A Fight Over How to Fight Anti-Semitism

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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President Trump has issued an executive order cracking down on anti-Semitism. But some Jewish Americans fear that the plan could end up deepening prejudice instead of curbing it. Guest: Max Fisher, a Times international reporter and columnist for The Interpreter. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:The executive order touches on a defining issue of our time: Who belongs, and who decides?Some students across the United States said they were afraid that the order would backfire, worsening anti-Semitism on college campuses.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:04.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.6	Today, the president has issued an executive order
0:14.7	cracking down on anti-Semitism on college campuses.
0:18.9	Why some Jewish Americans fear that the logic behind it
0:23.5	could provide a rationale that ultimately
0:27.2	furthers anti-Semitism.
0:30.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.2	It's Wednesday, December 18th.
0:36.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:38.4	So Max Fisher, tell us what happened last week at the White House.
0:42.5	So, less Wednesday, Trump as part of his annual Hanukkah party
0:47.5	announced that he was going to sign an executive order targeting
0:51.7	what he described as anti-Semitic speech on college campuses.
0:55.9	Which seems like a worthwhile goal.
0:58.2	Right, it seems totally straightforward,
1:00.0	but it has set off because of the kind of way it is touched on this,
1:04.3	the way it presented it, the politics of it,
1:06.8	what has been this really big divisive debate,
1:11.1	especially among American Jews about basically how to receive this
1:14.9	and whether this is a good or a bad thing.
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