Untitled Episode

"Kill them all." An Israeli Zionist linguist explains how Netanyahu turns words into weapons — and how one biblical name makes genocide sound acceptable. Dr. Ruvik Rosenthal is one of Israel's most respected authorities on the Hebrew language — a Sokolov Prize–winning journalist, lexicographer, and author of more than 30 books. In this conversation he dissects the machinery of political language from the inside: the euphemisms that sanitize killing, the pronouns that signal who's really in c...