All right, listener, we are living in an incredibly dangerous time where we are told, if we

criticize something we see with our eyes, read or hear with our ears that somehow we are

bigoted.

And this type of suppression of speech and free thought is incredibly dangerous.

And here to discuss this with me is my friend Jason Stanley.

He is a professor of American Studies and Philosophy at the University of Toronto's Monk School.

He is the author of several books, including erasing history,

How Fascists Rewrite the past to control the future and how

fascism works. And for everybody in the New York area, he has an event in Brooklyn on March 26.

And I think now is the best time on the planet to go support experts, actual smart people and that actual smart person.

Professor Stanley, how are you today?

Good.

How are you, Jennifer?

You know, hanging in there, talking with you and having this community helps a lot because

I think it's important that we feel a sense of unity and togetherness that we're not insane.

But I want to talk to you about what's happening with Israel. It really bothers me that there is a lot out in Western media right now, that if we criticize

Israel and the actions that they are taking that somehow we are anti-Semitic. This is very disturbing.

You and I texted about this and we decided you needed to come on to talk to my viewers about this.

Please enlighten us about what's going on here. Yeah, I mean, this is the agenda of the state of

Israel, and it seems bizarrely to be the agenda

of the Trump regime. And let's be clear, by any stretch of the imagination, to equate

criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic. That is anti-Semitism. Take the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

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