How do you fight anti-Semitism?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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It was just before 10 o’clock in the morning on 27th October 2018 when a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle and three pistols opened fire on worshippers at a synagogue in the US state of Pennslyvania. 11 people died that morning at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on American Jews in US history, and it sent shock waves around the world. For the writer and New York Times columnist, Bari Weiss it felt personal. She grew up in Pittsburgh and used to go to the Tree of Life. In response to this attack she’s written a book on how to fight anti-Semitism. She argues that such hatred was, until recently, relatively taboo but is now migrating toward the mainstream; amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy. Anti-Semitism is on the rise across Europe, the US and the Middle East. We speak to Bari Weiss about where anti-Semitism comes from and how to fight it. The episode includes some offensive language. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Alicia Burrell and Katie Gunning Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Just before we start, there is, because of the nature of the discussion about anti-Semitism,
0:09.5	there is some offensive language in this episode.
0:12.0	Hello, I'm Matthew. offensive language in this episode.
0:15.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price. This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:18.0	where we ask one big question about one big story. Today how do you fight anti-Semitism?
0:27.0	Today how do you fight anti-Semitism.
0:47.0	It was the most lethal attack on American Jews in all of American history. It's October the 27th, 2018. In the US state of Arizona, the American journalist and writer Barry Weiss
0:57.0	is getting ready to give a speech about...
0:59.0	Fennily enough, the state of American jury.
1:02.0	She's one of the country's most provocative... enough, the state of American jury.
1:03.2	She's one of the country's most provocative writers.
1:06.1	She gets masses of abuse on social media for her views.
1:10.4	So there she is preparing for her talk about Judaism in America and then she checks her phone
1:16.4	And a text had come through from my youngest sister and it said there's a shooter at Tree of Life
1:23.0	This is a CBS News special report.
1:26.0	I'm Michelle Miller in New York.
1:28.0	There has been a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
1:32.0	News reports of the scenes. That was the synagogue that I became a but Mitsva in in 1997, and it's a synagogue where three different congregations meet on a given Saturday morning.
1:42.0	My dad can often be found at one of them. So my
1:44.4	thought immediately went to my dad. Thank God he's the kind of person that
1:47.9	shows up in synagogue right at the tail end, so he wasn't there.
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