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In another two-parter, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt break down the long, THORNY history of Zionism. In part two, the horror of the Holocaust persuades the international community to mandate a Jewish state in Palestine, with the surprising endorsement of Stalin, but Zionism remains divided.
In the year of Israel’s 75th anniversary, Ian and Dorian discuss how successive governments lost the left and courted the right, what happened to Theodor Herzl’s utopian vision, and what people really mean when they say they are anti-Zionist.
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Reading list:
Steven Beller – Herzl
Lenni Brenner – Zionism in the Age of Dictators
Walter Laqueur – A History of Zionism
Alex Ryvchin – Zionism: The Concise History
Avi Shlaim – The Iron Wall
Michael Stanislawski – Zionism: A Very Short Introduction
Melvin J. Urofsky – American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust
Jeff Walker – The Revisionists and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism
Geoffrey Wheatcroft – Churchill’s Shadow
Paul Bogdanor’s critique of Lenni Brenner
https://fathomjournal.org/an-antisemitic-hoax-lenni-brenner-on-zionist-collaboration-with-the-nazis/
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, by Shlomo Avineri
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production and music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.
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