Watkins Elementary School Holocaust Outrage
Air Date: - Season 3 - Episode 1 | Third-grade students, including Jewish kids, at Watkins Elementary School in Washington DC were allegedly instructed by a staff member to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including gassing, digging ditches for bodies, and shootings. Antisemitic remarks were also reported. What the hell has happened? What the hell is happening? Is this a mere school mishap to be regretted … or criminal child abuse to be prosecuted? A stand will must now be taken. Famed civil rights attorney Nathan Lewin, Washington DC JCRC associate director Guila Siegel, and StandWithUs legal director Yael Lerman join Edwin.Show Topics: Antisemitism
The Vintage Boys Bring in the New Year 2022
Air Date: - Season 2 - Episode 47 | The Vintage Boys are back to bring in the new year—and we can't wait. We’ll be arguing over the best whiskey and wine while probing current events and history—and debating what the year ahead will hold. Jeff Morgan in Napa Valley, Sheldon Freilich in Detroit, Kenneth Abramowitz in Palm Beach, Joshua London in DC, and Zalmi Unsdorfer in London join Edwin. Bring your own libation.Show Topics: Whiskey & Wine, Current Events
The Edwin Black Show is On Hiatus for the Winter Holidays
Air Date: | Edwin, Carol, and Team Black wish everyone health, prosperity, and joy for the coming year. While we’re on hiatus, please enjoy this encore presentation of “The Uyghur Genocide—the World is Not Watching” (S2 E18) and then join us on December 30 as we welcome the Vintage Boys for another informative, illuminating—and celebratory—exploration of our fragmented world, our turbulent history, our very, very tense present, and our evolving and uncertain future.Show Topics: Hiatus
Antisemitism at Duke University ... Again
Air Date: - Season 2 - Episode 46 | Duke University settled formal complaints of grave antisemitism just last year. Community leaders are astonished—and mobilized—now that formal recognition of the Students Supporting Israel chapter has been summarily vetoed by student government leadership. SSI President Ilan Sinelnikov and Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin join Edwin.Show Topics: Antisemitism, Colleges & Universities
Haavara Book Launch in Brazil
Air Date: | When all nations failed, only one group—the Zionist Organization—had the courage to boldly face the Nazi hierarchy to save 60,000 German Jews, transferring them to Jewish Palestine with their assets to build a new life—as Moses had done millennia before. Now the story will be told. Famed New York Times bestseller Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust, has authorized this first-ever translation of his critically acclaimed and revelatory book, The Transfer Agreement, published in Brazil as Haavara, by Idea Editora. Haavara is Hebrew for "transfer."Show Topics: Transfer Agreement, Brazil
Is a Two-State Solution Dead?
Air Date: - Season 2 - Episode 45 | For generations, the Arabs of Jewish Palestine denied any national identity. In 1948, the Arabs invaded. Jewish land was stolen—and Arabs voted to be citizens of Jordan. In 1964, the Arabs expropriated the Jewish Palestinian identity. In the 1990s, the Oslo Accords mapped out a two-state solution. Since then, every peace breakthrough has been rejected by the Arab Palestinians. Is a two-state solution still viable? Middle East historian Mordechai Kedar and Hudson Institute Foreign Policy Fellow Josh Block join Edwin.Show Topics: Israel, Palestinians, Zionism
Electric Vehicles—The Real Story
Air Date: - Season 2 - Episode 44 | More than a century ago, Thomas Edison attempted to steer the US toward electric cars. Several factors intervened to allow internal combustion to become the engine of the 20th century, including World War I and possible sabotage by petroleum interests. Automotive historian Marc Rauch and Yossie Hollander of the Fuel Freedom Foundation join Edwin to examine the past, present, and possible future of electric cars, and what they can—and cannot—solve.Show Topics: Electric Cars, Environment, Energy
The Edwin Black Show is on Hiatus for Thanksgiving
Air Date: | The Edwin Black Show is on hiatus for Thanksgiving. Edwin, Carol, and Team Black wish everyone blessings and abundance on this day set aside for giving thanks. Please rejoin us on December 2nd for another informative, incisive, and illuminating exploration of our fragmented world, our turbulent history, our very very tense present, and our evolving and uncertain future. The Edwin Black Show comes to you from Washington, DC via Zoom Thursdays at 3:00 pm ET. Visit TheEdwinBlackShow.com for show information and to sign up for alerts; visit the show’s YouTube channel for enhanced recordings of past shows, trailers, and bonus content.
Special Event: Faye Lincoln at The King's English
Air Date: | The King’s English Bookshop presents Faye Lincoln, author of Values That Shape the World: Ancient Precepts, Modern Concepts, in conversation with author and screenwriter Wayne Johnson. This online event is free; advance registration is required.Show Topics: Values That Shape the World
Yom HaGirush—850,000 Jews Expelled from Arab States
Air Date: - Season 2 - Episode 43 | Yom HaGirush, November 30, commemorates the coordinated expulsion of Jews from Arab nations. After the 1948 founding of the modern state of Israel, most Arab nations followed the Nazi model of dispossessing and expelling their Jewish populations, often to overload Israel’s ability to take them in. Some 850,000 were expelled penniless and stateless. Lyn Julius, co-founder of HARIF-UK, and Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the UAE, join Edwin Black, author of The Farhud and originator of International Farhud Day.Show Topics: Yom HaGirush, Jewish Expulsion