Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 at background briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with charges of anti-Semitism, leveled by Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu

against Australia's Prime Minister, who was booed at a memorial service yesterday,

blaming him for the Bondi Beach Massacre because Australia recognized Palestine.

We will discuss the relationship of anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel with Lincoln Mitchell,

who teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

He's written numerous books and articles about international affairs, American politics and baseball.

His ninth book, Three Years Our Mayor, George Moscone and The Making of Modern San Francisco,

is out now published by University of Nevada Press.

He's the author of the popular sub substack kibbutzing with

Lincoln, where his recent article is The Anti-Semitic Murders at Bondi Beach. Then we'll look

into the spiking of a segment of CBS's 60 Minutes that was supposed to be aired last night, but was

held back by the new editor appointed by the Ellison's

Barry Weiss, who wants to re-edit the segment on El Salvador's brutal prison to include Stephen

Miller.

Joining us is Ben Ambruster, the managing editor of Responsible Statecraft, who has more than

a decade of experience working at the

introduction of politics, foreign policy and media.

He previously held senior editorial and management positions at Media Matters, Think

Progress, Rethink Media, and Win Without War, and we'll discuss his latest article at Responsible

Statecraft.

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