
The ecumenical frame w/ Ussama Makdisi
The East is a Podcast
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The Jewish Question in Europe
In 18 60, the massacre that i talk about in damascus in july 1860, the jewish community was not attacked. The point is that there is a jewish question in europe, and zionism is in response to it. And we're still living at the thought of jews versus arabs as jews against arabs. That gets put into a place that already has a rich, dynamic, evolving history of coexistence.
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