My father was born in Baghdad in 1934 to Assyrian Christian parents. My father would tell me all the time that when he was a kid in Iraq no one cared about Muslim, Jew, or Christian. Most people lived together, celebrated each other’s holiday together and were genuinely friends. Everything changed as he got older, not just for Jews, but even for Christians..however Jews fled to Israel, all the other minorities had no where to go.
Thank you for sharing your families story. It sounds like what Syrians told me. You are very close with your neighbors and share food daily, but you would never ask them about their religion. Because it doesn't matter.
There is a huge difference between Judaism and Zionism and this needs to be recognized, clearly acknowledged and appreciated. So much respect to Prof. Avi
I don't think all of them decided freely it was a series of events orchestrated by israel with arab falling to recognise that israel was using them to gain a group of new population to help them grow their settlement
Ezekiel foretold In the latter part of the years the Arabs and Israelites were dwelling together in security without disturbance until the Balfour Declaration came upon them to get a big spoil of wealth and property.
Ash Sarkar did a wonderful job on the interview, far better than most big name news anchors on the cable channels. And Avi Shlaim is a store house of wisdom on the Israel Problem. Excellent interview.
Thank you so much for this great informative interview. We, Arabs, are so proud of great person like Dr. Avi Shalim. Your honesty and humanity should be a role model for all people. I am Muslim and I thank you so much for your honesty and standing with rights and justice. All respect.
@@wowwee0 indeed! But please support Novara if you’re able to! We should all contribute what we can to help them grow. I really think it’s the most important donation we can make in the long term
Please listen carefully It answers all sorts of questions Some pretend that there are no Arab Jews The question is clearly explained here Jews used to be Tunisians, Irakis, Yemenis when there was Palestine and a tiny Isrsrael It is amazing the rapidity with which Jews from all over the world threw off their Arab identity to prone that of a new colonising state😊
Avi Shlaim is such a gentle soul. I really love listening to him, he can speak on these tragedies as tragedy and help us all to connect with the sadness of it all.
Two thumbs up to Ash Sarkar for her unbiased intellectual curiosity. Thank you Prof. Avi Shlaim for warming my heart. I am a 74 years old Christian from Egypt and I remember those beautiful days when we celebrated Sabbath next door with my Muslim neighbours. I will never forget
But its not unbiased, its whitewashed over, its nonsense propaganda. Yehudi lived under apartheid for the most part in the Moslem world, despite certain periods of freedom when there was SECULAR rule. The Farhud happened in 1941 before Yizreal even existed.
sure did, have you seen the images of the British army hung by the irgun terrorist group, its called The Sergeants affair. Also the kling David hotel bombing where 91 people were murdered also by the irgun. A member being David Ben-Gurion the founder/1st pm of israel.
@@pennyred6195 Yes, the Brits should NOTt have stopped J immigrationto Israel - against the wishes of the League of Nations (ie international law at the time) By the way, those hangings were revenge against British hangings of IZL members.
As an Iraqi, I always heard stories from my grandparents about the Iraqi Jews. I don’t remember ever hearing negative stories or comments. It’s devastating and true nekba to the Palestinians first and foremost, and the rest of the Arab region regards of what religion people where from. As sad as I am to all the lose the Middle East suffered from colonialism, I am still hopeful because the culture we carry has been in the making for thousands of years, the foundation is strong and true history lives on. Thank for such an intellect conversation, Avi is such a wonderful human being, a national treasure.
Middle East colonised by many long before the Europeans ever went there. Biggest coloniser the Arab tribes that converted to the youngest religion in the world. Spread by the sword!.
Great interview Ash. What a wonderful man explaining true history to the people to have a much less known account. Much respect Avi Shleim. May God grant you a long healthy life and happiness.
What a beautiful, gentle soul this wonderful man is. I hope and pray that, after the liberation of Paleatine, this peaceful coexistence that he talks about can return to Weatern Asia. Free Palestine for the sake of Palestinians and Jews. 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸
Political Islam now days has totally different mentally from what the Arabs Muslims culture in general and their consideration to the minorities and other religions tolerance . The extremism and fanatical movements of the political Islamic movements now days around the Arabs world don’t believe in coexistence of religions and refuse to even accept the right of others people to have their religions… Look like they are stepping back instead of advancing.
