Sam Harris

I mean, there's an ambient level of antisemitism in the black community that is worth worrying about and talking about anyway.

There's a bunch of guys playing the knockout game in Brooklyn, just punching Orthodox Jews in the face.

And I think letting Kanye air his antisemitism that publicly only raises the likelihood of that rather than diminishes it.

Just- You mean antisemitic things?

But here's the reality.

So I'm Jewish, although obviously not religious.

I have never taken... I've been a student of the Holocaust, obviously.

I know a lot about that, and there's reason to be a student of the Holocaust.

But

In my lifetime and in my experience, I have never taken anti-Semitism very seriously.

I have not worried about it.

I have not made a thing of it.

I've done exactly one podcast on it.

I had Barry Weiss on my podcast when her book came out.

But it really is a thing, and it's...

it's something we have to keep an eye on societally because it's a unique kind of hatred, right?

It's unique in that it seems it's knit together with, it's not just ordinary racism, it's knit together with lots of conspiracy theories that never seem to die out.

It can by turns equally animate the left and the right politically.

I mean, what's so perverse about antisemitism, like look in the American context, with the far right, you know, with white supremacists, Jews aren't considered white.

So they hate us in the same spirit in which they hate black people or brown people or anyone who's not white.