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Dec 2023
1h 52m

Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul ...

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today’s new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist American Jews and the Jewish establishment’s quixotic efforts to deny and disavow them. PART TWO of a two-part interview.

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