Kara Drexler: I don't think illness is an excuse for intolerance. And when one of the most prominent entertainers in the world, this man has hundreds of millions of fans. He had 31 million on Twitter alone when he says he wants to go death con three in all caps on Jewish people. It's very incendiary language that, of course, can inflame people. We're just saying anti semitism is empirically on the rise; Jews already feel a degree of anxiety about what's happening on college campuses and workplaces just in public spaces. This should have everyone alarmed. It's not normal. it's not okay.
Today, we’re sharing a bonus episode of Kara’s Twitter Spaces conversation recorded on Monday night. In the first part of the conversation, Kara talks to Jonathan Freedland, a British journalist and columnist for The Guardian, about the fall of Liz Truss, the rise of Rishi Sunak and the role of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in U.K. politics.
In the second part of the episode, Kara and Freedland are joined by yet another Jonathan: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. The trio discusses the rise of populism and hate speech today. They cover Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks on social media and discuss Freedland’s — aka British Jonathan’s — new book, “The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World.”
Follow us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema to tune in for future Spaces.
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