Part Two: The Origins of Terror in Palestine
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What events led to the British Mandate’s rise and the breakdown of communal harmony in post‑WWI Palestine?
Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, normally a podcast about everything you don't know about the very worst people in all of history, where I read a story about a historical monster or some sort of terrible event to a guest who's coming in cold. This week, I'm sort of doing my best to not embarrass myself in front of a guest who knows a lot more about the subject than I do and also has lived through a lot of it, Dr. Donald Curran. Welcome back to the show. Thank you again for your time.
Thank you for having me. It is kind of cool that we have several like PhDs on staff because James Stout also. Also a doctor. Dr. James Stout.
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Unfortunately, political science does not have that.
I would have gotten a poli-sci PhD if I could have got prescribed stuff.
Robert, this is not the time.
I mean, it's always the time.
It's kind of relevant.
Yeah, it's kind of relevant. Dawn, do you want to plug anything up front before we get back into the story?
There's the handbook on authoritarianism in the Arab world. That's out with Bloomsbury Politics. Open access so people can just Google and read up.
Awesome.
Yeah, that sounds much better. One of the sources for this that I read, which was useful in some ways, is like the Oxford Handbook in the History of Terrorism, which is, again, very useful for certain things. And also, we're not going to get into this, but in 1946, I think it was the Irgun, which is like the militia associated with Bataar, which is like a right-wing Zionist group that has today become – like its descendant is netanyahu's party bomb the king david hotel and kill a bunch of people and the oxford it's really fun when you like read what the british said about it's an act of terrorism when you read what like everyone at the time said about it's an act of terrorism and then you read the oxford encyclopedia of terrorism they're like well because the targets were primarily governmental we can't call this an act of terrorism i'm like okay but if it had been like
Arab nationalists who bombed a hotel, it would be terrorism, right?
It would have been terrorism, yeah. Right? Academics. I can't even. Right? I'm a good one. Let's just put that out there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What events led to the British Mandate’s rise and the breakdown of communal harmony in post‑WWI Palestine?
0:00–11:02
2
How did Vladimir (Ziv) Jabotinsky organize the Jewish volunteer force during World I?
11:02–20:21
3
Why did the Ottoman authorities deport thousands of Jews from Jaffa and what were the consequences?
20:21–30:23
4
How did the 1919‑1920 Nebi Musa celebrations spark anti‑Zionist riots and reshape Jewish‑Arab relations?
30:23–39:23
5
What role did Jacob De Haan play in opposing Zionism and how did his activism end?
39:23–50:08
6
What triggered the 1929 Western Wall riots and the Hebron massacre, and how did they affect the region?
50:08–59:38
7
How did the 1936‑1939 Arab Revolt unfold and what was the British response?
59:38–1:12:12
8
What was the Patria disaster and how did it illustrate the escalating cycle of violence?
1:12:12–1:21:34