Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius Interviews Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf on their book “The War of Return”
Summary
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, authors of ‘The War of Return’ talk with Lyn Julius about their book. Once Hamas is defeated, how good will prospects be for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians? These two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict to end, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no right of return.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return (www.jewishrefugees.org.uk). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress.
Adi Schwartz
Dr Adi Schwartz is a researcher and author, focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a research fellow at the Migav institute and a postdoctoral fellow in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Einat Wilf
Dr. Einat Wilf is a leading thinker on Israel, Zionism, foreign policy, and education. She was a member of the Israeli Parliament from 2010 to 2013, where she served as chair of the Education Committee and member of the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Born and raised in Israel, Dr. Wilf served as an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces, foreign policy advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company. Dr. Wilf has a BA from Harvard, an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a PhD in political science from the University of Cambridge. She was the Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and is a lecturer at Reichman University in Israel. She is the author of seven books that explore key issues in Israeli society. We Should All Be Zionists (2022) brings together her essays from the past four years on Israel, Zionism, and the path to peace; the co-authored The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace was published in 2020.