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 Russians
A 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.
Crisis of Zionism