Anti-Semitism and the Fate of America

Reportedly, Benjamin Netanyahu once said that the scholar and essayist Ruth R. Wisse is “as valuable to the state of Israel as a division of the IDF.” As you will see in this lecture about “the nature and the danger of organizing politics against the Jews, the ubiquity of its appeal, and what happens when liberals don’t confront it in time,” she may be worth at least a small unit of the U.S. armed services as well. Wisse here explains where anti-Semitism comes from and why it was married to anti-Zionism from its very beginnings—even before Zionism got its name. She also explains the inseverable connection between hatred of Jews and hatred of America, and how that connection threatens the wellbeing of the United States. Following the lecture, she discusses the subject further with the journalist and author Matthew Continetti. (Video, 75 minutes.)