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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s not that antisemitism ever went away, but it’s still jarring to watch people spread its oldest and most vile tropes on social media in a way that would’ve been unthinkable ten years ago. Guest:  Isaac Saul, politics reporter in Bucks County, Penn., author of the Tangle newsletter Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A quick heads up.

0:32.2

This conversation involves frank talk about anti-Semitism.

0:36.0

The language gets a little salty.

0:42.9

Isaac, how worried are you about anti-Semitism right now?

0:48.8

I mean, I would say pretty worried.

0:52.2

Isaac Saul edits the website Tangle. He's also Jewish. Like if you have a scale

0:58.2

like one to ten, and has it changed? Yeah. I would say it's changed pretty seriously. I would say

1:05.0

if you asked me this question three years ago, I would have said, like, negative three.

1:11.6

I wanted to talk to Isaac because I kept doing these interviews, one after another, about

1:18.4

anti-Semitic discourse on the right, anti-Israel discourse on the left, which are not the same

1:24.2

thing, of course. But it felt like something important was shifting,

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