How an antisemitic conspiracy theory made its way to a state capitol
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, |
| 0:05.9 | anti-Semitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society. It has no place in our universities. |
| 0:11.9 | And it has no place in the United States of America. No place. |
| 0:16.7 | President Trump says his administration is committed to fighting anti-Semitism. but a growing number of pro-Trump commentators are warning about hatred of Jews on the political right. |
| 0:28.0 | From charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle, but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty. |
| 0:34.4 | The podcaster Ben Shapiro says he's been shocked to see people he once worked with, |
| 0:38.5 | like Candace Owens, promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Dan Bongino, Trump's former deputy |
| 0:44.5 | FBI director, calls anti-Semitism a cancer on the MAGA movement. |
| 0:49.3 | This portion of people who claim to be part of our movement and our cause, who think it's edgy or |
| 0:55.9 | cool to talk about how much they hate the Jews. Now an NPR investigation reveals the story of how |
| 1:03.8 | a state Republican official tried to turn a conspiracy theory into law and how it all connects |
| 1:09.7 | with a bizarre criminal case involving a German |
| 1:12.5 | Holocaust denier and a suspicious bottle of baby oil. Consider this, how anti-Semitic extremists |
| 1:19.9 | took their ideas from the fringes to the halls of a state capital. |
| 1:31.5 | From NPR, I'm Juana Summers. |
| 1:41.5 | It's consider this from NPR. |
| 1:45.7 | NPR investigative correspondent Tom Dreisbach has today's story. |
| 1:49.9 | Good morning and welcome to the New Hampshire House Executive Departments and Administration Committee. It was a gray morning in January in a gray committee room for the New Hampshire |
| 1:54.9 | State Legislature when Representative Lauren Selig started testifying. And I'm here to introduce |
| 2:00.5 | HB1162. |
| 2:02.5 | New Hampshire requires public schools to teach about genocide and the Holocaust. |
| 2:06.8 | And Selig's on this state commission that sets standards and helps provide lesson plans. |
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