We Should All Be Zionists Podcast
Episodes
Chapter 34 - The UAE'S Olive Branch
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the final episode of the We Should All Be Zionists Podcast, Einat leaves us with a note of optimism: changing attitudes in the Arab w...
Chapter 33 - The Gaza Protests Are About Ending Israel
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Einat wrote an essay about the riots that were shaking the ground of the border between Israel and Gaza. Einat understood then that the unres...
Chapter 32 - Western States Fail to Understand the Palestinian Right of Return
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat discusses her topic of expertise: the Palestinian "right of return," which, as we have covered many times, is not a &...
Chapter 31 - Palestinian Refugee "Return": A Critique
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded at the end of December 2024, Einat examines the arguments of Peter Beinart, a Jewish columnist in a favor of a one, non-Jewi...
Chapter 30 - Rabin Would Not Have Brought Peace / The Killer of the Two - State Solution
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, in which two essays are read, Einat lays the myth to rest that Yitzhak Rabin's assassination derailed the peace process between ...
Chapter 29 - Even the Left Supports Trump's Peace Plan
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat reads two short essays concerning the 2020 Trump Peace Plan for Israel/Palestine, which offered the Palestinians a state. Why d...
Chapter 28 - Confident Zionism
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat sheds light on "the new Zionists," the wave of young, courageous Jews in the Diaspora who are pushing back against an...
Chapter 27 - We Are Still A Minority in the Region
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat presents a concept that some westerners have a hard time understanding: although Jews make up the numerical majority in the Sta...
Chapter 26 - Introducing Muslim Zionism
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat co-writes with two young Arabs from the UAE about the possibility of a Muslim form of Zionism, a Middle East that embraces Isra...
Chapter 25 - Yes to the Occupation, No to Settlements
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat makes the case for why the most obvious policy for management of the conflict is continued security control between the river a...
Chapter 24 - Palestinians Are Adults
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, originally published as a short social media post, Einat explains the one thing that westerners cannot seem to grasp: Palestinians ar...
Chapter 23 - Fund More Than Just Aliyah Efforts
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat argues that although she once believed that the best thing for a Jew living in the Diaspora to do was to move to Israel, "...
Chapter 22 - The Palestine Propaganda Complex
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat explores a problem that has been plaguing the Jewish people for decades: what to do when the entire world appears to be against...
Chapter 21 - The Antisemitism Mechanism
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat makes the ultimate case, in historical and sociological terms, for why anti-Zionism is antisemitism, originally presented in th...
Chapter 20 - A Day For Atheist Rebels Taking Charge Of Their Own Destiny
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat makes the case that Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, is the one holiday specifically for atheist Zionists, ...
Chapter 19 - Arab Success and Normalization
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this chapter, Einat analyzes why the Arab world is perceived among the West to be an abject failure -- in governance, democracy, technology, sustai...
Chapter 18 - Israel's Final Border
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf makes the case for a crucial Israeli political decision: demarcating a final eastern border. This means officially designati...
Chapter 17 - How Not To Think About the Conflict
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf investigates how Americans, and many westerners, view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: through the lens of western race rel...
Chapter 16 - An American Consulate in East Jerusalem Could Preserve the Two-State Solution
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat argues that if the Americans were to open a consulate to the Palestinians deep within East Jerusalem, it would advance the caus...
Chapter 15 - Arguing Israel Contra BDS
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat interrogates the progressive hatred of Israel, and asks: is animosity toward Jews ever due to Jewish behavior? Or perhaps it is...
Chapter 14 - There Is No Silence to be Broken on the Occupation
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat reviews "Who Do You Think You Are?" by Yuli Novak, founder of Breaking the Silence, an organization which seeks to in...
Chapter 13 - Durban: A Legacy of Destruction
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf takes us back to Durban, South Africa in the summer of 2001 at the World Conference Against Racism, which notably descended ...
Chapter 12 - Zionism as Therapy for "Jewish Priorities"
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Dr. Wilf reflects on the "Zionism and anti-Zionism" course she taught at Georgetown University several years ago, a...
Chapter 11 - Here's Why So Many Are Outraged By Israel's Nation-State Law
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Einat Wilf reads an essay on the strong reactions in Israeli society upon the passing of the controversial "Nation State Law...
Chapter 10 - Jewish Power and Powerlessness
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf discusses the differences between Jews who feel comfortable with having power, versus those who don't. What is the rela...
Chapter 9 - Biden Just Threw Israeli/Palestinian Peace Under the Bus
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this 2021 op-ed, Dr. Wilf argues that choosing to provide millions more in aid for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, does nothing ...
Chapter 8 - Zionism and Feminism
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf discusses the relationship of both women and Jews with power. Both feminism and Zionism broke the traditional understandings...
Chapter 7 - Constructive Ambiguity Has Not Worked. Peace Needs Constructive Specificity.
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel still grapples with the traumatic events of October 7th, Dr. Wilf discusses the difference between constructive ambiguity and constructive s...
Chapter 6 - How UNRWA Prevents Gaza from Thriving
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Einat reads an essay co-authored with Adi Schwartz for Ha'retz in 2018. Wilf and Schwartz discuss why all efforts to transform G...
Chapter 5 - The Fatal Flaw That Doomed The Oslo Accords
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords, Dr. Wilf discusses the hope, politics, and disappointment surro...
Episode 4 - Israeli Arab MK Mansour Abbas is What Zionism Intended
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wilf discusses the historical perspective of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and why his ideas in contemporary Israel are dramatically misunderstood. When ...
Chapter 3 - Israel Doesn't Need Liberal Judaism, It Needs Liberalism
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Wilf discusses the differences between Israel and the United States in their relationship to liberal Judaism. Does Israel need to...
Chapter 2 - Democracy As Necessity
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wilf discusses the democratic tradition of Israel and the Jewish people, even in times when inclinations towards pluralism seem most challenged. T...
Chapter 1- The BDS Pound of Flesh
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wilf discusses the psychological implications of anti-Zionism on Jews in the Diaspora today, from campus, to political organizations, and beyond, ...