Has Antisemitism Surged? (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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2:20 How Jews fit—or don’t—into universities’ DEI regimes 10:55 What do controversial pro-Palestine chants really mean? 18:24 When does criticism of Israel become antisemitic? 26:41 The Israel lobby’s influence on Congress and academia 34:13 Do pro-Israel donors unwittingly inflame antisemitism? 41:22 Evidence of increasing antisemitism 49:49 Was Ilhan Omar’s “all about the Benjamins” tweet antisemitic? 57:07 Bob criticizes Bari Weiss, Bill Ackman, and an Eli tweet 1:07:12 Balancing concerns about free speech and antisemitism 1:14:14 Are Israelis too fatalistic about antisemitism for their own good?

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Eli Lake (The New York Sun, Clements Center, The Re-Education, The Free Press). Recorded May 13, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.6	Hello, Eli.
0:31.1	Hello, Bob.
0:32.6	How are you?
0:34.0	I'm good.
0:34.7	How are you?
0:35.4	Spring is sprung.
0:36.9	Spring is springing. I'm fine. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright,
0:40.7	publisher of the non-zero newsletter on Substack. And this is a non-zero podcast. You're Eli Lake.
0:47.9	You're now at the free press, the famous Barry Weiss publicate. What's next for you,
0:53.1	a faculty position at the University of Austin?
0:55.6	I don't know.
0:56.8	We'll see.
0:57.9	I'm at the free press.
0:59.1	I still am a contributing editor commentary,
1:01.0	and my podcast will be back shortly
1:03.7	under the free press banner.
1:06.5	Is it still going to be called
1:07.7	the re-education?
1:09.0	It sure will.
1:10.8	It's a good title. I think it's pretty good. Reclaiming the concept as it were. What? Of a re-education? Yeah, obviously there's a very, there's a very sorted history of the concept of re-education, but that's not what the most is about. I took the title to be ironic in it.
1:28.3	It is ironic, yes.
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