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 two, the horror of the Holocaust persuades the international community to mandate a Jewish state in Palestine, with the surprising endorsement of Stalin, but Zionism remains divided. 

In the year of Israel’s 75th anniversary, Ian and Dorian discuss how successive governments lost the left and courted the right, what happened to Theodor Herzl’s utopian vision, and what people really mean when they say they are anti-Zionist.

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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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