Bibi labelled HBO's 'Our Boys' anti-Semitic. The truth is even more harrowing
Haaretz Podcast
English - October 06, 2019 13:43 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB - ★★★★ - 129 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ahead of this week's finale of the HBO/Keshet mini-series "Our Boys," host Simon Spungin talks to Allison Kaplan Sommer and Adrian Hennigan about the controversy surrounding a show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "anti-Semitic."
We ask: Did the show's creators harm Israel's image? Were they justified in focusing on the murder of a Palestinian teen, rather than the kidnap and murder of three Israelis that preceded it? And is Israel capable of taking a warts-and-all look at itself in the mirror?
Ahead of this week's finale of the HBO/Keshet mini-series "Our Boys," host Simon Spungin talks to Allison Kaplan Sommer and Adrian Hennigan about the controversy surrounding a show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "anti-Semitic."
We ask: Did the show's creators harm Israel's image? Were they justified in focusing on the murder of a Palestinian teen, rather than the kidnap and murder of three Israelis that preceded it? And is Israel capable of taking a warts-and-all look at itself in the mirror?