Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

While I love the content, what moves me to tears every time is the opening of the show. “Today is November 18, it’s 9:00 am on the east coast and it’s 4 pm in Israel as Israelis as winding down their day.” It might sound like something trivial but knowing that you are thinking of my moment in time as you are recording the show means so much to me.

I started listening to this podcast after Oct 7 and it is outstanding. I am so grateful for the depth and for the smart reporting about Israel. I hope my husband doesn’t mind how often I say I love Dan Senor 😊

Discovering this wonderful podcast is a silver lining to come from Oct 2023. Found it because I discovered Haviv and went looking for where he spends his time. Haviv keeps good company. Podcast has wonderful host. Wonderful guests. Highly informative. A true treasure of knowledge and discourse. Cannot praise enough.

The latest episode, about attacks on Israelis in Holland, seals the deal on the deep biases contained in this podcast. It describes anti-Semitic attacks in harrowing detail. It does not acknowledge that they were preceded by Israeli attacks on Muslim, including burning a Palestinian flag and chanting that there no schools in Gaza because the children are all dead. Including attacks on taxi drivers. This omission is chilling and seems intentional. It frames the conflict as a spontaneous pogrom from the Muslims. A minor detail from an earlier episode with Sheryl Sandberg stuck with me. She included a melodramatic description of her husband’s great parents on the ill-fated MS St. Louis, the ship full of European Jews trying to escape Hitler. They saw the Statue of Liberty and were turned away. Senor surely knows that the St. Louis was never near New York. There is interesting perspective here and great interviews. But you can’t trust it.