The trouble with defining antisemitism

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With more extreme antisemitic attacks on the rise and more antisemitic rhetoric in the mainstream, antisemitism has become an increasingly pressing issue in the US. But at the same time, the conversation around antisemitism is getting more fraught. Sam talks with Dov Waxman, professor and director for the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, about what people are getting wrong about antisemitism. They discuss why there's so much contention around what the term means, why it can be hard to talk about, and how to fight antisemitism when it happens.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.
0:01.4	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:04.7	So we've talked about the view on this show before,
0:07.9	because I am obsessed with that show.
0:09.9	And if you'll allow me, we're gonna start this episode
0:12.5	with another quick discussion
0:14.3	of that daytime television talk show.
0:16.8	It serves a bigger purpose, trust me.
0:19.3	All right, let's begin.
0:21.5	In case you haven't heard, my favorite view co-host,
0:24.5	whoopie Goldberg.
0:26.1	She said something on that show recently
0:28.5	that got her in a lot of trouble,
0:30.7	like suspended from the show.
0:33.3	The Holocaust isn't about race.
0:35.9	No.
0:36.9	No, it's not about race.
0:38.5	Maybe it's sitting at no.
0:40.0	Whoopie was talking about the Holocaust on the view,
0:42.6	because, well, the view.
0:45.0	And she said something a lot of people
0:47.3	thought was anti-Semitic, or racist, or something.
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