Frank Foer – The End of the Golden Age of American Jews

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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While anti-Semitism has run rampant among the far right, it has been growing among the political left. In Frank Foer's recent piece for The Atlantic, he explains how we got to this point. How have college campuses and schools become the center for anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic speech? How did college presidents mishandle the hate speech on their campuses? And what is the future of American Jews if Trump is elected again?

Read Frank Foer's entire piece in The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/

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0:27.0	Hey everybody we've got a great one today you know for a change Frank 4 is with me
0:38.0	and if you listen to the podcast regularly you certainly know Frank who is part of the pantheon of our
0:45.4	greatest guests. Frank writes for the Atlantic Monthly and today we discuss his
0:50.8	epic piece in this newest Atlantic,
0:54.5	the golden age of American Jews is ending.
0:58.8	Yikes, it's a scary piece for us Jews. We've seen anti-semitism on the right from Nazis
1:06.6	marching in Skokie in 1977. That was a famous Supreme Court case. American
1:12.4	Nazis marched in Skokie,
1:15.0	home to many Holocaust survivors.
1:18.0	The ACLU famously fought in court for their right, the Nazis right to march there and you know
1:25.0	First Amendment. Charlottesville of course in 2017. By the way the one in
1:31.2	Skokie was very peaceful, very peaceful, not so in Charlottesville.
1:37.0	Neo Nazis and clansmen and your garden variety right-wing assholes, March Channing, Jews will not replace us and of course that turned
1:47.2	violent and Trump of course said there were good people on both sides.
1:56.8	That's your garden variety right-wing anti-Semitism and now anti-Semitism on the left is raising its ugly head and Frank writes about that and it threatens this golden age for
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