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Why Antisemitism Is Everywhere

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 33 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

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.



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0:00.0

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0:30.6

A quick heads up.

0:32.2

This conversation involves Frank talk about anti-Semitism.

0:36.1

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,

1:29.0

and it felt like the time to talk about it.

1:31.8

I was somebody who I think sort of laughed at and mocked my mom or grandmother

1:40.1

for just like seeing anti-Semitism everywhere.

1:43.9

I was always telling them like, nobody cares

1:46.9

about the Jews anymore, guys. Like we've moved on to a different era. So what changed it?

1:52.1

Well, I started to experience it.

1:55.5

What Isaac started to experience was mostly online, a lot of times coming from younger people. On the left,

2:03.6

it would look like someone publicly wondering why Isaac is a Jew felt the need to look like a victim.

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