305: The Canary in the Coal Mine with Halie Soifer
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Halie Soifer, the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America to discuss the latest in the Israel/Hamas War, how to defend against the rising levels of antisemitism in the United States, and how the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has never been more clear. Plus, why antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the degradation of democracies. For more on these topics, be sure to follow the work of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want to wish everybody a happy and healthy holiday season. |
| 0:06.9 | I know these are uncertain times. I know you might have a lot of tough conversations, but just know you can always find what you need here at the Lincoln Project. |
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| 0:24.2 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by Haley |
| 0:39.8 | Seyfer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. She is a veteran of the Barack Obama |
| 0:47.0 | administration, Capitol Hill, and is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan, Go Blue. |
| 0:53.2 | Haley, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, |
| 0:55.8 | read. Okay, so I assume that you are always busy in one way or the other, but unfortunately, |
| 1:02.1 | in the last eight to ten weeks, I assume you've been extremely busy. So just to recap for everyone, |
| 1:09.0 | on October 7th, Hamas terrorists, and to me that's what they are, crossed into Israel and killed more Jews at one time than have been lost since the Holocaust. |
| 1:22.0 | I know that you probably have personal experience over there. I have more friends that live there than I actually understood until I started getting emails and texts and WhatsApp messages from them. So let's start with this. |
| 1:33.3 | What did that day? What has that day meant for the American Jewish community? Complete horror. |
| 1:42.5 | There was a sense of security. |
| 1:45.0 | Even in southern Israel, and I visited one of the Kibbutzim that were attacked that day, |
| 1:52.0 | there was a sense that that border was secure. |
| 1:56.0 | Of course, everyone knew that Hamas since 2006 was controlling Gaza, and there was literally |
| 2:03.6 | just a fence between them. |
| 2:06.7 | But Israel is not ever seen terror on this scale. |
| 2:12.4 | And you're right, it was the largest single-day massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. |
| 2:19.9 | But it also was systematic on the part of Hamas. They clearly planned meticulously. |
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