Susan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has now passed the 100 day mark. On the 14 January Alona Ferber attended the Jewish Labour Movement conference, which happened to take place on the 100th day of the war. In this podcast she speaks with Susan Neiman, the American moral philosopher, about the splits this war has caused on the left and tensions she sees between tribalist currents on the left and universalist principles, which Neiman believes are the values of a true left.
Read Susan Neiman's essay: The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayed
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| 1:07.0 | Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Senior Editor Alona Ferber. |
| 1:15.0 | On Sunday the 14th of January, I attended the Jewish Labor Movement Conference in Northwest London. |
| 1:21.0 | Each year, the JLM One Day Conference presents a snapshot of the Labour Party and the Jewish community at that particular moment. |
| 1:28.0 | In an election year, the conference gathered prominent labour politicians and influential Jewish voices, |
| 1:34.1 | including Sadie Khan, Kie Kairstarma, Margaret Hodge, and Jonathan Friedland. |
| 1:38.7 | In the Welcome address, the organizers wrote, |
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| 1:45.0 | place in the Labour Party. Yet this is happening against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism |
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