Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Israel?

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Support for Israel has long been the rare bipartisan position among lawmakers in Washington. But recently, several younger, brown members of Congress have vocally questioned the U.S.'s relationship with Israel — and were met with fierce condemnation, including charges that their criticism was anti-Semitic. On this episode: We're talking about why it remains so hard to have nuanced conversations about Israel.

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0:26.5	I'm Jean Demby and I'm Shireen.
0:28.2	I'm Marisol Maraji and today we're asking this question.
0:31.7	Why is it so hard to talk about Israel?
0:34.3	The Democrats are grappling with tensions within the party over how the US
0:38.4	should treat Israel.
0:39.9	Israeli forces have shot and killed at least 140 Palestinians during those
0:44.5	protests.
0:45.5	When someone says that being Jewish and supporting Israel means you're not
0:50.3	loyal to America, we must pull it out.
0:53.4	Whole land.
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