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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and life.

My name is Freddie Gray. I'm the deputy editor of the spectator.

I am delighted to be joined by David Marcus, who is a columnist and author and author of a book

called charade, depending on whether you're a British or American. The COVID lies that crushed

a nation. David, thank you very much for coming into Americana.

I'd like to talk to you about the midterms because that is the sort of big story that Americans

and British people are talking about in terms of politics.

But I also want to talk to you about your latest column for Newsweek, which is about black

anti-Semitism, which has been in the news quite a lot this week because of Kanye West, who has said some

fairly anti-Semitic things on social media and got in a lot of trouble for it, and a basketball

player called Kiri Irving, who's in similar boat. This is quite an interesting phenomenon in

American life, is it not, David, that there is what seems to

be quite a lot of anti-Semitism among black Americans, among African-Americans, but it's also

an odd kind of anti-Semitism because they also think that they're Jewish. They think that black

people are the true Hebrews. Yeah, look, this isn't a new problem, but it's definitely one that people do not

like to talk about. In the column I refer to it as the most dangerous third rail in our political

discourse, and it really is. I live in Brooklyn in New York. Now, New York City has a million

Jews who live here. That's twice as many as any other city in the world. The second is

Jerusalem. So, I mean, this is where more Jews live than anywhere. And they live in very close

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