EP 751 Anti-Semitism: It Can(and is)Happening Here

“Jews will not replace us” was the cry from far-right extremists a few years back in Charlottesville, Virginia and, in response to counter protests, then President Donald Trump said that there were good people on both sides.  Really?  In the wake of the brutal attacks on Israeli citizens on October 6, 2023 far-left activists on college campuses took up the cause of the Palestinians in Gaza as a result of Israel’s aggressive response and the question of anti-semitic sentiment among the youth in the America came into view. While the question of whether Jews have better friends from one political ideology or another may be the subject for debating societies around the country, the truth is that even in a nation where Jews have been able to flourish and lead the way in science, business, the arts and medicine, they are never able to look away at the possibility that one day they, too, will join the diaspora looking for a more hospitable environment.  It can happen here.  Benjamin Ginsberg, the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, joins us to discuss his new book, “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews.”

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