The question put to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe by Intelligence Squared and recorded before the most recent attack on Gaza was: is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism?
His response, recorded on March 30, 2021, is an extraordinary mini-lecture on the origins of this argument and how it is now used to prevent the critique of Israeli policies.
Ilan Pappe is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, college teacher, author and politician. A former member of the Syriza party, he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 when he resigned in opposition to his partyâs fiscal politics. In the 2019 election Varoufakis regained a seat in the Greek Parliament. Varoufakis is now active in the anti Apartheid movement in solidarity with Palestinians.