Yes, It's OK to Ask About Bernie and Anti-Semitism

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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A piece we published on Friday by our own Noah Rothman kicked up a social-media dust storm over the weekend—the view of Noah’s critics being that it is illegitimate to question associations between Bernie Sanders, his campaign, and anti-Semites. We disagree. At length. Give a listen. Source

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0:30.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for Monday, December 16, 2019.
0:59.2	I am John Pudhord, the editor of commentary with me as always.
1:03.7	Senior editor, A. Greenwald Hyade.
1:05.5	Hyjon, associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hynowah.
1:07.9	Hyjon.
1:08.9	And in Washington, senior writer, Christine Rosen, Hy Christine.
1:12.2	Hyjon.
1:13.2	So three pieces of news involving either peripherally or centrally anti-semitism.
1:20.6	The first piece of news was, as we had discussed on the last podcast, our terror of the possibility
1:27.4	that Jeremy Corbyn might pull off an upset and become the prime minister of Britain.
1:34.6	In fact, Jeremy Corbyn is now out as or has not formally resigned as head of the labor
1:39.3	party, but is intending to resign as head of the labor party.
1:43.0	After a blowout, a defeat that saw the Tories with a, I think it's an 86 seat majority,
1:53.9	the largest spreads since 1935, the worst performance by the labor party since 1935.
2:00.6	And clearly some part of the victory of Johnson, of Boris Johnson was not just because of
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