lives in Tel Aviv. Hillel is pioneer and leader in the peace movement. He moved to Israel in his youth, lived on kibbutz and joined the army. He is a pioneer and leader in the peace process, having met with Palestinians in Europe when it was illegal to meet in Israel.

For several years Hillel was chair of Democrats Abroad in Israel.

He is co-editor of the award winning Palestine Israel Journal http://www.pij.org. On May 13th in Vienna, Hillel and his Palestinian colleague and co-editor, Ziad AbuZayyad, received with the 2024 Ari Rath Prize for Critical Journalism on behalf of Palestine-Israel Journal, given by the Bruno Kriesky Forum for International Dialogue. Their part begins at minute 31.

ARI RATH PRIZE FOR CRITICAL JOURNALISM 2024: EXILE – FLIGHT – EXPULSION

Hillel gives us his perspective from Tel Aviv, just following the Paris Olympics at a time when Israel was in a state of higher than usual anxiety, anticipating retaliation from Iran following Israel’s assassination of Ishmael Haniyeh in Teheran after the inauguration ceremony to their new, reformist President Pezeshkian.