Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 17 | On this day, we remember the horrific Arab-Nazi pogrom inflicted on the Jewish citizens of Baghdad on June 1–2, 1941—The Farhud.
This violent dispossession was the beginning of the Nazi-style process of persecution and exclusion that would conclude with the expulsion of Iraqi Jews and the end of the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community. Rabbi Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, and Middle East scholar Mordechai Kedar join Edwin to explore whether this can happen again—and the two most likely places.
[Ed. note: We asked the question: Where next? Our prediction of “Israel” proved to be tragically accurate when, on October 7, 2023, at the end of Sukkot, Hamas massacred some 1,400 individuals in Israel.]
Air Date: | On this day—on Shavuot—we remember the horrific Arab-Nazi pogrom inflicted on the Jewish citizens of Baghdad, June 1–2, 1941: The Farhud. This violent dispossession was the beginning of the Nazi-style process of exclusion and dispossession that would conclude with the public expulsion of Iraqi Jews and the end of the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community.
Join Edwin Black, author of The Farhud and originator of International Farhud Day, as he asks: can it happen again?
Air Date: | Happy Shavuot from Edwin, Carol, and Team Black. The Edwin Black Show is on hiatus this week.
We'll be back on June 1 for our observance of International Farhud Day. While we're away, please enjoy this encore presentation of “The UN Lie of Israeli Apartheid."
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 16 | Does America need to atone for its past sins with “equity” or correct its future with pure equality? Are equity and equality even compatible? Edwin faces the dark history and the brighter future to see which mechanism should prevail.
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 15 | New criminal codes and regulations are being drafted, here and abroad, some under UN mandate. Look for new restrictions, new penalties, greater government surveillance and control—and diminishing freedom. Privacy expert Sharon Polsky joins Edwin to take another look at the perilous current state and future of free speech.
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 14 | Edwin takes on some unanswered—and still burning—questions. Almost every episode, we run out of time before we run out of questions. We save them, and these episodes give us a chance to address topics such as current affairs, history, WWIII, antisemitism, energy, eugenics, and more. Edwin will also be accepting questions live via the Zoom Q&A. Join us for another no-holds-barred, nothing-off-the-table session.
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 13 | AI—artificial intelligence—has arrived. Experts everywhere are warning that AI could wipe out 80% of all jobs—and perhaps even civilization. Privacy expert Sharon Polsky joins Edwin to confront the threats and sound the alarm.
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 12 | In a land where Jews had been brutally slaughtered en masse by their own neighbors in the prior generation, it was in Ukraine that Nazi Germany chose to commence the Holocaust by Bullets, recruiting villagers for assistance.
This topic, crying out for examination, is today too hot to handle for many. Join Edwin for a hard, unfiltered look at the past.