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Israel, Iran, and Antisemitism (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)
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Israel, Iran, and Antisemitism (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)

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0:00 Teaser
1:07 Will the Iran war supercharge antisemitism?
9:28 Varieties of Israeli-Jewish conflation
15:02 The Epstein effect
16:47 Tucker v. Israel vs Fuentes v. Israel
23:53 Does MSM have a pro-Israel bias?
27:53 The ADL’s counterproductive speech policing
35:37 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Peter Beinart (Jewish Currents, CUNY, https://peterbeinart.substack.com/). Recorded March 09, 2026.

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Peter’s post on Substack:

The Beinart Notebook
The Danger This War Poses to American Jews
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Overtime titles:

0:00 How the ADL got so militant
2:20 Bill Ackman and the anti-antisemitism campus crackdown
7:09 Are American politicians pivoting on Israel?
11:38 Peter: The real existential threat to Israel is…
22:34 Tucker vs Fuentes cont’d

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