{"id":316312,"date":"2026-05-18T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316312"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:25:41","slug":"israel-what-went-wrong-holocaust-scholar-omer-bartov-haaretzs-gideon-levy-debate-zionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/israel-what-went-wrong-holocaust-scholar-omer-bartov-haaretzs-gideon-levy-debate-zionism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201d: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov &#038; Haaretz\u2019s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 May 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book &#8220;Israel: What Went Wrong?,&#8221; while Gideon Levy&#8217;s latest piece in Haaretz is titled &#8220;Zionism Didn&#8217;t Go Wrong, It Was Always Built This Way.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Israel: What Went Wrong?&quot;: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov &amp; Haaretz&#039;s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QiYDGmhnWqY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 May 2026 &#8211; We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3982,260,88,886],"class_list":["post-316312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-democracy-now","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316313,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316312\/revisions\/316313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}