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n this hard-hitting episode of Connecting the Dots, I reveal the shocking truth behind Israel's Mossad planting deadly devices in pagers ordered by Hezbollah. Joined by lawyer and journalist Dimitry Lascaris, we expose the dangerous global implications—this isn't just espionage, it's terrorism and a war crime, all ignored by Western media. We uncover the sinister connections between Zionist ideology, Christian nationalism, and neoliberal politics, showing how civilians are left to suffer while world powers look the other way. Our political system is failing, and bold, principled leadership is more urgent than ever. Don't miss this eye-opening truth they don't want you to know. Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon and YouTube! Hey everyone, Dr. Wilmer here! If you've been enjoying my deep dives into the real stories behind the headlines and appreciate the balanced perspective I bring, I'd love your support on my Patreon channel. Your contribution helps me keep "Connecting the Dots" alive, revealing the truth behind the news. Join our community, and together, let's keep uncovering the hidden truths and making sense of the world. Thank you for being a part of this journey! Wilmer Leon (00:00): Reuters reports. Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside as many as 5,000. Taiwan made pagers ordered by the Lebanese group Hezbollah months before they were detonated. Is anyone safe? Let's talk. Announcer (00:27): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:34): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon and I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historic context in which most of these events take place. During each episode, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between these events in the broader historic context in which they occur. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events that impact the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before us is, as I said earlier, is anyone safe? Israel's consumer tech terrorism across Lebanon signals a terrifying new threat raising urgent concerns about the security of international supply chains and the growing insecurity of civilians worldwide. For insight into this, let's turn to my guest. He's a lawyer and journalist. He's based in Montreal, Canada and Kalama Greece. In fact, he joins us from Ada Greece. Dimitry Lascaris, Dmitri, welcome to the show. Dimitry Lascaris (01:48): Thank you, Wilmer. It's a pleasure to be here. Wilmer Leon (01:51): So I thought that this most recent act of terrorism in a spate of acts of terrorism would be a great place to start the conversation. The cradle reports that this brutal attack should serve as a dire warning to the world. A stark reminder that the occupation states criminal actions, no, no limits indiscriminately targeting those who challenge its interest or those of its Western allies. Dmitri, your thoughts? Dimitry Lascaris (02:24): Well, for really decades, but particularly the last 11 months, the West and particularly the major Western powers, the governments of the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, have sent an unequivocal message to Israel. And that message is you can do whatever you want. There's no red line From our perspective, we will continue to shovel weapons your way, even if that involves the depletion of our own weapon stocks. We will continue to exercise vetoes or abstentions at United Nations. We will continue to repeat your lies and support you rhetorically and from a propagandistic perspective. We'll continue to give you trade benefits under free trade agreements. So-called free trade agreements between our countries and yours. We will not impose any sanctions on you, even though we've imposed sanctions on states that were far less violative of international law and human rights than you. That's the message. They got the message very loudly and clearly, and I fear, I hope I'm wrong, Wilmer, I really do. (03:31): But I fear that this pager, walkie talkie terrorist attack is just a harbinger of things to come. Who knows what dirty, nasty, terroristic tricks Israel has up its sleeve, and it is not used up until this point in time because frankly before the genocide began in Gaza, there was some restraint being imposed upon Israel. It wasn't much, but there was some, so occasionally you would get leaders of the United States or other western countries signaling to Israel that their appetite for the depravity of this genocidal regime was not unlimited, but that's gone away now. And so everything that Israel is capable of doing from the perspective of violence, terror, oppression, we are now going to see it's all going to come out. And I think that this is just an indication of what is coming. What we saw in Lebanon last week, and it was as the former head of the CIA Leon Panetta said to a national audience on CBS last week, it was unquestionably a form of terrorism. Wilmer Leon (04:38): When someone in the position and former positions such as Leon Panetta makes a statement like that, what does that signal to you? Former head of the CIA, he's from the Clinton camp and advisors advisor Conti to the biggest and the best, and I put that in quotes. What does that signal to you? He definitely went off script on that one. Dimitry Lascaris (05:16): Yeah, I don't think that Leon Panetta has had a come to Jesus moment. I think he's still the self-interested war monger, (05:27): Neoliberal that he always was. So when I saw this statement, which was startling, it was quite something to see the former head of the CIA. And by the way, this was not surprisingly, I guess picked up by the Israeli press. The Times of Israel had an article yesterday which was expressing its chagrin that Leon Panetta said this. So what's going on here? I can only hazard a guess Wilmer because I'm not in the man's mind and nor do I have any desire to be. But the first thing that popped into my head was this guy has some connection to a major technology company, and he's doing this because his boss or his benefactors in the technology industry are alarmed. They're alarmed about the fact that their business model is being threatened by Israel's latest technological terrorist gimmick. And sure enough, I didn't know this before I learned of the Panetta statement to CBS, but I discovered that he is on the board of Oracle, one of the most important, significant, powerful and influential technology companies in the world based in the United States. (06:30): Of course, whether this is influencing him, I can't say for sure, but the best guess that I can hazard based on the limited information available to me is that his colleagues in the technology industry are very upset about this and so should they be. If they're not, they aren't nearly the wizards and geniuses that they claim to be. If I were in their position, I'd be saying already the public has serious doubts. Thanks, for example, to the heroic revelations from Edward Snowden about the devices we sell to them, the technologies we sell to them, they already suspecting that this is a means whereby we can engage in mass surveillance, destroy their privacy, but never before have they thought that these devices that we sell to them are potentially bombs that could blind them, dismember them, kill them, or their children. Now everybody, any rational human being out there who knows about this terrorist attack has that thought in their mind, and that is a serious threat to the profitability of the Western technology industry. Wilmer Leon (07:40): One of the things that really, I use the word surprise, but I use it guardedly, is how little follow up there has been with Western media in terms of how horrific these actions by Israel have been. I remember reading a story, I think the young girl's name was Fatima, she was maybe five or six years old. Her father's pager was on the kitchen table. The pager goes off, she picks up the pager to take it to her father, and before she can get to him, the pager explodes. And I think the story said blowing off half of her face. And this happened all over Lebanon and it was reported on, but the context in which it was reported on was solely, solely lacking. Dimitry Lascaris (08:38): I am going to plug two outlets right now, and I want be clear before I do that, that I have absolutely no connection to them. None whatsoever. And they are two telegram channels. One of them is called the Military Media Channel and the other is called the Resistance News Network. These were brought to my attention a few months ago by people in Lebanon who are sympathetic to the resistance. And every single day Wilmer, I spend, I devote an hour to two hours to reviewing what they put out, not because I believe everything that they say they're engaged in a war and information is part of warfare. So I'm cognizant of that, but they're giving us, they offer to us another perspective. So one of the things that I've learned by following the military media channel and the Rise News Network is that an extraordinary number of people, and they've offered gruesome video evidence and photographic evidence to back this up in Lebanon, were blinded by these devices. (09:42): People lost their hands. There are people with holes in their pelvises, in their abdomens, and I'm talking about children, women, elderly men, and of course military aged men. A cross section of Lebanese society was basically maimed, wounded and killed massed by these attacks. You're not going to find this information in the Western media, nor would you find information in the western media about the retaliation that Hezbollah has engaged in since then. It's amazing the disparity of the information you see from them and what you're seeing from the Western media. All of these sources I counsel, everybody who's listening to our conversation should be approached with a healthy degree of skepticism. You should believe nothing on its face, always exercise your own independent thinking, your capacity for critical thought, but do not confine yourselves to Western media because if you do that, you're going to end up supporting a diabolical, genocidal regime. That's what's going to happen to you. You need to have access to all sources of information and think critically. Wilmer Leon (10:48): Another source that I go to is Laith maros free Palestine tv. For me, that's another invaluable source for getting an alternative perspective. I'm glad that you framed it in the manner in which you did, because one of the elements of the so-called analysis is October 7th. It says, though this conflict started on October 7th, ignoring the decades of oppression that Palestinians have been subjected to. When I listen to whether it's Kamala Harris, when I listen to former President Donald Trump, if they make reference to the conflict at some point in their dialogue, it's going to be October 7th. Look what Hamas did on October 7th, totally ignoring 70 years of oppression. And so how this gets framed is very, very important. Dimitry Lascaris (12:01): Oh, 100% Wilmer. And I think that the answer that Kamala Harris gave in the debate with Trump to the question of how to deal with the human tragedy as they call it, it's not really a human tragedy, it's much more than that. It is a genocide. In Gaza, the way she responded, Wilmer Leon (12:21): The earthquake in Haiti was a human tragedy. Correct. Dimitry Lascaris (12:28): Humans did not cause the earthquake. You're right. Absolutely. Wilmer Leon (12:31): Exactly. And so I made that point again because how these things get framed is incredibly, famine is a human tragedy. Floods are human. So go ahead. Dimitry Lascaris (12:45): So the first thing out of her mouth, and I'm sure you know this Wilmer, probably many of the people listening us know this. Kamala Harris went into that debate with extensive training from public relations professionals. And she was told, when you get the question about Israel, because she knew there, they all knew a question about Israel was coming. This is how you start your answer. Wilmer Leon (13:09): Wait a minute, wait minute, wait minute, wait a minute, minute, wait a minute. Lemme see if I can channel my inner Dmitri Karus. Israel has a right to defend itself. Dimitry Lascaris (13:20): That was actually the second thing mouth, the first thing out of her mouth. There was no question. You're absolutely right. That was going to be front and center in her answer to any question about Israel and Gaza. But the first thing out of her mouth was, let's remember when this all began. October 7th, right? A colossal lie, A stupendous lie. And of course, the moderators who in my opinion were extraordinarily biased in favor of Kamala Harris, they didn't do any fact checking of her. They said nothing at this point. It might've been the most audacious lie during the entire debate, the one that certainly has the most impact on actual human lives. This did not start on October 7th. This started decades ago when the Palestinian people were dispossessed of their land forcibly by Zionist militias in the nakba. And even before then, (14:16): And it has continued year after year after year, you can go and consult the casualty figures from any independent reputable source like the United Nations. And you will find that year after year after year for decades, the Palestinian people have suffered far more civilian casualties than Israelis every year. And it's a multiple. We're talking about a ratio 10 to one, 15 to 1...21. How the hell can you say in good conscience that all of this began what we're seeing today in Gaza and now in the West Bank, that this began on October 7th. It takes a colossal act of self-deception and mendacity to say such a thing. And she was prepared to say exactly that, and it was the first thing that came out of her mouth. This is the peculiar expertise that sort of the propaganda system part excellence that we have in the West is they always start history on the date that is most advantageous to their narrative always. And we always fall for this like suckers, like chumps, like as Malcolm X said many times, you're a sucker, you're a chump. That's exactly what we are when we believe this crap, that history starts on the date that's most advantageous to our government's narrative. So Wilmer Leon (15:33): Article 51 of additional protocol one to the Geneva Convention from 1949, it prohibits the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and Article 85 lists attacks on civilians as grave breaches, that amount to war crimes, still talking about these pagers in these walkie talkies, you have to identify who qualifies as a combatant under international humanitarian law when analyzing the pager detonations, and this is from the cradle, when analyzing the pager detonations from a legal standpoint, it becomes clear that Israel's killing spree in Lebanon lies somewhere between a war crime and an act of terrorism. And they say the classification depends on the current state of affairs. Your thoughts, because one of the things to your point about, we have to look at this in the context of October 7th, a lot of this depends on how it gets classified. But as a former prosecutor, if she does not realize when she makes the statement about October 7th, when she makes the statement about Israel has the right to defend itself based upon international law, that's just flat out wrong. Dimitry Lascaris (17:10): Yeah, I need to address this whole thing about a former prosecutor. Okay? And I know you're entirely right to bring this up, that that's what she is, Kamala Harris, and that's what people constantly point out about her. Let's just start by acknowledging that the US justice system is rigged. It's rigged against people of color, the poor, minorities, workers. It always has been, and it arguably is worse now that it has been at any time in the post World War II history. And so Kamala Harris, the fact that she was a prosecutor, nobody should think that that for one moment has conferred upon her any expertise in of the rule of law. Prosecutors in the United States are basically instruments of oppression, and that's what she was when she was a prosecutor. In any event, it's important to know that something can be a war crime in an act of terrorism. (18:05): At the same time, these concepts are not mutually exclusive and in my opinion, as a capacity as a lawyer, these fall squarely within the definition of a war crime. And within the classical conventional definition of terrorism in the West, which is the use of violence or threats of violence against civilians or civilian infrastructure in order to achieve a political objective. Clearly the political objective here is to terrorize the Lebanese population into either turning against Hezbollah or if you're already a supportive of Hezbollah, to demanding that Hezbollah stand down and allow Israel to complete the genocide without any armed resistance from outside of occupied Palestine. That's the political objective. And clearly this was going to have a massive and unknowable impact on the civilian population because nobody can know where a pager is going to be at any time. If you just think about, I don't know if you've used a pager before or some other electronic, Wilmer Leon (19:09): I'm old enough, I'm pre-cell phone. You can tell by the gray. Dimitry Lascaris (19:12): I'm pre too. In days bygone, I too used a pager. So I used many different, I used a Blackberry, I used a Motorola phone back in the nineties. And think about what you did with that device when it was in your possession. Oftentimes you put it down in the kitchen. Sometimes your children would play with it, sometimes you would leave it in your car, you'd forget it in your car, or sometimes you'd have it on you while you're driving your car. Or you might just be a civilian who is or is not sympathetic to Hezbollah like a doctor and you use this device. There is absolutely no way Wilmer, absolutely no way that the Israeli military could have made a confident assessment of who was going to be killed and maimed directly and indirectly by the explosion of these devices, by the detonation of these devices that is both a war crime and an act of terrorism. Wilmer Leon (20:13): A minute there's, there's another element to this as well. I believe there's a cultural element in the West, the cell phone, the pager is a very personal item. I don't give my cell phone, I don't even give my cell phone to my son. He has his own phone. I don't give my cell phone to my wife. She has her own phone. In many African countries and middle Eastern countries, there may be one cell phone in a family, and so it gets or pager, it gets distributed and used, I'll say indiscriminately within a family. It could be within a neighborhood. So you don't even really know at any given time who's going to be to your point. But I also wanted to add the cultural aspect of this. You have no idea whether the person whose name is on the contract is going to be the sole user of that device. Dimitry Lascaris (21:24): I think that's an excellent point. The only modification I would add to it is that I wouldn't say it's so much cultural as it is socioeconomic. Wilmer Leon (21:34): Okay, I got it. Dimitry Lascaris (21:35): But at the end of the day, it's a distinction without difference Wil. But I think what, from my perspective, why your point is so powerful is because people living in West Asia generally don't have ordinary citizens. The economic means that we have. Wilmer Leon (21:51): Correct, correct. Good point. Dimitry Lascaris (21:52): You can't have multiple devices in a family. Absolutely. That is a very important consideration. But also another consideration is that a pager, one of the reasons why we want to have our own cell phones is because there's a lot of stuff in there that's personal to us. Emails, there's text messages and so forth. The page is different. A pager just makes a noise when somebody wants to draw your attention to something. (22:17): So people are much more, I think, willing to share pagers with others, leave them in the possession of others. Then they might be with a cell phone, for example, or a tablet. So this is a particularly dangerous device. And if you're going to use it as an explosive for all of the reasons that you and I have been discussing, there is a very high potential that you are going to maim or kill innocent bystanders. And you have no way, no way of accurately assessing what the damage is going to be to the people in those categories. Wilmer Leon (22:52): And that is considered by international standards, collective punishment of civilians. And that is illegal. And I understand your point about being a prosecutor, but she was a prosecutor. And I go back to that because that's a point that her campaign and that she loves to make, that is a point of validation of her and for her. So since they want to use that point, then I'll use the point. Dimitry Lascaris (23:24): Totally, totally. You're absolutely right. Absolutely. Wilmer Leon (23:28): It's just wrong. The world isn't flat, the sun doesn't revolve around the earth, and one plus one does not equal 17. I want to go back to something else that Joe Biden has said on more than one occasion that he is a Zionist. In fact, the last maybe it wasn't the, yeah, I think it was the last time Netanyahu was at the White House, sitting next to Joe Biden, he turned to Joe Biden and said, you are a Zionist. In fact, he said, you are a Irish Zionist. That spoke volumes to me. It took me back to the Secretary of State saying, when he first got to the region in October, I'm not only here as the American secretary, Tony Blink said, I'm not only here as a Secretary of state, I'm here as a Jew. What does that say to you about the mindset and how do statements like that resonate within the region when the United States continues to try to hold itself out as some unbiased arbiter of this conflict? Is that a valid question to ask? Dimitry Lascaris (25:01): Well, first of all, let me say that in defense of our brothers and sisters in Ireland, most of them are not Zionists. In fact, in Europe, the Irish people, I'm not talking about the political elite Ireland, the Irish people are amongst the most principled and courageous and sympathetic when it comes to the Palestinian cause, number one. Number two, I think what Anthony Blinken said was antisemitic because he was implying that if you're a Jew, you support this genocidal regime and all of the crimes that's committed over decades. But you and I both know that all around the world, there are conscientious members of the Jewish community, people who identify as Jews and who have always identified as Jews, who are adamantly opposed to Israel with every fiber of their being. So when Anthony Blinken goes to Israel and he says, I come to you as a Jew, he's implying that if you're a Jew, you support this monstrosity. (26:03): That's antisemitic fundamentally, in my opinion. But at the end of the day, and I'll tell you on a personal level, Wilmer, I've had to deal with this issue in a painful way. And the painful way in which I had to deal with it was about six years ago, there were two members of the Liberal Party caucus, the governing party in Canada who are Zionist and who happened to be Jewish as well. And I'll tell you their names. Their names are Anthony HouseFather and Michael Levitt. And at the time, Michael Levitt was the chairman of the Canada Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group. And Anthony Housefather was the vice chair, and they were the two most outspoken, aggressive defenders of Israel in the governing party's caucus. And just to give you an example of how aggressive they were in supporting Israel in 2018, a friend of mine who's a Palestinian Canadian doctor, his name is Ek Banani, he was shot by an Israeli sniper in Gaza while he was wearing medical garb. (27:10): And he was out in the field during the great march of return tending to civilians who were being shot by Israeli snipers. He himself took a bullet to each leg. And the liberal government, Justin Trudeau, on a rare occasion, condemned Israel for this. And these two characters, Michael Levitt and Anthony Housefather put out their own statement, even though they came from the same party as Justin Trudeau, and even though their boss was Justin Trudeau and defended what Israel did, and I pointed out, in my opinion, they were showing more devotion to Israel's apartheid regime than they were to Canada, which they took an oath to defend as parliamentarians. And for this, I was accused by the Prime Minister of antisemitism. I didn't say what I said because they were Jewish. I said, what I said, because they're radical Zionists. It's as simple as that. So we have to recognize, I think today that there are people in Western politics, some of whom are Jewish, but not all of whom are Jewish by any means, who place Zionist ideology over the interests of their own country. (28:23): And by the way, I saw this myself when I was a child of Greek immigrants growing up in Canada. My parents told me when I was a kid, they came from Greece. They had a nationalistic orientation, and they said, you are a Greek first and a Canadian second. They told me that when I was a little boy, they were putting the homeland where their country of origin, ahead of the country, where I, myself, their child was born. So this is not a phenomenon that's peculiar to the Jewish community. It's one that you see in all kinds of the Asdas, including my own, the Greek, the Aspera. We need to be honest and say there are people in this community and other communities who put the interests of a foreign state ahead of the country that they have sworn to represent. This is absolutely the case. And Anthony Blinken is a classic example of this. I mean, my God, he's basically telling people, he telegraphed from the outset that I'm going to prioritize the agenda of the Israeli government over that of the United States. And that's exactly what he has done every single day of this conflict. That man is unfit to be the Secretary of state of the United States. He is not serving the national interest. He is undermining the national interest. People need to be honest about that. Wilmer Leon (29:41): When you have, I think people, because of how events have unfolded, whether it be with the Ukraine, Russia conflict, whether it be with the United States trying to pick a fight with China over Taiwan, folks need to remember that the Department of State, the Secretary of State, is supposed to be the chief diplomat in the United States. When I say chief diplomat, that means using diplomacy, not militarism to solve conflict. But you have people in the Pentagon, which used to be known as the Department of War. You have people in the Pentagon looking at Tony Blink and saying, no, no, no, no, sir, no man, no, you're you. You're traversing down the wrong road here in a number of instances saying, we don't have the capability to engage in the level of militarism that you are invoking or trying to get us into. People need to understand this man is not doing his job, even though he's following in the steps of Hillary Clinton, even though he's following in the steps of Madeline Albright, he's not doing his job. Dimitry Lascaris (31:05): Wilmer, I'm going to make a strong statement, and I'm going to go on a limb here. I think that pretty much every leader of every western country, every foreign minister of every Western country day, certainly the major ones, they're traitors, in my opinion, they're traitors. They are all betraying the interests of the people they have sworn to represent. This is true in Canada, the United States, Greece, where I'm currently situated, I believe this government as a moral matter. I don't know whether it's true from a legal perspective. I'm not offering a legal opinion here. I'm talking about ethics, morality, the moral matter. The Greek government is a traitor. They have sold us out to Brussels and Washington. They're looking out for the agenda of a narrow elite based in Brussels in Washington to the detriment of the Greek people. The same is happening in Canada. It's happening in France. (31:56): It's happening in Britain. And we as people need to rise up and put into power those who actually represent our interests right across the west. We are governed by vassals. Even the United States is governed by vassals. They're vassals of a US-based oligarchy and the military industrial complex. I cannot stress enough that incredible speech that Dwight d Eisenhower gave at the very end of his presidency. We don't talk about that enough. When he warned of the dangers of the military industrial complex, he was very clear. It was a very, very ominous warning that it was going to destroy American democracy. What happened within the next 10 years? JFK is assassinated. Malcolm X is assassinated, MLK is assassinated. Bobby Kennedy is assassinated. And from then, it's been downhill ever since, (32:47): Downhill, ever since. And we've moved gradually, incrementally towards fascism, an oligarchic led fascism. That's where we find ourselves today. People need to rise up. I'm not suggesting that people engage in violence. We can do this in a way that is nonviolent against the elites who claim to represent us and remove them from power as quickly as possible before we are all taken down by their depravity. Whatever you may think of the Palestinian cause, whatever you may think about Israel, this may not be something. This entire region may not be something that matters to you, but the implications of this go, they're global. They're global. If this stays out of control, we are all going to be devastated and impacted by it in a profoundly negative way. And ultimately, we may find ourselves in a nuclear Armageddon. Wilmer Leon (33:35): In fact, that right there, and you went down this litany of domestic assassinations, you didn't even go down the litany of African assassinations. That's a whole nother show. I just wanted to make that point. And this could also be, excuse me, a whole nother show. But I want you just to quickly, you mentioned you're in Greece. You mentioned the traitorous action of leadership. Greece has been subjected to an incredible amount of neoliberal policy and privatization, which has not, through machinations by the World Bank and the IMF and Greece has been suffering with this, I want to say it's one of the first European countries to find itself. If my memory serves me correctly involved in these practices, am I right to make that assessment? And I bring that up in validation of your point of how leadership has sold out the Greek people to oligarchs. Dimitry Lascaris (34:47): Oh, it's so true of this country. Wilmer starting in 2010, a financial crisis that was precipitated not by the ordinary Greek workers. It was precipitated by the fraudsters, the liars, the cheats in the banking industry in Greece and beyond Greece. And so in order to bail out the banking industry, the Greek people were made to pay ordinary workers, citizens the most vulnerable. They imposed upon Greece starting in about 2010, a neoliberal austerity program, the likes of which no country in Europe had ever seen in the post World War II period. And the country suffered an economic contraction in excess of 25%, which is I think the height of the economic contraction in the United States during the Great Depression. That's how severe it was. And it was totally engineered by Washington, Brussels and Mario Draghi, who at that time was the president of UCB, was entirely avoidable. And the unemployment rate soared to something like 27, 28%. The youth unemployment rate was nexus of 50%. The suicide rate soared, the poverty rate soared, the lifespan of Greeks fell. This was all engineered by Neoliberals and in Washington and Brussels, and I think in many ways it was an experiment and they (36:10): Found out that they could get away with it. And now we're seeing this transported exported to the rest of Europe. We're seeing this done in Germany. We're seeing this done in Britain, and they just elected Keir Starmer, who's supposed to be a Labor party leader, who's supposed to be prioritizing the interests of workers. And one of the first things Keir Starmer government does, it comes out and says, oh, we're going to have to deliver some very tough medicine to you. We have some real budgetary difficulties, Wilmer Leon (36:38): Austerity measures. Dimitry Lascaris (36:40): Absolutely. Absolutely. They don't represent us. This goes back to the question of treason. They do not represent us. They represent a neoliberal oligarchic elite whose appetite for wealth is insatiable. It's never enough. Wilmer, I got $500 billion. Ain't enough. I got a trillion dollars. Ain't enough. There's never enough money for these people. The Elon Musks of the world, the Jeff Bezos of the world, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett. These people have an insatiable appetite for money, and they are ruling us. They are the true rulers of our societies. I'm sorry to say, this is not a conspiracy theory. This is just reality by now. We should be able to recognize this. Wilmer Leon (37:23): It started in Greece in two. Who would've thought they were talking about privatizing the Parthenon. They were talking about privatizing Greek antiquity. I said, what? They were going to sell the coliseum to private interests, to raise money to pay the debt. And so you've seen it in Greece, you've seen it in Italy. You've we're seeing it now play itself out in Germany. It's playing all over Europe. It's playing itself out in France. I just wanted to quickly hit on that point. So now getting back to the conversation that all of this is inextricably linked, but wanted to get back to the point of the expansion of the conflict. You now have Hezbollah sending missiles into Israel. You have Israel increasing its attack on Southern Lebanon. Talk about how dangerous it is becoming even more dangerous if that's even imaginable, that this conflict is escalating. And what I think a lot of people are mistaking, they are mistaking restraint on behalf of the resistance for weakness. Dimitry Lascaris (38:48): Absolutely. And when the contrary is true, restraint is a sign of strength. When you were able to control your emotions in situations where most people would feel their passions being inflamed and would act in ways that are contrary to their own interests, that's strength. That's an inner strength that we should commend and admire, and whatever we may think of, the politics of these resistance organizations in the government that we're in that particular aspect of their conduct deserves to be commended. They have shown a tremendous amount of restraint, but that doesn't mean they aren't escalating the Islamic resistance in Lebanon. The armed wing of Hezbollah has now expanded the zone of attack well beyond the 20 kilometers or so to which they can find themselves during the first 11 months. They are now attacking areas outside of Haifa. I think they've quite consciously said, we aren't going to attack the center of Haifa, yet. (39:45): We are going to attack the outline areas to give the Israelis an opportunity to retreat from the precipice to which they have brought us. There are reports that they fired, that they hit areas outside of Tel Aviv. Again, not inside the heart of Tel Aviv, but outside, I think this is a message. We can hit Tel Aviv, we can hit Haifa, draw back from the precipice to which you have brought us. They have hit the Ramat David Airbase for the first time. They hit Raphael facilities, which this is a major military contractor in Israel, which produces their obviously inadequate air defense systems in its facilities. I think it's the largest production facility they have in Israel is just outside of Haifa. So they're sending a message in a very disciplined manner despite the suffering that they have incurred over the last 10 days, and really the last 11 months that civilian casualties on the Lebanese side have been much higher from day one of this war. (40:46): The destruction to civilian infrastructure has been much higher on the Lebanese side from day one of this war. And now the disparity between what the Israelis are suffering and what the Lebanese are suffering is growing even wider. And yet we are seeing this very calculated, measured response and let us hope that there are some adults in the room somewhere in the west who will get the message. So far, there is nobody, I mean, the speech that Biden gave, I didn't have the opportunity to watch it, but I read reports about it and I saw a couple of excerpts from it suggest to me that there is no one getting the message in Washington. No one. These people are as arrogant as ever. They're as determined as ever to support this regime until it takes down the entirety of West Asia with it. Wilmer Leon (41:32): Two quick points I want to get to before we get to Biden's speech, and we'll wrap up with that. One is I think when we talk about restraint, there are some practical elements of this restraint, because Iran has been very, very clear. They don't want a war. Hezbollah has been very clear. They don't want a war. The only ones that seem to be encouraging this are Ansar, Allah in Yemen. They're saying, oh, United States wants to attack us. Please, please do that. They're the only ones that really seem to be saying, Dimitry Lascaris (42:13): Someone's got to be the Bad cop. Wilmer. Ansar Allah is the bad cop. Wilmer Leon (42:18): And folks need to understand that's a fight you don't want. I don't know if you ever saw the story about Mike Tyson on the airplane coming across the top of his seat to beat up the guy that was kicking his seat behind him, but imagine Mike Tyson coming across the top of his seat in an airplane. You don't want that smoke quickly, though I think this is another very important aspect of this that doesn't get a whole lot of articulation or explanation. The impact that Christian nationalism is a lot of people are just attributing this to mistakenly Judaism, Zionism. They're trying to conflate the two. They are not anywhere near being the same, but Christian nationalism gets left out of this analysis. Dimitry Lascaris (43:09): Oh, that's so true, and it's so important. The first time I went to Israel or occupied Palestine, as I prefer to call it, was when I was 21 years old. So this would've been back in the eighties. And at that point, I was basically incapable of seeing through the propaganda narrative about Israel, I believed it was assigning island of democracy in the sea of barbarism, and we had shared values, and the Israelis were just trying to live their lives in peace. But there were people in the region who were determined to destroy them for antisemitic reasons. I believed all of that. I went to Jerusalem, and I don't even remember how I found out about it, but there was this huge gathering of evangelical Christians from the United States in an outdoor stadium to which Shiman Perez, who I think at the time he was the prime minister of Israel, I think delivered the most really, it was a tremendously racist, anti-Arab racist propagandistic speech about the Zionist agenda, and they were wildly supportive of him. I saw a level of fanaticism I'd never experienced in my life sitting that Audience. Wilmer Leon (44:32): Wow, okay. Dimitry Lascaris (44:32): These were American evangelical Christians, thousands upon thousands of them. It only was later in life that I realized as I came to study this conflict more closely that there are lots of reasons to believe that the most fanatical Zionists in the world are, in fact, Christian. Some of them are not even Christian or Jewish. They're secular. They described to this ideology for reasons that are completely non-religious. Wilmer Leon (44:58): Wasn't Theodore Herzl an atheist. Dimitry Lascaris (45:00): I believe he was. That's my understanding. Absolutely. Yeah. (45:04): So this is a non religious ideology. It is an ideology of imperialism and colonialism and racism, and we shouldn't be shy about saying that, and never ever conflate that ideology with any particular religion or ethnic group, whether it be Judaism or Christianity, or of course there are many wonderful Christians who are adamantly opposed to what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people. There's a segment of self-professed Christians. I dispute whether they're Christians at all, just as I dispute whether Jewish Zionists are actually Jews. I have serious doubts about that. But they call themselves Jews. They call themselves Christians. They do not represent the Christian community. They do not represent the Jewish community. They represent an ideology that is racist and colonial. Wilmer Leon (45:50): In fact, to that point, Benjamin Netanyahu, his last name, his family last name isn't really Netanyahu. It's like WojaKowski, Mil Mil Milakowski, Milakowski. His grandfather immigrated from Poland to the region in 1920 and Arabis the family last. And there are a number of those who now are proclaiming their rights to that land, when in fact they are European immigrants. That that's hence the whole thing in terms of it's a settler colonial project. And people and settler colonial projects don't go nicely. They don't go quietly when you invade somebody else's land. The people that are there, the indigenous population usually wants to resist. But I make the point that so many of these people that are proclaiming a heritage to the space are actually parts of a settler colonial project. Dimitry Lascaris (47:13): Absolutely, and you reminded me. So it's something I got. It's a be on my mind. And I got to say, does everybody notice when Netanyahu speaks? He sounds like he comes from the streets of New York because Wilmer Leon (47:23): He does, or Philly. Dimitry Lascaris (47:25): Philly, yeah. Or Philly. Sure. I lived in New York for six years, and if I ran into that dude in the street and didn't know who he was, I'd say he was in New York or he is a Philly. He's from the northeast of the United States. Why does he speak that way? Because fundamentally, he is an American and he's speaking to an American audience. He's not from the region, he's not indigenous the region. I mean, come on, man. Benjamin Netanyahu, that man is indigenous to the region of West Asia. He's an alien in the region of West Asia, and he's treating people in the region like he's an alien. And why does he speak that way? He speaks that way because ultimately the very existence of Israel depends upon the sport of the United States people, the Society of the United States. Without that support, Israel would not exist in its current form. Impossible. Wilmer Leon (48:15): Final point here, and you mentioned Joe Biden's speech at the un. I want to read two short excerpts, which I think speak volumes from a couple of perspectives. The Washington Post reported Biden points to the relative success of his administration's efforts to rally western support for Ukraine, coordinating a robust response with European partners to the Russian invasion and reinvigorating the transatlantic alliance. He stressed, he didn't want to see a full scale war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. He called for the war to end. Innocent civilians in Gaza are also going through hell. Thousands and thousands killed including aid workers. Too many families dislocated crowding into tents facing a dire humanitarian situation. They didn't ask for this war. Hamas started. (49:16): So a couple of things. One, I'm looking at what he said, and I'm looking at how the Washington Post has reported. I go back to the question we talked about earlier. When we hear Vice President Harris, secretary of State, Blinken Biden and others say that Israel has the right to defend itself, then you hear Biden say, this war has to stop. Well, the conflict in Ukraine started under his administration, and the United States started the conflict again, talking about restraint being mistaken for weakness. And in terms of what he sees in Gaza, if he truly wants it to stop, all he has to do is pick up the phone. Tell Netanyahu you don't get another artillery shell. You don't get another tank, you don't get another dime, and the war stops in two days. Is that too simplistic, Dmitri Karus? Dimitry Lascaris (50:23): No, there's absolutely not. It is absolutely the reality, and I'm as hostile to the Israel lobby as anybody, so please don't mistake me as an apologist for the Israel lobby. But I think that people like John Meir shier, for example, all my respect a lot are grossly overestimating the power of the Israel lobby. I don't think that, sure, the Israel lobby can take out people who don't have a lot of power. (50:56): They can take out like Val Bowman, they can take out Cori Bush, and maybe people are somewhat more powerful, but the president of the United States states, the sitting president of the United States, what are they going to remove him from office? No, they're not going to be able to remove him from office. If he wanted to actually stop the war in Gaza, he could stop the war in Gaza with a phone call. It is that simple. He doesn't do it because as he told us, he's a Zionist. I mean, he told us, and he's also said repeatedly, Wilmer, as I'm sure you know, if Israel didn't exist, we would have to invent it in order to protect America's, what he calls, not really, but what he calls America's strategic interest in the region. What that really means is the interest of the US oligarchy, not the American. (51:39): The unsinkable aircraft carrier in the region. (51:44): A hundred percent. A hundred percent. So all of this is Kabuki theater. Joe Biden wants Israel to achieve the agenda that Netanyahu is set for it, which is to destroy by any and all means necessary any resistance to Western slash Israeli hegemony in West Asia. He wants them to achieve that objective. That should be our operating assumption. And just because from time to time, he or Blinken or anonymous sources go to the press and say, oh, we're frustrated with Benjamin Netanyahu and we really want to cease fire, and man, we feel so terrible about what's happening to those civilians, too many are dying. Nobody should buy any of this crap. Watch what they do. Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do. And what they're doing is enabling a genocide that is unequivocal. Wilmer Leon (52:37): And you mentioned the power of APAC, and we will wrap up with this. And folks, those of you that are listening to this, that are rolling your eyes and saying, oh, this is propaganda. Look it up. I mean, there's hardly anything that's been said here that you can't research and find to be true. APAC boasted back, I want to say it was in April in the New York Times, you mentioned Jamal Bowman and Cori Bush. They touted, they bragged in the New York Times and the Washington Post that they were going to spend $100 million in the US election to unseat Democrats that they deemed to be anti Zionist. And Jamal Bowman and Cori Bush were victims of that. And I put that in quotes because at the time that that story was released, I didn't hear anybody in the Democratic Party come out and challenge APAC for making that statement. (53:46): It was only after Cori Bush lost that. She then came out and said, APAC, I'm coming after your village. Well, if you'd have said that on the front end, you'd probably still be in office because that could have been used as a rallying point. If they're going to spend a hundred million dollars, we need a hundred million votes. That to me, would've been the line that would've made the difference. And Kamala Harris finds herself in the same position. When you look at the data, over 70% of Americans want this thing ended and they want it ended. Now, she would gain votes outside of the money she would lose from APAC funding. If she were truly looking at this from an electoral politics perspective, she would gain votes. The race wouldn't even be close if she erred on the side of Wright. And on the right side of history with that, Dimitri Lascaris, I'll let you take us home, what you got, Dimitry Lascaris (55:02): You can get elected in the United States, despite all the obstacles by running as a principled candidate committed to the wishes and the priorities of the people, you can absolutely get elected. The problem Wilmer is that the system is constructed in such a way as to squash anybody who actually has a commitment to justice and to representing the wishes of the people. There are a series of filters that have been set up. So for example, you're seeing now, I'm actually working on Jill Stein's campaign. (55:33): They're waging, and I don't think any candidate is perfect, and I don't have an expectation that Jill is going to win. I certainly would love for that to happen. But the Democratic Party is waging war against the Green Party candidacy in every single state, a legal warfare. And they have enormous resources at their disposal to do that because the oligarchy is funneling massive amounts of money to them, to squash candidates like Jill Stein. If we had a system where it was a level playing field, so people who were truly committed to the wishes of the people and were able to, they were given an equal amount of airtime to other candidates who favored the wealthy, for example, you would see principled, honorable, decent people being elected to public office over and over and over again. But we have a political system throughout the west. This is not peculiar to the us, although I think the US is a bit of an extreme case. It's also true in Canada, it's also true in Western European countries, a series of filters that have been established to squash candidates before they get an opportunity to present their case to the people. If we could get them before the people on an equal playing field, the best candidates would win time and again, the problem is the system is designed to defeat them before they even get out of the gate. Wilmer Leon (56:55): And to that, I say, dare to be moral, dare to stand on the side of right. Dare to be on the right side of history. With that, let me say Dimitri Lascaris, I want to thank you so much for giving me the time that you've given me today. I greatly, greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining the show. Dimitry Lascaris (57:16): Great pleasure, Wilmer. As always. We've had opportunity to speak before and it's the first time we had to meet today, and I love what you do and keep doing it. Wilmer Leon (57:25): Well, thank you. Thank you. Without guests like you, I'd just be sitting here talking to myself. Folks, thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wilmer Leon. Stay tuned for new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. Remember, this is where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge because talk without analysis is just chatter, and we don't chatter here on connecting the dots. See you again next time. Until then, I'm Dr. Wilmer Leon. Have a great one. Peace and blessings. I'm out Announcer (58:10): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge.
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
IDF pounds Hamas and Hezbollah, Yahya Sinwar asks to not be killed. Analysis from John Waage re:U.S.& Israeli politics and Israel's war to exist. Iran's use of terror to control, without support of its people. Theodore Herzl, father of modern ...
Herzl tries to avoid the fights between the frum and the anti-frum in the fin de siecle
The Zionists were the first to assemble (or,appear to assemble) representatives of all כלל ישראל to discuss the fate of כלל ישראל and seek realistic solution
The Jews in the 19th Century - Civil rights followed by Antisemitism
Show notes Two Toronto community leaders have gone public about a legal fight involving one of Canada's oldest Zionist organizations, which also runs Camp Shalom, a 75-year-old Jewish summer camp in Ontario. David Matlow, a CJN columnist who also lectures widely about Theodore Herzl, has taken the little-known Toronto Zionist Council to court over allegedly restricting who can be a member, claiming the organization only allows Jews who hold right-wing political views on Israel and Zionism. His legal case also alleges years of financial mismanagement by the organization's former (and one current) directors, negatively impacting the TZC's neglected Toronto headquarters at 788 Marlee Avenue, and Camp Shalom, in Gravenhurst, Ont. The lawsuit has been before the courts since August 2022. But while it continues, Matlow's not-so-quiet pressure campaign has already resulted in a partial victory: the replacement of nearly all the longtime TZC directors at the centre of his allegations. Guidy Mamman, a Toronto immigration lawyer, was named the new president of the TZC board, and says he's vowing to set things right. He wants to help Camp Shalom grow, fix the office building on Marlee, investigate any financial wrongdoing and even try to retrieve any allegedly missing money. On today's episode of The CJN Daily, we bring you the full fascinating back story with plaintiff David Matlow and with new TZC president, Guidy Mammon. What we talked about: Read our first part of the investigation into the squalid conditions of The Toronto Zionist Council's headquarters at 788 Marlee Ave., in The CJN. Watch our tour inside 788 Marlee, on The CJN's YouTube channel. See the 1995 letter from Revenue Canada revoking an affiliated charity that illegally sent money to the West Bank. Credits: The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here. Hear why The CJN is important to me.
Découvrez l'abonnement "Au Coeur de l'Histoire +" et accédez à des heures de programmes, des archives inédites, des épisodes en avant-première et une sélection d'épisodes sur des grandes thématiques. Profitez de cette offre sur Apple Podcasts dès aujourd'hui ! C'est au XIXe siècle que la haine des juifs prend ses caractéristiques modernes. En s'adossant à un discours pseudo-scientifique, elle prend un nouveau nom : "antisémitisme". Pour évoquer la montée de l'antisémitisme, qui culmine avec l'affaire Dreyfus, Virginie Girod s'entretient avec Denis Charbit, professeur de science politique à l'université libre d'Israël. "Il faut bien comprendre que ce qui fait le succès de l'antisémitisme à travers les siècles vient du fait qu'il se greffe sur un discours social dominant. Au XIXe siècle, le discours social principal est celui de la science" explique Denis Charbit. "La haine des Juifs va se greffer à un discours pseudo-scientifique pour décréter qu'il y a une race sémite, qui serait inférieure, mais surtout dangereuse". C'est en 1873 que le journaliste allemand Wilhelm Marr forge le néologisme "antisémitisme". Si la révolution industrielle fait entrer les sociétés dans l'ère moderne, elle donne aussi de nouvelles munitions à ceux qui prônent le rejet des Juifs, notamment à gauche. "La révolution industrielle va permettre à certains Juifs de s'élever dans l'échelle sociale et à travers la figure des Rothschild, par exemple, on va associer le juif à l'argent" illustre Denis Charbit. Si l'antisémitisme prospère dans les milieux socialistes et marxiste, la bourgeoisie est également hostile aux juifs. Un rejet encore teinté d'antijudaïsme. "L'homme qui fait la jonction, c'est Édouard Drumont" précise Denis Charbit. Polémiste et homme politique d'extrême-droite, il publie La France juive "où il essaie de démontrer que la révolution aurait profité aux Juifs seulement, et qu'elle aurait pénalisé en France les ouvriers et les catholiques". Le pamphlet antisémite est un best-seller. Huit ans après sa parution, l'affaire Dreyfus éclate et cristallise l'antisémitisme de l'époque. Alfred Dreyfus, parce qu'il est juif, est considéré comme le coupable idéal d'une affaire de haute trahison qui devient bientôt un conflit social entre deux France. Lorsqu'il s'achève, l'antisémitisme a encore changé de visage. "L'antisémitisme va passer de la gauche à la droite de manière définitive" détaille l'historien "les forces anti-républicaines vont récupérer politiquement l'antisémitisme pour en faire une valeur cardinale jusqu'à l'apothéose : le régime de Vichy". Autre conséquence moins connue, l'affaire Dreyfus contribue à forger le projet sioniste dans l'esprit du journaliste autrichien Theodore Herzl, correspondant à Paris. Accablé par la haine des Juifs qui se déverse dans le pays des droits de l'Homme, "il en arrive à concevoir que la solution politique pour les Juifs, c'est qu'ils disposent d'une terre et d'un État dont ils seraient à la tête" raconte Denis Charbit. Thèmes abordés : antisémitisme, judaïsme, marxisme, Affaire Dreyfus "Au cœur de l'histoire" est un podcast Europe 1 Studio- Présentation : Virginie Girod - Production : Camille Bichler et Nathan Laporte- Réalisation : Julien Tharaud- Composition de la musique originale : Julien Tharaud - Rédaction et Diffusion : Nathan Laporte- Communication : Marie Corpet- Visuel : Sidonie Mangin
Dimitri and Khalid continue their multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918. Part 5: Theodore Herzl and the Dream of Altneuland, 1890-1904 How an Austro-Hungarian Substack Guy memed the hitherto non-existent ideology of Political Zionism into being, and how he came to fixate on Ottoman Palestine as the future site of his glorious “Old New Land”.
Dimitri and Khalid continue their multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918. Part 4: Ottomanism, Zionism, and Freemasonry, 1880-1907 The spread of Freemasonry in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire, Freemasonry and the origins of the Turkish deep state, splits in Palestinian lodges over the agenda of French Zionist members, the French IAU, the Russian Labor Zionist “Young Worker” newspaper, early Zionist settlers acquiring Ottoman citizenship, “Jews! Be Ottomans!”, creating “facts on the ground” in Palestine, the Jewish-Ottoman Land Company, Theodore Herzl's highly erotic meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm in Palestine, and more. For access to premium episodes, the full SJ back catalog, show notes, upcoming episodes of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
Thank you so much for listening to the Bob Harden Show, celebrating over 12 years broadcasting on the internet! On Wednesday's show, we continue our discussion on the differences between liberal and conservative judges in interpreting and applying the Constitution with Chairman Emeritus of the Cato Institute Bob Levy. Author and Professor Andrew Joppa and I discuss the father of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, the war in Gaza, and the origins of anti-Semitism. Please join us on Thursday's show. We'll visit with CEO of the Florida Citizens Alliance Keith Flaugh, Cato Institute's Michael Cannon, Less Government's President Seton Motley, and former Mayor of Naples, Bill Barnett. Please access this or past shows at your convenience on my web site, social media platforms or podcast platforms.
This is the situation early Zionists were faced with: both a long history of persecution and an immediate crisis. Theodore Herzl reasoned that whilst anti-Semitism showed no signs of abating in Russia, it was also likely to increase in the West, due to the influx of Jewish refugees. Integration had been tried for over a thousand years and failed. The only solution to the Jewish problem was therefore a Jewish state. Christian Aid Gaza Appeal: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/emergencies/middle-east-crisis-appeal Buy me a Coffee page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSConsciousness To subscribe to the show: https://payhip.com/b/Sq0ZB Track: Walk it Off - Jae Ren Music provided by Verde Música Studio Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2l-97PH5R8 Notes The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand: https://tinyurl.com/4kykxhdj Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY The Jewish State, by Theodore Herzl: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/quot-the-jewish-state-quot-theodor-herzl
Dr. Chuck Herring | Ezekiel 36:1-15Like a well-worn baseball, the world seems to be coming apart at the seams. I don't need to remind you of that. You've read or worse, seen the horrific images of Hamas violence against Israelis. Women were raped, babies beheaded, hostages were taken, and people were tortured. Over 1,300 were massacred. Over 3,400 were injured and 200+ were kidnapped. 16 million Jews worldwide are mourning the worst attack since the Holocaust.The IDF is poised on the border of Gaza with the full intention of destroying the terrorist group, Hamas, while at the same time giving innocent Palestinians a chance to get out of harm's way. America has sent aircraft carriers and even troops to make sure that other nations do not get involved. As a result, Iran has unleashed wicked threats against both Israel and America. Hezbollah in Lebanon is firing rockets into northern Israel, and they are threatening to open a northern front in this expanding war. It seems that the entire Middle East is a tinder box that is ready to explode at any moment. What are the prophetic implications of all of this? Open your Bible to Ezekiel. This is one of those books in the Bible that attracts you with its vivid imagery, symbolism, parables, allegories, and apocalyptic visions. However, when you actually start to read it, you suddenly realize that it's hard to understand. Before we jump into our study, I want to read Psalm 83. Here are a few references to Gaza in the Bible…Genesis 10:19… The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. Judges 1:18–19… And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory. 19 Now the Lord was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had iron chariots. Amos 1:6–7… Thus says the Lord, “For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they deported an entire population To deliver it up to Edom. 7 “So I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza And it will consume her citadels. Zechariah 9:5… Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza too will writhe in great pain; Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited. Ezekiel was a priest by vocation, married, and among those exiled to Babylon. His name means “God strengthens” and he was a contemporary of Daniel. God called him to confront the root causes of their sinful rebellion against God and their failure to listen to God's Word and to obey it. His Spirit-inspired book may be divided into three sections, following the prophet's call in 1–3…(1) God's judgment on Jerusalem, 4–24(2) God's judgment on the surrounding nations, 25–32(3) God's restoration of the Jews in the kingdom, 33–48.[1]Have you ever tried to skip rocks across the surface of a lake? It hits the surface and then takes to the air again. The process is repeated until it just runs out of steam. That's what we're going to do tonight. We're going to skip through Ezekiel 36 touching down at significant points in the text. We've already seen how the book itself breaks down. Now, I want you to see how the chapter itself seems to breaks down …(1) The Promise to renew the land of Israel –Verses 1-15(2) The Promise to renew the people of Israel –Verses 16-38Okay, with this in mind, let's dive into the first section which deals with the renewal of the land of Israel.Ezekiel 36:1–7… “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. 2 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!' and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,' 3 therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people.” ' ” 4 ‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about, 5 therefore thus says the Lord God, “Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.” 6 ‘Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.' 7 “Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults. Just as Ezekiel was commanded to prophesy to the Mount Seir (Edom) in chapter 35, now he prophesies to “the mountains of Israel” in chapter 36. What's behind this contrast?God promised to punish Israel's enemies for their sin in hounding, slandering (v. 3), plundering (vv. 4–5), rejoicing over, and practicing cruelty against Israel.[2] Here at the outset of this prophetic portion of Scripture there is a powerful emphasis on God's judgment of the nations that surrounded Israel, that hated them with a passion, and that sought to take their promised land. Look carefully at verse 5…Ezekiel 36:5… therefore thus says the Lord God, “Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.” (MAP) God says that this tiny sliver of land is HIS LAND. Who did He give it to?Genesis 15:7,18… And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.” 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.” He gave it to Abraham and his descendants—the Jewish people. Ezekiel 36:8–12… ‘But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come. 9 ‘For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown. 10 ‘I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt. 11 ‘I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. *Thus you will know that I am the Lord*. 12 ‘Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.' Keep in mind that this Scripture is referring to the land of Israel. It's interesting that as one studies the history of Israel it becomes apparent that the fruitfulness of the land seemed to be contingent upon the obedience of God's people. Often, the sovereign Lord unleashed famines, droughts, pestilence, and locusts to discipline the Jewish people. Leviticus 26:32–33… ‘I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. 33 ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste. Deuteronomy 28:64… “Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.” In this passage God promises to make the land fruitful for “My people Israel.” Look at all the promises God makes concerning the land of Israel. Ezekiel 36:13–15… “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Because they say to you, “You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children,” 14 therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord God. 15 “I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer,” declares the Lord God.' ” Besides punishing Israel's enemies (vv. 1–7) and restoring Israel's land (vv. 8–12), God will also remove the land of Israel's reproach (vv. 13–15). The mockery and humiliation the land had been forced to endure (vv. 3–6) will cease. She will once again be restored to her position of prestige as the land of God's Chosen People (cf. Deut. 28:13; Zech. 8:13, 20–23).[3]Keep in mind that with Old Testament prophecy there is often a partial fulfillment that occurs in a certain time period and then a complete fulfillment that occurs in the future. Let me give you a bit of insight concerning the nation of Israel…With this emphasis on the land of Israel, it's important to understand that with the Roman conquests of AD 70 and AD 138 until the Zionist movement that started in the 19th century the land of Israel became a desolate wasteland. Mark Twain visited this God-forsaken land and reported… In 1867 the American author Mark Twain toured the land of Israel and described it as a “desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds—a silent mournful expanse…. A desolation…. We never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere…. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” (The Innocents Abroad)Spurgeon, the great British preacher, said the following in an 1864 sermon that was focused on Ezekiel 36…“These words were addressed to the mountains of Palestine. Albeit that they are now waste and barren, they are yet to be as fruitful and luxuriant as in the days of Israel's grandeur.”I've been to Israel three times. I was amazed at the productivity of the land. Look at this…According to Israeli government statistics and reports, since the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948 they have more than tripled the amount of land used for farming and production has increased sixteen times. What used to be an agricultural wasteland is now a model for the world, and Israel produces 95% of its own food requirements and has a large agricultural export industry. The most popular products in the Israeli agricultural market are tomatoes, carrots, turnips, grapefruit, and bananas. Israel is also a significant exporter of dates, avocados, olive oil, pomegranates, and almonds, and it is a world leader in agricultural technologies.We can regard these impressive developments as a mere beginning of the much greater fruitfulness promised in the fullness of God's plan for Israel and her land.…………………………………………………………………………………….Here are nine things you should know about the creation of the modern Israeli state.1. In AD 138, the ancient nation of Israel ceased to exist when the Roman emperor Hadrian crushed the Bar Kochba revolt and banned all Jews from Palestine (i.e., the biblical regions known as the Land of Israel). The land was conquered by various nations until 1517, when it was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans retained control until 1917, when the British captured Jerusalem during World War I.2. By 1850, only about 14,000 Jews remained in Palestine. But in 1881, in reaction to growing anti-Semitism in Europe and Russia, a number of organizations were established with the aim of furthering Jewish settlement in the area. These groups were the forerunners of modern Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel.3. Theodore Herzl—officially referred to in the Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel as “the spiritual father of the Jewish State“—launched the modern Zionist movement in 1896. He said…Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves.4. In 1897, Herzl began to put his plan into action by convening the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. At this symbolic congress—which was referred to as the Basel Congress—the group adopted the Basel Program with this stated goal: “Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.” A few weeks after the event, Herzl wrote in his diary… “Were I to sum up the Basel Congress in a word—which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly—it would be this: At Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today l would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in fifty years, everyone will perceive it.”5. During World War I, the Allies drove the Turks out of Ottoman Syria. In 1917, the British government announced its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in the 67-word statement known as the Balfour Declaration.After the war the British controlled the area of Palestine and was given a mandate by the League of Nations to administer the territory. 6. The Jewish population in Palestine grew between 1919 and 1923 as Jews began to flee persecution in Russia and Ukraine. This influx of Jews, along with the Balfour Declaration, led the Arab inhabitants of the land to develop their own political movement, known as Palestinian nationalism. A nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs led to the “Great Revolt” of 1936-1939. This insurrection led the British to propose a partition of the land into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs rejected the proposal.7. In 1939, the British began limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine. Even after the Holocaust began creating Jewish refugees in Europe, the UK refused to lift the immigration cap. Thousands of Jews died trying to flee to Palestine in small boats, and thousands more were caught and turned away. The American government supported a move to allow 100,000 new immigrants into the region, which prompted the British to abandon the Palestine Mandate and leave the issue to be resolved by the United Nations.8. On May 15, 1947, the United Nations created UNSCOP (the UN Special Committee on Palestine), with representatives from 11 “neutral” countries: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. UNSCOP offered two proposals to solve the “Palestine Question.” The first plan, supported by the majority of the committee, recommended the land be divided between an Arab state and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem being under an international trusteeship. The second plan, supported by a minority of the committee, proposed a federal union of Arabs and Jews with Jerusalem as its capital. The Zionists accepted the two-state solution, but the Arabs rejected both. On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the partition plan as Resolution 181 (II). 9. On May 14, 1948, the British mandate over Palestine expired, and the Jewish People's Council issued a proclamation declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. This day is celebrated in Israel as “The Day of Independence”. ……………………………………………………………………………..Since this time, the nation of Israel has had to fight for its existence…1948 Arab-Israeli War (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia)Six-Day War. Date: 1967 (Egypt and Syria)Yom Kippur War. Date: 1973 (Egypt and Syria)Is God's covenant with the Jewish nation and the Jewish people permanent? The answer is “yes.” Look at this promise…Jeremiah 31:35–36… Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The Lord of hosts is His name: 36 “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the Lord, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” Let's wrap up our session by considering the implications for what we are witnessing before our very eyes. Samuel Sey wrote this…So in these bad times, we should remember the gospel of Christ. We should be more familiar with the good news than all the bad news from the war.God became a man — a Jewish man. The king of the universe is from Israel. Jesus' ethnicity is Jewish. His mother is Jewish. His brothers are Jewish. His Apostles are Jewish. His prophets are Jewish. His ancestors are Jewish. Jesus was born a Jew, raised a Jew, died a Jew, resurrected a Jew, ascended a Jew, and reigns as a Jew. He hasn't stopped being a Jew. Just as we will maintain our ethnicity in heaven (Revelation 5:9), Jesus maintains his Jewish ethnicity in Heaven. That's why He's described in the book of Revelation as “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David.”So if you hate Jews, you hate Jesus. In the same way, if you hate Palestinians, you hate their creator. Palestinians are made in the image of God, so if you hate them — you hate God. The good news is Jesus was born in Bethlehem (currently Palestinian land) so that he would be the Savior of Jews and Gentiles, including Palestinians. He lived a sinless life so that He would suffer and die on the cross — offering Himself as our atoning substitute, the “righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). Samuel Sey is a Ghanaian-Canadian who lives in Brampton, a city just outside of Toronto.[1] Warren W. Wiersbe, Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the Old Testament (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1993), Eze 1–36.[2] Charles H. Dyer, “Ezekiel,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 1296.[3] Charles H. Dyer, “Ezekiel,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 1297.
This week Lara and Michael sit down with acclaimed Rabbi, author, and rabbinical scholar, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro to discuss what it actually means to be Jewish. He dives deep into Jewish history and shows how the Zionist movement belonged to Christians before Theodore Herzl came around. He explains how the founders of Zionism hijacked the religion while holding a lot of the same beliefs as the antisemites of their day. He defines what it means to practice Judaism and how the future of Jewish identity hinges on defeating Zionism
In this episode J.J. and Dr. Derek Penslar get into the evolution of Zionism, and the ideas (or lack of ideas) of Theodore Herzl. You can find more fantastic Jewish content like this at torahinmotion.orgDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He takes a comparative and transnational approach to Jewish history, which he studies within the contexts of modern capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism. Penslar's books include Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (2001), Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006), The Origins of the State of Israel: A Documentary History (with Eran Kaplan, 2011), Jews and the Military: A History (2013), Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020/German ed. 2022), Zionism: An Emotional State (2023) and Unacknolwedged Kinships: Postcolonial Theory and the Historiography of Zionism (co-edited with Stefan Vogt and Arieh Saposnik, 2023). He is currently writing an international history of the 1948 Palestine War. Penslar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy for Jewish Research and is an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. At Harvard, Penslar is a resident faculty member at The Center for European Studies and as of July will be the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies.
Our series continues with Pinchas Rosen - a lover of classical music, an enthusiastic chess player, an avid reader of Goethe, and Israel's first Justice Minister. A quintessential yekke, or German-born Jew, he was - more than any other signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence - the true ideological heir of Theodore Herzl.Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and by signing up for our newsletter at israelstory.org/newsletter/. For more, head to our site or The Times of Israel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In 1897, the First Zionist Congress was held in a seaside resort in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Led by journalist Theodore Herzl, the conference helped kick off the Zionist Organization, and the Zionist movement in general. Now, 125 years later, Herzl's dream has come true. The State of Israel is alive and well, and in fact thriving, though by no means is it without challenges, many of them serious. So what would Herzl think of today's Israel? Surely he would be proud of the country, but what challenges would still be keeping him up at night, and what issues would he still be driven to address? In this week's podcast, we sit down with Professor Gil Troy. Professor Troy is an author and noted historian who has written extensively about Theodore Herzl and the Zionist movement, from Herzl until today. Welcome to The Honest Report podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thehonestreport/message
"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight hate and antisemitism in the United States and around the world. At the end of August, Basel, Switzerland was the place to be for a very special gathering. It was there that 125 years ago to the day, Theodore Herzl held the first Zionist Congress. Thousands descended this year on this beautiful town to remember that historic event, to appreciate both Herzl's vision and foresight, and to reflect on how far the Zionist dream has come since then. Among the cadre of leaders in attendance were ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and ADL Israel Director Carole Nuriel. Carole was the featured guest on this podcast. She shared her thoughts on this unique gathering, as well as ADL's role. This podcast originally aired as a radio show on September 10, 2022 on WVOX 1460 AM.
*************************************************************************************************** I would like to thank TBN Jerusalem for the use of their recording studio *************************************************************************************************** Who was Theodore Herzl and why is he so important to Israel.
As one of the most prominent Zionist leaders ever, as well as the founder of Jewish National Fund, Theodore Herzl's influence has reverberated throughout modern Jewish history. And as the largest owner of Herzl memorabilia with over 5,000 items, David Matlow has made it his life's goal to educate people on the life and legacy of Theodore Herzl. Through both his collection and his Herzl Project, Matlow helps people of all ages recognize the vast impact Herzl has had and inspires them to follow in his footsteps. Host Steven Shalowitz sits down with Matlow to discuss the history of Herzl and the early Zionist movement, how he came to acquire his vast collection, and how Herzl's theater background helped him recognize the importance of projecting the correct image.
The Eighth Month: Iyar Iyar is unique in a few ways - it's the only month in the year where each day has a special, time-bound mitzvah to perform: the counting of the Omer. We count 49 days - 7 weeks, 7 days, from the evening of the second day of Pesach (Passover) in Nisan (last month) until the 50th day - Shavuot, the holiday where we celebrate the giving of the Torah, in Sivan (next month). The idea is that, like a birthday or any other special event, we are joyously counting our way toward one of the greatest days in Jewish history, refining our character and our behavior, until we reach the day of Matan Torah - the giving of our Torah. Iyar is also unique in that, in addition to Torah-time observances such as Pesach Sheni and Lag BaOmer, it has quite a few days commemorating / relating to the modern state of Israel. It is taught that Iyar (אייר) is an acronym for "I am G-d your Healer - Ani Hashem Rofecha - אני יי רופאך" Iyar comes from the Akkadian "ayari" meaning "rosette, blossom." In the Talmud it is called "Chodesh Ziv," or the month of light. How do all these names relate to this month? This idea of G-d being our healer, and this time being one of "light" and blossoming feels related to the Israel-centric energy of the month. For thousands of years we were wandering Jews. A people without a protected home - running from place to place seeking refuge from a world with baseless, unwavering hatred for us. This month, unbeknownst to every generation of Jew prior to 1948, though, has become a month that is true to its name. A month of healing, light, and blossoming. It's a month that has become centered around the Jewish Homeland. The Jewish Homeland which has healed, shown light, and blossomed in every sense - literal and metaphorical. ____________ 4 Iyar 1963 - first Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and civilian victims of terror 5 Iyar 1948 - first Yom HaAtzmaut, Israeli Independence Day 10 Iyar 1860 - birth of Theodore Herzl, father of Modern Zionism 13 Iyar 1427 - Jews expelled from Bern, Switzerland 14 Iyar 1933 - Nazis burned thousands of books written by Jews 14 Iyar 1960 - Adolf Eichmann captured in Buenos Aires 15 Iyar 1945 - Dachau concentration camp liberated 16 Iyar 1939 - The Nuremberg laws, depriving Jews the rights to citizenship, were passed by the government of Nazi Germany in 1935. In 1939, on the 16th of Iyar, the laws went into effect in Nazi-allied Hungary 17 Iyar 1945 - Death of Adolf Hitler 18 Iyar 1948 - Israeli Defense Forces are created 20 Iyar 1942 - All pregnant women in the Kovno ghetto are sentenced to death by Nazis 24 Iyar 1945 - Nazi Germany surrenders to Allied Forces 26 Iyar 1945 - Theresienstadt concentration camp liberated 28 Iyar 1967 - Yom Yerushalayim, the reunification of Jerusalem I kept these dates in month chronology rather than year chronology, because it's moving / insane / frustrating / horribly unfair / disturbing to see what can occur on the same day, different year. How lucky are we to know this whole list? ______________ Cont'd… For full text, email me at shirajkaplan@gmail.com or join my email list here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iggerethalevana/message
Dr. Dan Polisar is one of the founders of Shalem College in Israel, a leading scholar political scientist, an expert on Zionism, and an observer of the Israeli scene. Join Rabbi Matanky as he speaks with Dr. Polisar about the nature of a liberal arts education (i.e. what makes Shalem College different), about Charedi Zionism and even the legacy of Theodore Herzl.
With the recent controversy surrounding Whoopi Goldberg and her remarks about the Holocaust, with the recent hostage situation at a Texas synagogue, with generational trauma and anti-Semitism on the brain, Why We Theater re-releases this episode from Season 1 with a new intro and new context. Dig into Tony Award winner Steven Levenson's play IF I FORGET with Steven himself and experts Rabbi Shuli Passow (B'nai Jeshurun in New York City) and scholar Judah Isseroff. Watch IF I FORGET on BroadwayHD. Michael's monologue, as performed by Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos, appears with the permission of Roundabout Theatre Company, which premiered IF I FORGET Off-Broadway in 2017, and Steven Levenson. Referred to in this new intro Watch: Whoopi Goldberg shares thoughts on the Holocaust on The View Debra Messing tweets a helpful response to Goldberg Banning of "Maus" in schools.... and the subsequent nationwide results Hostage situation at Texas synagogue Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA What is Zionism? Referred to in this episode “The Rise of Social Orthodoxy: A Personal Account” by Jay P. Lefkowitz “The Problem with ‘Social Orthodoxy'” by Joshua R. Fattal, a critical response to Lefkowitz “What is the Talmud? Definition and Comprehensive Guide”, Yehuda Shurpin Who is Theodore Herzl? Who is David Ben-Gurion? Who is Sheldon Adelson? Who is “Adolf Eichmann”? Who is Hannah Arendt Neveragain.com Anti-Defamation League: Fighting Hate for Good What is Jerusalem Syndrome”? Create the change Learn more about Judaism — knowledge facilitates compassion with “Introduction to Judaism” OR “The Basics of Judaism” Name anti-Semitic incidents as such, report them, and speak out against them Use Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide Learn about The New Israel Fund, which envisions a Jewish and democratic state Fight for justice guided by Jewish values with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) Be aware of your own bias — it's evolutionarily built in us to be tribal and we need to self-examine our thoughts and introduce dissenting viewpoints If you are Jewish and looking for ways to become involved: Choose a small tradition and incorporate that into your home, like lighting candles on Friday night for Shabat or saying the “Shema” before bed each night Take inspiration from B'nai Jeshurun's The Jewish Home Project In COVID, many synagogues have moved services online; explore to find a place that feels right to you Why We Theater is a product of part of the Broadway Podcast Network, edited by Derek Gunther, and produced by Alan Seales. Follow us @whywetheater on Instagram & Twitter. Our theme music is by Benjamin Velez. Hear more at BenjaminVelez.com. Our logo is by Christina Minopoli. See more at MinopoliDesign.com. Special thanks to Genesis Johnson, Dori Berinstein, Leigh Silverman, Patrick Taylor, Tony Montenieri, Elena Mayer, Wesley Birdsall, and Suzanne Chipkin. Connect with Ruthie! RuthieFierberg.com Instagram: @ruthiefierceberg / @whywetheater Twitter: @RuthiesATrain / @whywetheater Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At the first Zionist Congress in 1897, delegates agreed to pursue the colonization of Palestine. But at the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903, Theodor Herzl presented a proposal for a colony in East Africa – he presented it as a mere stepping stone to Zion, but it caused bitter divisions among the delegates. We tell … Continue reading "Scramble for Africa 11: Theodore Herzl, the Uganda Plan, and the Zionist Scramble for East Africa"
Special Tisha Ba'av Episode The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom was a tragic massacre, with reverberations within the wider Jewish world remaining until this very day. Goaded on by anti-Semitic newspapers with cries of 'Death to the Jews', a blood libel was fabricated and a mob was unleashed on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1903. Leaving 49 killed, hundreds maimed and injured in its wake, Jewish property was destroyed and looted as well. Claims of complicity of the police and government were voiced in many quarters. But it was primarily the after effects of this pogrom which had a long term transformative effect on Jewish society in Russia and worldwide. The great immigration to the United States was already long underway, but it significantly intensified in the years following Kishinev and the subsequent 1905 revolution. American Jewry was galvanized to assist the victims, and this cemented the relationship US Jewry was to have with their brethren back in Eastern Europe. Within Russia, many of the Jewish youth became radicalized as a result of the massacre, joining clandestine revolutionary organizations with the goal of overthrowing the Czar. The most profound impact was felt within the nascent Zionist movement. Chaim Nachman Bialik was dispatched by the historian Shimon Dubnow to gather testimonies from survivors. Following his five week stay in Kishinev, Bialik penned 'Be'ir Hahareiga' - In the City of Death, a poem about the pogrom. Powerfully written, it also included strongly worded accusations in regards to the perceived passivity of the victims. The poem and its message was to have an immense impact, as it was published and translated and became immensely popular. Vladimir Jabotinsky's conclusion was to organize Jewish self defense, and Theodore Herzl's conclusion was the Uganda proposal at the Sixth Zionist Congress. The shadow of the Kishinev tragedy was to hover over the many subsequent, and ever greater tragedies of the bloody 20th century. For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history contact Yehuda at: yehuda@yehudageberer.com Subscribe To Our Podcast on: PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/ Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites You can email Yehuda at yehuda@yehudageberer.com
On this edition of Parallax Views, a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the leading organizations of its kind, stirred up the hot-button topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The 213-page report strongly criticizes Israel, going so far as to use term "apartheid" in regards to Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Needless to say the report has caused much controversy and has been decried by the state of Israel as propaganda. In light of these recent development, Philip Weiss, a self-described anti-Zionist Jew, of Mondoweiss joins us to discuss issues pertaining to American Jewish political life such as the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), J Street, tensions between Zionism and universalism, anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic tropes, the meaning of Zionism and anti-Zionism, Palestinian solidarity, Theodore Herzl and Philip's relationship to Jewish culture and life, the Iraq War and neoconservatism's impact on Phil, Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's criticisms of Israel, the D.C. foreign policy beltway Blob's sea change on Israel, and much, much more. The Israel-Palestine conflict remains a controversial issue in American politics that stirs strongly held emotions for all those who have an interest in it. I hope that this conversation will contribute to good-faith conversation on all the matters covered in this episode.
Hatikva is unique among national anthems. A maid employed by the French military found a memo in the trash in the German embassy in Paris with military secrets. The French Minister of War connected the document – despite not a shred of evidence – to a Jewish artillery captain, Alfred Dreyfuss, who subsequently was convicted of spying and denounced as a traitor. This set off anti-Jewish rioting, similar to blood libels, which also made no sense, but were lethal and costly for innocent Jewish victims. This was a tipping point for a reporter covering the trial named Theodore Herzl. Generous Baron Maurice de Hirsch refused to contribute to Herzl's plan which he considered a fantasy. Eventually, as Daniel Gordis points out, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Herzl. “Better luck next time” wasn't an option, and the need to improve resulted in Der Judenstaat. When things look catastrophic there is often a silver lining, case in point: The Auschwitz Protocols. As Dreyfuss languishes on Devil's island, Emil Zola comes to his rescue by publishing, J'accuse. The most important work on sparking antisemitism, the fictitious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, finds an enthusiastic supporter and disseminator in America, car magnate, Henry Ford. Photo Credits: Vrba-Wetzler Memorial Auschwitz Fence – Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem J'accuse headline – J'accuse by Gaumont Cover image Protocols Elders of Zion: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education Trust llc Audio Credits: Star Spangled Banner – USA Patriotism.org Hatikva sung by Enrico Massias Visual Credits: Picture of Rabbi Aharon Soloveitchik courtesy of YUTorah.org Picture of Albert Dreyfus – J'accuse! The History of the Dreyfuss Afair. This is Barris! – French History Dreyfuss Humiliation – J'accuse by Gaumont Picture of Le Petit Journal nili.org.il Blood Libel Illustration – Leo Baeck Institute – New York/ Berlin Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com
Class four in the Heralds of Zion series. In this class we explore the life of Theodore Herzl. Along the way we discuss assimilation, antisemitism and the major events which led up to the birth of Zionism as a political movement. The central question of the class is - what made Herzl the father of Zionism?
Class four in the Heralds of Zion series. In this class we explore the life of Theodore Herzl. Along the way we discuss assimilation, antisemitism and the major events which led up to the birth of Zionism as a political movement. The central question of the class is - what made Herzl the father of Zionism?
The first immigration, Theodore Herzl, Dreyfus affair, etc. These are just a few events that kickstarted Israel. In this episode, we talk about it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/within-zionism/support
Class four in the Heralds of Zion series. In this class we explore teh life of Theodore Herzl. Along the way will discuss assimilation, antisemitism and the major events which led up to the birth of Zionism as a political … Read the rest Continue reading Jewish Story Live 5780: Heralds of Zion IV Herzl at Elmad Online Learning.
