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Rediscovering Latinidad is made with love and dedication to the art of family history. Too often the search for family history can seem Eurocentric and inefficient for those identifying as Latiné, LatinX, and anywhere in between. Let’s share our stories, our resources, and discuss why this all matters. In the search for who we are, we can understand more from our ancestors and their stories.
Rediscovering Latinidad Season 7 Episode 4 Heridas Hereditarias: Latinidad, Israel, y Palestina dos años después del 7 de Octubre
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Rediscovering Latinidad Season 7 Episode 4 Heridas Hereditarias: Latinidad, Israel, y Palestina dos años después del 7 de Octubre
Two years after the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, grief, outrage, and displacement continue to ripple across the world and across identities. In this episode, we look at how Latino histories of colonization, diaspora, and resistance shape our understanding of this conflict and how Jewish Latinos, in particular, often find themselves torn between cultural memory and political conviction. This conversation brings together two voices with deeply personal ties to these layered histories:
Joaquín, the late cousin of our co-host Briar Rose, grew up between El Salvador and the United States, shaped by the shadow of civil war, U.S. intervention, and migration. His reflections, recorded before his passing, speak to the inherited trauma and empathy of those who’ve lived through displacement and violence, and how that informs solidarity with Palestinians.
David, cousin of cohost Edward, is Colombian Jewish and lived in Israel, where he witnessed the fear, mourning, and polarization that followed October 7. His perspective wrestles with faith, identity, and the pain of watching a homeland, both ancient and modern, consumed by cycles of vengeance and survival.
Together, their dialogue explores what it means to hold multiple truths:
How Latinos see echoes of their own histories in Israel and Palestine
The tension between justice and safety, faith and politics, colonization and survival
How Jewish and non-Jewish Latinos navigate belonging in global conversations about oppression
The episode is both a tribute and a reckoning, a space to honor Joaquín’s memory, to listen to David’s lived experience, and to ask how the past two years have reshaped what it means to stand for humanity, even when history keeps dividing us.
For more on the genetic history of Jews, Palestinians, and the ancient Levant, read "More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins" by Razib Khan: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-kin-less-than-kind-jews
Rediscovering Latinidad is made with love and dedication to the art of family history. Too often the search for family history can seem Eurocentric and inefficient for those identifying as Latiné, LatinX, and anywhere in between. Let’s share our stories, our resources, and discuss why this all matters. In the search for who we are, we can understand more from our ancestors and their stories.
