This series focuses on those aspects of the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict that partisans on both sides mutually ignore.

This episode examines jewish life in Europe and the conditions leading to the rise of Zionism until the first wave of Zionist immigration in 1882. 

Cover image: Marc Chagall, Falling Angel (1923-1947)

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CHAPTERS

0:00 introduction

2:43 when both sides hide the same facts

4:27 The Haïtian revolution: Silencing the Past

8:28 Palestinian and Israeli versions of history

19:24 Class conflicts of interest in hierarchical societies

23:03 Origins of the Jewish diaspora in Europe

26:00 Origins of the Ashkenazi Jews

28:06 Origins of Christian hostility towards the Jews

32:44 The Jews between al-Andalus and Christian Europe

36:23 Medieval anti-semitism as an instrument of class rule

37:17 European Jewish class structure: financiers, beggars and thieves

41:13 Jewish migration to Eastern Europe

42:05 The rise of liberalism and decline of anti-Judaism

43:04 Jews in the Russian Empire

45:45 The Rise Nationalism and Anti-Semitism

46:04 What is nationalism? The psychology of group identity

51:55 Identity politics and class in hierarchical societies

55:38 Nationalism, democracy and class conflict

1:00:32 Nationalism vs democracy and socialism

1:03:27 Nationalism, anti-Semitism and Socialism 

1:10:30 The Socialism of Imbeciles: Anti-Semitism as an instrument of class war

1:17:18 Anti-Semitism vs anti-Jewish discrimination

1:18:55 Nationalism in the European Empires

1:20:32 Assimilation, Integration, Socialism, Autonomism and Zionism: Jewish reactions to the rise of industrialization and anti-semitism

1:24:15 The purpose of the Jewish state in early Zionism

1:25:25 Jewish secular and religious hostility to Zionism

1:26:35 The Dreyfus affair and the rise of popular Zionism in the West

1:28:56 The assassination of Alexander II and the rise of popular Zionism in the East

1:33:06 What is Colonialism?

1:46:45 Power imbalances vs Worbs: Colonialism, Capitalism, Patriarchy and manipulation

1:50:55 Secret #1: Zionism, The Jewish province?

1:57:45 Zionism before Autoempancipation

1:59:11 Muhammad Ali Pasha and the birth of modern Zionism

2:01:19 19th Century religious Zionism

2:05:26 Romanian independence and the rise of Zionism

2:07:28 Autoemancipation 1882

2:24:49 The Jewish Province: Ottoman Pashalik / American Territory

2:30:32 The BILU Manifesto

2:37:58 Why Palestine?  Zionism and Judaism

2:46:16 Early Zionist thoughts about the Arabs in Eretz Israel

2:50:14 Outro, donation info, seeya!

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