Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, July 19th, 2023.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor

eight Greenwald high aide John are our team of colleagues Matt connetty and Christine

Rosen are both out today. So joining us for an extended pararration as the solo guest star

and third and fourth wheel our friend Tevi Troy historian former official at the Department

of Health and Human Services former White House official author of many books about Washington

four books about the presidency and fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

hi Tevi great to have you here and we want to delve deeply into a wonderful piece that you

have published in our friend Tevi in our friend Tevi our friend you volavins magazine national affairs

called how to combat anti-semitism which is a particular note not only because it is always

of note but also the scandal over the weekend of Pramila Jayapal the Congresswoman calling

Israel a racist state and then hurriedly voting in Congress for a sense of the Congress resolution

that Israel is not a racist state yesterday while others in her ideological camp actually refuse

to vote for the sense of Congress resolution that Israel was not a racist or apartheid state so the

politics they're very interesting as were the politics of the Biden administration's desperate

efforts to respond and play games and footsie with both with her and with forces opposed to her

column today by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times in which he spent an hour and 15 minutes

yesterday with Biden on the day that Israel's president Isaac Herzog was at the White House

showing that he loves Israel supports Israel has Israel's back but is disgusted by the net

now who government blah blah blah blah blah so we're going to get into that even though I'm

introducing it at length here but I want to talk about two bifurcated phenomena relating to Biden

one is there was there was a piece of footage yesterday of Biden's meeting with Isaac Herzog

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