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Podcast: The Darrell McClain show
Episode: Anti-Zionism, AntiāSemitism, And The Lines Between
Description: Send us Fan MailOne sentence can change the temperature of a room: āAntiāZionism is antiāSemitism.ā We revisit a gripping 2019 Intelligence Squared debate featuring Melanie Phillips and Einat Wilf for the motion, and Ilan PappĆ© and Mehdi Hasan against it, to examine how history, identity, and power collide over those seven words. The case for the motion traces a familiar pattern from medieval scapegoating to modern rhetoric, arguing that efforts to delegitimize Israel recycle classic antisemitic tropes under a respectable gloss. The case against insists that antiāZionism is a political and moral critiqueāof occupation, d...