Jonny Gould’s Jewish State

17: Hen Mazzig, Bad Progressive or True Progressive?

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Episode notes

Hen Mazzig is truly a modern Israeli. A social media manager for major corporations and a writer and campaigner.

Born in Israel in 1989 to a Mizrahi family originally from Iraq and Tunisia, Hen campaigns for the advancement of Israeli Jews from the east and LGBTQ rights as an openly gay man.

He actually came out in the IDF serving in Ramallah and Jerusalem in a humanitarian role.

His life experience includes being blown out of an ice-cream shop by a suicide bomber when he was 12. It was an attack which killed a grandma and her granddaughter.

Identity is a huge part of modern day political discourse, where it seems being a Jewish progressive puts you at odds with non-Jewish ones.

In doing so, I encounter the word, “pinkwashing” for the first time. We unpack some complicated concepts because I think it's important we all understand where both Israel and antisemitism is going in the 21st Century.

Hen's very engaging and I learned a lot about parallel histories and Jewish lives to my own.

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