"We were conscripted into the Zionist project" w/ Avi Shlaim
Episode description
The brothers welcome preeminent British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim to the show to discuss the richness of Arab Jewish identity, and how the ideology of Zionism is based on the negation and denial of this identity and coexistence, his own family's migration from Iraq to newly-created Israeli state, the reception they received there, and the wider story of Jewish minorities in Iraq and other Arab countries. Shlaim discusses the role Mossad played in the uprooting of Baghdad’s historic Jewish community in the early 1950s and what he sees as the undeniable signs of the implosion from within Zionism.
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Date of recording: April 15, 2025.
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