Is Antizionism a Soviet invention for persecuting Jews?
Dan is joined by Shaul Kelner, professor of Jewish studies and sociology at Vanderbilt University, to examine the rarely-told history of Antizionism. Kelner explains how a framework designed to deny Jewish life under Soviet rule has resurfaced in the West long before October 7 and why many American Jews were unprepared for its scale and intensity.
In this episode...
08:00: The Soviet roots of Antizionism
15:00: How Antizionism entered the West
21:00 Marxism and ideological monoculture in American universities
28:00 Why American Jews are seduced by Antizionism
32:00: Stop debating semantics
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From the episode:
- Shaul Kelner’s book, A Cold War Exodus: How Americans Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews
- Read Shaul’s article on American Antizionism in the Shalom Hartman Institute's Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
- Attend The State of World Jewry Address at the 92nd Street Y
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