Inside Israeli Indoctrination

I recently sat down with Ezra Lipp for an episode of his podcast, The Thin Veil.

Ezra hosts an important space for examining what happens when inherited narratives start to collapse, looking closely at what we do when our understanding of the world shifts. His work brings an honest, grounded inquiry to complex questions surrounding Palestine, Israel, and Zionism, and I highly recommend checking out his show.

In this episode, we unpack my experience growing up inside a religious-Zionist settlement in the West Bank, my time as a tank commander in the Israeli military, and the psychological process of unlearning that followed.

What We Cover

• Growing up inside a religious Zionist settlement in the West Bank

• How ideological conditioning begins long before military service

• The role of fear, trauma, and identity in constructing “the other”

• Serving in the IDF and the onset of disillusionment

• Facing the reality of the occupation on the ground

• The structural limits of liberal Zionism

• Accountability, justice, and the psychological cost of leaving an ideology

• Reconnecting to basic human safety after stepping away from a system of control

  Conversation