Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event

I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing

politics and power from the Caesars to Sunack, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded,

does power always corrupt, or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while

an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures?

These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer.

In person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November

at 7pm BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power and politics down the edges.

Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of The Sun Day

Debate, the new series from Intelligent Squared, which looks back at our most popular

and consequential debates. Today we're going back to 2019, in which we staged the debate

anti-zionism is anti-semitism. It was a loaded debate with a lot of emotion on both sides,

and the issue has come back into the news as the conflict between Israel and Palestine

has intensified in recent weeks and months. It's one of our most listened to and watched debates,

and we hope you enjoy it. Now let's go to the episode.

Good evening everybody and welcome to your winter. It is great to see such a full house

for this debate and the motion of our debate tonight. Anti-zionism is anti-semitism.

Anti-zionism is anti-semitism. There is so much meaning packed into those words, meaning which stretches

down the centuries and meaning which reaches into the lives of millions of people today.

Anti-zionism, anti-semitism, these terms are very fraught. Anti-zionism often defined as

opposition to the existence of a Jewish state in the territory defined as the historic land of

Israel or Palestine. Anti-semitism most often defined as hostility, prejudice or discrimination

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