New Season Coming!
We are deep in the weeds prepping Season 3 of Unpacking Israeli History, and, dear listeners, you’re going to love it. As in past seasons, we’ll be exploring exciting, intense, and complicated topics....
2 Maalis 20224min
Black Saturday: How Far Would You Go For A Homeland?
This is the story of the men and women who brought us our state. Who ran guns, defended settlements, defied the Mandatory Powers that Be, smuggled shell-shocked refugees into their homeland… and who d...
14 Loka 202141min
Oslo: The Peace That Wasn't
By January 1993, the Israelis and the Palestinians had opened secret negotiations, culminating in the Oslo Accords, a series of agreements between Israel and the PLO, as the representatives of the Pal...
7 Loka 202142min
Sabra and Shatila: What Happened And Why It Matters
The story of Sabra and Shatila is a horrifying one. A paramilitary Lebanese group massacres between 800 and 2,000 refugees, many in horrifying ways. And oddly...Israel is blamed for this awful, awful ...
30 Syys 202139min
Does Israel Represent All Jews?: The Great Debate
A tension between Israeli and diaspora Jewry has been obvious since the founding of the state. And nowhere was that more apparent than in the epic exchanges between philanthropist Jacob Blaustein and ...
23 Syys 202130min
The Story Of Israel's Black Panthers
The modern country of Israel is a country of immigrants, and many are Mizrahi, ie Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. They came, often running for their lives, from countries like Yemen, Moroc...
9 Syys 202131min
The Great Debate Around German Reparations
Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the Holocaust. In this epi...
2 Syys 202130min
Is Zionism…Racism?: UN Resolution 3379
On Nov 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is "a form of racism and racial discrimination.” That’s quite a loaded description! In this episode, Noam Weis...
27 Elo 202130min