This Iranian Jew is talking nonsense because it gets him platformed. Keep in mind this is blatant tokenism. It's like claiming Israelis love Gazans because they just love Middle Eastern food. It's like saying you understand the Black experience because you watch Candace Owens.
Novara Media: This is the Breakthrough in forming and educating ourselves that has been missing to 'ordinary folk' - I am nearly 70yrs of age - Never was this history discussed, debated, even acknowledged. Totally missing from our education - It is obvious why History and International Awareness is restricted. You Media are providing a generation with the opportunity to know the Truth - and the Truth will set us free! This is excellent work, vital work, essential work in such a format that people must be gin to breakdown the down the ignorance, the straightjackets that the 'forced impact' of not concentrating for longer periods upon History. Piece meal or the briefest of brief flashes of ideas/history is a softminded guide approach to enforced ignorance. And hence, a whole policy of keeping folk ignorant - strictly focused upon consumerism and self. Please keep up this excellent informative work.
Probably the best interview I've ever seen, period. Profoundly interesting, fact-based, intelligent and informative. Well done Ash and the team for bringing this scholarly insight into one of the most troubling conflicts of our times.
An outstanding interview. Ash was well prepared as how should an intelligent journalist should be. And Prof Avi, was so scholarly clear talking like in a great class of history. Thanks Novara Media for been so outstanding in journalism.
Excellent interview. Avi Shlaim is a beacon of light and moderation in these dark days of extremism taking over the mainstream media. He makes very strong and compelling points about separating the idea of jewishness from Israel, and I loved the closing idea of Hybrid Identity.
Thank you to you both. I’m old enough to remember listening as a young man to elderly men that still had clear recollections of their experiences, and the moral integrity to speak, without a fear of needing to comply with the mob. I loved as a boy attending the Domayne and hearing men of all walks atop their soap boxes speaking freely. Very sad to know that this is a thing of History, and never to be repeated.
Thanks Ash for this very informative and touching interview with Prof Shlaim. He articulates his thoughts in such a charming, poetic, and yet factual and convincing way. You can almost see the streets of his lost multiethnic and cosmopolitan Bagdad.
Agree completely. What a delightful interview. You cannot compare this amazing gentleman, Prof Avi Schlaim, with the other Prof Norman F………..something.
You give me hope! You speak from a position of integrity and wisdom. Your voice is needed. The truth is what is required to set all of humanity free. When we go to the root, we have the same parents. When will we stop the bully from dividing us and live as a family?
Very thankful to learn from Mr. Avi Shlaim. His ability to break down something as complex as this all the while getting to the meat and potatoes is certainly a skill.
I love Avi. What an amazing man. How we have come to seeing little kids blown to bits by the thouands. Every day I see it on X. Its just soul destroying. I can hardly bear it from afar, God help those living in the grip of this genocide with zero power, no ability to flee. No home, no food, no shelter, even tents are bombed, hospitals, medics bombed for nearly 10 months now.
What a wonderful interview! Avi Shaim is very brave to tell the truth about Zionism and its affect on the Middle Eastern Jews. My admiration for him is immense. I will certainly alert my friends regarding this video. Thank you Novara Media for this.
Thank you for an informative and impressively lucid interview. I watched it in three pieces, making notes as if I were young and in a lecture theatre. I am moved by the thoroughness of the interviewer. Each question was asked with the greatest care and thoughtfulness creating a flow in the conversation which made it a pleasure to watch. Excellently done. As for Mr. Avi Shalom, I am so glad I found out about him. I appreciate the calm and precise manner in which he renders bit by bit the most important information about this piece of history. Thank you so much.
Listening to Avi Shlaim is so uplifting. What a calm, principled, moral voice. Recently read his book Three Worlds. I highly recommend it. Thank you for having him on, Ash. Excellent interview.
@@shahidha4986 TH-cam deletes my comments so I'm rewriting this one. It's an autobiography with political analysis. Shlaim talks about the ethnically diverse community in Iraq and growing up as an "Arab Jew." The founding of the state of Israel threw the whole situation into disarray. Anyway, it's a great book.
Professor Shlaim is such a treasure. I LOVE listening to him and wish he could go on forever. His message is always so wise, compassionate, measured and clear, which is unfortunately too rare these days.
Dear Ash I have just watched your fascinating dialogue with Abi Shlaim. So glad you have captured so much knowledge on the video. I have to watch it again. Thank you
I love the amalgmation of the informative, scholarly, beautiful, decent and humane content with such a warm, lovely and grandfatherly tone, delivery and form.
