Israel, Antisemitism, and Social Media (Robert Wright & Max Abrahms)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

0:45 Max’s book Rules for Rebels—and the rule that Hamas broke 4:13 Is social media a reality distortion machine? 19:32 “From the river to the sea…” compared to “globalize the intifada” 27:01 Does social media exaggerate the level of civil strife—and thereby raise it? 43:11 Is Israel’s assault on Gaza intensifying antisemitism? 56:08 How Israel’s actions impact the Jewish diaspora 1:05:54 The terrorism threat facing Israel 1:17:18 US foreign policy and the Israel lobby

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Max Abrahms (Northeastern University, Rules for Rebels). Recorded December 13, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:32.9	Hi, Max.
0:34.8	Hey, Bob.
0:36.3	How you doing?
0:37.7	Thanks for having me again. Yeah, Bob. How you doing? Thanks for having me again.
0:40.0	Yeah, pleasure to have you.
0:41.8	It's been a while.
0:42.7	Been too long.
0:44.5	Let me introduce this.
0:45.8	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zer Newsletter.
0:48.4	This is the Non-ZER podcast.
0:49.8	You are Max Abrams, political scientist at Northeastern University, and author of the book Rules for Rebels,
0:57.8	The Science of Victory in Militant History, that has some relevance to Hamas.
1:02.6	Maybe they'll have time to talk about that before this is over.
1:04.9	I think you have some guidance for them probably in the book that they may not have entirely,
1:08.8	may not have entirely followed.
1:10.6	Maybe they failed to seek
1:11.8	your counsel. You're absolutely right. What I do in the book is I look at hundreds of aggrieved
1:20.5	groups from all over the world going back decades to try to discern which kinds of behaviors are more likely to produce a favorable political
1:33.2	outcome. And what I find is that Hamas, among many other groups, are in violation. There's
1:41.5	wide variation in terms of the, you know, strategic quality of groups,
1:49.5	and this is largely predictive of how well they'll do.
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