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What Hasan Piker Got Wrong About Einstein and Zionism
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Hasan Piker weaponized Albert Einstein on Pod Save America to condemn Zionism. But he left out most of the story. Noam addresses Piker's troubling statements about Einstein by tracing his full relationship with Zionism, exposing how a confident but incomplete portrait collapses under the weight of the full historical record.
The Problem with Hasan Piker's Einstein Story, by Yair Rosenberg:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/deep-shtetl/
Check out our past episodes of Unpacking Israeli History on topics including Deir Yassin, Hamas, Sabra and Shatila and the Right of Return.
https://unpacked.media/podcast-series/unpacking-israeli-history/
For more on the topic, listen to Jewish History Nerds' recent episode Albert Einstein: Was he a Zionist?
https://unpacked.media/albert-einstein-was-he-a-zionist-part-2/
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