Professor Amos Goldberg explains why he believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and weighs in on the role of historians and public intellectuals in addressing it

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Noah wonders why the show people here in Israel most want to see—more than at any time in the country’s history, and maybe in all of Jewish history—is a performance of children’s songs from a 47-year-old book of kids’ poems

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The verbs of the Hebrew root קבל are everywhere: To get, to receive, to be hired, plus things which are just not done and are considered unacceptable

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We discuss: 1) Benny Gantz’s proposal to form a “Government of Hostage Redemption” and why everyone hated it 2) The surprising return of an army unit devoted to building and rebuilding Kibbutzim and Moshavim

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DJ Antithesis highlights new music from Noa Kirel's first full album, Osher Cohen, and an amazing Sarit Hadad song featuring Odeya

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We discuss: 1) when is it genocide, and does it matter if people use that word or not 2) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s claim that this week he (and Israel) just put the kibash, once and for all, on the two-state solution

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We discuss: 1) the thinking behind Netanyahu's decision to extend and intensify the war in Gaza 2) the thinking behind the “national strike” called by some hostage families, intended to bring the country to a halt next Sunday

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The Hebrew word גירוש means expulsion and deportation, but the most commonly used word we get from this root is entirely different

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Prof. Guy Ben-Porat discusses his co-written book, "Usual Suspects: Minorities, Police and Citizenship in Israel"

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We discuss: 1) the 20th anniversary of the “disengagement plan” and the evacuation of 21 Jewish towns in Gaza 2) the plan cooked up in the UN for setting up the State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel

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