Name: Never Again in America - Sophie Ellman-Golan | The Open Mind
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HEFFNER: I'm Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind.

A founding organizer for the Women's March,

a mass mobilization of Jews who are organizing to

shut down ICE and hold the political establishment

accountable for enabling both the deportation

machine that has separated immigrant families across the

U.S. for decades and the  current crisis at the border.

"Conservatives purport to defend Jews even as they

Ellman-Golan describes this climate and the

anti-Semitism, in part fueled by President

"It's imperative that we loudly speak for

ourselves," Ellman-Golan told the New York Times,

"because if we don't, the loudest voices that claim

to speak on behalf of Jews will be right-wing

HEFFNER: Is it not that false equivalency in the

dynamic between how we think of attacks on Jews

from the right and left that is really troubling today?

I would say the first troubling thing is this

rise of white nationalism and anti-Semitism and the

ways that both have been completely embraced by the

But I agree that the discourse we see around

violence that comes from manifestos that are

written about Jews trying to replace a white

population versus a, an anti-Semitic cartoon or a

comment that has to do with the criticism of the

state of Israel or tweeting Tupac lyrics.

And we just have to be able to say that these

We have to be able to say that inciting murder is

HEFFNER: How do you differentiate between the

comments of someone like Congressman King of Iowa

ELLMAN-GOLAN: I would say that probably the,

the primary difference is that Steve King is pretty

adjacent to Nazis and that representative Ilhan Omar is not.

I mean, Steve King has gone on trips to meet with

people who helped found or are inheritors of

He has come pretty close to saying the 14 words,

which are of course the 14 words of white

supremacists that talk about securing a future

I mean this is a man who is not in a state that was

So I think one of the primary distinction is

above all is what he stands  for and what he promotes.

I think that she said things that she probably

we can argue until the cows come home about

whether something was or was not anti-Semitic.

It's important to note that while a large

percentage of the Jewish community felt troubled

Steve King has never ever done that and refuses to

take accountability and instead continues to

even the most recent being that we wouldn't have a

population today or Western civilization were

of his patriarchy and white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

we're also witnessing that attacks on her come not

just from people who are genuinely concerned about

anti-Semitism, but by and large from people who are

deeply concerned about the fact that a black Muslim

woman who wears a hijab is in Congress and dares to

HEFFNER: I think qualitatively you answered

it in the way that our audience can understand.

growing between the community that's very

small in this country of Jews who put Israel's

security first and the larger majority of

American Jews who put  American Jews security first.

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