David Naimon
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4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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ones, attacking schools, stealing livestock,
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Where in the first half of this year alone, a thousand children have been displaced in the West Bank, and many communities live in day-to-day terror.
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I think of Jewish friends of mine who suddenly are like, I'm gonna focus on local politics, which feels like an interesting timing to me.
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Or I believe everything you are saying, but I'm paralyzed.
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Because the people who hid Jews in Europe did so under the risk of not only their own death, but the possible death of their entire families.
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It's actually amazing what they did, thinking of those circumstances and the existential risks of the people who actually hid Jews in Europe.
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When I think of the last three years, I have unexpected, unanticipated empathy for the good Germans I've long despised, the quote unquote good Germans who did nothing as their neighbors and colleagues and peers were rounded up and put into ghettos, who lost their jobs, their shops being closed, their apartments rapidly claimed by non-Jews.
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because the risks now are nowhere as large as then, to expend some of your social capital and standing to not lose sight of something unfolding right now,
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Even if people we know and love get angry or relationships get strained, our families are not going to be shot.
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And I don't mean to exempt myself from this.
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As much as your book is about the too muchness of the moment, it's also about nothing being enough in the face of it as a corollary to the too muchness.
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Contrary to you, the Trump two point oh era.
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Very unexpectedly for me, because during the Bush era, I desperately wanted to leave the United States.
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But in the Trump two point zero era
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Perhaps because so much of what's happened in Portland has felt a lot like what's happening in Minnesota, I have felt more connected to place than I've ever felt.
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As I feel like the city is sort of stepping up in so many acts of community, mutual aid.
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that bypass the government altogether.
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And the government itself is engaging with some of these issues too, with half the city council now coming solidly from the left.
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But I know people here who are preparing to or have taken in Venezuelan families, for instance, as part of how people are aiding our undocumented residents right now.
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I'm not doing that.
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