Episode #38: Ido Aharoni & Uriya Shavit: What are Israel’s Options in the War

In this episode of TAU Unbound, host Ido Aharoni is interviewing prolific Israeli academic and writer Prof. Uriya Shavit of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. Shavit, who received his PhD from TAU, talks about the origins of Hamas, its ties throughout the region and Israel’s options.

Prof. Shavit is a professor of Islamic studies and, since 2016, has served as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and its Graduate Program in Religious Studies. Since 2021, Shavit serves as head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, as well as co-head of the Shandong-Tel Aviv Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Shavit also worked as a senior staff writer and editor for Haaretz and other Israeli newspapers and authored novels and books for young readers. He specializes in the study of contemporary Islamic law, theology, and politics, as well as the study of Muslim minorities in the West.

00:00 - Intro
01:58 - The roots of the Hamas organization are anti-Semitism.
02:48 - Signs in a world of denial such as Holocaust denial
03:18 - Violence also by Muslims against Muslims
04:40 - The BDS movement
08:41- The struggle of the Hamas movement is against the West in general
09:50 - ISIS
11:10 - after the war - military government/Hamas government
13:39 - Hamas ISIS VS
18:58 - Islam in Europe
26:45 - Pro-Islamic propaganda in private universities in the United States

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