Ask Haviv Anything
de Haviv Rettig Gur
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"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.
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A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur
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- 160: Eisenkot’s impossible trap – the case for a unity government, with Micah Goodman · 56 min · Episodul 160We have merch! Find our awesome new shirts, mugs and hats at https://shop.askhavivanything.com. To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community…
- 159: How bad were the midterms for Israel? With Michael Moynihan · 59 min · Episodul 159We have merch! Find our awesome new shirts, mugs and hats at https://shop.askhavivanything.com. To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community…
- 158: How do you defeat Iran's proxy armies? With Elizabeth Tsurkov · 2 h 1 min · Episodul 158A note from Haviv to our viewers: Please excuse the video troubles. Elizabeth’s connectivity was limited for the first half hour or so of the conversation. But the audio came…
- 157: Netanyahu was beatable. What happened? · 44 min · Episodul 157To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 156: Go vote. It isn't optional · 28 min · Episodul 156To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 155: American and Israeli Jews don’t understand each other, with Ed Rettig · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 155To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 154: How Israel broke pan-Arabism, and what that means for Iran, with Dan Schueftan · 1 h 15 min · Episodul 154To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 153: Where was Netanyahu on 7/10? With Elliot Kaufman · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 153To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 152: Is Israeli society tearing itself apart? With Micah Goodman · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 152To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 151: Could the hostages have come home sooner? With Brett McGurk · 1 h 17 min · Episodul 151To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 150: The case for Netanyahu, with Gadi Taub · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 150To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 149: Patriotism is too important to leave to extremists, with Prof. Alex Yakobson · 1 h 14 min · Episodul 149To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 148: What can you do for Palestinians? Stop supporting Hamas · 17 min · Episodul 148This episode we are trying something a bit different. First you will hear a three minute video by American journalist Ayman Mohyeldin, and then a 12 minute response by Haviv…
- 147: Are the allegations in NAZA true? · 54 min · Episodul 147To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor · 1 h 25 min · Episodul 146To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber · 28 min · Episodul 145To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer · 1 h 17 min · Episodul 144To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 143: How to win the Israeli election · 1 h 21 min · Episodul 143To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib · 1 h 42 min · Episodul 142To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 141To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations · 1 h 10 min · Episodul 140To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question · 1 h 12 min · Episodul 139To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse · 1 h 14 min · Episodul 138To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 137: What does Qatar want? · 47 min · Episodul 137To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 136: Why not two states from the start? · 28 min · Episodul 136To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN? · 34 min · Episodul 135To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005? · 22 min · Episodul 134To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam · 1 h 27 min · Episodul 133To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 132To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek · 1 h 22 min · Episodul 131To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 130: Here's to the next 250 years · 37 min · Episodul 130To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi · 1 h 14 min · Episodul 129To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari · 1 h 17 min · Episodul 128To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 127To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman · 1 h 25 min · Episodul 126To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 125To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 124To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 123To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 122: When will the war with Iran end? · 45 min · Episodul 122To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 121To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us · 1 h 55 min · Episodul 120To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy · 1 h 17 min · Episodul 119To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson · 1 h 18 min · Episodul 118To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything ), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/ ), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi · 52 min · Episodul 117To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews · 1 h 44 min · Episodul 116What does it mean to be Jewish in Britain? What happens when centuries of hard-won belonging is suddenly called into question by destabilizing events? In this conversation on…
- 115: Is Nicholas Kristof right? · 15 min · Episodul 115To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt? · 20 min · Episodul 114To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour · 55 min · Episodul 113To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…
- 112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse · 1 h 3 min · Episodul 112The world feels unmoored. Identity is contested, nations are uncertain, and a technology-altered future feels increasingly abstract and vaguely threatening. So much is happening…
- 111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi · 36 min · Episodul 111To support our work, please consider joining our Patreon community (https://www.patreon.com/c/AskHavivAnything), Substack (https://havivgur.substack.com/), or Buy Me a Coffee…







