Origin Story

Zionism Part 1


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Explaining the most misunderstood ideas and people in politics.

In another two-parter, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt break down the long thorny history of Zionism. 

In part one, covering the 1890s to the 1930s, they explain how Theodor Herzl single handedly created a movement for a Jewish nation, Chaim Weizmann won over Churchill and Balfour, and Ze’ev Jabotinsky sowed the seeds of Likud. Utopian dreams wrestle with hard-nosed pragmatism as the Zionists clash with the world’s great powers, and each other, about what a Jewish nation should be. 


Hear Part Two right now when you support Origin Story on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/originstorypod 


  • “Herzl didn’t see the Holocaust coming but he was a realist about the durability of antisemitism.” — Dorian Lynskey
  • It’s a very communistic, very socialistic, very politically radical community that ends up in Palestine.” — Ian Dunt
  • “At the time of Herzl’s death, only about one per cent of the world’s Jews were Zionists.” — Dorian Lynskey


    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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