What Is Zionism?
History As It Happens
English - April 30, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsNews History politics history news perspective Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Zionism was a national liberation movement developed by European Jews in the late nineteenth century. Their early vision of a national homeland was fulfilled about half a century later with the creation of the independent state of Israel, which turned a majority Arab land into a Jewish state. Today, pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses routinely denounce Zionism as a violent colonial project. In this episode, political scientist Ian Lustick recovers Zionism's historical origins and discusses its future, as roughly 7 million Jewish Israelis face as many Arab residents on territory controlled by Israel.