You know, immediately following October 7, the DSA held a rally, glorifying the terrorism of Hamas's

resistance.

But it was not surprising, like I've been sounding the alarm about the anti-Semitism of the DSA for years.

Look, many elected officials either live in fear of the DSA or panda to the DSA,

either out of genuine belief or fear.

And so the mission of the DSA is to take over the Democratic Party from within,

impose ideological litmus test on issues like Israel, then cleanse the party of anyone who fails those

litmus tests. That is my perception of what the DSA is attempting to do in American politics. Among the questions I've been getting a lot since October 7th are those about

anti-Semitism. Sure there's been violence thrust on Israel by its neighbors in the

past and when Israel responds, it can

surface discriminatory if not outright hateful rhetoric against Jews in the United States

or Canada or throughout Europe or anywhere in the world. But to many, to many

listeners of this podcast, this time, this post-October 7th world feels different. Why? Or another question I've been getting is, when is it appropriate to be critical

of Israeli government policy and when does it cross the line to the danger zone of actually being anti-Semitism.

What is the difference, we're often asked, between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, or is there even a distinction at all? Is the latter simply a modern day

version of the former? Three points I try to make when addressing the issue of

anti-Semitism, especially the anti-Semitism we're seeing all around us today, include

one is Israel the only Jewish state on the planet being held to a different standard than any country in the world when it comes to defending its

borders and defending its citizens.

Two, when you look back at history and the history of anti-Semitism in almost every century in the history of the world

but especially at the Holocaust the perpetrators of violence against Jews and discrimination against Jews

actually tried to hide their grotesque, often genocidal crimes. What was

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