#173 — Anti-Semitism and Its Discontents

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Bari Weiss about her book “How to Fight anti-Semitism.” They discuss the three different strands of anti-Semitism (rightwing, leftwing, and Islamic), the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, the difference between anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, “Great Replacement Theory,” the populist response to globalization, the history of anti-Semitism in the U.S., criticisms of Israel, the fate of Jews in Western Europe, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:19.0	This is Sam Harris.
0:21.5	Well very brief housekeeping here.
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0:59.6	Okay well I'm recording this on October 27th, probably releasing this on the 28th, but
1:07.5	this is the one year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh where 11 people
1:12.8	were murdered.
1:14.5	I believe six were injured and this was the worst attack on the Jewish community in American
1:21.1	history, I believe.
1:23.7	And the timing of this episode is fortuitous because I am speaking with Barry Weiss about
1:29.1	her new book, How to Fight Antisemitism.
1:32.7	And Barry is a staff writer and editor for the opinion section of the New York Times.
1:37.7	She was also an op-ed and book review editor at the Wall Street Journal before that.
1:42.4	She has worked at Tablet, the online magazine of Jewish politics and culture, and she is
1:48.0	a native of Pittsburgh and in fact was a bot mitzvah at the Tree of Life synagogue
1:55.7	and new people who were killed as you'll hear.
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