The Rise Of The ‘American Intifada’

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Uri Kaufman, renowned historian and author, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the recent string of antisemitic violence in the U.S. and examine the connection between the "American Intifada" and anti-Israel presidents.

You can find Kaufman's book American Intifada: Israel, the Gaza War and the New Antisemitism here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:21.9	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.4	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.2	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:37.1	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.
0:45.1	Our guest today is Uri Kaufman, renowned historian, legal expert, and author of American Intifada, Israel, the Gaza War, and the new anti-Semitism.
0:58.4	A lot to unpack there, and we will do so over the course of the next several minutes on
1:03.5	this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:06.6	We thank so much for joining us today.
1:08.6	Thank you so much.
1:10.3	There really is much to discuss.
1:12.8	You know, we can book, we can take a look at where all of this began. It certainly didn't
1:18.4	begin on October 7, 2003. In many ways, they were the sick and twisted fruits of a very bitter harvest for many years.
1:32.7	But I think we do need to start with the violence that we have seen as the outcrop.
1:38.3	And I think immediately of the poor young couple who were murdered in cold blood in the name of Gaza, the so-called
1:48.6	Free Palestine Movement, two young, bright, wonderful people who were apparently on the verge
1:57.0	of getting engaged and starting a new life together at the Israeli embassy and shot at a
2:06.3	Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Again, I think with that as a beginning point, how did we get here?
2:16.4	Boy, that's a really good question. How we got here is kind of
2:21.7	hard to say. What I can say is that the shooting, this horrible shooting, this beautiful young
2:27.4	couple, their whole life ahead of them, cut down. And if you looked at social media, there was
2:33.1	quite a lot of support for the shooter,
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