Absolutely brilliant. Not a two state solution, no. From the river to the sea - a One state solution with equal rights for everyone that lives there. No more dividing line! Human beings living together in peace with prosperity for all.
Many Israelis would agree with dr Shlaim about Israel today and how it got here. Thank you for this intelligent interview the interviewer was wonderful.
Thank you Ash for a wonderful interview. I could have listened to you both for hours more. What a lovely man is Avi. His knowledge experience & demeanour left me in awe
@@RedZebbthey are Arabs the original to be exact as per Ethiopians and Fulanis. The rest of the middle East converted to Arabs religions called Muslims, Jew and christian. Don't come for Arabs they are black and Abraham descendants. This narrator is not Arab he is from Cyprus or Medes and lby his eyes you can see he is Japheth seeds.
@@BFF410the land of Israel is Africa the negroes are the Israelites the children of Jacob and Jews are not a people it's a religion and they are not chosen.
Tremendous. I love being helped to understand historic situations. This video should be watched in schools, everywhere far and wide. Hanx Ash et Avi xx
We love you Avi you’re Iraqi hero we proud of you brother, I would love to see some old pictures from Iraq specially from the time you lived there. Maybe in the next interview. I am Muslim from Iraq, living in the UK London
Love this interview so much. I now have a new perspective on the origins of Zionism and the Israel state. And a greater appreciation for the Palestinian cause. Prof talked glowingly of how the Arabs and Jews coexisted before Israel’s existence. Wonderful interviewer.
Setting the record straight is not only helpful to dispel hasbara but also essential to enable people to get a real factually accurate historic account of the reality of what actually happened. Free Palestine
Avi Shlain is a brilliant academic and a beautiful human being. I love listening to him, he gives me hope for the possibility of a better world where people can live together in a free Palestine, just as it existed in the past and so it can be again. We have proved it in south africa where, while there remains much work to be done, nevertheless people have come a long way to be able to live together with far more understanding, less fear and prejudice than anyone imagined possible.
His heart and wisdom exudes peace for all human beings. It gives me hope too. The truth in history is easy to recognize once you separate yourself from programming and listen to other points of view and their stories.
Avi Shlaim has never failed me with his candor, truth seeking, and brave stances against oppression. Such a gem found himself within a filthy world filled with hypocrisy, indeed!
What about Arab oppression of the Kurds? I hope you support Kurdish independence. And that you also oppose the Turkish occupation and ethnic cleansings of Cyprus and Syria as well.
What an interesting interview. Novara Downstream, you have excelled again in inviting this wonderful intellectual into conversation with Ash. His exposition of the history and experience of being an Arab jew was an important contribution towards understanding this complex region. Peace for Palestine.
At 27:24 there’s the key. The Israeli dominance of Western Jews versus the Arab News. The whole superiority complex of West over East - European over Arab.
That's a lot of myth busting right there. The sad thing about what has happened to Diaspora Jews, is the loss of their extremely diverse and in many ways unique culture from the countries in Europe and the Middle East where they lived for millennia.
A true patriot questions their community's values all the time they don't just blindly accept them. This great patriot does exactly that. I truly love these green islands of ours but I'm not happy with those that rule them or aspire to rule them.
Excellent podcast dear. May Almighty bless you with the success you deserve. Well done. For your guest,I salute your honesty and your service towards educating public win the midst of propaganda.
Religious identity defining the individual is the problem. Like Monbiot said, we are citizens, not consumers. We are humans, not possessions of the tribe.
Speak for yourself! You define yourself based on what you choose… everyone else define themselves as they see fit! The reason you see Religion/Tribes/Cultures/etc…as a problem is because colonialism made it so! Its pure arrogance, supremacy and entitlement to believe everyone should abandon their identities to please the colonial empire!
I heard him being interviewed with a Palestinian Muslim woman whose name I’ve forgotten. It was incredibly interesting to hear what each of them had to say.
Anyone knowing of this interview please? Listening to Avi Shlaim was mind blowing (in the sense it put things together); I can't imagine what listening to the both of them could bring!
My father was born in Baghdad in 1934 to Assyrian Christian parents. My father would tell me all the time that when he was a kid in Iraq no one cared about Muslim, Jew, or Christian. Most people lived together, celebrated each other’s holiday together and were genuinely friends. Everything changed as he got older, not just for Jews, but even for Christians..however Jews fled to Israel, all the other minorities had no where to go.
