Manufacturing Dissent Since 1996
New interviews throughout the week

Student Encampments Aren't a Danger to Jews. Crackdowns Are. / Hadas Thier

Pro palestine protest and encampment in stanford university 20240428   17

“Moderate” and fringe right positions come together in singling out antisemitism among all oppressions. In that way, they are singling out Jews and they're exceptionalizing Jews and since October 7th and since the protests began…Campus administrations as well as other politicians are essentially pitting Jews against other groups. That has never gone well for Jews. Historically to be pitted against other oppressed groups, to be pitted against working people that has historically been how antisemitism has been used: to scapegoat Jews in order to avoid a united fight back against themselves. It’s incredibly dangerous. That's what's happening on campuses, and in the national public discourse.

Hadas Thier returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her writing at The Nation on the Columbia protests, "The Student Encampments Aren’t a Danger to Jews. But the Crackdown Is." Hadas is author of, A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. Jeff Dorchen delivers "The Moment of Truth" after the interview.

Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.

Share Tweet Send

 

Hadasthierbio
Guest

Hadas Thier

Hadas Thier is an activist and writer.

 

More with Hadas Thier