11/1/19 Sheldon Richman on the True History of Israel

11/1/19 Sheldon Richman on the True History of Israel

Sheldon Richman shares some of the real history of the Zionist movement, described in his new book, Coming to Palestine. Richman reminds us that this history started long before the Second World War, and was originally not a refugee movement at all. It was simply a project to try to get all Jews worldwide to reconstitute their historical and biblical homeland in Palestine. Given that Jews all over the world had already established homes in other countries for generations, it’s understandable that most were reluctant to get on board with such a radical scheme. After the Holocaust, however, views began to change, both among Jews and non-Jews, who were understandably sympathetic with the horrific genocide the Jews had gone through. This support eventually led to the establishment of Israel, which allowed the beginning of the long process of displacement, ethnic cleansing, and occupation that the Israelis have perpetrated against the native Palestinians, who, if anything, are actually the ones descended from the ancient Israelites of the Bible, not these modern Israelis of mostly European descent.

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Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of the Libertarian Institute and the author of Coming to Palestine and America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited. Follow him on Twitter @SheldonRichman.

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Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 5,800 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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