Chickasaw in Jerusalem: An Indigenous Reversal

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 16, 2026 · 31m

Jason Watson, a Chickasaw citizen and executive director of Indigenous Bridges, arrived in Israel in 2008 with an agenda: he read the Palestinian cause as his own family's story of removal and dispossession. What he found instead was a nation within a nation — and a question about indigeneity that cuts against the standard settler-colonial template. This episode traces the longer arc of Native American and Zionist interaction, from the religious connections of the 1950s through the third-worldist alignments of the 1970s, and into today's dialogue being rebuilt by organizations like Indigenous…