Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday May 13th, 2019.

I'm John Puthord, the editor of commentary with me as always, Noah Rothman, our associate

or high know.

Hi John.

Abe Greenwald, senior editor, hi Abe.

Hi John.

And in Washington, senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine.

Hi John.

Guys, the anti-semitism issue seems to be one that we are going to be grappling with publicly

and at the forefront of American political consciousness now without let up.

At a nowhere, an interview with Yahoo, Congressman Rashida Talib, this weekend allowed as how

if I can summarize, it's a little confusing.

It allowed us how the horrors visited upon her Palestinian people by the Jews and Israel,

she finds it calming to think about the Holocaust because the suffering of her people is somehow

connected to the Holocaust and that because they welcomed the complications seems to be that

the Palestinian Arabs welcomed Jews and helped Jews during and after the Holocaust and

so she's calmed by the thought of the Holocaust because maybe something good sort of came

out of it or or as people took it, she's calmed by the thought of the Holocaust because

she's happy that Jews were killed, which I don't think is actually what she meant, though

the word calming came out of her mouth.

It didn't come out of my mouth, it didn't come out of the mouth of anybody who went absolutely

ape over what she said and her response has been to fly into a towering Twitter rage

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