The Lie That Broke the World: Einat Wilf on October 7, UNRWA, and the Death of Palestinianism

For years, Einat Wilf warned the world: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was never about borders. It wasn’t about settlements. It wasn’t about occupation. It was about one thing—the refusal to accept a Jewish state in any part of the land.This week on For the Love of Zion, Joe and Shahaf sit down with one of Israel’s most fearless and brilliant voices to talk about everything the world got wrong—and what it will take to finally get it right.Dr. Wilf, a former Israeli lawmaker and author of The War of Return, has spent two decades exposing how international institutions, especially UNRWA, have sustained not peace—but the illusion of peace—by funding the dream of Israel’s destruction. That dream shattered on October 7. But it didn’t start there. And it won’t end there—unless we confront it.This is not a conversation about geopolitics. It’s about ideology. About a century-long war against Jewish self-determination. About the global campaign to cast Zionism—the Jewish people’s liberation movement—as colonialism, racism, even genocide. And about the only path to peace: killing the lie.