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Ask Haviv Anything — 139 episodes
134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?
133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam
132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron
131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek
130: Here's to the next 250 years
129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi
128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari
127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak
126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman
125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat
124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti
123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews
122: When will the war with Iran end?
121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg
120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us
119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy
118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson
117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi
116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews
115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?
114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?
113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour
112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse
111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi
110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance
109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb
108: How personal grief built a nation
107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?
106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf
105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan?
104: The Iran war isn’t over
103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve?
102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav
101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan
100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman
Episode 99: Are we winning?
Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce Hoffman
Episode 97: Can America and Israel finish the job? A conversation with John Spencer.
Episode 96: The first war Israel fought in English, with Yaakov Katz
Episode 95: The idea that broke the Middle East, with Dr. Micah Goodman
Episode 94: America's war, not Israel's
Episode 93: How to win Iran's forever war
Episode 92: Why does Israel hate UNRWA?
Episode 91: Is the Iran war about China? A conversation with Melissa Chen
Episode 90: Is it "fascist" to believe a state can belong to a specific people?
Episode 89: Who benefits from continuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Episode 88: America's "24% problem" with young antisemitism, with Jonah Platt
Episode 87: How can you support a better Palestinian future?
Episode 86: Alliances and rivalries in a new Middle East, with Dan Schueftan
Episode 85: How knowing your story makes you invincible, with Noam Weissman
Episode 84: Why soldiers wept when Ran came home, lessons from Tu Bishvat
Episode 83: From ideology to narcotics, Hezbollah's business model, with Matt Levitt
Episode 82: 'From the River to the Sea' - Lost in Translation?
Episode 81: Israel's future and the ticking Gaza clock, with Andrew Fox
Episode 80: Who is Hamas and what do they want?
Episode 79: Breaking Iran's machinery of oppression
Episode 78: Do you still want to globalize the intifada?
Episode 77: Did Israel intentionally target civilians in Gaza?
Episode 76: How elites drive Jew-hatred, with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Episode 75: Power, fear, and the survival of the Iranian regime, with Roya Hakakian
Episode 74: Why the global outrage at Israel's Somaliland recognition?
Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America?
Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth R. Hyman
Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel?
Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss
Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, with Moshe Koppel
Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein
Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi.
Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians?
Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsberg
Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky
Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman
Episode 62: Hard times make strong Jews. Live in London with Daniel Schwammenthal.
Episode 61: Is criticizing Israel antisemitic?
Episode 60: Does it matter what the world thinks? A conversation with Dr. Tal Becker
Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel?
Episode 58: Rebuilding after disaster with ex-hostage Tal Shoham
Episode 57: When human rights NGOs fail, with Daniel Balson and Danielle Haas
Episode 56: The industrial revolution of prehistoric Israel, with Tom Levy
Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode 54: Can Israel be both Sparta and Athens? With Dan Schueftan
Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller
Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn
Episode 51: Antisemitism and the Black experience
Episode 50: Hostage Deal - A new day for Gaza, a bad day for Hamas
Episode 49: Finding hope in the tunnel of Hamas, with Eli Sharabi
Episode 48: Two years to October 7
Episode 47: Building a new Gaza, with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Episode 46: The Trump Plan - Hope for Israel and Gaza
Episode 45: 48 hours in Syria, with David Horovitz
Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah
Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story
Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba
Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen
Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen.
Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein
Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies
Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer
Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean
Episode 33: Thoughts for Tisha B’Av - We live in history
Episode 32: Hunger and the Gaza war
Episode 31: The century-old harbinger of October 7, a conversation with Yardena Schwartz
Episode 30: How the Middle East broke, a conversation with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Episode 29: After the Druze massacre, can Israel make peace with Joulani? A conversation with Druze activist Rania Fadel Dean
Episode 28: The Gaza Paradox
Episode 27: Music amidst trauma - a conversation on life in a war with Aya Korem and Adam Ben Amitai
Episode 26: How Iran’s regime subverted Shia Islam - with Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Episode 25: What is happening in Gaza?
Episode 24: With Iran down, Turkey steps into the breach - a conversation with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak.
Episode 23: Iran bows out
Episode 22: A new dawn in the Middle East?
Episode 21: Why won’t Haredim serve in the IDF? A deep dive with Shmuel Rosner
Episode 20: Regime change in Iran? What the 1979 revolution can teach us.
Episode 19: Iran faces a humbler, more dangerous Israel
Episode 18: Taking on the ayatollahs with Mark Dubowitz
Episode 17: The Gaza war began 25 years ago, a conversation with Matti Friedman
Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform
Episode 15: Jerusalem Day, a modern redemption story
Episode 14: Should Israel give up on international law ? A conversation with a former IDF lawyer
Episode 13: John Spencer on war, morality, politics and the fight for the future.
Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi
Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think?
Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom
Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accords with ex-NSC expert Shiri Fein
Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine"
Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive?
Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres
Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza
Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage
Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews
Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza
Comment: We will protect our own
Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews
Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism
Extra: Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage
Episode 0: History That Matters