How Israeli Propaganda is Failing with Palestinian Filmmaker Rolla Selbak
In this episode of The Thin Veil, Ezra sits down with Palestinian filmmaker, writer, podcaster, and storyteller Rolla Selbak for a wide-ranging conversation on propaganda, identity, Hollywood, and wha...
11 Aug 59min
How Palestine Is Hidden From Us: History, Resistance & What We're Not Taught with Riad Bahhur
In this episode of The Thin Veil, Ezra speaks with Palestinian-American filmmaker, historian, and Sacramento City College professor of Contemporary Palestinian History and Culture, Riad Bahhur.After h...
4 Aug 58min
Witnessing Genocide: How Gaza Changed Dr. Mark Brauner
Dr. Mark Brauner is an emergency physician who has spent his career responding to trauma, but nothing prepared him for what he encountered while volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. In this conver...
29 Juli 58min
Inside Israeli Indoctrination: How a West Bank Settler Escaped Zionism | Daniel Klein
What does it take to leave an ideology that has shaped your entire identity?Daniel Klein was born and raised in a religious Zionist settlement in the occupied West Bank. From childhood through his ser...
22 Juli 1h 5min
Lifting The Veil: Hakham Esther Azar on Collective Shame, Arab-Jewish Identity & the Antisemitic Logic of Zionism
In this wide-ranging conversation I spoke with Hakham Esther Azar—a Syrian American rabbi, social worker, writer, and educator raised in Brooklyn's Arab-Jewish community—to explore the psychological, ...
15 Juli 1h 9min
Understanding Israel: An Insider's Perspective on Israeli Society, Politics & One Democratic State | Einat Temkin
In this episode of The Thin Veil, Ezra speaks with Israeli writer and activist Einat Temkin—a former United Nations communications officer (2008–2025) and former IDF member—about her journey from grow...
8 Juli 56min
Communication Breakdown: Mo Husseini on Empathy, Identity & How We Talk About Israel and Palestine
What happens when a Palestinian writer and an anti-Zionist Jew agree on the destination—but disagree about some of the language and tactics we use to get there?In this conversation, I sit down with Pa...
1 Juli 1h 6min
