#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Michal Cotler-Wunsh about the global rise of antisemitism. They discuss the bias against Israel at the United Nations, the nature of double standards, the precedent set by Israel in its conduct in the war in Gaza, the shapeshifting quality of antisemitism, anti-Zionism as the newest strain of Jew hatred, the “Zionism is racism” resolution at the U.N., the lie that Israel is an apartheid state, the notion that Israel is perpetrating a “genocide” against the Palestinians, the Marxist oppressed-oppressor narrative, the false moral equivalence between the atrocities committed by Hamas and the deaths of noncombatants in Gaza, the failure of the social justice movement to respond appropriately to events in Israel, what universities should have done after October 7th, reclaiming the meanings of words, extremism vs civilization, and other topics.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome to the Making Sense Podcasts podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:25.0	Okay, well I am back in town after traveling for about 11 days in Europe.
0:34.4	This is my first podcast after that disastrous presidential debate.
0:40.4	This was actually a perfect example of the relevance of Substack for me because I couldn't record a podcast. I was traveling.
0:48.0	I was actually on an airplane the morning after the debate, but I could post a short piece to Substack, which I did.
0:57.4	So just the cadence of doing a once a week podcast allows for certain things to fall through the cracks and my
1:05.9	writing over at Substack will help fill those cracks. Anyway if you want to
1:10.0	read me over there you can just search my name over at Substack and you will find it.
1:16.8	If you haven't read what I wrote last week, my main point was not merely that Biden should drop out of the race, he clearly should, and those who
1:26.7	have worked so diligently up until this point to conceal his deficits should be ashamed
1:32.4	of themselves.
1:33.2	I don't know how they thought he was going to bluff his way through this, but more important,
1:38.6	I think we have to acknowledge that we have paid a significant price for his deficits already.
1:46.0	It's not just that he can't campaign effectively and offer any assurance that he's
1:50.8	going to beat Trump in November and spare us a second Trump term,
1:56.2	it's that he can't speak effectively about anything.
2:02.8	Certainly not extemporaneously, right?
2:05.4	He's done no interviews with the New York Times or the Washington Post
2:09.7	or the Wall Street Journal,
2:11.4	and he hasn't done them for a reason.
2:14.0	And the job of the President is not just to be cognitively intact such that you can make decisions,
2:20.8	right?
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