Dig: Zionism's Civil War w/ Edo Konrad & Joshua Leifer
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🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:04.7 | and by Jewish Currents, the historic magazine of the Jewish Left. Jewish Currents is an award-winning |
| 0:10.8 | magazine of politics, culture, and ideas, published quarterly in print and daily online. |
| 0:17.4 | In addition to Jewish Currents magazine, website, and podcast on the nose, |
| 0:22.1 | Dig listeners might be especially interested in Jewish Currents weekly newsletter on Israel Palestine, |
| 0:27.7 | which covers events unfolding on the ground in their political ramifications around the world, |
| 0:32.9 | delivering up-to-the-minute reporting and trenching analysis straight to your inbox. |
| 0:38.1 | In recent entries, Alex Cain examines the anti-boycott laws that are spreading across the US |
| 0:43.6 | to target the BDS movement. Joshua Leifer looks at Biden's failure to exert pressure on Nanyahu, |
| 0:49.5 | and Alashiva Goldberg illuminates the disturbing implications of a destructive Israeli |
| 0:54.5 | settler attack on the Palestinian village of Huara. Subscriptions to Jewish Currents beautifully |
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| 1:06.0 | the Jewish Currents website by going to jewishcurrents.org slash newsletter. |
| 1:11.2 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting |
| 1:26.4 | from Providence, Rhode Island. All is not well in the settler colony, which, of course, it never was. |
| 1:33.1 | In Israel, the internal contradictions of the Zionist project have been building up since |
| 1:37.6 | the 1948 Nakba, and before. On one level, Zionism is a cohesive settler colonial project that |
| 1:45.2 | shores up Israel as an ethnocracy, ruling over Palestinians, the second-class citizens within |
| 1:51.2 | the Green Line, while managing Palestinians through an apartheid system in the West Bank, |
| 1:56.1 | and with blockades and brutal military campaigns in Gaza. But the Zionist project is at war not |
| 2:02.5 | only against Palestinians, but also with itself. Polarized along class and ethnic lines, |
| 2:08.8 | impitting the religious, against secular, all coming to a head over the leadership of Benjamin |
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