A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Violence and threats against Jews have been surging for years. “We’ve been seeing [antisemitism] coming from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between,” Lipstadt tells David Remnick. “We see it coming from Christians, we see it coming from Muslims, we see it coming from atheists. We see it coming from Jews.” In the aftermath of Israel’s military strikes on Gaza, particularly on college campuses, she is very concerned about widespread sentiments that deny Israel a right to exist. While she doesn’t believe students or faculty should be penalized for expressing solidarity with Palestinians or Israelis, she believes that the language used by some influential people “has served as a green light to the haters,” she says. “It sort of takes the lid off.” And ethnic prejudice, she notes, rarely limits itself. “Once you start dealing in the stereotypes of that one group, you’re going to start dealing with the stereotypes in another group.”
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| 1:19.8 | Antisemitism is known as the longest hatred, a prejudice that has persisted more than |
| 1:25.5 | 2,000 years. |
| 1:33.9 | Some might have believed that anti-Semitism might have reached its horrific peak in the 40s, the years of the Holocaust, |
| 1:38.1 | and that through sheer revulsion, it would have faded. |
| 1:40.1 | This is hardly the case. |
| 1:48.0 | Well before October 7th, anti-Semitism had been on the rise, in the United States and Europe and well beyond. Since the explosion of violence in the Middle East, the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Jews in southern Israel, |
| 1:54.0 | and the horrific bombing and invasion of Gaza that followed, the rise in anti-Semitic statements and incidents has accelerated, |
| 2:02.5 | alarming officials throughout the world. The director of the FBI, Christopher Ray, recently told a |
| 2:07.9 | congressional committee that, quote, this is a threat that is reaching in some way sort of historic |
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