That's how it should be everyone living in harmony it's a shame it changed.
Did he tell you what changed for the Christians living there?
Thank you for sharing your families story.
It sounds like what Syrians told me. You are very close with your neighbors and share food daily, but you would never ask them about their religion. Because it doesn't matter.
You’re not iraqis
@@michaelrashidi5055explain why ?
He saw it through a child's eyes.
There has ALWAYS been conflict between these groups.
There is a huge difference between Judaism and Zionism and this needs to be recognized, clearly acknowledged and appreciated. So much respect to Prof. Avi
I think Gaaazaaa has pushed most people around the world to make the distinction! Hopefully, everyone will follow suit!!!
It's hard to separate and divide the two when Israel seeks the opposite to conflate the two
@@richardsanjose3692 They are conflating it to manufacture the reason to be there.
True. But it still makes it hard not to hate a jew as they have done little to stop the genocide in gaza.
@@vickib4063 I can’t agree to this. So many good Jews from around the world are speaking out and they are making a difference
Losing our Arab Jews, our fellow citizens, is a massive loss to the Arab world
Saying it like they're not abandoning their roots and rushing to help with colonizing their fellow Arab land.
Agreed!
I don't think all of them decided freely it was a series of events orchestrated by israel with arab falling to recognise that israel was using them to gain a group of new population to help them grow their settlement
@@Kaiman__san Please shut it your thoughts're making us dumber
Ezekiel foretold In the latter part of the years the Arabs and Israelites were dwelling together in security without disturbance until the Balfour Declaration came upon them to get a big spoil of wealth and property.
Ash Sarkar did a wonderful job on the interview, far better than most big name news anchors on the cable channels. And Avi Shlaim is a store house of wisdom on the Israel Problem. Excellent interview.
Thank you so much for this great informative interview. We, Arabs, are so proud of great person like Dr. Avi Shalim. Your honesty and humanity should be a role model for all people. I am Muslim and I thank you so much for your honesty and standing with rights and justice. All respect.
Avi Schlaim is a treasure. We are so lucky to have this much free content.
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a cuddle jew
@@wowwee0 indeed! But please support Novara if you’re able to! We should all contribute what we can to help them grow.
I really think it’s the most important donation we can make in the long term
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Please listen carefully
It answers all sorts of questions
Some pretend that there are no Arab Jews
The question is clearly explained here
Jews used to be Tunisians, Irakis, Yemenis when there was Palestine and a tiny Isrsrael
It is amazing the rapidity with which Jews from all over the world threw off their Arab identity to prone that of a new colonising state😊
Avi Shlaim is such a gentle soul. I really love listening to him, he can speak on these tragedies as tragedy and help us all to connect with the sadness of it all.
Absolutely. He is wonderful.
This is the education of our elders. Speaking the truth and the facts.
I am so grateful to find this. 🎉
😊😊😅😅😅😢😅😅😊😢😅😊😊😢😅😢😢😢😢😢😅😢😂😢 I am😊😊 I am so
😊😊😅😅😅😢😅😅😊😢😅😊😊😢😅😢😢😢😢😢😅😢😂😢 I am😊😊 I am so sorry for
He just wants to sell his books to Arabs.
Two thumbs up to Ash Sarkar for her unbiased intellectual curiosity. Thank you Prof. Avi Shlaim for warming my heart. I am a 74 years old Christian from Egypt and I remember those beautiful days when we celebrated Sabbath next door with my Muslim neighbours. I will never forget
But its not unbiased, its whitewashed over, its nonsense propaganda. Yehudi lived under apartheid for the most part in the Moslem world, despite certain periods of freedom when there was SECULAR rule. The Farhud happened in 1941 before Yizreal even existed.
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Curiosity in Gods plan for humanity is Welcome !
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are you still in Egypt? if not, then please explain why
It is so refreshing to have history explained without the principal intent to discredit anyone--just to understand how it unfolded.
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I love it❤
This is his twisted view. What he is saying is not true.
My second encounter with Ash Sarkar and a huge appreciation for her objectivity and scholarly quest has developed.
