This chapter discusses the historical events of the Farhud and the 1860 massacre in Iraq and explores the relationship between colonial Zionism and the rise of sectarian violence. It emphasizes the need to condemn the Farhud but also to work towards building a new form of coexistence.
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.
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