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EPISODE · Mar 20, 2025 · 12 MIN

David Hirsh explains his withdrawal from the anti-Semitism conference

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The controversial anti-Semitism conference will take place next week in Jerusalem, organized by Diaspora  Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli . His decision to invite representatives of radical right-wing European parties sparked a backlash and sparked  a wave of cancelations, including by European Jewish Congress President Ariel Muzicant and  French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and others.    Chikli responded by saying: “I reject the assertion that the right-wing parties are the central threat to Jewish life in Europe. The threat is different: radical Islam. The politically correct have a hard time recognizing this and are stuck 50 years in the past.” KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with David Hirsh from Goldsmiths, University of London, the author of a number of books on anti-Semitism and one of those who withdrew from the conference.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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