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Ask Haviv Anything

Haviv Rettig Gur

161 episodes

"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.

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A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur

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  1. 156: Go vote. It isn't optional

    · 28 min · Episode 156

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  2. 155: American and Israeli Jews don’t understand each other, with Ed Rettig

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 155

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  3. 154: How Israel broke pan-Arabism, and what that means for Iran, with Dan Schueftan

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 154

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  4. 153: Where was Netanyahu on 7/10? With Elliot Kaufman

    · 1 h 00 min · Episode 153

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  5. 152: Is Israeli society tearing itself apart? With Micah Goodman

    · 1 h 09 min · Episode 152

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  6. 151: Could the hostages have come home sooner? With Brett McGurk

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 151

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  7. 150: The case for Netanyahu, with Gadi Taub

    · 1 h 10 min · Episode 150

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  8. 149: Patriotism is too important to leave to extremists, with Prof. Alex Yakobson

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 149

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  9. 148: What can you do for Palestinians? Stop supporting Hamas

    · 17 min · Episode 148

    This episode we are trying something a bit different. First you will hear a three minute video by American journalist Ayman Mohyeldin, and then a 12 minute response by Haviv Rettig Gur. This segment was originally…

  10. 147: Are the allegations in NAZA true?

    · 54 min · Episode 147

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  11. 146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 146

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  12. 145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber

    · 28 min · Episode 145

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  13. 144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 144

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  14. 143: How to win the Israeli election

    · 1 h 21 min · Episode 143

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  15. 142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

    · 1 h 43 min · Episode 142

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  16. 141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 141

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  17. 140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 140

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  18. 139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 139

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  19. 138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 138

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  20. 137: What does Qatar want?

    · 47 min · Episode 137

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  21. 136: Why not two states from the start?

    · 28 min · Episode 136

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  22. 135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN?

    · 34 min · Episode 135

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  23. 134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?

    · 22 min · Episode 134

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  24. 133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam

    · 1 h 28 min · Episode 133

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  25. 132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 132

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  26. 131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek

    · 1 h 22 min · Episode 131

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  27. 130: Here's to the next 250 years

    · 37 min · Episode 130

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  28. 129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 129

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  29. 128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 128

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  30. 127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 127

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  31. 126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 126

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  32. 125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 125

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  33. 124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 124

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  34. 123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 123

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  35. 122: When will the war with Iran end?

    · 45 min · Episode 122

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  36. 121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 121

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  37. 120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us

    · 1 h 56 min · Episode 120

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  38. 119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 119

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  39. 118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 118

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  40. 117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi

    · 52 min · Episode 117

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  41. 116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews

    · 1 h 44 min · Episode 116

    What does it mean to be Jewish in Britain? What happens when centuries of hard-won belonging is suddenly called into question by destabilizing events? In this conversation on history and identity, we sit down with…

  42. 115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?

    · 15 min · Episode 115

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  43. 114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?

    · 20 min · Episode 114

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  44. 113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour

    · 55 min · Episode 113

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  45. 112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 112

    The world feels unmoored. Identity is contested, nations are uncertain, and a technology-altered future feels increasingly abstract and vaguely threatening. So much is happening, so much is at stake. So why is everyone…

  46. 111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi

    · 36 min · Episode 111

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  47. 110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance

    · 1 h 09 min · Episode 110

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  48. 109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 109

    Canada has long imagined itself as one of the safest, most tolerant societies on earth. For generations of Jews, it felt that way too. But something has changed, suddenly and profoundly. Synagogues have been shot at.…

  49. 108: How personal grief built a nation

    · 29 min · Episode 108

    On the eve of Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, we explore the profound arc of Israel's national remembrance days -- from Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) through Memorial Day, into Yom Ha'atzma'ut (Independence…

  50. 107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?

    · 14 min · Episode 107

    Welcome to another installment of our short-form episodes that dive into often-asked questions about Israel, Jews and the Middle East. Our current episode tackles the New York Times’ Ezra Klein’s recent video about…

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