Thank you for talking about Britain’s role during the mandatory period. That is when this whole mess started.
sure did, have you seen the images of the British army hung by the irgun terrorist group, its called The Sergeants affair. Also the kling David hotel bombing where 91 people were murdered also by the irgun. A member being David Ben-Gurion the founder/1st pm of israel.
@@pennyred6195 so you are admitting Israel is a post-colonial country
Yes, thank you Sir 12:38 !!
I love listening to professor Shlein. It's wonderful to get to know the truth in such candid words.
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Yes, the Brits should NOTt have stopped J immigrationto Israel - against the wishes of the League of Nations (ie international law at the time)
By the way, those hangings were revenge against British hangings of IZL members.
As an Iraqi, I always heard stories from my grandparents about the Iraqi Jews. I don’t remember ever hearing negative stories or comments. It’s devastating and true nekba to the Palestinians first and foremost, and the rest of the Arab region regards of what religion people where from. As sad as I am to all the lose the Middle East suffered from colonialism, I am still hopeful because the culture we carry has been in the making for thousands of years, the foundation is strong and true history lives on. Thank for such an intellect conversation, Avi is such a wonderful human being, a national treasure.
And you did the exact same thing to the Christian Assyrians, the Yezidis, the Marsh Arabs, the Kurds and so forth
Now the Farhud and giving Jews Dhimmi status for 1300 years is just a beautiful memory for your grandparents 🥲
Middle East colonised by many long before the Europeans ever went there. Biggest coloniser the Arab tribes that converted to the youngest religion in the world. Spread by the sword!.
@@avtarasdid what?
G'day friend. can i just ask what do you mean by "you" n your cmment. however sad is what those injustices were.@@avtaras
All my respect prof.
Best interview I have seen for such a long time. Avi Shlaim, you are a treasure.
Great interview Ash. What a wonderful man explaining true history to the people to have a much less known account. Much respect Avi Shleim. May God grant you a long healthy life and happiness.
What a beautiful, gentle soul this wonderful man is. I hope and pray that, after the liberation of Paleatine, this peaceful coexistence that he talks about can return to Weatern Asia.
Free Palestine for the sake of Palestinians and Jews. 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸
Agreed what a lovely bloke hopefully we can get back to the good old days were Jews and Arabs living together as equals ❤
Free the Jews of Israel from Zionism
Political Islam now days has totally different mentally from what the Arabs Muslims culture in general and their consideration to the minorities and other religions tolerance .
The extremism and fanatical movements of the political Islamic movements now days around the Arabs world don’t believe in coexistence of religions and refuse to even accept the right of others people to have their religions…
Look like they are stepping back instead of advancing.
Le titre de son livre avis schaim
@@SomeDude-gn8kcthat’s a pipe dream will never happen. You think if there is a two state solution there will be no more violence?.
This man is smart, wise and fair. His talk is clear and direct.
Gentle truth.
Avi is a legend. Thanks again Novara.
A legend in his own zombified, far leftist mind.
@@bluestar6879it’s lovely to see such a thoughtful intelligent remark. Maybe you should try to discuss something without throwing insults around.
This Iranian Jew is talking nonsense because it gets him platformed. Keep in mind this is blatant tokenism. It's like claiming Israelis love Gazans because they just love Middle Eastern food. It's like saying you understand the Black experience because you watch Candace Owens.
Excellent work ❤❤❤❤. We want Ash to be more online to understand history in a better way 👍👍👍
Novara Media: This is the Breakthrough in forming and educating ourselves that has been missing to 'ordinary folk' - I am nearly 70yrs of age - Never was this history discussed, debated, even acknowledged. Totally missing from our education - It is obvious why History and International Awareness is restricted. You Media are providing a generation with the opportunity to know the Truth - and the Truth will set us free! This is excellent work, vital work, essential work in such a format that people must be gin to breakdown the down the ignorance, the straightjackets that the 'forced impact' of not concentrating for longer periods upon History. Piece meal or the briefest of brief flashes of ideas/history is a softminded guide approach to enforced ignorance. And hence, a whole policy of keeping folk ignorant - strictly focused upon consumerism and self. Please keep up this excellent informative work.
Probably the best interview I've ever seen, period. Profoundly interesting, fact-based, intelligent and informative. Well done Ash and the team for bringing this scholarly insight into one of the most troubling conflicts of our times.
I agree, absolutely outstanding interview 👍👍👍
@@ingykaas8774she does a fantastic amount of research into all of her interviewees.
