What Next - The Anti-Defamation League at War
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How the ADL’s commitment to the state of Israel threatens and undermines its ability to fight antisemitism at home.
Guest: Mari Cohen, associate editor at Jewish Currents
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| 0:37.0 | What does it mean to fight hate? |
| 0:42.0 | There's been an undeniable spike in hate in the US since Hamas attacked Israel on |
| 0:47.2 | October 7th. Incident after incident where Jewish and Muslim people have been attacked for their |
| 0:54.0 | association with their opinions about a conflict thousands of miles away. |
| 0:59.3 | And there's been a cry to do something about it. |
| 1:02.4 | But we've documented hundreds of anti-Semitic incidents on campuses. |
| 1:06.0 | We've seen residence halls plastered with hateful messages. |
| 1:10.0 | We've seen Jewish students removed from student government because of their quote |
| 1:15.4 | Zionism and the list goes on. The anti-defamation League is one group that's been |
| 1:22.2 | tracking hate speech. |
| 1:23.8 | They even have an online heat map where you can look up reports one by one. |
| 1:28.9 | This is their CEO testifying in Congress back in November. This isn't a question of free speech. |
| 1:35.0 | Don't let anyone tell you that. |
| 1:38.0 | Freedom of expression is not the freedom to incite violence. Period. Full stop. |
| 1:45.0 | It's interesting to listen back to this testimony just to consider how this |
| 1:49.8 | organization thinks about what hate is and how to push back on it. |
| 1:54.8 | The head of the ADL says he categorizes some student protests against the war |
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