A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism | Phone a Friend with Ben Lorber & Shane Burley

Max welcomes Ben Lorber and Shane Burley to the program, co-authors of “Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.”

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:41 - Thesis of the book
03:31 - Coded language of antisemitism
06:41 - Fallacy of “punching up”
09:05 - Having difficult conversations about Israel
19:59 - Jewish “whiteness”
27:37 - The far right alliance with Israel
36:30 - On Israel’s “right to exist”
42:00 - Antisemitic dog whistles
48:15 - Fight or flight
55:12 - Closing thoughts

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[BrianVickery-dj]

Thanks for the in depth information on this topic, very enlightening!

[curlybill]

There is a reason. EVERYONE is responsible for their actions and the reactions they bring about. Your mindset IS the problem.

[JasonEntine]

Thanks Max, 99 and Manny. This conversation helped me tonight.

[chrisbriggs]

Thank you for helping to cut through rhetoric I wasn’t even aware of.

[aaroncartoon]

Would Israel be even possible as a real democratic state? What happens when the 7 million Palestinians refugees go back to the land they come from (not as a religion, not as "ethnicity" but as a indigenous people) and by virtue of equality and democracy face a western cultural hegemony?
The real question is if Israel can be a non settler colonial state, if it can, then also the US, Canada or Australia should be able to.
Another problem is that zionism has even changed the nature of the whiteness vis a vis colonialism question since non-white and non-western Jews can also colonize the land.
This interview doesn't go beyond zionism because it doesn't actually question the coloniality of it.