An outstanding interview. Ash was well prepared as how should an intelligent journalist should be. And Prof Avi, was so scholarly clear talking like in a great class of history.
Thanks Novara Media for been so outstanding in journalism.
Beautiful man. So glad to see him being platformed on a regular basis.
So enlightling--Soft spoken with strong arguments--Avi Shlaim May Allah give you a long ,healthy life-Ameen
Excellent interview. Avi Shlaim is a beacon of light and moderation in these dark days of extremism taking over the mainstream media. He makes very strong and compelling points about separating the idea of jewishness from Israel, and I loved the closing idea of Hybrid Identity.
Prof. Avi Shlaim is a dude. A total voice of reason on Middle Easton matters...
A total voice of far left wing loonnacee.
Always love hearing this Brave man speak.
It is always a pleasure to listen this wonderful man speak. Thank you Ash Sarkar for a great interview with Avi Shlaim.
Thank you. You have provided the world with the best perspective on this enormous problem that I have viewed.
Thank you to you both.
I’m old enough to remember listening as a young man to elderly men that still had clear recollections of their experiences, and the moral integrity to speak, without a fear of needing to comply with the mob.
I loved as a boy attending the Domayne and hearing men of all walks atop their soap boxes speaking freely.
Very sad to know that this is a thing of History, and never to be repeated.
Thank you to our hostess Ash and guest of stature Avi Shlaim. Well reasoned and well presented
Fabulous interview by Ash! We should all be reading Avi Shlaim. many thanks Novara
Thanks Ash for this very informative and touching interview with Prof Shlaim. He articulates his thoughts in such a charming, poetic, and yet factual and convincing way. You can almost see the streets of his lost multiethnic and cosmopolitan Bagdad.
Multiethnic and cosmopolitan Baghdad was ruined by Pan-Arabist greed and psychopathic colonial greed!
Lovely interview! Well done Ash.
Avi Schlaim is just a treasure..
Agree completely. What a delightful interview. You cannot compare this amazing gentleman, Prof Avi Schlaim, with the other Prof Norman F………..something.
Excellent interview. Major respect to our cousin Avi Shlaim and well done Ash. Masha Allah.
Another star interview 👏👏
This is why I’m a Novara supporter ❤
Yes me too.
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Thank you for this interview... Life experience is the best history...i enjoyed learning from him
What a kind, peaceful and intelligent man. We need more people like him.
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You give me hope! You speak from a position of integrity and wisdom. Your voice is needed. The truth is what is required to set all of humanity free. When we go to the root, we have the same parents. When will we stop the bully from dividing us and live as a family?
Thank you, Prof. Avi Shlaim! Blessings, good health and long life wishes for you!❤️🙏🩷
So so happy to see Avi Shlaim😊 Thank you Ash ❤
How wonderful! What a pleasure to listen to such a kmowledgeable, gentle, and compassionate man. A truly fabulous interview, Ash. Thank you.
We love you for your factual and fearless stand
Very thankful to learn from Mr. Avi Shlaim. His ability to break down something as complex as this all the while getting to the meat and potatoes is certainly a skill.
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Why this prof. Avi Shlam moved to Israel and would not return to Iraq based on what he preached?
@@smartlady3892 I think he explained this clearly.
I love Avi. What an amazing man. How we have come to seeing little kids blown to bits by the thouands. Every day I see it on X. Its just soul destroying. I can hardly bear it from afar, God help those living in the grip of this genocide with zero power, no ability to flee. No home, no food, no shelter, even tents are bombed, hospitals, medics bombed for nearly 10 months now.
it’s madness. shatters my heart.
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Always a privilege to listen to this learned and utterly honest man. Great interview, thanks.
What a wonderful interview! Avi Shaim is very brave to tell the truth about Zionism and its affect on the Middle Eastern Jews. My admiration for him is immense. I will certainly alert my friends regarding this video. Thank you Novara Media for this.
Thank you for an informative and impressively lucid interview. I watched it in three pieces, making notes as if I were young and in a lecture theatre. I am moved by the thoroughness of the interviewer. Each question was asked with the greatest care and thoughtfulness creating a flow in the conversation which made it a pleasure to watch. Excellently done. As for Mr. Avi Shalom, I am so glad I found out about him. I appreciate the calm and precise manner in which he renders bit by bit the most important information about this piece of history. Thank you so much.
