Antisemitism. Everywhere.

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Next week we will release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World", which you can order now at: www.amazon.com/Genius-Israel-Small-Nation-Teach/dp/1982115769/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LKV3ZLWLBOL1&keywords=dan+senor&qid=1694402205&sprefix=dan+senor%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1 OR www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-genius-of-israel-dan-senor/1143499668 The speech that I reference in today's episode -- in which I discuss the resilience of Israelis in this moment -- can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WygtNbwf-tk As for today's episode, according to the ADL, from Oct 7-23, anti-semetic incidents in the U.S. were up 388% over the same period last year. Why is it that after an attempted genocide of Jews in the Jewish State, the response by many is too target other Jews in the U.S. and around the world? To target them with violent rhetoric, vandalism, intimidation, and actual physical violence? Is this new? What are its origins? What is the difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism? And what’s with the tearing down of posters of hostage children? Our guest today is Yossi Klein Halevi who - in addition to being an important voice in our new book - is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University, he co-directs the Harmant Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi has written a number of books, including "Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation," and his latest, "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor," which was a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Times of Israel.

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0:00.0	If you see power as innately evil and then you turn Jewish power into the symbol of what you most
0:10.4	detest, what you get are young people tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children.
0:19.0	I think for a very simple reason, because the cognitive dissonance between the pictures of a nine-month-old
0:28.1	Israeli hostage and the notion of an all-devouring evil Jewish power, rather than a Jewish
0:37.1	power that we've embraced to defend the most defenseless people, that disparity is too great and so they need to physically remove those
0:47.6	posters in order to continue the process of turning Jewish power into the symbol of power generally.
0:58.5	That's what's playing out, I think, today. It's 11 p.m. in New York City on Tuesday, October 31st. It's 5 a.m. in Israel on Wednesday
1:20.5	November 1st as Israelis are getting ready to start their day. It is day 25 of the war.
1:28.0	Before we get into events in Israel, one housekeeping note. In less than a week, Saul Singer and I will be publishing the book
1:35.7	we've been working on, The Genius of Israel, The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in
1:41.5	a turbulent world. We write in this book about the same
1:44.6	resilience we are seeing today in Israel, in Israeli society, across Israeli
1:49.7	society, from Khah radim to secular Israelis, from Jews from the East and Jews from the East and Jews from the West
1:55.1	really all across every sector every demographic I gave a speech about this
2:00.2	moment in Israeli society on Sunday this past Sunday at the
2:04.1	Sunday at the Jewish Leadership Conference here in New York City.
2:07.2	I'll provide a link to that speech in the show notes.
2:10.5	It'll give you a sense of our book and how we are cautiously hopeful about
2:16.8	Israeli society in the weeks and months and years ahead, even if we have serious
2:22.2	concerns about Israeli institutions.
2:25.3	We hope you'll order the book this week.
2:27.9	It would mean a lot to us.
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