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White. Blonde. Jew. · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: After October seventh, there was a literary boycott against Jewish
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  Speaker 1: authors globally and Israeli publishers, and so I wrote this
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  Speaker 1: book in response to that. I was also writing my
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  Speaker 1: second book at the time, about creativity in the nonfiction
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  Speaker 1: space that's where I live and breathe, And as soon
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  Speaker 1: as the war broke out a few weeks later, I
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  Speaker 1: lost a really big book deal, possibility, opportunity, and I
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  Speaker 1: essentially shifted my content immediately after the war from homes
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  Speaker 1: to hamas I was educating against anti Semitism. I was
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  Speaker 1: advocating for the safety and security of a sovereign nation,
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  Speaker 1: and anti Semitism right now is really prevalent. It's both
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  Speaker 1: cover and overt where they are constantly the publishing industries
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  Speaker 1: constantly moving the goalpost for loud and proud and unapologetic
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  Speaker 1: Jewish voices. And then there's more overt emblematic examples like
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  Speaker 1: my book launch was supposed to be happening in Nashville, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately the bookstore hosting my book launch it's an
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  Speaker 1: independent store, and I want to be really clear, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the owners are anti Semitic, but when they
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  Speaker 1: remove very proud Jewish authors. Because of activist pressure and
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  Speaker 1: this online coordinated pressure campaign, these institutions and these bookstores
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  Speaker 1: are no longer neutral, and they're complicit and marginalizing Jewish
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  Speaker 1: voices from the mainstream marketplace of ideas.