E306. How October 7th Exposed the West's Madness

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Author Brendan O’Neill joins Bridget to talk about his book, After The Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and The Crisis of Civilization. They discuss the aftermath of Hamas's attack on October 7th, 2023, what it told us about the West, the lure of barbarism, the rise of antisemitism, why we shouldn’t be allowed to forget what happened on October 7th, and why his book should make you angry because it highlights the appalling truth that people in the West are cheering one of the most regressive and racist movements on Earth - Hamas. They cover the ideological indoctrination of our youth, the resurgence of ancient antisemitic tropes, the failures of modern feminism, the West's inability to confront global threats, moral cowardice, the madness of the elites, racism masquerading as anti-racism, and the importance of mockery in challenging dominant ideologies.

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0:00.0	I'm with Brendan O'Neill everyone welcome to walk-ins welcome I wish you were on this show every week
0:07.4	so we could go through the week's news. Brendan is a writer at Where are you writing?
0:13.1	Spiked primarily.
0:14.8	Spiked primarily.
0:16.1	I also write for the spectator in the Daily Mail
0:18.3	over here in Britain, yeah.
0:20.5	And he has a book coming out, please tell us about your book.
0:24.0	Yeah, my book is called After the Pogrom,
0:28.0	7th of October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilization,
0:32.0	and yes it is as despairing as the title suggests it's about
0:36.0	the aftermath of Hamas attack a year ago and what it told us about the West and how
0:41.1	how much the West has lost the plot.
0:43.4	That's essentially what it's about.
0:45.6	Yeah, so to finish my train of thought
0:47.6	before we get into that because your book is,
0:49.6	it is like a, I mean, we'll get into it it was I was I was I thought I was high functioning a high
1:00.9	functioning alcoholic and it's interesting we're talking about this because I'm about to have 11, if I make it that far, 11 years in like two weeks of sobriety, which is insane for me to really comprehend.
1:13.4	Wow.
1:14.4	And yeah, not one drink in 11 years.
1:16.8	Not one drink.
1:17.8	Wow.
1:18.8	Yeah, that's amazing.
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