Thank you!! I'm better informed by this interview!!
Once you understand islam, everything will fall into place.
Awesome interview. Thanks for doing it. I wish there were more people like Avi.
Listening to Avi Shlaim is so uplifting. What a calm, principled, moral voice. Recently read his book Three Worlds. I highly recommend it. Thank you for having him on, Ash. Excellent interview.
What’s the a book about?
@@shahidha4986 TH-cam deletes my comments so I'm rewriting this one. It's an autobiography with political analysis. Shlaim talks about the ethnically diverse community in Iraq and growing up as an "Arab Jew." The founding of the state of Israel threw the whole situation into disarray. Anyway, it's a great book.
Thank you for share an additional and extremely important perspective. Your story and the stories of Arab Jews need to be in the spotlight.
Professor Shlaim is such a treasure. I LOVE listening to him and wish he could go on forever. His message is always so wise, compassionate, measured and clear, which is unfortunately too rare these days.
Great interview. I’ve got plenty of time for Avi Shlaim
Massive respect to Pr. Avi Shlaim 🙏
Thank you for inviting Prof Shlaim. I have just finished his book "three worlds". Very insightful. Highly recommended. Kudos to Prof Shlaim
Cool I will check it out . Thank you
What a gentle soul. Waiting for his memoirs to be delivered...
Dear Ash
I have just watched your fascinating dialogue with Abi Shlaim. So glad you have captured so much knowledge on the video. I have to watch it again. Thank you
I love the amalgmation of the informative, scholarly, beautiful, decent and humane content with such a warm, lovely and grandfatherly tone, delivery and form.
Me too!
100% right
This guy gives humanity hope ❤
Absolutely brilliant. Not a two state solution, no. From the river to the sea - a One state solution with equal rights for everyone that lives there.
No more dividing line!
Human beings living together in peace with prosperity for all.
He is a brilliant man
Many Israelis would agree with dr Shlaim about Israel today and how it got here. Thank you for this intelligent interview the interviewer was wonderful.
"Many Israelis "- have you counted them?
Thank you Ash for a wonderful interview. I could have listened to you both for hours more.
What a lovely man is Avi. His knowledge experience & demeanour left me in awe
Gentle truth powerfully delivered.
I always watch anything with professor avi shlaim- he's so knowledgeable and genuine !
My grandma was a Mizrahi Jew from Yemen and I am Somali.
Are the Somali Jews Sephardic or Mizrahi?
@@RedZebb The a large percentage of them are Mizrahi with roots in Yemen since Yemen and Somali narrow border.
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@@Somali1971 what’s your Qabiil Wariya
@@RedZebbthey are Arabs the original to be exact as per Ethiopians and Fulanis. The rest of the middle East converted to Arabs religions called Muslims, Jew and christian. Don't come for Arabs they are black and Abraham descendants. This narrator is not Arab he is from Cyprus or Medes and lby his eyes you can see he is Japheth seeds.
I’m Yemenite/American Jew and I agree with Mr.Avi Shlaim. As much as love the land of Israel but I don’t accept the government of Israel
But you have remember there should be a land called Israel. It is only Palestine and Jews lives In Palestine. The land belongs to Palestine!!!!🇵🇸
@@BFF410the land of Israel is Africa the negroes are the Israelites the children of Jacob and Jews are not a people it's a religion and they are not chosen.
Tremendous. I love being helped to understand historic situations. This video should be watched in schools, everywhere far and wide. Hanx Ash et Avi xx
I really appreciate your work.
We love you Avi you’re Iraqi hero we proud of you brother, I would love to see some old pictures from Iraq specially from the time you lived there. Maybe in the next interview. I am Muslim from Iraq, living in the UK London
One of the most beautiful men in the world, thank you for having him ❤
Love this interview so much. I now have a new perspective on the origins of Zionism and the Israel state. And a greater appreciation for the Palestinian cause. Prof talked glowingly of how the Arabs and Jews coexisted before Israel’s existence. Wonderful interviewer.
If there were many wise and honest people in the world like Prof. Avi Shlaim, the world would be such a peaceful and happy place!
Setting the record straight is not only helpful to dispel hasbara but also essential to enable people to get a real factually accurate historic account of the reality of what actually happened.
Free Palestine
Let Israel live.
@@KJ-yisesthat’s if they let Palestine live and when their government is punished.
