A foundational principle of the state of Israel is that it keeps Jews safe. This principle has been profoundly challenged in the last nine or so months. But what if Israel never really had the will or capacity to keep all Jews safe and, in fact, has made them less safe?

Avi Shlaim is a historian and author of “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an ArabJew”. He joined Ash to talk about the Israeli right, Mossad’s covert operations in Baghdad and what it means to have hyphenated identities.

00:00 Intro
01:36 Experience of Arab Jews Pre1948
11:07 When Did Things Change?
20:34 Ethnicity in Contemporary Israel
35:13 Jabotinsky
38:25 Jewish Safety and Zionism
44:24 Mossad and Iraqi Jewish Displacement
54:24 Zionists and the Jewish Diaspora
01:02:13 Hybrid Identity

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