Crisis of Zionism

We talk about the media reaction to Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians and the zionist victim complex that allows people to rationalize any violence as self-defense. We wonder if what we are witnessing is the crisis of zionism or the solidification of zionist fervor — or maybe both happening at once. We also talk about how the term “zionism” obscures more than it explains. Zionism isn’t something special. It’s just nationalism, Jewish nationalism. —The RussiansA couple of notes. We mention several books: Primo Levi’s Surviving Auschwitz, a biography of Jabotinsky by Hillel Halkin, Ilan Pape’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, and a book about fascism whose title we couldn’t remember on air: The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton.Want to know more? Listen to our previous episode on the topic: The dialectics of terrorism. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe