#1288 Omer Bartov - Israel: What Went Wrong?

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Omar Bartov. Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, and today we're going to talk about his latest book. Israel, what went wrong. So Doctor Bartov, welcome back to the show. It's always a big pleasure to everyone. Thanks for having me here again. Uh okay, so one of the things I would like to focus on today and you also explore in your book is uh Zionism. So what is uh Zionism or what was it

originally, because then we can get into how it might have changed over time and some misconceptions that people have about it. So Zionism is a movement that began in the late nineteenth century and it was influenced by Many other national movements of the period. It's a movement that Uh assumed.

Um the the the Jewish people which had existed in one form or another in Europe and in Middle East and other parts of the world for uh a couple of millennia uh with a nation Or that could be made into a nation.

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