Unregistered 265: Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

As criticisms of Israel's war on Gaza are called antisemitic, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro joined me to present the argument that Zionism is actually a repudiation of Judaism and that a criticism of Israel is a defense of Jews.

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:06.0	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:14.0	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,
0:22.6	a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say
0:28.6	or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week,
0:35.6	I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a
0:40.3	journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just be an
0:45.9	ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.
0:51.9	I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested
0:56.2	in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope of what is possible to say
1:02.1	in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think. Does Israel represent Jews? What is the exact relationship between Judaism and Zionism?
1:18.8	My guest this week is part of a very long tradition. It's as old, in fact, as Zionism itself,
1:25.8	of Jews who have argued that Zionism and the state of Israel are not
1:31.6	only fundamentally different things than Judaism or Jews, they are fundamentally anti-Semitic.
1:41.0	My guest this week is the greatest exemplar of that tradition in today's world.
1:47.3	This is my interview with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro.
1:54.1	I am joined from Queens, New York, by Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, who I, one of the silver linings, I suppose, of the last five
2:04.4	weeks is that I've discovered you. I know you've been operating around this issue for many
2:13.7	decades, actually, but I didn't know about you until a few weeks ago when I happened to see you on
2:18.1	YouTube. And you presented it not a single argument, but I think it's a series of arguments that I
2:23.5	thought were quite compelling and also jibed quite a bit with what I was feeling for the last
2:31.1	five weeks, but really for the last my entire life, when I've heard people talk about Israel, the relationship between Israel and Jews.
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