Avi Shlaim
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English - May 05, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBooks Arts monocle music monocle magazine tyler brûlé culture current affairs design business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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“We left Iraq as Jews, and we arrived in Israel as Iraqis.” Acclaimed historian Avi Shlaim is a man with a complicated backstory as an Arab Jew. He has a very clear-eyed view of events leading up to the current crisis in the Middle East. He traces the origins of the conflict to antisemitism in the UK after the First World War and even to the Jews of Babylon 2,500 years ago. Shlaim tells us why he believes that accusations of antisemitism and anti-Zionism are being used to silence the critique of Israel’s practices, and why he considers Marilyn Monroe a “profound thinker”.
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