May 3, 2024
Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dr. Ruth WisseThe scholar and frequent commentator puts the protests and protestors in their proper context.
Podcast: Ruth Wisse
Anti-Israel campus activism has never been more popular or unpleasant than it is right now. In years past, much of this activism was mixed up with nods to the desire for peace and a two-state solution that would allow for Palestinians to enjoy their own sovereignty alongside a secure Israel. That isn’t happening now. It certainly isn’t what is meant by the chants, now common at the most prestigious universities in the United States, that call for the globalization of the intifada or that give voice to the delusion that Israel can be unborn.
To analyze the protests, the protestors, and their slogans, Ruth Wisse, the scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literature and history, and the author of books including Jews and Power, joins Jonathan Silver.