Michael Warschawski (aka Mikado) is a veteran anti-Zionist activist. Born in France to an orthodox Rabbi who had fought as a partisan in WWII, the young Warschawski grew up hearing stories about the expulsion of Jews to camps, before the term “Holocaust” had even been coined.

After moving to Israel in his teens, he witnessed a procession of Arab refugees who had been expelled from their villages during the Six Day War. This was a turning point for Warschawski; he realized that his early conception of the Jews as a tortured people was no longer accurate. This path eventually led him to the radical – then infamous – socialist movement “Matzpen”, which fought for nearly two decades against the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Playlist:
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling – Bach’s Cantata No.4: Christ lag in Todes Banden
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling – Mendelssohn’s Elias (Overture)
Michel Corboz – Brahms’ German Requiem (First Movement)
Philharmonia Orchestra with Otto Klemperer – Mahler’s Symphony (Second Movement)
Sinfonia Varsovia with Jacek Kaspszyk – Preisner’s Requiem For My Friend (Lacrimosa)
Leibele Glantz – Shema Yisrael