WTH is Going On with the Spike in Antisemitism? Walter Russell Mead on the Myth of Jewish Power and His New History of the US-Israel Relationship

What the Hell Is Going On

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Kanye West, Nick Fuentes, and Donald Trump meet for dinner… and discuss what, exactly? Indeed, what does a white supremacist have in common with Kanye?? Yep, hatred for the Jewish people. The spike in antisemitism seen today can be explained away – bad economy, covid, whatever – but the sad truth is that Jew-hatred has been a perennial in American life for centuries. The truth, of course, is that America’s tiny percentage of Jews have been singularly unable to move the needle in favor of their own well-being or the well-being of the State of Israel. The reality and the tropes of antisemitism do not line up in any way. But when have facts ever gotten in the way of bigotry?

The rise in antisemitism, relations with the State of Israel and much more on today’s episode with Walter Russell Mead. Mead is the author of the new book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. He is the Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal, a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities and Bard College. He is also a member of the Aspen Institute.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.0	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on?
0:01.1	Who in God's name knows what hell's going on who in god's name
0:21.7	knows what it's all about hi i'm daniel putka. And I'm Mark Dyson.
0:38.2	Welcome to our podcast.
0:39.7	What the hell is going on?
0:42.0	Mark, what the hell is going on?
0:44.7	What the hell is going on is we're talking about the spike in anti-Semitism that's happening here in the United States and quite frankly around the world.
0:52.2	I was just in New York recently for Fox,
0:55.5	and I just turned on the local New York news. And it was nothing but a stream of stories about attacks on
1:03.5	Jewish people. An old Jewish man beaten over the head as he was walking down the street.
1:08.2	There was a father and his young son who were coming out of a kosher
1:11.4	grocery market and somebody in a car drove by with a BB gun and shot the kid and his dad.
1:17.9	You know, it's happening everywhere. What the hell is going on? Well, this is a subject of a broader
1:23.9	conversation that we're having with our guest today. I think that, you know, in times of turmoil, in times of economic hardship, like the financial crisis, in times of
1:34.2	uncertainty like the last two years with COVID, we blame the Jews. You blame the Jews.
1:41.8	Exactly. When things aren't going right, blame the Jews.
1:45.6	And I think there's also been a certain mainstreaming of anti-Semitic ideas.
1:52.4	You know, Kanye West is obviously, you know, the most famous, completely insane anti-Semite to take the airwaves.
1:59.6	But, you know, Kyrie Irving plays for, wait a minute, is it the New York next? You know me in sports. Oh, I've no idea. Well, okay. I'm not a basketball fan. I'm a hockey fan. I have no idea. That's right. I don't know anything about basketball. Hockey fans are not anti-Semite, only basketball players. But look, you're seeing it in New York, but you see it everywhere.
2:19.8	You see it all over social media.
2:22.1	You see it all over the place.
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