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Shlomo Sand

Historian Shlomo Sand claims the Israeli state has been built on foundations of myth and falsehood. He talks to Stephen Sackur.

Shlomo Sand's latest book has unleashed a storm of controversy far beyond his homeland. His subject is the history of the Jews, and his conclusions reject the orthodoxies of Jewish history and modern day Zionism. If Sand is right then today's Israeli state has been built on the foundations of myth and falsehood; but is he?

He talks to Stephen Sackur.

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