Shlomo Sand is an Israeli historian and the author of many books about Judaism, Zionism, and the Israel-Palestine conflict, including The Invention of the Jewish People (2008), The Invention of the Land of Israel (2012), and How I Stopped Being a Jew (2013). In this interview, I speak to Sand about his work, focusing particularly on The Invention of the Jewish People, and his views on the current and ongoing crisis in Israel and Gaza.
I also highly recommend three other interviews with Sand; these provide more background and arguments so that you can understand his perspective more fully. See here, here, and here.
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