{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Take","title":"BONUS The Lie That Lit The Match: Hebron, Nazis, and the West's Vanishing Memory | Yardena Schwartz","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2943,"description":"In 1928, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a man in trouble — dogged by accusations of corruption and nepotism. So he told a story: the Jews praying at the Western Wall were coming for Al-Aqsa. It worked. The criticism dissolved, and a year later 67 Jews were murdered in Hebron, ending a Jewish presence there that had lasted millennia.\nJournalist Yardena Schwartz spent years tracing that lie — from a box of letters in a Memphis attic, to the Mufti's wartime estate in Berlin, to October 7th, when Hamas named its attack the Al-Aqsa Flood. Her book is Ghosts of a Holy War.\nThis week marks 97 years since the Hebron massacre. In 1929, The New York Timesreported it plainly as a massacre of unarmed Jews, and New Yorkers marched in protest. Those articles are still sitting in the paper's morgue. Almost nobody has gone back to read them.\nA bonus re-release of the conversation that opened this show.\nThe guest\n\nYardena Schwartz — website · X/Twitter · published clips (Muck Rack)\nBook — Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Union Square & Co.) — publisher · Amazon · Barnes & Noble · Goodreads\nHer reporting referenced in the episode\n\n\"How the first Palestinian leader became a Nazi war criminal\" — The Spectator, Dec 28 2025 — read it\nReview of Ghosts of a Holy War — The Jerusalem Post — read it\nBooks and films discussed\n\nOren Kessler, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict — publisher\nTom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate — publisher\nPalestine 36 (dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2025) — Palestine's Oscar entry, US run via Watermelon Pictures — Variety review · Screen Daily\nBackground on what's discussed\n\nThe 2017 Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa metal detector crisis — Wikipedia · Foreign Policy, July 2017\nJerusalem and the Temple Mount status quo — ADL backgrounder\nThe show\n\nThe Honest Take · Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube playlist\nOriginal episode — audio ·...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MWvudMeeQbLLprkXao5bQURkY3G_5oMcfe3JeW4xoBg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Nzg1/NjYxZjIyMzBiODU5/OTczZmQzNjUzMmZi/YWIwNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}