Episode 76: How elites drive Jew-hatred, with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Ask Haviv Anything
Haviv Rettig Gur
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
From Manchester to Bondi Beach to Denver, from Tucker Carlson to Nicolas Maduro to Zohran Mamdani to the most significant and mobilizing political ideologies of today’s Muslim world, Jews seem to loom large in the imaginations of elites. They’re attacked physically and verbally and politically. The old obsession has well and truly returned.
What does this return mean for the future of these societies? And for Jews?
The Egyptian-American writer and thinker Hussein Aboubakr Mansour returns to the podcast to make sense out of the chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to a new episode of Ask Haviv Anything. The year ended. The new year began. |
| 0:10.7 | What's happening to Europe? What's happening to Western civilization? What's happening to Islam? |
| 0:14.5 | What's happening to Muslims in the West? Who we have some very concerning data points are |
| 0:20.0 | undergoing certain radicalization trends |
| 0:22.2 | that are actually worse |
| 0:23.2 | than some of what's happening in the Arab Muslim world. |
| 0:26.2 | What's happening to the discourse about Jews? |
| 0:29.6 | It's not strange or accidental. |
| 0:32.8 | It's not random that Tucker Carlson's response to Venezuela is a Trump is doing it to impose |
| 0:41.0 | gay marriage in Venezuela, and of course that it was done for Israel. |
| 0:45.1 | Candice Owens went with it. |
| 0:47.1 | All the what we have now come to know as the anti-Semitic coteries of the right have moved |
| 0:51.8 | forward with it. |
| 0:53.1 | Of course, the anti-imperialist left has decided |
| 0:56.2 | to as well jump on that bandwagon. Jews are somehow a vocabulary for talking about all of these |
| 1:02.5 | great problems, about a sense of institutional decline and maybe even elite failure in the West, |
| 1:08.5 | of a lot of the intellectual dysfunctions currently visible |
| 1:14.9 | in the Muslim world, a lot of it is about Jews. After Colorado, Manchester, after Bandai, |
| 1:22.7 | we can't ignore this question of Jews. Maybe as a canary in the coal mine for some of these problems, |
| 1:28.0 | that's what we're going to talk about. For those of you who are not familiar with the work of |
| 1:32.1 | Hussein Abu Bakir Mansul and Egyptian American thinker, writer, somebody I find absolutely fascinating. |
| 1:40.2 | We already had him on the podcast. He was with us in episode 30, and now he's back. He is the author of the Abrahamic Metacritique substack. That's the Abrahamic Metacritic. I know. You're thinking that'd be a great name for a band. I also think that. He's also an adjunct fellow at the Z3 Institute in Palo Alto, and we're very excited to have him on. Before we get |
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