Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
A rigorous contest of ideas in the Firing Line tradition, every week on PBS with Margaret Hoover.
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- "I believe that October 7th took the Palestinian cause years backwards," says former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social. "Israelis are mortified by the...thought of the Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel because we saw what happens when we left Gaza and we got October 7th."
- Anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic, argues activist @noatishby.bsky.social, but that does not mean all complaints about Israel are antisemitic. "Criticize the government of Israel all you like. But if you're denying Israel's right to exist, that's where it moved to the other side."
- Former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social says she is "very optimistic" about #PresidentTrump's peace plan in Gaza, but it ultimately requires cooperation from Hamas. "I don't trust Hamas at all, not even a little bit." Follow on Spotify: tinyurl.com/tex8a8pj
- "We need to be very clear that Islamic fundamentalism should not be accepted in normal society," says former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social. "There's a full-on gender apartheid happening in Iran right now." Follow on Spotify: tinyurl.com/tex8a8pj
- "What's at stake is the West as we know it," says activist and author @noatishby.bsky.social amid a global surge in antisemitism. "As a disease, as a cancer in society, antisemitism starts with the Jews, but it never ends with the Jews." Follow on Apple: tinyurl.com/4a8zwmv7
- "Whatever it is that's fashionable to hate, you plug on the Jew," says former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social. That, she argues, is why Israel came to be seen as a "white supremacist, colonialist, racist country" by many. "None of it is true, but for people, this is what sticks."
- "It's very hard for Americans to understand the mentality of Jihadism," says @noatishby.bsky.social. "It's very hard for Americans to understand that some people don't want to just have a great life, that some prefer to sacrifice their children." FULL EPISODE: tinyurl.com/yy3h2682
- "What unites the far-left and far-right is their hatred of the Jewish people...," says former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social. "I don't think one of them is worse than the other. I think they're both terrible and both dangerous." Follow on Apple: tinyurl.com/4a8zwmv7
- "If you say that Israel does not have the right to exist as a Jewish state, why only Israel?" asks former Israeli antisemitism envoy @noatishby.bsky.social. "Which other countries are up for debate?" TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET @pbs.org listings: to.pbs.org/39hI6Tf
- "I believe that it's time for the Islamic Republic of Iran to fold and go away," says activist @noatishby.bsky.social amid protests against the Iranian regime and threats from #Trump. But is it the U.S. government's job to make that happen? "I don't know who else's job it is."
