What Hasan Piker Got Wrong About Einstein and Zionism
4/23/202635 min
Hasan Piker weaponized Albert Einstein on Pod Save America to condemn Zionism. But he left out most of the story. Noam addresses Piker's troubling statements about Einstein by tracing his full relationship with Zionism, exposing how a confident but incomplete portrait collapses under the weight of the full historical record. The Problem with Hasan Piker's Einstein Story, by Yair Rosenberg: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/deep-shtetl/ Check out our past episodes of Unpacking Israeli History on topics including Deir Yassin, Hamas, Sabra and Shatila and the Right of Return. https://unpacked.media/podcast-series/unpacking-israeli-history/ For more on the topic, listen to Jewish History Nerds' recent episode Albert Einstein: Was he a Zionist? https://unpacked.media/albert-einstein-was-he-a-zionist-part-2/ This episode was sponsored by Travis Terry and Cathy and Barbara Malamut. To sponsor an episode or to be in touch, please email noam@unpacked.media. Visit jewishlives.org to explore and buy books from the Jewish Lives book series. Use the discount code JLIFE to get a discount. Check out this episode on Youtube. This podcast is brought to you by Unpacked, an OpenDor Media brand.
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First 90 secondsNoam Weissman· Host0:00
Hey, I'm Noam Weissman, and this is Unpacking Israeli History, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating, and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history. This episode is sponsored by Travis Terry and Cathy and Barbara Malamut. Thank you so much for sponsoring. So incredible. Thank you, thank you, thank you. If you wanna sponsor an episode of Unpacking Israeli History, or if you just wanna say, "Aloh," get at me at noam@unpacked.media. Before we start, as always, check us out on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube, all those fine social media websites on the internet. Just search Unpacking Israeli History and hit the follow or subscribe button. Okay? Yalla. Let's do this.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:44
We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions. There are people in Israel and elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace between the Arabs and Israel or the Jewish people. I think they're wrong.
Noam Weissman· Host1:15
In case the name Unpacking Israeli History doesn't give it away, this is a history podcast. It's not a current affairs podcast. I generally don't like to wade too much into the politics and the culture