Episode 52 of HatRadio! is with David Matlow, the world's biggest collector of Theodore Herzl memorabilia. Herzl is considered the father of Zionism and the visionary for the State of Israel. The idea that someone is the 'biggest' or 'the best' in pretty much anything, has always blown me away. I've had the honor of interviewing Clive Caldwell who was once seeded #1 in the world, in squash doubles/#2 in singles. Recently, I schmoozed with David Shore, the creator/writer of the shows 'House' and 'The Good Doctor'. They are brilliant and at the top of their game. In essence, these guys have stood a the top of the mountain (although they won't say they have. They are humble) and know they can mostly look no higher. David Matlow is like that. You'll hear it in his voice and how he articulates his narrative and his emulation of Theodore Herzl (David will frequently ask himself, 'what would Theodore do'). David tells a highly compelling story about securing his collection, sharing it, and anti-Semitism then and now. But mostly what you'll learn from episode 52, is how one man's appreciation, gratitude and respect in 2020 of another man from 1900, highlights an important continuum of hope and the pursuit and actualization of a dream, in our world. It's a wonderful interview. HatRadio! The show that schmoozes.
This week, on the Joshua & Caleb Report, Joshua is joined by his wife Katelyn to discuss Christian Zionism. While in Jerusalem recently, they were asked by some Jewish people… ’Who are you? What type of Christian are you?’ They answered ‘We’re Christian Zionists!’ and this episode was birthed. Listen and learn of four Christian Zionists who served, supported and stood by the Jewish people from the Ten Boom Family, to the hymn writer of It Is Well With My Soul to the men who stood behind Theodore Herzl. Plus, an invitation to put hands and feet to your Christian Zionist beliefs! All this and more on this week’s episode of the Joshua & Caleb Report.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
À propos du livre : « Les douze piliers d'Israël » paru aux éditions Perrin L'histoire d'Israël à travers ses figures de proue. Peut-être parce que sa vocation est d'être le refuge ultime d'un peuple persécuté durant des siècles, parce qu'il est aussi le premier État moderne dont la naissance procède non de la force militaire ou de l'arbitraire politique mais d'une volonté clairement exprimée par la communauté internationale, Israël n'est pas un État comme les autres. Sa naissance et son développement, son épanouissement – sa survie, aussi – reposent sur la condition et la volonté d'hommes et de femmes dont Georges Ayache brosse ici le portrait avec talent. Douze personnalités, de Theodore Herzl le " visionnaire " à Shimon Peres le " survivant " en passant par Ben Gourion et Golda Meir, et autant de piliers d'Israël qui parvinrent à s'imposer avec la foi parfois utopique des précurseurs, mais toujours aussi la détermination implacable des pionniers bâtisseurs. Ancien diplomate et universitaire, aujourd'hui avocat, Georges Ayache a déjà écrit plusieurs ouvrages remarqués, dont, chez Perrin, Kennedy, Nixon : les meilleurs ennemis, Les Présidents des États-Unis et Joe Kennedy.
Beginning in the 1880s some Jews despaired of ever being truly integrated into the life of Europe. A new idea emerged, to reconstitute the Jewish People as a modern nationalist movement, intent on creating a Jewish national home in our ancient homeland. With the publication of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) in 1896, and by convening the First World Zionist Congress, Theodore Herzl catapulted this far-fetched idea onto the global stage, and a movement was born.
Return to the land of Israel had been a dream for almost 2000 years, and in the late 19th century it began to become a reality. It took a special man to transform the notion of national rebirth from a subconscious desire to an international issue. Here is a presentation of the early life of Theodore Herzl.
The Palestine national movement is left reeling after the rebellion is crushed by the British and Yishuv. The Zionist movements strategy of simultaneously collaborating with and subverting the British is paying off, as the British provide training and combat experience to the same militias that will soon wage war to drive them out. Meanwhile, Middle Eastern Jews are failing in their decades long effort to mediate peace between the settlers and the indigenous population. Palestinian attacks on Jews are no longer differentiating between Middle Eastern Jews and the European settlers. These Jews, long denied leadership positions within the Yishuv, are increasingly welcomed into the Zionist movement as spies and terrorists. As the British abandon Palestine, the Yishuv acts swiftly to establish a fortress state of Jewish hegemony. The Movements is a leftist history and politics podcast. Transcripts may be requested for accessibility reasons by e-mailing movementspod@gmail.com. Find us on facebook and twitter @movementspod and support the show by donating at https://www.patreon.com/movementspodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/movementspod)
The trial of Alfred Dreyfus in France rallied Western European Jews around the idea of Zionism, and gave one man in particular, Theodore Herzl, a really big dream about creating a Jewish state.
Palestine is erupting and the British struggle to maintain control. While the Jewish economy rapidly develops, the fellahin move to the cities as wage laborers in greater numbers. Working class Palestinians and Middle Eastern Jews co-habitate in mixed cities, but the political struggle between the Zionist settlers and the Palestinian masses is becoming increasingly vicious. The efforts to mediate between European Jews and the non-Jewish Palestinians are failing, as Palestinian capital looks to Europe for an ally against the British and Jews. Suddenly, the Palestinian masses rise up and rapidly build a sustained, long-term rebellion. The Haganah align themselves with the British to put down an indigenous uprising as the Yishuv begins making preparations for a mass “transfer” of Palestinians out of Palestine. The Movements is a leftist history and politics podcast. Support the show at paypal.me/movementspodcast. Find us on facebook and twitter @movementspod. E-mail movementspod@gamil.com. Transcript may be provided for accessibility purposes.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/movementspod)
The Ottoman Empire is no more. The British have won the Great War, becoming "the Iron Wall" sought by the Zionist movement to strengthen their political position in Palestine. The Zionist Commission negotiates with Arab nationalist leaders outside of Palestine, bypassing Palestinians who have little politcal control of their own land. The theoretical "Arab Question" is becoming less theoretical, as Palestinians are not interested in leaving their homes unless forced. Unprecedented acts of violence and anti-Jewish riots terrify an increasingly militant Zionist movement, whose members are attempting to forge a new Jewish identity. The settlers who once fled European anti-semitism now set out to establish a European-Jewish society, carved out of the Middle East. As the political climate becomes increasingly sectarian, an all-out clash seems inevitable. The Movements is a leftist history and politics podcast. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play. Transcripts may be requested for accessibility reasons by e-mailing movementspod@gmail.com. Find us on facebook and twitter @movementspod and support the show by donating at https://www.patreon.com/movementspodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/movementspod)
Zionism, the nationalist movement to establish a Jewish state, was born out of the broken promise of European Liberalism and enlightenment values. As pogroms and anti-semitic conspiracy theories spread throughout Europe, Jewish intellectuals inspired by Nationalism set out to create a “New Jew” in Palestine. But Palestine is already inhabited by Arabs, including Arab Jews and Sephardim, who ask that their European brothers and sisters learn rather than destroy the local culture. The Arab masses are forced into wage labor after being dispossessed of their land by European and Arab capital, who proceed to sell the land to European Jewish settlers. Without political control of their own land, Palestinian intellectuals begin to assert themselves and build a modern nationalism of their own. Jewish socialists split over the question of Zionism, as revolutionaries denounce the emergence of Zionism in the movement for rejecting worker internationalism in favor of ethnic chauvinism. As more Jews immigrate to Palestine and Arabs barred from employment, the logical conclusion to “the Arab Question” becomes more and more clear. The Movements is a leftist history and politics podcast. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play. Transcripts may be requested for accessibility reasons by e-mailing movementspod@gmail.com. Find us on facebook and twitter @movementspod and support the show by donating at https://www.patreon.com/movementspodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/movementspod)
Hamakom y’naheim etkhem b’tokh sh’ar av’lei tziyon virushalayim. Min ha-shamayim t’nuhamu. May God comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. May Heaven comfort you. Elliot Weiss, arr. Oran Eldor Elliot Weiss (1952–) Mr. Weiss’s works include Bittersuite: Songs of Experience, winner of the Off-B’way MAC award for Best Musical; The Witch of Wall Street, recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre; and the oratorio Dori: The Life and Times of Theodore Herzl, featuring lyrics by Eric Blau, creator of Jacques Brel. Mr. Weiss is currently at work on an opera based on the holocaust memoirs of Dr. Thomas Nyiszli with a libretto by noted author Leslie Epstein. He has also recently completed a sequel to Bittersuite entitled Bittersuite: Songs of More Experience, exploring the humorous side of growing older.
L’dor va-dor nagid godlekha u-l’netzah n’tzahim k’dushat’kha nakdish. V’shivhakha Eloheinu mi-pinu lo yamush l’olam va-ed, ki El melekh gadol v’kadosh atah. Barukh atah Adonai ha-El ha-kadosh. From one generation to another we will declare Your greatness, and forever sanctify You with words of holiness. Your praise will never leave our lips, for You are God and Sovereign, great and holy. Elliot Weiss Arr. Oran Eldor Elliot Weiss (1952–) Mr. Weiss’s works include Bittersuite: Songs of Experience, winner of the Off-B’way MAC award for Best Musical; The Witch of Wall Street, recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre; and the oratorio Dori: The Life and Times of Theodore Herzl, featuring lyrics by Eric Blau, creator of Jacques Brel. Mr. Weiss is currently at work on an opera based on the holocaust memoirs of Dr. Thomas Nyiszli with a libretto by noted author Leslie Epstein. He has also recently completed a sequel to Bittersuite entitled Bittersuite: Songs of More Experience, exploring the humorous side of growing older.
There is nothing inherently special about the people who live at 48 Herzl Street, an address that shows up in big cities, small outposts, and everything in between throughout Israel. But symbolically, it’s about as freighted an address as they come. Theodore Herzl was the father of modern Zionism, and there are 54 streets named after him in Israel—more than any other national figure. And 48 comes from 1948, the year the country was founded. For this episode, which was commissioned by the Manhattan JCC and has been performed before live audiences across the U.S. and Israel, Israel Story producers crisscrossed the small country, knocking on doors at every Herzl 48 they could reach and collecting stories from whomever they encountered. Today’s episode, culled from the live show, features seven different characters, including a butcher in Akko, a stoner in Tel Aviv, and a young couple whose very dramatic tale is told in song. For information on future live tours, go to israelstory.org/en/tours. Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and by signing up for our newsletter at israelstory.org/newsletter/. For more, head to our site or Tablet Magazine.
Theodore Herzl's evaluation proves true as anti-Semitism breaks out again in Europe. The words or the prophets are calling the Jews back to the land. Events in France this week are proof of the truth of the word of God.
Theodore Herzl's evaluation proves true as anti-Semitism breaks out again in Europe. The words or the prophets are calling the Jews back to the land. Events in France this week are proof of the truth of the word of God.