Intro

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Every story has a beginning. Every conflict has its roots. For some, the Israel/Palestine conflict is rooted in scripture and written in blood. Others claim it boils down to a deadly dispute over real estate. There’s a reason why “peace in the Middle East” feels out of reach and why so many have thrown their hands up. It’s complicated. But it’s not impossible to understand. We begin our journey in earnest by tackling the so-called “Jewish Question” and uncovering the roots and motives of the Zionist movement.

Chapters

Intro: 00:02:16

Chapter One: Diaspora. 00:04:48

Chapter Two: Beyond the Pale. 00:09:33

Chapter Three: France, the birthplace of Zionism. 00:13:52

Chapter Four: A congress in search of a state. 00:22:48

Chapter Five: The Fifth Aliyah. 00:39:16

Resources

Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism

Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel

PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace

Wikipedia: Six-Day War

Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights

Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News

Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World

Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism

BBC News: Golan Heights profile

The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion

My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews

JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel

Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide

Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence

NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel

The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot


The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?

Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference

Book Love

Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution

Dennis Ross: Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

James L. Gelvin: The Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic®."

Every story has a beginning. Every conflict has its roots. For some, the Israel/Palestine conflict is rooted in scripture and written in blood. Others claim it boils down to a deadly dispute over real estate. There’s a reason why “peace in the Middle East” feels out of reach and why so many have thrown their hands up. It’s complicated. But it’s not impossible to understand. We begin our journey in earnest by tackling the so-called “Jewish Question” and uncovering the roots and motives of the Zionist movement.
Chapters
Intro: 00:02:16
Chapter One: Diaspora. 00:04:48
Chapter Two: Beyond the Pale. 00:09:33
Chapter Three: France, the birthplace of Zionism. 00:13:52
Chapter Four: A congress in search of a state. 00:22:48
Chapter Five: The Fifth Aliyah. 00:39:16
Resources
Marxists.org: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/trotsky-zionism.pdf">Leon Trotsky on Zionism</a> 
Council on Foreign Relations: <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel">What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel</a>
PBS: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oslo/parallel/8.html">Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace</a>
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War#">Six-Day War</a>
Opinio Juris: <a href="https://opiniojuris.org/2021/08/02/the-biden-administration-and-the-golan-heights/">The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights</a>
Al Jazeera: <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/18/mapping-israeli-occupation-gaza-palestine">Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News</a>
Jewish Virtual Library: <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-of-the-world">Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMGwcZPbLHw&amp;t=12s">Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism</a>
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14724842">Golan Heights profile</a>
The Baffler: <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/unmaking-the-myth-of-ben-gurion-leifer">Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion</a>
My Jewish Learning: <a href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sephardic-ashkenazic-mizrahi-jews-jewish-ethnic-diversity/">Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews</a>
JCPA: <a href="https://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/bengurions-concept.pdf">Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel</a> 
Council on Foreign Relations: <a href="https://www.cfr.org/article/sunni-shia-divide">The Sunni-Shia Divide</a>
Council on Foreign Relations: <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict">What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?</a>
Council on Foreign Relations: <a href="https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/how-evictions-jerusalem-led-israeli-palestinian-violence">How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence</a>
NPR: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206481356/republicans-israel-gop-middle-east-evangelicals-end-times-rapture-christians">This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel</a>
The Jewish Agency: <a href="https://archive.jewishagency.org/historical-aliyah/content/28841/">Modern Zionist Aliyot </a>
The Weiner Holocaust Library: <a href="https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/how/the-einsatzgruppen/">How did the Holocaust happen?</a>
Holocaust Encyclopedia: <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-evian-conference">The Evian Conference</a>
Book Love
Rashid Khalidi: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781250787651">The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017</a>
Moshé Machover: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781608461486">Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution</a>
Dennis Ross: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780374529802">Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace</a>
James L. Gelvin: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781108738637">The Israel-Palestine Conflict</a>
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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 

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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer. 
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results. 
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives. 
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR

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