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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Why Jews don’t count – DAVID BADDIEL talks to Nick Cohen

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Why do people who consider themselves anti-racist have a blind spot when it comes to antisemitism? Why don’t we automatically think of antisemitism as racism, or Jews as an ethnic minority? Writer and comedian David Baddiel talks to Nick Cohen about his new book ‘Jews Don’t Count’, how social media nourished a new antisemitism among some progressives… and why British Jews shouldn’t have to answer for Benjamin Netanyahu. • “Israel-Palestine is a situation that most Jews are not responsible for… It’s racist to imagine that all Jews have to have an opinion either way”  • “The idea that there would be no anti-Semitism without the State of Israel is a myth.”  • “Our notion of identity politics just doesn’t apply to Jews.” • “My atheism has no bearing on whether or not I would have been killed by the Nazis. It’s racism. I don’t have a choice to be Jewish.”  Presented by Nick Cohen. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.5

Jews don't count. Welcome David. Hello Nick, how you doing? I'm not too bad.

1:22.8

David, we are talking as a good time for this book,

1:25.8

I would say a good bad time in that there is a war

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between Israel and Hamas going on as we speak and all the arguments that you're taking on

1:37.9

are kind of condensed into this moment because people who still can't see your point would say,

1:45.0

hold on, Badele, all we are doing is responding to Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and talk of anti-semitism is just a rather

1:56.6

de-reptial way of distracting attention from that. How does your book deal with charges like that

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which one here's all the time? Well the book makes a sort of

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point of not spending a lot of time dealing with the issue of Israel. It's part of the book's kind of polemic that discussion,

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