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Episode 332 Promo - Cancel Harvard (w/ Peter Beinart)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jewish Currents Editor-at-Large & Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY Peter Beinart joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest piece in which he takes on the media frenzy around allegations of Ivy League antisemitism, and asks why none of Harvard’s Israel experts have been invited to join the group convened to investigate said claims. Is it because none of them would cosign overly expansive definitions of antisemitism? The pair also examines Beinart’s own journey away from Zionism toward what he describes as “cultural Zionism” and how the siege on Gaza is rapidly changing how Israel is perceived within the Jewish community.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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this committee at Harvard's grade one, Penn is

0:03.1

one, NYU is created one, to basically formulate

0:06.6

an action plan against anti-Semitism

0:08.6

are being driven in large measure by donors

0:12.0

who have views about anti-Semitism that are quite similar to

0:15.0

establishment Jewish organizations like the anti-Defamation, which is to say they

0:18.6

believe that a lot of pro-Palestinian activism, which is anti-Zionists,

0:22.8

is anti-Semitic.

0:24.1

And what they want to do is get these universities

0:26.6

to suppress this speech in some way or another,

0:29.9

not allow people to say phrases like,

0:32.1

from the river to the sea

0:33.1

Palestine will be free or into fodder or not have a student for justice in

0:36.7

Palestine chapter and in fact there have been several universities now

0:39.3

where they've been suspended or banned but there's a funny problem they have,

0:43.8

which is that the people who, in general,

0:46.6

I mean, they're exceptions,

0:47.4

but for the most part, the people who study anti-Semitism,

0:50.2

especially as it relates to Israel-Pal. In the Jewish studies, faculties don't hold that view.

0:56.8

They generally believe that in fact it's not necessarily anti-Semitic

1:00.8

to have an anti-Zine view.

1:02.6

The political discourse and perspective

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