The Roots of Anti-Semitism with Deborah Lipstadt

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🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On the final day of Passover this year, a gunman walked into a synagogue outside of San Diego, killing one and injuring three more. Exactly six months earlier, a man entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, shouted anti-Semitic slurs and opened fire, killing 11 of those gathered. These acts of violence are part of a marked rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes unfolding across the nation in recent years. Historian Deborah Lipstadt examines these most recent manifestations of anti-Semitism and connects them to their earliest iterations centuries ago. RELATED: Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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0:00.0	I often compare anti-semitism to a herpes virus, and I know herpes virus is a horrible thing
0:06.4	to have.
0:07.4	Thank God I don't, but I know people who do, but it's a terrible thing.
0:11.6	And the truth of the matter is that from what I understand medically, once you have it,
0:16.3	you're never quite free of it.
0:17.7	And under pressure at difficult times, you know, the day before you're wetting, you could
0:21.6	suddenly have an outbreak, whatever it might be of your under pressure.
0:25.7	And I think that anti-semitism is like that.
0:29.3	It sits in the society, and at pressure times, it can be unleashed.
0:36.3	Hello, and welcome to Wise This Happening With Me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:42.4	Well on the day that I am recording this intro with pod listeners, the President of the United
0:46.3	States is hosting a foreign dignitary at the White House.
0:49.6	Now, invitation to the White House is, you know, it's not extended to every foreign
0:55.0	leader.
0:56.0	It's not like they're just like a spreadsheet, and like you start, you know, in the A's,
1:01.0	and you like work your way down the list alphabetically.
1:03.8	Like it is a big deal.
1:05.6	It confers, you know, respect and legitimacy.
1:08.6	If there's a front-leash of the state, like for instance, the President has met with
1:11.2	Vladimir Putin a bunch, but he has not invited him to the White House.
1:13.6	It would be an enormous, enormous deal, enormous deal, and a huge controversy, right?
1:18.6	If given the occupation of Crimea and given the, what happened in 2016, Donald Trump
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