Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson
Unholy: Two Jews on the News
The Anti-Intellectual View of Israel
I don't like it when Israelis say the world outside Israel has got nothing to do with it. We are bound in something here, if we feel that to be accused of what some of Israel's enemies see as Israel's cruel to us is not fair to us. For me, Israel is accused of many of the crimes it is accused of and I believe unfairly accused of is because it's Jewish. Because it's Jewish, every Jew like it or not carries a baggage, carries a weight of expectation, and also a weight of disparagement. And for Israel bears a terrible weight of Jewish disparagement. If you like for the bad press, Israel gets out now but there's a cor
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