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no bull and the aftermath.

It's inescapable to me the idea that anti-semitism is in the air and of course young people and

mental ill people will pick up on what what they're hearing and I would say to me the

most compelling argument for why we're seeing this uptick is that we are living in a very

conservative time the president is a conspiracy theorist he is trafficked an anti-semitic conspiracy

series that we know motivated the pro-programmed palae attackers because they quoted those

same conspiracy theories about George Soros paying for migrants to come to the United States

and what the left has done is in many ways it often accepts the terms that Trump lays

out and sort of they fight him kind of on his own turf and so in response to his conspiracy

theories, they have their own conspiracy theories.

I'm Benjamin Whitties and this is the LawFair podcast January 18th, 2020.

Patya Ungar Sargon is the opinion editor of the forward the Jewish newspaper published

out of New York City.

She has been among the chroniclers both in print and on Twitter of the recent spate of

attacks against Orthodox communities in New York and New Jersey.

She is one of the most thoughtful analysts of anti-semitism in life and in public discourse

that I know and I have admired her work on Twitter on the subject for quite some time

as well as her writing.

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