Long Reads: Antony Lerman on Antisemitism, Israel, and the Left

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The question of how to define antisemitism has become a major political controversy. Many leading political figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu, now insist that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are two sides of the same coin. How did we reach a point where this kind of discourse has become entirely routine? Antony Lerman joins Long Reads to discuss the history of this debate, covered in a new book, Whatever Happened To Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew'. The work draws on his long experience of academic research into the different forms of anti-Jewish bigotry.

You can read a review of Lerman's book in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/2022/09/antisemitism-zionism-israel-palestine-corbyn

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0:00.0	This episode of Long Reads is brought to you by Haymarket Books.
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0:33.6	Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth at
0:39.8	political topics and thinkers.
0:42.0	My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting
0:46.5	the show.
0:48.3	The question of how to define anti-Semitism has become a major political controversy.
0:53.5	Benjamin Netanyahu is the most important Israeli political figure of the last quarter
0:57.7	century.
0:59.0	He has always insisted that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are two sides of the same coin.
1:05.1	They are one.
1:06.1	Netanyahu made the following remarks in a televised address to a conference organized by the Austrian
1:11.4	Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz in 2018.
1:14.7	We see attempts to kill or harm Jews in the name of radical ideologies, and since the
1:19.5	establishment of the state of Israel, we face a new form of anti-Semitism, vicious efforts
1:25.2	to demonize a Jewish state, and deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination
1:30.5	in our ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
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