"We were conscripted into the Zionist project" w/ Avi Shlaim

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"My disenchantment with Zionism was a very gradual process" w/ Avi Shlaim

A special edition of the Makdisi Street podcast in which Ussama interviews fellow historian Avi Shlaim in Jaipur, India where both were attending the Jaipur Literature Festival. Ussama asks Avi about his new book Genocide in Gaza, the history of coexistence devastated by the proj ...  Show more

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