@@dragonmaster3207 all these conditions. That’s why the war never ends.
@@dragonmaster3207Netanyahu and his batch sure but what do you mean by govt?
GC!
Avi Shlain is a brilliant academic and a beautiful human being. I love listening to him, he gives me hope for the possibility of a better world where people can live together in a free Palestine, just as it existed in the past and so it can be again. We have proved it in south africa where, while there remains much work to be done, nevertheless people have come a long way to be able to live together with far more understanding, less fear and prejudice than anyone imagined possible.
Yes, this gives hope!
His heart and wisdom exudes peace for all human beings. It gives me hope too. The truth in history is easy to recognize once you separate yourself from programming and listen to other points of view and their stories.
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Avi Shlaim has never failed me with his candor, truth seeking, and brave stances against oppression. Such a gem found himself within a filthy world filled with hypocrisy, indeed!
What about Arab oppression of the Kurds? I hope you support Kurdish independence. And that you also oppose the Turkish occupation and ethnic cleansings of Cyprus and Syria as well.
What an interesting interview. Novara Downstream, you have excelled again in inviting this wonderful intellectual into conversation with Ash. His exposition of the history and experience of being an Arab jew was an important contribution towards understanding this complex region. Peace for Palestine.
A brilliant interview and discussion. I really appreciate this presentation. Thank you so very much.
Thank you Ash and Avi
Superb intro Ash 🎉
Thanks!
What a wonderful and insightful interview. Avi Shlaim is a gift to humanity.
At 27:24 there’s the key. The Israeli dominance of Western Jews versus the Arab News. The whole superiority complex of West over East - European over Arab.
That's a lot of myth busting right there. The sad thing about what has happened to Diaspora Jews, is the loss of their extremely diverse and in many ways unique culture from the countries in Europe and the Middle East where they lived for millennia.
A true patriot questions their community's values all the time they don't just blindly accept them. This great patriot does exactly that. I truly love these green islands of ours but I'm not happy with those that rule them or aspire to rule them.
i wasnt expecting him to be funny. what a delightful old dude
Thank you for providing me with a bit of enlightenment and education about a topic about which I knew very little. Very informative.
Big thanks to Dr. Shlaim for his frankness and honesty 🙋🏻♀️💐
Excellent podcast dear.
May Almighty bless you with the success you deserve. Well done.
For your guest,I salute your honesty and your service towards educating public win the midst of propaganda.
Religious identity defining the individual is the problem. Like Monbiot said, we are citizens, not consumers. We are humans, not possessions of the tribe.
Speak for yourself! You define yourself based on what you choose… everyone else define themselves as they see fit! The reason you see Religion/Tribes/Cultures/etc…as a problem is because colonialism made it so! Its pure arrogance, supremacy and entitlement to believe everyone should abandon their identities to please the colonial empire!
Lucky you, yt deleted my previous comment to you or at least, I can’t see it on my end!
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West imperialism and racism are the main issue, we lived together for hundreds for years until the western came and set fire to the whole thing.
@@bigeasy1383sure cupcake. It was called the system of "stay in your limits and be grateful I kept you alive".
I heard him being interviewed with a Palestinian Muslim woman whose name I’ve forgotten. It was incredibly interesting to hear what each of them had to say.
Anyone knowing of this interview please? Listening to Avi Shlaim was mind blowing (in the sense it put things together); I can't imagine what listening to the both of them could bring!
It’s an interview through DDN (Double Down News). You should be about to find it on TH-cam.
@@juliewake4585Ghada Karmi
@@mehrnooshensan9750 thanks
We need more gentle souls like this wonderful man.
Prof Avi is just the most beautiful person …. True humanitarian…. True academic and one of the few true intellectuals left on this planet
Very interesting. Thank you, Novara , for making this interview happen. Ash is a very good, very well prepared interviewer.
I always enjoy Avi Shlaim's talks. Such an insight into a long forgotten and hidden history.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MR AVI. SHLAIM THE ORIGINAL JEWS OF THE MIDDLE EAST ARE SUFFERING THE NAKBA TOO🤲💕🌹💯
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Accusations of antisemitism against Novora Media in 3.2.1....
Where?
Ash has a wonderful tone of voice and perfect articulation of English language that it’s very lovely to listen to.
Great to hear this man talk so much sense.
Great interview! Thank you both. ❤❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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