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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday, April 27th, 2021.

I'm John Pondhward. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always,

senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine,

hi John, associate editor, nor Rothman, high Noah,

hi John, and executive editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

hi John. Okay, so there's so much to talk about today.

Yesterday, yesterday we concluded with a brief discussion of the murder of Sarah

Halimi and the decision essentially to find innocent or not capable of standing trial

her murderer who was a Arab descent. She was an orthodox Jewish woman. He

beat her up in Therough Abalkini, a tortured her, beat her up in Therough Abalkini,

screaming Allahu Akbar and the court found that because he was high on marijuana,

he did not know what he was doing in there for God be tried.

And you know, the outrage has been growing over the last two weeks.

This big rally in Paris on Sunday, discussing this, but I wanted to place this in a

slightly different context, not just for France, but for Western Europe in general.

And one of the reasons by the way that Western Europe lost its standing, I believe,

in the 1980s as the sort of leader or hallmark of Western civilization,

whereas the United States was still a kind of vulgar, crass place that didn't have culture

and refinement and all of that, which was very much the cultural attitude of the time.

And time and again, beginning really in the early 70s and then through the 1980s,

there were these series of anti-Semitic terrorist crimes against Jews, most famously, of course,

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