Democracy and Freedom | Interview: Natan Sharansky

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The Dispatch

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4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Human rights activist and former Israeli politician Natan Sharansky joins Jamie to talk about his letters to the late Alexei Navalny, the current political mood in Israel, and the spread of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses. The Agenda: -Navalny's murder -The threat of left-wing antisemitism -The future of Israeli-U.S. relations -Comparing Joe Biden and Donald Trump and their administration's work with Israel -Pressure against Israeli politicians -The likelihood of Arab countries helping Gaza -Reflections on democracy and freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Hello everybody.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:32.0	I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is
0:35.0	Nitan Shuronski. Nitan Shuronski was most famously a Soviet dissident who
0:40.9	was in prison in the Soviet Gulag for
0:43.4	nearly a decade for standing up for human rights
0:46.0	before he made his way to Israel
0:48.1	where he is widely recognized
0:49.6	as one of the world's leading human rights advocates.
0:53.2	He served as minister in four Israeli governments, as the author of four books, including
0:57.4	the influential, The Case for Democracy, is the only non-American citizen to be awarded both the Congressional Medal of Honor
1:04.4	and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also served for a time as the head of the Jewish Agency
1:10.9	and is currently the chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global
1:15.2	Antisemitism in policy. We discussed many topics including Israel's
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