The End of a Jewish Golden Age — with John Podhoretz

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Will we look back at the past few decades in America as the Jewish ‘golden age’? And is this ‘golden age’ now over? Did October 7th mark the end? Or should the signs have been obvious years ago? John Podhoretz recently wrote a long essay for Commentary Magazine describing how we got here. He writes: “Several seemingly unconnected arguments and controversies in the United States that had been carefully cultivated over the past couple of decades sprang into full flower on October 8 and thereafter. The weapons were ideas that had flowed for a quarter century from university graduate programs to activist groups to K–12 education and then began to reach millions through online mailing lists, listservs, and social-media entertainment services.” I wanted to have a conversation with John about how we got here, whether we are truly alone, and are they – actually – coming after us? John Podhoretz is a return guest to this podcast. He is a writer and public intellectual. He is editor-in-chief of Commentary Magazine and host of Commentary’s critically acclaimed daily podcast, he’s a columnist for the New York Post, and author of several books (including one of my favorites, “Hell of a Ride”, about his time in the first Bush Administration). Here is the essay we discuss in the episode: “There’s Coming After Us” — https://www.commentary.org/articles/john-podhoretz/antisemites-coming-after-jews/

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0:00.0	In each of these cases the community came together, did what it could to fight things, didn't take it lying down.
0:07.6	It's not like we weren't on it.
0:09.6	What we didn't know was that it was a web and I don't mean this like I don't want to sound
0:15.6	like a conspiratorial lunatic the minute that October 7th happened groups that
0:21.7	had been training in some sense, for 20 years, for a moment at which they could
0:28.4	go at Israel's existence and go at the Jews in America who, according to them, are no different from Israel and the Israelis.
0:37.0	They swung into action simultaneously and on all fronts, and that is what knocked us all sideways. That's the new thing.
0:45.8	It's not just that people are getting injured and killed more, that's terrible.
0:49.8	It's that Jews were killed in the most horrible ways.
0:53.7	240 people were taken hostage.
0:56.5	And the response in the United States
0:58.5	on the part of radical leftist
1:01.6	was to say, the Jews deserved it. It is 630 p.m. on Friday, January 19th in New York City, Shabotcholom. It is 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, January 20th in Israel.
1:29.3	Well we look back at the past 80 to 100 years in America as the Jewish Golden Age? And if so, is the Jewish
1:39.3	Golden Age now over? Are they, as my guest today argues, coming after us? John Pot Horitz
1:48.2	recently wrote a long essay for Commentary magazine that does a very good if not outright scary job of describing how we got here, how
1:56.8	we got to this end of the Jewish golden age.
2:00.7	He writes and I quote, several seemingly unconnected arguments and controversies in the United States
2:08.0	that had been carefully cultivated over the past couple of decades
2:12.0	sprang into full flower on October 8th and thereafter.
2:17.0	The weapons were ideas that had flowed for a quarter century from university graduate programs to activist groups to
2:26.1	k-12 education and then began to reach millions through online mailing lists
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