Fighting the oldest hatred: why the fire of anti-Semitism is spreading and how to put it out

Open celebration of mass murder, rape and torture by terrorists. Kosher restaurants vandalized with broken windows and swastika graffiti. Jewish students attacked by their classmates. What is behind the anti-Semitic madness which, over the months since the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, has seized the so-called cosmopolitan spaces of America, especially of our universities? Why has the rise of this virulent hatred caught academic and political leaders off guard? How should students, parents, police and taxpayers react? And what does this evil portend for the future of America?

City newspaper has been at the forefront of exploring and answering these crucial questions, most recently in our spring issue symposium, “Fighting the oldest hatred”. Please join the contributors Richard Goldberg And Hannah Meyerswith tablets MacDougald Park, for a lively conversation about the origins of this crisis and how to confront it. The discussion will be moderated by the president of the Manhattan Institute Reihan Salam and will include time for audience questions and answers.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. For more than 20 years, he served at the highest levels of federal and state government: chief of staff to a governor; deputy chief of staff to a U.S. senator; and a senior White House National Security Council official. Richard designed the first national anti-BDS law in America; he drafted and negotiated the toughest sanctions ever imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran; and he is a former director of the Congressional Task Force on Combating Anti-Semitism. Richard has led rapid response communications to win advocacy campaigns at the gubernatorial, Senate, House and national issue levels. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Reserve with experience on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in Afghanistan.

MacDougald Park is senior editor of The Scroll, Tablet's daily afternoon newsletter.

Hannah Meyers is a fellow and director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Tablet, THE New York Post, The Washington Examiner, New York Daily NewsAnd City newspaper. She is a frequent commentator on television, radio and podcasts, including CNN And Fox News. She is an appointed member of the New York State Domestic Terrorism Task Force.

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