Political Divides Among Democrats
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Alexis Grenell co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, columnist for The Nation, explains her objections to how some on the left are approaching the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and where she thinks some criticism veers into anti-Semitism. Plus, a look at the upcoming special election to fill the seat of expelled congressman George Santos.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lara Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.8 | Good Monday morning everyone. |
| 0:15.6 | On Friday show, we had the first of two segments |
| 0:18.6 | with different views from the left |
| 0:20.5 | about the Israel-Hamais War and the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab |
| 0:25.3 | conflict. As I said, opening that show will continue on this program as best we |
| 0:30.7 | can to discuss this crisis and the underlying issues with multiple points of view. |
| 0:35.8 | As I said before, trying our best to do this in good faith. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm sure we fall short, but we do try. |
| 0:42.6 | Keep commenting and critiquing listeners |
| 0:44.9 | as you see fit. |
| 0:47.0 | You know, some of the context here about the discussion |
| 0:51.4 | on the American left is probably well known to you. We had |
| 0:54.3 | journalist Molly Ball here earlier last week with her recent article called |
| 0:58.1 | the left is tearing itself apart over Israel. Many of you know college students or faculty members who had |
| 1:04.9 | generally agreed on other left-of-center politics but have been very at odds |
| 1:09.0 | over this. Political had an article called the DSA, the Democratic Socialist of America, is facing an internal |
| 1:16.3 | reckoning over Israel. |
| 1:18.3 | That was shortly after October 7th. |
| 1:21.0 | Our guest on Friday was Jeremy Cohen, co-chair of the New York City DSA Steering |
| 1:27.1 | Committee. He was here as a leader of the anti-Zionist left. He used that term. |
| 1:31.8 | Our guest today, today in just a minute will be |
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