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Antisemitism Watch - August 8, 2026, 01 PM Eastern · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to antisemitism. Watch I'm Rachel Adler. We begin
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  Speaker 1: with rising antisemitic threats and incidents impacting Jewish communities globally.
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  Speaker 1: Reporting reviewed for this episode indicates that antisemitic assaults have
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  Speaker 1: hit record levels and Jewish gathering places face increasing threats,
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  Speaker 1: reshaping Jewish life in America. In London, a counter terror
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  Speaker 1: police probe is underway into an arson attack at a
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  Speaker 1: former synagogue, occurring amidst antisemitic attacks and reports of suspicious
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  Speaker 1: activity in twenty twenty four. Further underscoring the gravity of
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  Speaker 1: antisemitic violence, an attack in London earlier this year, where
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  Speaker 1: a Somali immigrant stabbed two men, led UK authorities to
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  Speaker 1: raise the national terror threat level to severe, according to reports.
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  Speaker 1: Turning to political rhetoric, Pakistan's Defense Minister Cowaderra Sif has
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  Speaker 1: once again expressed antisemitic statements, according to reporting reviewed for
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  Speaker 1: this episode, a day after Pakistan signed a trilateral defense
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Saudi Arabia and tuikae A, Sif described Israel
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  Speaker 1: as a threat to the entire Muslem world and called
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  Speaker 1: for a united military front against it. The Times of
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  Speaker 1: Israel also reported that a Sif stated Israel is illegitimate
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  Speaker 1: and called for this United Military front. Meanwhile, an analysis
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  Speaker 1: highlights a deliberate effort to degrade the public understanding of antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: This degradation, described as a funded project, aims to make
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  Speaker 1: naming antisemitic acts difficult and professionally hazardous, recasting antisemitism not
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  Speaker 1: as a hatred, but as an accusation of bad faith,
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  Speaker 1: turning the person who names the hatred into the aggressor.
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  Speaker 1: The analysis draws a parallel to how Edward Said's orientalism
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  Speaker 1: changed scholarly perception, noting that the current campaign seeks to
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  Speaker 1: return antisemitism to a position held without consequence, as it
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  Speaker 1: was in Wilhelm Mark time before the Holocaust. This mechanism
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  Speaker 1: was seen, for example, when then Heritage Foundation president Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Roberts defended Tucker Carlson's platforming of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes,
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  Speaker 1: framing critics as a venomous coalition and locating the offense
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  Speaker 1: not in the platforming but in the naming of antisemitism.
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  Speaker 1: The analysis states, I'm Rachel Adler, thank you for listening
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  Speaker 1: to Antisemitism Watch. This report was generated with AI assistance
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  Speaker 1: and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify important details with primary sources.