Not My Zionism
Middle East Shitshow - MESS by Daniella Alpher
S1 · E20
Aug 28, 2026
25:53
Episode notes

A listener in New York asked how Yossi became a Zionist, and what he makes of the word now. The answer starts in Washington D.C. in the mid-1950s, with a Jewish education in which the Holocaust took up two sentences and Israel meant nothing at all. It was the Eichmann trial in 1961 that changed everything. Daniella and Yossi Alpher trace one man's Zionism from a kibbutz to the Mossad, and ask what is left of it after 1967, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and October 7.

Keywords
Eisenkot
Zionism
Eichmann
Holocaust
Rabin
October 7